Crossworlds: Dawn [Side: Night]
Kyiv Ukraine based experimental electronica/downtempo project CROSSWORLDS released their exceptional LP “Day and Night” in October of 2015. It exchanges ethnography for a family setting. Composer Oleksiy Mikryukov wrote the following on its origin: “The LP was conceived as a present for my daughter. Initially it was to be published on vinyl, with the two […]
4m Jan 17, 2017
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Kidsmoke: Waves
Welsh indie pop outfit Kidsmoke have announced the release of their latest track Waves, a gradual builder that immediately draws comparisons to the likes of Wild Nothing, Real Estate and Deerhunter. Beginning with a solitary guitar and the combined pristine vocals of frontman Lance Williams (guitar) and Sophie Ballamy (guitar), ‘Waves’ leads into a soaring […]
3m Jan 16, 2017
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Some Skeletons: Grand Hopes
The stunning featured track Grand Hopes comes from the Nottingham UK band SOME SKELETONS’ debut six track EP, “And Signs & Ampersands“, released December 15, 2012 – a good first introduction we think. You can also grab their debut album ‘Vigils‘ released in 2015 and a few acoustic songs from the album released under the […]
3m Jan 15, 2017
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The Nyx: Home
The Nyx are four ferocious females who exploded onto the London music scene in March 2016. Primarily a rock band, the girls fuse elements of grunge and soul to create a very distinctive sound. Combined with the fact the band has two lead singers and two definitive songwriting styles, they also have a strong, underlying […]
3m Jan 14, 2017
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Daddy Lion: Maslow
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 his bandmates several years ago after moving from DC to Columbia, South Carolina in order to pursue a doctoral […]
4m Jan 13, 2017
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Rest: Forgiven
Boston Massachusetts punk/shoegaze band REST put together a six track EP “Destroy Me” in February of this past year, reportedly recorded in a Basement in Southbridge. “Forgiven” is the lead-off track from this very promising release. More excellent tracks follow at their Bandcamp link including the newest self-titled EP that was issued not too far […]
3m Jan 12, 2017
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Dom Robinson: Good Love
Leeds artist Dom Robinson has announced the arrival of his brand new single Good Love, the first of several releases planned throughout 2017 for the budding singer-songwriter. With a delicate sound heavily influenced by the likes of Bon Iver, Nick Drake and Frightened Rabbit, Robinson’s latest track sees him explore the challenges encountered in relationships […]
4m Jan 11, 2017
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Chousand: Wizard Wig
Chousand are a self-described disingenuous punk rock band from Stamford, Connecticut who have released “Ten Years Too Late” this past September, a solid six-track EP which is the perfect soundtrack to partying like it’s 2006. You can pick up your free copy of the EP via the Bandcamp link below. In addition the band just […]
4m Jan 10, 2017
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No/Hugs: Loneliness
No/Hugs is an alternative rock band from Boston, MA formed by Narcissus A-Ngel in 2015. The band’s sound consists of Narcissus A-Ngel on vocals, Amaury Altmayer on electric guitar, Fernando Echeverry on drums, Jenn “The Red Man” on keys and Achal Murthy on electric bass. In December 2016 they released the EP In Between, which […]
5m Jan 09, 2017
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The Ferdy Mayne: Define My Name
The story of Shane O’Malley Firek, the single constant member of The Ferdy Mayne, is one of journeys – physical, spiritual, and a combination of the two. “I was going through massive change when I was writing this material,” Firek explains. His moves from Detroit to Nashville, then to New York City, and now on […]
3m Jan 08, 2017
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Gem Club: Spirit and Decline
Gem Club is a chamber pop band out of the Boston Massachusetts area made up of singer/pianist Christopher Barnes and his collaborators, cellist Kristen Drymala and vocalist Ieva Berberian. Just a few days before the New Year struck they released an intimate new piano laced track, “Spirit and Decline”, their first since early 2014. The […]
4m Jan 07, 2017
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Why a fox: Next year
Why a fox is a one man emo folk fusion band hailing from the North Eastern suburbs of Adelaide but residing in Fukushima, Japan. Hayden Marks currently helms the full musical effort here taking on the roles of vocals, guitars, bass, piano as well as drums. His recent Happy Holidays EP was released at the […]
3m Jan 06, 2017
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Degree: Sheltered Love
Greg Dugast, a young singer-songwriter out of Nances Frances, came back around to his acoustic stylings to end out his projects this past year (his debut year as the inspired project DEGREE). Dugast let himself dive into something sadder than the other songs he has written previously, putting it all together in one night and […]
