A first on the Network, we haven’t played a band from Serbia before, but they got in touch with us, and we’re happy to play a song (the title track) from their new album for you today. “The band Amethyst is...
Husky: History’...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today marks the release of the new album on Sub Pop by Australian quartet, Husky. Forever So is the sound of a band that from its inception cared more about making one sublime album than acquiring a million followers on...
Scout: So Close
posted by Charles Stepczyk
With All Those Relays, NY band Scout’s first album since 2003, Ashen Keilyn has deconstructed the band and put it back together piece-by-piece — new players, new producers and, most importantly, the best songs of...
Insomnia Radio #181:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our representative...
Lay Low: The Backbon...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Lay Low is the alter-ego of Icelandic singer/songwriter Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir, born in London to a Sri Lankan father and Icelandic mother Lay Low came about in 2006, after Lovísa was contacted by a local label...
Tango in the Attic: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Scotland’s Tango in the Attic have released the free download track Paw Prints, taken from their second album Sellotape that released on the 23rd of April. Sellotape is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2010...
Evans the Death: Tel...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Evans the Death released their self-titled debut album in April 2012 via Fortuna POP! in the UK / Europe and Slumberland Records in the US. The songs were recorded late Summer 2011 with producer Ex-Test Icicle and current...
Me and My Drummer: Y...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
German duo Me And My Drummer have released their single You’re A Runner on May 14th 2012, via Berlin label Sinnbus. The single is about “someone driven to the edge and an abyss” as singer Charlotte Brandi puts it....
The Danks: Automocar
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Charlottetown Canada natives, Brohan Moore and Alec O’Hanley, have put out a new album this last month – Are You Afraid of The Danks. This is their second feature on the Daily Dose. They are described as being driven by...
The Moth & The M...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Moth & The Mirror have been proclaimed as a Scottish supergroup, comprising of members taken from an array of Scottish talent including: Stacey Sievwright from The Reindeer Section and Arab Strap (vocals/guitar),...
Sam Densmore: She...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland, Oregon singer/songwriter and music producer, Sam Densmore, has been a musician his whole life, teaching himself guitar and eventually earning a BA degree in music composition in 1996. He started out playing in...
The Ascetic Junkies:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon, about half of the Portland group The Ascetic Junkies will be on a ambitious Summer tour over the next month or two, starting off June 8th in California, then heading to Idaho, and Washington...
North Highlands: Ste...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
North Highlands—the place, not the band—is, as Brenda Malvini puts it, “a gnarly suburb trapped in time. It sounds like a beautiful name but it’s not a beautiful place.” Located just outside of Sacramento, North...
The White Album: Gun...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The White Album are a Danish band from Copenhagen consisting of 3 very good friends with big beards and very big hearts. Rooted in folk and indie rock they make music that transcends structural boundaries of both practical...
Bowerbirds: In the Y...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Clearing is the third album by the Bowerbirds, and as is often the case for bands that have found steady success, they had more time and better resources to make it. This is a bigger record, then, with bolder sounds and...
Snowmine: The Hill
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Brooklyn quintet formed from a long bubbling friendship between bassist Jay Goodman, drummer Alex Beckmann, and lead singer/composer Grayson Sanders. Many parties, road trips, and treacherous leaky basements fraught with...
Eux Autres: Right Ag...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Eux Autres (pronounced ooz-oh-tra) are an Omaha-born, San Francisco-based trio, channeling sixties French pop and with a unique sensibility. The brother/sister duo, Heather and Nicholas Larimer, share lead vocals with Yoshi...
The Spinto Band: The...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Wilmington Delaware’s homegrown pop outfit has returned. After spending the last couple of years constructing, installing, and setting up a coffee pot in a new studio in their hometown, the Spinto Band has now offered up...
AU: Solid Gold
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Luke Wyland and Dana Valatka, the Portland, Oregon-based duo known as AU, embody remarkable, frantic energy. They’ve just released their third album, in early April on Hometapes (and on The Leaf Label in Europe); AU is...
Bear in Heaven: The ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brooklyn trio Bear in Heaven take me directly back a few decades to the 80s on this track and basically provide the soundtrack to watching the world wondrously unfold in grade school. It could easily top any playlist of the...
Father John Misty: H...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Josh Tillman, who has been recording/releasing solo albums since 2003 and who recently left Seattle’s Fleet Foxes after playing drums from 2008-2011 had an album gestating during what Tillman describes as an...
Violens: Totally Tru...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Violens’ forthcoming album, True, finds the Brooklyn three-piece blasting us with a wash of 90s sonic pop drawn from artists like Pale Saints, Cocteau Twins and McCarthy. The album’s first single, “Totally...
Veronica Falls: My H...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Veronica Falls comes to us from London, with a song from their 2011 self titled release, that came out two years after their 2009 formation. Enjoy! Members: Roxanne Clifford and James Hoare, both on vocals and guitar,...
Les Jupes: If This i...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Les Jupes are a somewhat new band from the centre of Canada and in the middle of a prairie renaissance growing around Head In The Sand Records. The group capped off a great year in 2011 with the release of a new single...
Brave Irene: No Fun
posted by Charles Stepczyk
From Tiger Trap, to the Softies, and now Brave Irene – out of Canada… One of our favorite vocalists, Rose Melberg returns to us again from Vancouver to put her stamp on another round of eight tracks from the...
Allo Darlin’: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The first single from the eagerly anticipated second album from half-Kentish, half-Austrlian group, Allo Darlin’ entitled “Europe”. “Capricornia” shows that they’ve lost none of their ability to...
Beast Make Bomb: It ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Combining fuzzed out pop melodies with the distorted punk attitude of late 1970s New York, Brooklyn’s Beast Make Bomb craft songs informed by twenty-something college life in urban grit. Powerful yet tastefully...
Kalle Mattson: Water...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kalle Mattson returns May 1st with a new five song EP – “Lives In Between”. Recorded at the end of 2011, and mastered by Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky), “Lives In Between” is the first release with a new...
Bogan Via: Afternoon...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Friday has finally arrived, and with it the lovely track ‘Afternoon Wonderland’ by Phoenix, Arizona duo – Bogan Via. The group is apparently less than a year old, having met in October of 2011 and then...
The Pauses: Go North
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today is the day that everyone starts going apeshit over archery, it seems now everybody needs a bear recurve bow, as the movie Hunger Games releases here in the US. Orlando band The Pauses have a leg up on the release with...
Royal Canoe: Hold On...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today and all of this week we are showcasing a few of the acts playing at or in the vicinity of the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX. Amongst the 50,000 performances scattered throughout all the street...
Whitejacket: The Mod...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Modern is the first single from the upcoming debut album Hollows and Rounds by Whitejacket. Chris McDuffie, formerly in Apples In Stereo, has produced an album inspired by his admiration of the baroque pop of the late...