Running around in a panic stocking your bunker with that last box of Hostess fruit pies for the apocalypse? Need a breather? Put down that Chocodile my friend and take a listen to a holiday compilation of...

After the first two Skint & Demoralised albums, Love And Other Catastrophes and This Morning Life, the Wakefield UK band has returned with When Saturday Comes, the first single from the forthcoming third S&D album....

Use ’em up if you got ’em. Today’s feature is from Toronto band, The Holiday Crowd. Lead vocalist Imran Haniff had this to say about their new LP, Over the Bluffs: “The whole mood of the record...

Here is the first single from the Finland trio K-X-P, off their new album titled “II” which will be out this coming February via Manimal and Melodic UK. Enjoy, and keep spreading the letters around. [Via...

Pinact are my new favorite gratuitously-noisy and mind-spinningly fast two-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland; basically high school friends [Corrie Gillie and Lewis Reynolds] putting together some really great...

Chicago-based five piece Souljunky just released a full length album titled I Found Your Dream. This follows the release of their EP Here and Now in 2011. Souljunky are a group of musicians who have wandered far and wide...

London five piece Zulu Winter recently released their album ‘Language’ via Toronto label Arts & Crafts. The group had originally signed to to Play It Again Sam in the UK, a part of PIAS Entertainment...

Todays feature comes from the Minneapolis based band Rogue Valley, notably the lead-off track from the second album “The Bookseller’s House”, part of their four album seasonally themed catalog. All of...

Its been about three years since the last time we’ve featured Swedish band The Sweet Serenades and their debut, “Balcony Cigarettes”. The band is Martin Nordvall and Mathias Näslund, childhood friends...

Shanghai, China based band RDC released their third studio album, the ‘In the Cellar’ EP earlier last week on November 19th. It is a small taste of a brand new album coming in 2013, and as we also...

Our feature today are a duo from Exeter, Devon, UK – Kieran and Neil, also known as Iko. They are one of the unknown bands chosen to feature a song on the new Twilight Soundtrack, and are celebrating by releasing...

Still Analog is the first single from San Antonio Texas’ The March Divide’s debut album Music for Film which will be released February 12th, 2013 on Dead Letter Records. The March Divide will tour in support of...

Rhinosaur Records is a new Irish creative commons netlabel that appears to have been started by the guys/gal in the band, I Am Not Lefthanded. Their first three song sampler release came out in late September along with...

Now based in Austin, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie electro-based sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Since their 2009 self-titled debut LP they’ve refined and expanded their sound, bridging the...

While Oakland’s Chris Sullivan has been working on a full length release called Sweet Rebel Three he quietly put out what looks to be a collaboration from the piece this last year, feat. Tanya Donelly. I happily ran...

I first heard this song on DJ AmperDan’s Monday Night Pop Show on Radio Valencia FM. (DJ AmperDan is AKA Dan Hooper, some time host of IR: San Francisco). There is very little information about Californian artist...

The Tel Aviv shoegaze band “Exemptions Committee” [translated] recently sent us a few singles from their forthcoming debut LP, releasing this winter. They’ve gone and filmed a video for the first that...

Screaming guitars, classic cars, tattoos, and cigarettes—Los Angeles-based outfit Angels Heart has taken the punk rock tradition and crafted something entirely original. Amplified by founder and frontman Bryan Joseph...

Since their inception in late 2010, That’s No Moon has been busy destroying dance floors across the Midwest. With the release of their debut 12 track full length in September of 2011, That’s No Moon proved that they...

Washington D.C. band Dot Dash (featured once before on The Network) sent us their second album Winter Garden Light, with the offer that we could post one song as a free MP3 on the Dose. Now, having listened to the whole...

Lux Lisbon met in Nottingham as an accountant, a barrister, and a banker before recording their debut album ‘Your Heart Is A Weapon The Size Of Your Fist’ and subsequently moving to London. In the past few years...

Bear Mountain is an electro/dance band from Vancouver, B.C that began as the bedroom project of Ian Bevis. After the break-up of an old band, Ian began releasing early demos and remixes on the Internet, and started...

Grand Resort is the project of a 20-year old native of the Dominican Republic named Andrés Pichardo, now resident in Brooklyn. Despite the gloomy title of his single Night is Dark, it is uplifting guitar-driven shoegazey...

No Can Do is the Vancouver based group Ladyhawk’s third studio album, available on CD/LP/Digital via Triple Crown this coming October. Per the band, No Can Do has no relation to Hall & Oates, Chromeo or Kiwi...

Holmes can often be found buried under a mountain of vintage recording gear in his cozy Silverlake, California home studio, cooking up tracks for himself, other artists, television and film. Roy Shakked, under his moniker...

The members of Lightning Love would really prefer not to talk about themselves. They’d much rather talk about the important subjects in life: their hometown (Ypsilanti, Michigan) their favorite breakfast (Pop-Tarts...

Inspired by emotional turmoil, rebirth, and Stephen King’s “Dark Tower”, I Was Totally Destroying It return with a brand new album! Immediately following the release of Preludes in April 2011, IWTDI...

Since our last feature, New York’s Christina Abbott has released an entire album of songs this year entitled ‘The Swan and the Sparrow’. A few are recognizable [Everything is Byte Sized, The Other End of...

Hollywood College is Dave Lowensohn and Misha Chellam’s second and newest album. Recorded over four weeks in the shadow of the Coney Island ferris wheel, Speechwriters LLC once again teamed up with producer Adam Richman...

State Shirt is Ethan Tufts, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that writes and records all of his music in a tiny bedroom studio, filled with a myriad of worn instruments and cheap electronics. The SongFight website...

Earlier today while surfing around my old musical haunt know as T61, I came across a great group out of Stockholm while stretching out on their ‘Rack’ – occasionally a good place to be surprised out of...

Fierce Creatures emerged from the scorching Fresno, CA summer of 2009 abandoning past musical undertakings that never seemed to fit quite right and creating something new and altogether enchanting. Guitar and keys drive...