5m Jan 06, 2017
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De Lune Déluge: Ink & Cayenne
New Orleans based De Lune Déluge released their second album Honeycomb in April 2016. Today’s Dose is a standout track from it. The band members are Dustin Champagne – bass, Collin Jilbert – drums, percussion, Vanessa Degrassi – vocals, guitars, baritone ukulele, flute, organs, wurlitzer, glockenspiel, slide, singing bowls. The songs are often described as […]
3m Jan 04, 2017
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Plastic Picnic: Nausea in Paradise (repost)
Plastic Picnic is a Brooklyn based band comprised of four Pacific Northwest transplants. The group shares a taste for lyrically forthright indie rock paired with driving 80’s rhythms, sweetly spun melodies and atmospheric synth and guitar work. The four piece teamed up with Producer/Engineer Ted Young (Kurt Vile, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Sonic Youth) to record […]
5m Jan 04, 2017
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Plastic Picnic: Nausea in Paradise
Plastic Picnic is a Brooklyn based band comprised of four Pacific Northwest transplants. The group shares a taste for lyrically forthright indie rock paired with driving 80’s rhythms, sweetly spun melodies and atmospheric synth and guitar work. The four piece teamed up with Producer/Engineer Ted Young (Kurt Vile, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Sonic Youth) to record […]
6m Jan 03, 2017
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Vices: Lucky
Vices describe themselves as “a noisy, punky, mathy 3-piece called Vices. Two of us are old friends from Michigan, reunited in Chicago along with a new bass player, playing loud shows and using a lot of distortion. We clearly listen to a lot of 90s music (McLusky, Fugazi, Nirvana, Drive Like Jehu) and have our […]
1s Jan 02, 2017
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Vervex: Led By Ghosts
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 featured from Seattle musician, Jake Barrow. Led By Ghosts by Vervex is licensed under a Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 […]
6m Jan 01, 2017
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Cynthia Lin: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
Cynthia Lin is a singer, songwriter, vocal coach, and ukulele teacher based in San Francisco who released this featured single last year on December 31, appropriately titled ‘What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?‘. The track was written by Frank Loesser and performed by Cynthia on her banjolele and is a nice lead in to […]
2m Dec 31, 2016
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Cotton Mather: Faded
Cotton Mather‘s “Cotton Mather with Nicole Atkins” EP (The Star Apple Kingdom) is out Dec. 30th, 2016. This is part of Austin Texas based Cotton Mather’s project of 64 mini-pop masterpieces, one for each hexagram of the I Ching. Faded corresponds to the 64th, or final one. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | […]
4m Dec 30, 2016
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Glass Apple Bonzai: Modern Life
The solo creative output of Ontario, Canadian artist Daniel X. Belasco, Glass Apple Bonzai has self-released two albums of 80s sounding synthwave and synthpop, won Album of the Year and Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year at the Niagara Music Awards in 2015 and 2016, performed at this year’s Iceland Airwaves Festival, in Reykjavik […]
4m Dec 29, 2016
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Comrade Catbox: Baroque Acquaintances
Comrade Catbox, from Saint Louis, MO, started as a guitar two piece and have spent the past year writing and practicing with a full 4-piece band. They recently released their first song Saul, and Baroque Acquaintances is the second single from their Porcelain Pillows EP, and is “a 5/4 hard rocker, with further twin guitar […]
5m Dec 28, 2016
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Chris Pendergraft: Solace (Oakland Ghost Ship Fire Tribute)
Chris Pendergraft, a musician from the Bay area recently wrote and released a songs for those who fell victim to the tragic fire in Oakland a few short weeks back. Before the end of the year was up, we wanted to feature his tribute and share a bit of what Chris had to say about […]
4m Dec 27, 2016
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Corner Suns: The Rattle In The Room
Corner Suns teams up with Sarah Jaffe for new single “The Rattle In The Room,” taken from Dallas-based band’s upcoming debut LP, out Jan. 13th. First aspiring to sound like Sabbath, duo of John Dufilho (The Apples In Stereo), Brandon Carr (The Earlies) shows baroque pop, psychedelic influences. The 14-track album combines neo-psyche and baroque […]
3m Dec 26, 2016
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Skyline Advantage: Christmas Or Something
Skyline Advantage are an alt-Pop outfit from the Isle of Man, their debut “The Songs About Stuff EP” is out now on Small Bear Records, on CD Cassette and download from BandCamp. They were also included on their label’s 2015 Christmas compilation ‘Smells Like Christmas Spirit’, with this song. FACEBOOK | TWITTER | BANDCAMP | […]
