21-year-old songwriter and guitarist, Austin North began performing as a UC San Diego student before eventually returning to his hometown of El Paso to form SLEEPSPENT. The band, now a trio including Cecilia Otero on bass...
Los De Esta Noche: S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Los de Esta Noche (The Ones From Tonight) are another band we are featuring this week out of San Antonio, Texas. The group is a Latin roots rock band with a soundscape ranging through Ska, Cumbia and Conjunto music. ...
Cotton Mather: Elean...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Network favorite and Austin TX based psych-pop musicians Cotton Mather just released their newest “Young Life” EP yesterday, October 13th, six new original songs to his newest “Songs From The I Ching”...
The March Divide: Ti...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Jared Putnam, The March Divide’s sole permanent member, is a non-stop workhorse. His upcoming EP represents the fifth EP of original material, along with three full-length albums, that he has issued since 2013....
AP Mode: Kids Eat Fr...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Late this past December, Midland Texas born alternative rock three-piece AP MODE released their second LP “Kids Eat Free“, which is now available over at iTunes, Spotify and other online outlets. You can pick up...
Christopher Norman: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Austin, Texas electropop artist Christopher Norman released the LP “Process” in 2014, a beautiful effort channeling his unique perspectives in the genre coming from a solid background in techno. This entire...
chalkboards: heartdr...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The new seven-song album “Sleeper Hearts” from Austin, Texas 8-bit inspired outfit chalkboards released in the final days of this past year, 2016. chalkboards is Anna Crain and Jacob Weiss who specialize in...
The Silver Fleece: T...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Since I spent every single Christmas in Texas as my relatives all lived in that state, I thought it would be nice to feature a semi-related regionally titled track from the compilation, “Hey, It’s...
Deep Cuts: Comatose ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Your favorite Houston, Texas boy band DEEP CUTS has returned with a dose of frothy holiday cheer, Comatose Come Christmas, their Xmas jingle and a solid entry into the year-end music gifting and regifting spree. In...
The Cover Letter: So...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Austin, Texas based indie folk rock band THE COVER LETTER began forging their name in the local music scene in 2013, and were later named one of the Best New Bands in the Live Music Capital of the World by the Austin...
The March Divide: Go...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Jared Putnam, the main man that is the San Antonio-based band, The March Divide, has launched a fall tour (see itinerary below) in support of Saturdays, his most recent album. The run of dates will take Putnam throughout...
The Black Angels: Bl...
posted by Stuart Morrison
To mark the 3000th Daily Dose (it started in April 2008), we’re reposting the first one, by Austin Texas based The Black Angels. The band are still going strong, and have released five albums, four EPs and eight...
Kamikaze Pilots Manu...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kamikaze Pilots Manual come from both Abilene and Denton Texas, coming together as a band in 2010. Their first excellent single featured here is the first off their new forthcoming record My Ship Will Sail, recorded and...
Tiger Waves: Down th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Down the Middle is the lead off-track from Austin, Texas indie pop band TIGER WAVES’ 2016 excellent 13-track effort, “Tippy Beach“, now available at Bandcamp along with four of their other previous...
Cantina: Bulletproof
posted by Stuart Morrison
Cantina, having previously released two albums under the name I Love Math, will now bring out its debut album A Sea of Keys on July 22nd via Dallas-based We Know Better Records. “We are basically a band of drummers,”...
Sick/Sea: Mermaid
posted by Charles Stepczyk
McAllen Texas band SICK/SEA is an indie/rock/jazz trio fronted by singer Audrey Scott with instrumentation by Johnny Garza and Cameron Scott. Its nice to stumble across a great band close to where a few grandparents were...
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...
Katy Kirby: Every Ti...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Austin Texas based indie folk artist Katy Kirby just released a beautiful three song pop gem earlier in June, appropriately named “Three”, completed in the summer in Granite Shoals, Texas. Each song on the EP is...
Luke Herbert: Coasti...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Luke Herbert is a promising new singer, songwriter, and producer out of Denton, Texas who creatively pulls his inspired sounds from the varying genres of alternative, pop and funk. The first two songs on his Soundcloud,...
I Am the Albatross: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
‘Port City’ is an ode to the part of I-10 which runs between Texas and Louisiana and passes through the many industrial port cities that lie between Houston and New Orleans,” says vocalist and guitarist...
Institute: Perpetual...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Politically speaking, not much has changed about the way Institute exists as a band since signing to Sacred Bones. Having members in Glue, Wiccans, and Back to Back, all fellow stalwarts of the Texas punk scene, helps...
Telephantom: Silence
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Houston Texas dream-pop band TELEPHANTOM recently released their first 3 song EP earlier this year on February 2. They’ve got a great video to go with the stellar track which dropped in January, which we’ve...
Kid Scissor: The One...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kid Scissor is the solo project of musician Josh Ben, a Philadelphia-born, Austin-based singer, songwriter, and producer. His debut single “The Ones That Don’t Care” released on November 3rd, we must say a...
Letting Up Despite G...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Just a short month ago in mid-August, former LA based indie electro-pop band Letting Up Despite Great Faults (now based in Austin, TX) released their newest exceptional thirteen track release, Neon. They’ve also put...
Weak-Willed: Rods an...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Rods and Cones is from the Austin, Texas electronic duo of Tyler James Flowers and Hector Carlos Ramirez, otherwise known as WEAK-WILLED. Their six song self-titled EP released this past January, with a self-described style...
The Valery Trails: S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Andrew Bower (vocals/guitars), an expatriate Australian currently living in Houston, enlisted his brother Sean Bower (bass) and Dan McNaulty (drums) from his hometown of Brisbane, Australia to form The Valery Trails. With...
Basketball Shorts: P...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
While we all wait anxiously in 2014 to see if Peter Venkman will ever re-appear on the silver screen, we luckily have a song to keep us repeatedly entertained in between checking the few stalwart fan blogs on the...
Headshy: Coma
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Austin based group HEADSHY are on the verge of releasing their conceptual Triple EP La Belle Epoque: The Head Chord, The Heart Chord, The Base Chord this upcoming January 14th, 2014 via Medicina Records. The upcoming release...
Mount Pressmore: Dry...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The music of Austin, Texas band MOUNT PRESSMORE straddles the jazz-rock line with a level of proficiency that brings to mind an indie-rock Steely Dan on the debut album “Enjoy,” scheduled for release on Mount...
Shearwater: You As Y...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Austin’s Shearwater have a new album called ‘Fellow Travellers’ on the way delivering in late November through Subpop, which we are all anxiously awaiting. However, before that arrives I’d like to...
Brazos: How the Rank...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Martin McNulty Crane V comes from a long line of exceptional Martins. There’s an orphan who became attorney general of Texas and fought the KKK, a lieutenant who fought in WWI, an airline pilot who raised his family in...
The Gorgeous Hands: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Gorgeous Hands are a 60s inspired indie pop/rock quartet from Austin comprised of brothers Chris and Rusty Galis, multi-instrumentalist Charlie Magnone, and drummer/percussionist Cullen Faulk. They began writing and...