The soul-stirring indie folk sounds of Brooklyn’s ROOKIN were first captured and placed on the self produced EP entitled Stonewall, released two short years ago in July of 2014. The band is lead by Adam Horn and Ben...
The Van T’s: 3...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Glasgow Scotland’s THE VAN T’s have returned with their excellent surf-rock stylings via the new EP “A Coming of Age”, the stunning sound first showcased via their 2015 EP Laguna Babe. Starting...
Massage: Breaking Up
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Los Angeles indie rock band MASSAGE released their promising four song debut via the “Lydia EP” this past February 16th. Today’s feature “Breaking Up” is the lead-off track, an exceptional song...
AMFMS: Black Rabbit
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Baltimore-DC based group AMFMS have just finished a successful tour to SXSW and are now gearing up for their next big event, the Firefly Musical Festival, which takes them into two days of perfomances in Dover, Delaware on...
Bayonne: Spectrolite...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Bayonne is an electronic project from inspiring musician Roger Sellers, based out of Austin, Texas. Today’s feature is the excellent track ‘Spectrolite‘ which is the first single from Bayonne’s debut...
Stella Stagecoach: H...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Stella StageCoach was initially formed by two brothers influenced by their travels abroad – namely Matthew and Tim Morgan from Hogansville, Georgia. Originally, the music consisted of purely instrumental pieces to be...
Ladada: Old Wave
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Ladada is a band from Virginia Beach, originally conceived as a solo project for Josiah Schlater and expanded to include James Robert Smith on bass and Calum Macpherson-Smith on drums. Their music richochets between punk and...
Kelvin: Give It All
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kelvin is an electronic indie pop band from Kristiansand, Norway who navigate wide musical landscapes with their signature electro sounds. The band members formed from a wide range of musical backgrounds around 2014 and...
Richard Lomax: Butte...
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Richard Lomax is a Manchester based singer-songwriter who mixes psych-folk with dashes of everything. He is apparently known for intense live performances and an approach to recording that makes use of anything he can get...
Soft Continent: Scar...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Soft Continent are talented indie pop purveyors out of the Atlanta Georgia region, made up of band members Jess Jones, Clayton Taylor and Jason Kingsland. The two songs on the excellent yet short 2012 release “Bright...
Tangram: Glide Path ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Minsk, Belarus based instrumental rock band Tangram recently issued their studio debut in the Hikikomori EP, four atmospheric instrumental compositions and a cover song, PTVP. The band’s style is influenced by...
Don Tigra: Maria, Mi...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Don Tigra began in late 2012 when americana songwriter Stephen Gordon fell out of love with the rural, folk driven portrayal of his own inward journey. After growing up in both Memphis and The Shenandoah Valley, and...
The Emerald Armada: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
To properly celebrate St. Paddy’s, we present The Emerald Armada, reportedly brought to life in Belfast, Ireland six years ago to create music about all of life’s little inspirations. Since this time frame the...
Tall Ships: Words Ar...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Tall Ships, originally from Falmouth but now living in Brighton, issued today’s feature via one of their first EPs, which was later bundled up in the double Tall Ships EP / There Is Nothing But Chemistry Here release...
Ultra Sheriff: Fires...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Ultra Sheriff is a biomechanical trio from beyond the stars, committed to the annihilation of mankind. Cartoony space chaos packed with catchy tunes and robotic apocalypse – Ultra Sheriff embraces and explores the...
Hop Along: Powerful ...
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Powerful Man is the second single from Philadelphia band, Hop Along’s album Painted Shut out on Saddle Creek. Bandmember Frances Quinlan described today’s featured track as “about a very important day in...
Alameda: A Violence
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Founded by singer/guitarist Stirling Myles and cellist Jessie Dettweiler, Alameda is a four-piece folk-rock band out of Portland, Oregon – but instead of allying with the obvious of whatever that means, they carry...
Asthmaboy: This City...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Asthmaboy is a Washington based duo made up of Glindon Marten and John Boone, songwriters from Seattle. Today’s featured track is taken from their excellent 2013 ten-song sophomore LP, “Wanderers” which...
DAODA: Forever
posted by Charles Stepczyk
New York dreampop band DAODA [day-oh-duh] fashions beautiful sun-kissed dreampop, with the track we’ve featured here today “Forever” being self-issued in August of 2014. Despite the fact that we are a few...
People Person Collec...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The People Person Collective are a group of musicians (mostly) from Northern California experimenting with song writing. Each month one person creates an album cover, and bi-monthly albums are released with songs based on...
Hudson: The Belfry
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hudson is a folk rock band from Bellingham, Washington specializing in concept albums, each telling a unique story and written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days. In this eleven chapter/song...
Sporting Life: Tsuna...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
San Francisco dream-rock group Sporting Life released their full length LP, Rivalry, in January of which the excellent 2 minute surf-drenched first single, Tsunami, was picked for our feature on the Dose today. The eleven...
Lowtide: Julia
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Following on from the acclaimed eponymous debut album of 2014, the Julia/Spring 7″ single is another deep shot of Lowtide’s euphoric dream pop, released in July of this past year. Recorded in Melbourne by...
Oliver Ocean: Carrie...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Oliver Ocean formed in Nashville in the cold, early months of 2014 bringing together musicians from four different regions of the United States. At first, the band-members shared a common love for simply recording their...
Fort Frances: Buildi...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Chicago indie rock band Fort Frances is putting the finishing touches on their new release “Alio” coming 4/22/16, and in the last few months released the self-reflective piece, “Building a Wall”, a...
Stranger in the Alps...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Washington DC indie-folk singer-songwriter Stranger in the Alps (aka Steve Kolowich) released the seven song release Pattern Matching almost exactly one year ago on February 3, 2015. The title track is featured here today...
Maartje Meijer ̵...
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So Small is the first excellent bass clarinet punctuated jazz-pop single from the forthcoming new album Inner Circle, by Amsterdam based singer, pianist and composer Maartje Meijer. Maartje released her debut album Virgo...
Chase City: Go Back
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Chase City are an independent pop band from Hobart in Tasmania (AUS) who released today’s featured track “Go Back” a few months ago. It’s a great danceable track that starts off with a bit of a...
Canyonero: Here̵...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
In May of this past year, Brisbane Australia based rock band Canyonero released the new single, Here’s to Smiling, our feature here today on the feed. It’s a bright and upbeat almost tropical sounding song...
Tacocat: I Hate the ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seattle based group Tacocat has a third studio album on the way, Lost Time (an X-Files reference), their first release with producer Erik Blood. Blood’s sounds are noted as being wide and expansive, bringing a fullness...
The Fight: Brooklyn
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Edmonton, Canada based band The Fight has released their EP North America this past October 9 through Open Circles Collective, written over a two year period and a byproduct of some of the influential experiences the band...
Keeps: I Don’t...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
I Don’t Mind is the first excellent new single off the forthcoming LP, Brief Spirit by Nashville dream-pop band Keeps, made up of the duo of Agustin Escalante & Robbie Jackson. The album was recently given a...