Helsinki Finland’s Big Wave Riders started their band about 7 months ago, in April of 2010 to be exact. The idea was to make fresh music with some edge and some live garage/punk energy. Also, they didn’t want to...

London (Dalston) noise-pop trio Male Bonding plays fast. Nothing Hurts, the band’s first full-length, gets it done in half an hour, and most songs clock in at around two minutes. “I don’t like long songs,” says...

From the depths of North West London comes a stirring. For the past 6 months the bandits have been in hibernation; writing, recording, mostly sleeping, and are now ready to come back to the warm outdoors and hit the live...

As the follow up to their Hate is Poor EP, Edmonton Alberta’s Wool On Wolves have released the full length album Grey Matter. It was recorded and mixed in their basement rehearsal space in an effort to convey the...

In honor of Christmas and the pilgrimage to the  yearly flickering lights of the little North Carolina town of McAdenville (aka Christmas Town USA), The Winter Sounds are back on the dose today.  Today we take a listen to...

The late Harvey Danger recorded this great Christmas track back in 1998 and then re-released it on an EP under their own label Phonographic Records in December 2004. Eventually the EP went out of print, but you can now...

LA’s Superhumanoids are offering up their debut EP “Urgency” for free on multiple sites, and we highly urge that you go and check-out the official website link below for all the goods.  The official...

On Asobi Seksu’s fourth proper full-length, Fluorescence, the band’s color-saturated soundscapes get even brighter — as the record’s many shades shift with each passing song. Today we are privileged...

Gold is the first single from the Rasa album by We Were The States We Were The States had nearly completed the recording of its new album Rasa when the Nashville floods came. With two feet of water in the basement of Coat of...

In the spring of 2008, the unassuming duo Oars (David Bratton and Earl Muehlenbach) began an intensive six months of recording, song crafting and experimentation in a closet-sized Greenpoint [Brooklyn] studio across the...

Minneapolis’ Tapes ‘n Tapes are back with a new album after their 2008’s XL released Walk It Off.  Following the touring and support  of Walk It Off for a year after release, it was time for a little R...

Tangents is an evolution of what many bands have and will become in the 21st century; a long distance collaboration between two musicians that takes full advantage of modern technologies. Tangents is not what you may...

Today’s primarily Los Angeles based show slowly crept upward from 6 tracks,  doubling in size as we gradually realized that we had an oversharing problem. While this can swifly turn to embarrassment in social...

Wolf People are an English psychedelic rock band based in London, Bedford and North Yorkshire. They formed in 2006 around the release of a very limited CD EP on Sea Records as part of the Lifeboat Series.  They then...

Brave Chandeliers is a Portland, OR band that sounds like Billy Joel’s Porsche (before he crashed it). For such a young band, they come off as old souls, writing the catchiest alt-pop that manages to portray a...

Missouri’s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (SSLYBY) recently released their third album for Polyvinyl Records, this time produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, as well as Beau Sorenson.  Release Date:...

We continue the international run this weekend with a very hard-edged track from Dubai based band Sho?, prounounced Shoe. Unfortunately the paramaters of this blog don’t allow us to publish any Arabic characters so...

From our new favourite Netlabel Bad Panda Records comes Italian outfit Dumbo Gets Mad. Do you remember the great Pink Elephants on Parade scene, from the 1941 Disney masterpiece, in which Dumbo, after accidentally ...

From their album Our Own Devices released earlier this year. Stereo Sons are an original three-piece rock band based in Seattle, Wa. Their sound is driven by the strange musical chemistry between post-punk singer/guitarist...

The second track from their latest album to be featured on the Daily Dose. A 20 date US tour is under way. Melodic, psychedelic, and inventive lo-fi guitars blend with whispery, multi-layered vocals, and sensible pop...

Not everyone who sings about our little regional bubble is from the Southern California area, so I decided to place a few tracks at the head of the show today that offer a alternative viewpoint – maybe not pleasing to...

Formed in 2001, The Paperbacks have operated consistently and quietly from their home base in Winnipeg, Canada, gathering a dedicated following and building up an impressive catalogue of songs and accomplishments....

From their just-released five track EP on V2 Benelux The Tins are from upstate New York (Buffalo & Binghamton) and comprise Mike Santillo (keyboards, vocals), Adam Putzer (guitar, vocals), and Dave Muntner (drums)....

Simplifires’ Twitter bio identifies them as Mexican Irish rock band, although they did unfortunately have to group this with a disclaimer that the lyrics are in English, due to traditional pigeonholers...

Wintersleep’s fourth album, New Inheritors was born on the road. Since the 2007 release of The Juno Award winning Welcome to the Night Sky, Wintersleep has been performing endlessly all over North America, Europe and...

On May 28, 2009, Seattle’s HARVEY DANGER announced that “After 15 years, three albums, hundreds of shows, and far more twists and turns than we ever imagined possible, we’ve decided to put Harvey Danger...

Old Canes is a band from Lawrence, Kansas headed up by Appleseed Cast front man Chris Crisci.  The band also includes Kelly Hangauer (4th Of July), Lucas Oswald (Minus Story), Taylor Holenbeck, Joey Henry (Calamity Cubes),...

IR’s SoCal Sessions return after close to a years absence, bringing quality tracks from San Diego, Temecula, Long Beach, and basically all over the LA and OC regions. Please listen and help support these artists’...

The Beginning: Brit recorded an EP titled “Chapter One.” After its release, she realized it would be impossible to create the same sounds live without either growing octopus tentacles or putting a band together. ...

London’s SWIMFASTER GODWHISPERS is back deep into Season 2 (aka Kolossus) of their singles release schedule. A Man From the Ivory Coast is the 11th single in their seasonal episodic release of 15th singles, each one...

San Francisco’s RETURN TO MONO returns to our blog this morning at 6AM with breathy yet beautiful sonic perfection in their newest album Framebreaker, hitting shelves in a few short months on Nov. 10. Doomsday Device,...

Melodic, psychedelic, and inventive lo-fi guitars blend with whispery, multi-layered vocals, and sensible pop melodies on The Wagner Logic, the self-titled sophomore follow-up to The Wagner Logic’s 2007 debut release...