From Portland, OR, Three For Silver is post-collapse, post-apocalyptic, post-rock, post-everything. A freewheeling collective in which the only rule is to survive and perform, an elastic conglomeration of musical freaks...

Today’s St Patrick’s Day Dose is by Portland, Oregon-based The Underscore Orkestra. It is from their 2014 album Tales from the Road… released on Bad Panda Records, and available under a Creative Commons...

Acclaimed Portland, Oregon rock quintet Blitzen Trapper released their newest effort last year on October 2 via Lojinx in Europe and Vagrant in the US. On the newest studio effort the group’s years of experimentation...

J Hacha De Zola has managed to actually “Escape from Fat Kat City,” (the title of his early 2016 debut album), leaving Rahway, New Jersey and the shadow of the maximum security prison that literally loomed over him...

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...

Gordon Ashby and Jeremy Ward [from Portland, OR] have been writing and recording music together for over a decade. They have released music under several different names over the years and are currently working under the...

Today’s Dose is the first single from the Portland, OR band Sea Caves‘ second album ‘Bright Forest’ due out Feb 5. ‘Spanning the River’ has the orchestral and melodic sensibilities of...

Martinibomb are a duo from Portland, Oregon who have been realeasing some very creative songs for at least the last five or more years, as we recall always being inspired by their sampling while listening to a variety of...

Following yesterday’s great eclectic mix we thought we’d continue in the same vein and bring you an excellent track Portland Oregon based group The Underscore Orkestra. They have been touring all over the US,...

Sam Densmore & Curtis Irie (who we have featured before under the moniker Irie Idea) are releasing their first album, Quit Work Make Music, out June 10. “When striving for your full potential and reaching for...

Clintongore is a bi-coastal two-piece electronic pop band. Shaped from the residuum of their foggy, hungover lives in San Francisco, the duo – Sierra Frost and Christopher Crawford – now operate out of Portland...

This is the new single from Portland-based indie slow-fi band bed. “In late 2013, Alex Haager and Sierra Frost quit their jobs and escaped their lives in San Francisco and headed north to Portland, Oregon to start...

Irie Idea from Portland Oregon are releasing their second full length album Blues Like Sandpaper | Rocksteady Like Dirt in May. The full sound of Irie Idea comes from only two members, Curtis Irie and Morgan Smith. Keeping...

Portland, Oregon band Wild Ones have re-released their 2013 album “Keep It Safe” on Topshelf Records. Together with the video (below), the track Paia from it is today’s Dose. They are currently supporting...

Not too many years following artist Andrei Tutunaru’s move from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, comes his long awaited twelve song release, “Euphonious Dawn” under his familiar yet still mysterious moniker,...

Christopher Reyne is an indie singer/songwriter based in Portland, Oregon. Last month he released his debut solo album A Stranger at the Wheel digitally, and it will be available on vinyl August 6th via his Web Site...

Portland, OR noise rock trio Big Black Cloud announce their new album Black Friday which will be available July 2nd via Eolian Empire. Big Black Cloud is from Portland, Oregon, and comprises guitarist/vocalist Nick Capello,...

Portland, Oregon group, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside’s newest record Untamed Beast (February 19, 2013) is the follow up to 2011’s Dirty Radio. They recorded the album’s 11 tracks with Adam Landry and...

Here is something you never read about music: caffeinated rock n’ roll. But, don’t use just a regular coffee. Queued Up is a 4-piece power pop group hailing from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. They call their music...

For the last several days I’ve been listening non-stop to an excellent self-titled EP that came into my inbox from the Portland, Maine group – Endless Jags. The six member indie rock band reportedly spend time...

Yeah, you might have heard this excellent single from Barsuk earlier in the year for a quickie on NPR, but I though it could use an appropriate witching appearance in October. I think this excellent song has flipped the...

Negotiations is fifth full-length album written, recorded, and produced by The Helio Sequence, put together in a new studio setting. This collection of shimmering, reverb-heavy songs is a meditation on those inner dialogues...

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...

Electronic music with real drums? Why not? Don’t forget to do it with mestry. Night Surgeon’s self titled E.P. was released on June 26, Too Dark Records). The six track E.P. was produced and recorded by Gabriel...

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...

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...

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...

Rodrigo de Sá hosts from the Azores islands, Portugal, the 180th edition of our main show. This show includes only artists that submitted their music to us. We must say thank you to all of them, as the quality of their...

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...

Sound and the Urgency is the name of the album, the song and the project, or you could also call it Brian Senesac, from Portland. Sound and the Urgency is an indie-rock, folk-electronic masterpiece that was inspired by...

Despite its title, Only Good Thoughts Can Stay is not an anthem for blind faith in simple pleasures. Pairing sometimes dark lyrical matter with uptempo major-chord progressions, the newest album from Portland, Oregon’s...

Portland indie orchestra Typhoon turned many a critical head in 2010 after releasing their epic Hunger and Thirst on Tender Loving Empire, and have returned rather quickly with a new release. With 2 violins, 2 trumpets, 2...