3m Dec 25, 2016
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The Silver Fleece: The Night Before Christmas (In Texas, That Is)
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 Christmas!“, one of the better holiday songs I’ve heard in the last number of years. The featured track comes from the […]
3m Dec 24, 2016
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The Joy Formidable: My Beerdrunk soul is sadder than a hundred dead Christmas trees
Happy Christmas (or Bah Humbug) from the UK’s The Joy Formidable. This is their 2009 Christmas single, so good we had to post it again. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER | YOUTUBE
5m Dec 23, 2016
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Deep Cuts: Comatose Come Christmas (repost)
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 addition, the band has put together a great video featuring some favorite faded commericals and images of the past. […]
3m Dec 22, 2016
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Deep Cuts: Comatose Come Christmas
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 addition, the band has put together a great video featuring some favorite faded commericals and images of the past. […]
4m Dec 22, 2016
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Nita Nielsen: One World Together
Cool Hats Music proudly presents Grammy Nominee NITA NIELSEN and the Christmas song One World Together. NITA NIELSEN is a pop/rock/world/jazz artist from Denmark. A woman of many talents – singer, composer, producer, lyricist, teacher just to mention a few. She has worked with session-player David Briggs from Nashville, released 2 hit albums in Denmark, […]
4m Dec 21, 2016
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Chelsey Cope: Holiday Party
Blackwatch Studios & Fowler VW of Norman Oklahoma are back with their exceptional 6th Annual Holiday Compilation! They hope you download the album for free and are welcoming any donations! 100% of these donations go to Norman Public Schools elementary music programs. For this release we focus on a track by Chelsey Cope, a promising […]
4m Dec 20, 2016
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Mark Handley: Christmas at Pound£and
“You know you’ve been Scrooged” sings Mark Handley here on what might well be his very own “Christmas Carol”… “it’s the birth of our Lord at the price you can afford” and indeed, at times it does sound like he’s brought the Sally [Salvation] Army band and the cast from Oliver along with him to […]
4m Dec 19, 2016
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Vigo Thieves: Razorblade
Scottish five-piece Vigo Thieves made a welcome return in late October with the release of their debut album Heartbeats, officially out now via Hijacked Records. Heartbeats delivers an explosion of sound from the offset. Filled with thumping piano chords, soaring synths and lead singer Stevie Juke’s high flying vocals, this is an album that is […]
3m Dec 18, 2016
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Julia Turner: Wake Up
Fifteen Times the Moon is an outstanding collection of original songs released mid-November by Bristol UK based artist Julia Turner that explore the weather patterns of life, our fears, hopes and relationships with both ourselves and each other. The album title was inspired by the incredible true story of a Mexican fisherman, who one quiet […]
4m Dec 17, 2016
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Al’York: River
Al’York is a band based in Ankara, Turkey. It started by the four of them hanging out and jamming at the Misuc Office in May of 2015. The songs started to evolve very quickly so they decided to give their first concert at Segmenler Park Amphitheater. This concert took place under the slogan ‘Make it […]
3m Dec 16, 2016
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Thula Borah: Confabulation
Glasgow’s Thula Borah are eager to share their expansive sound with the rest of the world as they gear up for the release of their six track EP, Near Life Experience, out on 27th January 2017 via Kill Jester Records. Thula Borah have creating a sound that defies any one genre; switching seamlessly from post-rock, […]
4m Dec 16, 2016
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The Ferdy Mayne: Pears And Asian Wine
The story of Shane O’Malley Firek, the single constant member of The Ferdy Mayne, is one of journeys – physical, spiritual, and a combination of the two. “I was going through massive change when I was writing this material,” Firek explains. His moves from Detroit to Nashville, then to New York City, and now on […]
5m Dec 14, 2016
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Jordan Burchel: Blesh
Jordan Burchel is a promising new indie folk-rock artist who grew up in Spring Hill, Florida but is currently based out of the Gainesville area. Burchel has a new album release on the way at the end of this week [12.16.16] titled “Vowel Sounds“, with a teaser stream of “Why They Call You Blue” at […]
6m Dec 13, 2016
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Team Picture: Potpourri Headache
