Graz, Austria is the epicenter of today’s featured debut single from Philipp Szalay who goes by the mysterious moniker, FAREWELL DEAR GHOST. During live performances and studio efforts (as seen in the provided video),...

Eric & Magill is Ryan Weber and Eric Osterman, two great musicians who’ve appeared here in a few forms over the past number of years. Today we are featuring an excellent track from the Two Travellers EP by Eric...

Trivial Shields release their second single Enough, in anticipation of their forthcoming EP Invisible Winter. The song was recorded to tape at esteemed SF studio Tiny Telephone by Bay Area luminary Robert Shelton (DRMS);...

Toronto’s TEENAGE KICKS have released their latest six song EP ‘Be On My Side’, which finds the group expanding beyond the grungy power-pop of the first release. We like the description of the music which...

Four of the six members of today’s featured Detroit based band have fronted other projects, but during the past few years they have united under first-time bandleader, Joe Hertler, to create sublime folk tinged with...

Detroit artist Joe Hertler and his band The Rainbow Seekers put out a five song EP in April that is a great summation of the group’s live sound, recorded in the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit. After recording...

Today we have a proper introduction to the Melbourne Australia pop-punk band SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS, specifically their first self-titled 2 song release in 2012. A new EP release that has been in the works, ‘So...

Hey Anna, a New York based band are 3 sisters and two long-time best friends who started out in a small practice space in Newark, NJ. The band’s new EP arrived yesterday on May 8th, and this is the first very...

THE WEST, a female fronted group from Los Angeles, CA have released a new single, ‘Wild Hearts’ after about five months of working on tracks with producer DJ Schwartz. Their goal is a possible new album and...

A notable favorite from the last handful of years, today’s track is from Philadelphia songwriter and musician Billy Polard. He goes by the moniker, THE GHOST IN YOU, under which he’s released a second full...

Sudbury Ontario (Canada) band THE ALMIGHTY RHOMBUS released their self-titled EP in 2012 and are getting geared up to put out a full-length LP entitled “Lucid Living” very shortly. Today’s single is the...

Baobab is the solo project of Phil Torres, a writer and former philosophy / neuroscience graduate student based out of Durham, North Carolina. The debut album Baobab was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Torres in his...

Sweden’s four-piece BEAT THE HEART recorded their new EP Glebe Market in a studio built at a loft of a barn in the Swedish countryside in early 2013, and have released their new endeavor over the course of the past...

The Fiery Piano is Gustav Montelius from Stockholm, Sweden who started up the band in 2011 when he released his 4 track Sirens EP. His newest album Second Space was recorded in 2012 and released in early 2013, partially...

Recently the upstate New York folktronica duo SWIMMING IN SPEAKERS inserted themselves into the landscape of new releases with the debut full length, “Guessing the Others”, a conceptual LP requiring close to four...

Today’s featured single is taken from FLLR’s second album “WASTED HEARTS”, releasing in the UK and IRE on Monday 15th April. The label lists one influence of the Swedish group as Swervedriver,...

Enerate are a Australian synth-pop group out of Sydney. They aren’t signed to a commercial label, and have been releasing material under the independent group “Big Big Records”. The group have enjoyed early...

Back in November we featured Still Analog, the first single from San Antonio Texas’ The March Divide’s debut album Music for Film. The album has been released (via Dead Letter Records) for a month now, so we...

On their debut LP, All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go, Bay Area post-punk revivalists Bears! Bears! Bears! intimately chronicle soured relationships, identity crises, and personal inadequacies in 10 gloom-and-doom dance...

Dandan started out in the spring of 2012, on initiative of singer, songwriter and guitarist Daniel Nilsson, who began to record an EP together with drummer Max Anderhell and bass player Patrik Engström. At the time when the...

Sawyer L Gebauer has come a long way in the past year. From recording Brittsommar’s first album Day of Living Velvet solo in an abandoned synagogue to working with artists and musicians from all over Europe and the US...

“DNSQ3 is songwriting duo David Creces and Steven Q Dawe III (SQ3). DNSQ3 combines love for great songs & songwriters with love for experimental arrangements of instruments. The result is a big ol’ mess of...

Everyone once in a while it’s nice to have an artist come along to cleanse all the bad music out of the system that’s been lodged in the ol’ memory banks. Fawn Spots, a three-piece from York was recently...

The Story So Far are based in Walnut Creek on the outskirts of San Francisco. Under Soil and Dirt, the band’s debut full length was released in June of 2011 and follows up two highly acclaimed EPs. While the album is...

It all started a couple of years ago in Copenhagen, when Bubba moved into My’s apartment by chance. They started spending evenings together humming homely hymns, and soon found themselves in Italy making a record; the very...

Daniel Badeie came to Sweden as a child from a war torn Teheran, Iran. The memories evolving around this and his upbringing in Uppsala, Sweden, came to form a critical view on the world around him. A feeling of seeing...

Forro is the latest from the new Littles Ones album, The Dawn Sang Along releasing on Branches Recording Collective this February 12th. After the Los Angeles based band started out on Astralwerks, and also having released...

Awning is the Brooklyn folktronica duo of Jon Sheldrick and Luke Smith, who initially met while studying music at NYU. They both are apparently classically trained musicians who have experimented with a variety of projects...

While the forecast for Brooklyn might call for rain and a 20% chance of getting stung by ice pellets, in the not so distance past the metropolis was covered with snow.  This was likely around the time these two great...

Rich Man is the December 10th single release from London, UK band Shout Timber. Playing on two sides of an ever-existent and more than ever culturally relevant conundrum: rich and poor, happiness and unhappiness –...

Happy 2013 to those Insomniacs that are still wide awake. Our first new year feature is My Pet Dragon, a NYC band named after lead singer Todd Michaelsen’s imaginary childhood nemesis. The group released Mountains...

Rather than recycle songs into Best of Lists at year end, I wanted to keep bringing fresh music, as new releases don’t stop coming our direction at the end of the year. The Lost Ark Studio recently helped direct our...