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 who...
Phonolux: Control
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Local San Antonio indie rock band Phonolux released their newest ‘Nashville Fires’ this past April, three years after their debut self-titled album in 2009. They describe it as a vintage sound mixed with a...
Inherit The Stars: W...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Breaking out onto the music scene with a style that’s completely their own, Sheffield [UK] born and bred quartet Inherit The Stars are an explosion of sound that should not be missed. With all four members...
Rainbow Danger Club:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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 experienced,...
The Longwalls: Big M...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
For their latest 8-song EP Kowloon, Boston based band, The Longwalls found inspiration in the ancient Chinese city from which the record was named. In Hong Kong there was once a walled city, Kowloon. An ungoverned 6-acre...
Hero Jr.: Ann Boleyn
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Indianapolis band Hero Jr.’s full-length debut “Backup Plan” is now out through Desa Records and it is a refreshing change of sound, mixing up a bit of classic and 90s rock and expanding on the raw power of...
Verse Metrics: Aches
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Glaswegian four-piece Verse Metrics bring you the free download single ‘Aches’. In August 2012 the band recorded 5 new tracks with engineer Jamie Savage at Chem19 studios. These tracks will make up Verse...
Zombina and the Skel...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Liverpool group Zombina and the Skeletones, have unearthed their lost mini-album from 2003 featuring the earlier lineup from “Taste the Blood…”, recorded in the basement of Doc Horror’s mum over a...
Endless Jags: Seen M...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Hot Fiction: Old New...
posted by Stuart Morrison
London band Hot Fiction have just released their second album Apply Within. Head over to their Main Site, or Jamendo, for a free download of the whole album, and make a donation if you like it. Their first album Dark Room...
Buffalo Killers: It&...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Tear into that BBQ leg son, multitask with your favorite 12 oz, and get ready for some quality blues rock. The compilation ‘Alive at the Deep Blues Fest’ is arriving this November 27th via Alive NaturalSound...
41st and Home: Gorba...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After their 2010 debut, Vancouver five piece, 41ST AND HOME returned last July with a seven song EP, Raised by Wolves. Today’s featured track is the first single, Gorbachev, of which they’ve also made a great...
Firewater: A Little ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After three years of touring and world-wandering in the wake of 2007’s The Golden Hour, Firewater ringleader Tod A finally touched down in Istanbul, Turkey. “The city is fascinating. It’s a melting pot—a lot like...
Dylan in the Movies:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Murder by Death: Los...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
In June this Bloomington Indiana based band signed up for their first album with Bloodshot Records, their sixth full length in the quickly growing and maturing catalog. The album was apparently funded on Kickstarter and...
Angels Heart: Under ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Sentinel: Somewhere ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Complimenting the coming of Fall tomorrow, we see the arrival of Sentinel’s new single, Somewhere Else, a nice representation of the changing of the seasons that seemingly synchs up perfectly with the brand new video...
Ending Satellites: T...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s dose is an instrumental track I ran across by French group Ending Satellites whom release all their songs under a Creative Commons License. Their newest album “7 Billion Passengers, Only One Flight”...
The Helio Sequence: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Modern Rivals: Clock...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Modern Rivals are five friends who have been playing music together since middle school, and whom recently self-released the Sea Legs EP – a promising introduction to their sound. The Sea Legs EP was recorded and...
Blonde Summer: Robot...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Blonde Summer is a band of Los Angeles natives, led by singer/guitarist Chris Pope. Their sophomore EP, Slow Daze, plunges to new depths, exploring the limits of indie-pop infused California surf-rock, and their warm weather...
Ladyhawk: You Read M...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
I Was Totally Destro...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
The Bombhappies: Whe...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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 left...
Why?: Sod in the See...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Here’s a really brief intro to today’s featured musician courtesy of the Wiki collective: Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Messianic Jewish parents. Before his first year in high...
The Lumineers: Ho He...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Denver Colorado’s The Lumineers recently had their self-titled debut album released on Dualtone Records, as well as Rogue Records this July. In an odd twist of fate, I just found out the band is playing in the vicinity...
Fierce Creatures: Ca...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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 the...
Japandroids: The Hou...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After working on new material throughout 2011, Vancouver based duo Japandroids released their second LP, Celebration Rock, internationally on June 5 through Polyvinyl Records, prefaced by the single “The House That Heaven...
Amethyst: Aperture f...
posted by Stuart Morrison
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...
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...
Rah Rah: Little Poem...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Rah Rah’s sophomore album, Breaking Hearts was recorded and mixed in Montreal by Kees Dekker (Plants & Animals) released June 1, 2010 following the 2008 debut album, Going Steady. Despite lyrics that touch on...
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...