RVIVR, a four-piece punk rock band from Olympia Washington, released their excellent two-part “From the Tide” 7″ on Dec. 31, 2016 via Dead Broke Rekerds here in the US. Fast forward to the beginning of...
Sawtooth: Life is a ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s lush nine-minute rewarding tale “Life is a Book” comes from the beautiful Dec 2015 LP release “Post-Americana” by Olympia Washington five piece folktronica band, SAWOOTH. The group has...
Dot Dash: Summer Lig...
posted by Stuart Morrison
To mark the start of summer a couple of days ago (see link below for UK Met Office explanation), DC based Dot Dash have released Summer Light as a free download from BandCamp (see that link below too). It is from their...
Rooftops: Sea Frailt...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Bellingham, Washington four-piece band ROOFTOPS craft math-rock with reticular instrumentation and sparse vocals, heavily influenced by the Chicago and Pittsburg indie scenes of the mid to late 90’s. The group formed in...
Daddy Lion: Maslow
posted by Stuart Morrison
Daddy Lion originally started as a solo project from founding member Jeremy Joseph, and adopts the DIY ethos that he learned growing up in the Washington, DC area with its Dischord-records driven punk scene. Jeremy met...
Vervex: Led By Ghost...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Led By Ghosts is one of the four tracks off Washington based project Vervex’s 2012 EP release of ‘The Wave‘, a slightly haunting yet inspiring effort to start off the new year and our second song to be...
Vervex: Needle &...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Vervex came into being as the solo project of Washington resident Jake Barrow. Today’s feature is one of four brilliant tracks from his earlier EP, ‘The Wave‘ released November 14, 2012. The striking...
Bread & Butter: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Desperation, the new single from Seattle four-piece indie rock band BREAD & BUTTER officially arrives later this week although had an early debut through Purevolume and over at Soundcloud. The band is described as...
Dot Dash: Holly Garl...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Searchlights, the new album from Dot Dash, is out now on The Beautiful Music. It’s the Washington D.C.-based band’s fifth album in less than five years, all of them released by Ottawa-based The Beautiful Music, and...
Matt Tarka: Very Lit...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Matt Tarka is an indie rock musician from Washington D.C. His music combines life’s contemplative themes with an upbeat, infectious sound. Tarka has been featured as one of Relix Magazine’s “Artists On The Rise”...
The Posies: Squirrel...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
A few months previous one of our favorite groups out of Seattle, THE POSIES, released their 8th album SOLID STATES, and immediately headed off on an extensive European tour followed by a 27-date run of secret shows in the...
Dot Dash: The Infini...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Searchlights, the new album from Dot Dash, is out now on The Beautiful Music. It’s the Washington D.C.-based band’s fifth album in less than five years, all of them released by Ottawa-based The Beautiful Music, and...
Pierce: If I Were Yo...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seattle singer-songwriter Pierce has teamed up with Billy Thompson (also supplying vocals) for the excellent track ‘If I Were You‘ taken from his newest three-track EP ‘Real Faker‘. The EP was...
Kye Alfred Hillig: I...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Tacoma Washington based artist Kye Alfred Hillig has returned with a new full length album, ‘Great Falls Memorial Interchange‘, recorded over four days last December up in Seattle and made available for streaming...
Asthmaboy: This City...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Asthmaboy is a Washington based duo made up of Glindon Marten and John Boone, songwriters from Seattle. Today’s featured track is taken from their excellent 2013 ten-song sophomore LP, “Wanderers” which...
Hudson: The Belfry
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hudson is a folk rock band from Bellingham, Washington specializing in concept albums, each telling a unique story and written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days. In this eleven chapter/song...
Tacocat: I Hate the ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seattle based group Tacocat has a third studio album on the way, Lost Time (an X-Files reference), their first release with producer Erik Blood. Blood’s sounds are noted as being wide and expansive, bringing a fullness...
Skyline Hotel: Winte...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Washington DC indie pop/rock band Skyline Hotel have a new EP, Sparks of Light, coming out January 19, 2016. “Skyline Hotel infuses pop/rock with the guitar driven sounds of the ‘70s and sensitive, emotion-laden...
Zach Fleury: Tarzan,...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Zach Fleury is an independent producer and session player from Seattle, Washington who has two solo releases under his belt backed by Seattle String Mafia including the fantastic full length ‘Be Still, Neverland...
Pony Time: Time Tell...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seattle rock duo PONY TIME have a new single out ‘Time Tells Me’, the first track on the band’s forthcoming fourth LP, Rumours 2: The Rumours Are True, set to officially drop on September 11th. The band is...
Silhouette Cities: E...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Washington DC based Silhouette Cities will be releasing their new album “No Worse for the Wear” on August 4th. They were kind enough to send it to us pre-release, we had a listen, and selected Enough as...
La Luz: You Disappea...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The first single has arrived from Weirdo Shrine, the new Ty Segall-produced sophomore album by Seattle surf-rock group La Luz, out August 7th on Hardly Art records. You Disappear is the perfect track to help launch off the...
Ki:Theory: Open Woun...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Ki:Theory (“Key Theory”) is the alias for Richmond, Virginia based recording artist and producer, Joel Burleson, with his featured track here today remixed by Seattle’s ODESZA – a duo comprised of...
Chastity Belt: Time ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Walla Walla rock band Chastity Belt has just released the excellent featured single from ‘Time to Go Home’ the first full length for the label Hardly Art, seeing its release date in a few short months on March...
Kye Alfred Hillig: W...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Kye Alfred Hillig’s new album ‘The Buddist’ has just released digitally earlier in the month, with a CD being issued on 9/9. For those who like to lovingly admire a larger scale version of the artwork and...
S: Brunch
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Following behind the first anticipated single, Vampire, from Jenn Ghetto’s new release Cool Choices comes Brunch, the second striking piece from the album. Jenn Ghetto is formerly of the band Carissa’s Weird who...
Kye Alfred Hillig: U...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Its time for a change for Tacoma, Washington based singer-songwriter Kye Alfred Hillig. Apparently his last two records have drawn heavy from roots, folk and Americana but as a songwriter Hillig felt it was time for a...
Silhouette Cities: S...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Silhouette Cities are a DC-based band, and this is from their EP Objects In Motion, available to stream from SoundCloud. “Silhouette Cities originated as a collaboration among musicians along the East Coast writing...
Drop Electric: Higgs...
posted by Stuart Morrison
To mark the release of their new album ‘Waking Up to the Fire’ yesterday, on Lefse Records, Drop Electric have released the second single from it, with accompanying video. We featured the first single, the title...
The Head and the Hea...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Seattle’s The Head and the Heart are about to launch a new LP via Subpop this October 15th entitled ‘Let’s Be Still’. As we have our heads in the sand occasionally we have not played them yet on the...
Dot Dash: Bloom/Deca...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Washington DC based Dot Dash have been featured once before on The Daily Dose, and now they have a new album out called Half-Remembered Dream (their third in less than two years) its time for another play. The album is...
Drop Electric: Wakin...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Based in a city known for stagnation and business as usual, Washington DC’s Drop Electric exists to break the mold. Drop Electric’s music is a manic barrage of soaring female vocals, distortion, tribal percussion, and...