Alt-rockers Team Picture have revealed their third and final release of 2016 in the form of brand new single Potpourri Headache, a delicious audio picnic for all and sundry, in which layers of sweet, syrupy synthesisers and girthsome guitar noise become welcome bedfellows for a luscious aural sandwich of floaty-voice sounds. The Leeds outfit have […]
6m Dec 12, 2016
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Rome Is Not A Town: Careful Like You Cared
4 piece Gothenburg, Sweden unit Rome Is Not A Town released their debut 7” “Stupid” in late 2015. With their noisy postpunk they soon found a special place in the hearts of everyone with a fondness for cracking guitars and some furious drum beating. Swedish media got excited and the biggest ones such as Festivalrykten, […]
4m Dec 11, 2016
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The Impossebulls: A Roller Skating Jam Called Saturday Nite
The Impossebulls returned in late November with the fourth installment in their exceptional Five By Five EP series with Gluttony. As fans have come to expect with this series, it features previously unreleased gems, including probably the most surprising cover that they’ve recorded thus far. Today’s featured single is perhaps our favorite to date from […]
3m Dec 10, 2016
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Strange Waves: Up In Smoke
Strange Waves, from Florence Alabama, just released their first single since the release of their EP Walls last year, we featured 38th Parallel from that release in November 2015. Strange Waves is a dynamic rock band that came together in Florence/Muscle Shoals, Alabama in the summer of 2012 under the name Walls of Red Wing. […]
5m Dec 09, 2016
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Telephone Road: Bella
Four-piece SE England based pop-rock band, TELEPHONE ROAD, have arrived with their exceptional new track, Bella. The group draw on a variety of elements across varied genres like folk, pop, and rock but are grounded in a classic sound that they think you’ll love. Prior to this newest taste from the band’s arsenal they’ve released […]
3m Dec 08, 2016
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Amethysts: Stones
Having burst onto the scene earlier this year with efficacious debut track ‘My Love’, Suffolk duo Amethysts have returned with second single ‘Stones’ which sees the duo rise once again from their rural oasis with a more electronic sound. Preceded by a sample of lead singer Clarice Parrott’s voice, ‘Stones’ manifests daydream vocals with washes […]
4m Dec 07, 2016
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E A Terra Nunca Me Pareceu Tão Distante: Medo De Tentar
Brazilian post-rock four piece E A Terra Nunca Me Pareceu Tão Distante [roughly translated to: Fear Of Trying And The Earth Never Seemed So Distant] recently released a two-track EP in February of this year, Medo De Tentar [Afraid to try] being the beautiful instrumental lead-off track from this excellent effort. The band came together […]
6m Dec 06, 2016
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Dead Naked Hippies: Lights Out
‘Lights Out’ is a first glimpse into the raucous sound of Dead Naked Hippies. Written in the hallowed walls of Temple of Boom and produced by Matt Peel (Eagulls, Pulled Apart By Horses, Autobahn), the track embraces the post punk aesthetic of the burgeoning Leeds scene whilst dancing around punchy alt rock. ‘L.O.’ tells a […]
3m Dec 05, 2016
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Skin & Bones: Wait No More
Skin & Bones is a folk duo comprised of Taylor Borsuk and Peter Blackwelder who met at an ill-fitting house show after Peter had moved to California from North Carolina. The americana influenced group started their journey by busking in the Venice Beach area here in LA, sometimes for 12 hours straight which reportedly helped […]
5m Dec 04, 2016
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Moonlapse: Dark Root Omen
Today, genre-bending and experimental musician Ben Strick (Moonlapse) has released his third studio album, Viridis, with the exceptional single Dark Root Omen featured as today’s Daily Dose. “Musically, I’m experimenting with how elements found more commonly in progressive metal can be played through a diverse array of electronic instruments, and with how I can create […]
5m Dec 03, 2016
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Steph Barrak: So Familiar
Steph Barrak is an independent singer/songwriter from Boston, MA. Immediately approachable and inviting, Barrak’s music is a delightfully deceptive expression of indie folk, pop, and rock. Like a warm and familiar cup of tea with a hint of something you’ve never tasted before, Barrak draws the listener in and shows them the loose thread. Pull […]
3m Dec 02, 2016
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Dazy Crown: Honeydew
We are back with another feature from the Norwich UK band DAZY CROWN and their infectious lo-fi sound. The excellent new single Honeydew delves a bit deeper than what the track name brings to mind, with band member Thomas Little having the following to say on the subject matter: The song is essentially dedicated to […]
4m Dec 01, 2016
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