After the best part of two years playing music together in various forms, defining their artistic direction, these three Sydney boys combined their love for blues and rock into a fusion of earthy riffs, pounding rhythms...

“Sunderland (UK) alt rock trio ‘Rayne’ announce the release of their free download single and forthcoming gigs & live radio shows. ‘Fallen’ taken from the bands debut album release...

Cleft are a 2-piece turbo-prog band (Dan Beesley & John Simm) that came together in Manchester, UK in late 2011. They make massive, dirty, instrumental music using a guitar and some drums. They say that is best...

Aussie rock band Longreef (Josh Barker, Tristan Davies, Nick Miller, Jim Wark) are back on the road touring the U.S. and have added additional dates to their already packed touring schedule for 2013. The band will remain...

On a day of corned beef sandwiches we are shining a spotlight on Liverpool band, Alpha Male Tea Party, whose track will serve as an ode to one of my least favorite meals. They play an aggressive yet melodic breed of...

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...

The Racer, an indie rock quintet out of Monroe, NY is influenced by the frequent commutes to NYC, tour van rides and road trips a group of bandmates inevitably experiences. “We usually picture driving to the music we...

Walter Sickert & The ARmy of BRoken TOys are the spinners of a charming, demented fairy tale that gathers new characters all the time. At the heart of the colorful fantasy is Walter Sickert, the writer, ringleader and...

Due to a bout of ADD we recently misplaced our new favorite track by Seattle Washington’s THE TORN ACLs, but last night its been rediscovered and placed in the pill cup for today’s Dose. This is one of the...

La Crosse, WI trio Porcupine organically forges its singular brand of rock ‘n’ rock reminiscent of late-90s alternative without compromise. “We are kind of in the middle of nowhere – Midwest, small...

Today’s feature come off the new Nashville band, Great Peacock’s self-titled debut EP ; out March 5, 2013 through This Is American Music. Instead of trying to live in a long-gone past, Great Peacock draws from...

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...

Born in Iowa and raised along the Mississippi River in an ‘Addams Family meets 700 Club’ home, Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer, emerged onto Montreal’s music scene at her own pace, appearing and...

This brilliant new track from New York’s Anna Bradley comes off the third edition of Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen compilation of artists, a free download over at BandCamp. The harmonies on this track really...

“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...

Unsuddenly is a musical collaboration built on the songwriting, singing and producing efforts of Will James in collaboration with several great friends and accomplished musicians. The lyrics of today’s featured...

Since 2007 American Babies has been the mouthpiece for Philadelphia based musician Tom Hamilton. After spending the early 2000s building a national fan base fronting the electro-rock band Brothers Past, releasing two...

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...

MBB are a Liège, France based trio with 12 releases behind them since their formation in July of 1990. From what we could discern from our translator, the group is self described as a punk/ska/rock/reggae fiesta with a...

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...

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...

Today’s featured post-rock song from Sweden’s MOONLIT SAILOR closes out the soundtrack for the somewhat recent film, Floating: The Nathan Gocke Story. This is a documentary film about a quadriplegic surfer who...

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...

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...

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...