Antenna Man: Guitarless Man
Antenna Man make music about dysfunctional love, weirdness, meaninglessness, hopefulness, and just about any other twisted little thing you could imagine. The Indianapolis quartet of Mark Wolven (vocals, rhythm guitar), Kendall Ludwig (lead guitar), David Campbell (bass) and Wes Hodgson (drums) can’t seem to complacently float in single genre waters. Their catchy, quirky songs feel […]
4m Nov 30, 2016
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Galway: Mria
Today we are featuring the dreampop track “Mria” by Moscow based band GALWAY, a beautifully unfolding effort from their twelve song release “Mria“, released January 1st, 2012. The entire release can be found at Bandcamp for free or under a name-your-price model. Mria by Galway is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) […]
4m Nov 30, 2016
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Seeing Hands: It’s True
Newcastle dream pop quartet Seeing Hands have revealed their second official release ‘It’s True’ as the follow-up to their hit debut single ‘I Knew You’ out earlier this year. Their latest offering, a potent mix of dreamy vocals and sumptuous guitar licks delicately sewn together with frontman Kev Curran’s lyricism, is sure to build on […]
4m Nov 28, 2016
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W. H. Lung: Inspiration!
Manchester psych 3-piece W.H. Lung announce themselves with monster debut single ‘Inspiration!’, released on 25th November on Hed Glo Inc. W. H. Lung is a recording project founded in Manchester in mid-2016. Its first single to yield is the dream-like and shifting ‘Inspiration!’, recorded at The Nave in Leeds and produced by Matt Peel (Eagulls, […]
8m Nov 27, 2016
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SCD: holiday (twin)
Saint Petersburg, Russia based indietronica project SCD (aka Suicide) released the twenty minute effort, Looking for Something to Say, in July 2015 via the non-profit Russian Netlabel, MNMN Records. Its a stunning track to take you through the weekend, with the rest of the release available for free from the various sites below, including Archive.org. […]
3m Nov 26, 2016
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Fairchild: Start Again
Australian six-piece, Fairchild have urged listeners to ‘put their lipstick down’ and rehydrate their senses with the release of their flawless new single ‘Start Again’ – a sleek and lightweight samba that lathers you in glitter and compels you to ransack your wardrobe and dazzle the dance floor with shiny, shimmering shapes! Channelling the restless […]
5m Nov 25, 2016
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Polyphonics: Something and Sometimes
Polyphonics is a project by composer and musician Art Denisson where he comes up with a unique merger of electronics, electroacoustics and acoustics. “Secret Silence“, the release from where today’s featured track is taken, is the project’s debut on Bulgarian label Mahorka in late August of this year. The musical ideas for the project were […]
3m Nov 24, 2016
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Orchards: Honey
Combining left field experimentation with pop sensibilities, Brighton’s Orchards unveil new single ‘Honey’, out 18th November. Once again recording with engineer/producer Thomas Le Beau Morley (Wolf Alice, Three Trapped Tigers, Delta Sleep), Orchards have further honed their skittish math-pop sound, where intricate guitars and drums provide the bed on which Lucy Evers’ vocals thrive, before […]
4m Nov 23, 2016
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A-Grav Lab: Spacewalkers
Indiana natives Scott Matelic and Jay McElfresh (A-Grav Lab) originally had a version of today’s featured track relased back in 2002, part of a handful of downloadable singles by indie artists released via Chuck D’s (Public Enemy) label SLAMjamz. Several years later Blocsonic head Mike Gregoire reconnected with Jay from A-Grav Lab (Antigravity Laboratory) and […]
4m Nov 23, 2016
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Corner Suns: Borrowed Time
Corner Suns – the Dallas-based duo of John Dufilho (The Apples In Stereo, The Deathray Davies) and Brandon Carr (The Earlies) – will release its self-titled debut via Idol Records on Jan. 13th, 2017. The 14-track album combines neo-psyche and baroque pop influences that will grab the attention of fans of artists such as The […]
3m Nov 21, 2016
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Lanterns on the Lake: Beings (live with RNS)
In the last couple of weeks Newcastle Upon Tyne band LANTERNS ON THE LAKE released the beautiful live version of their song Beings, recorded live at Sage, Gateshead in February this year along with Royal Northern Sinfonia. The new live album from which this track comes, will officially be out digitally on 25th November via […]
8m Nov 21, 2016
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Black International: Shining Swords
Black International is a band from Edinburgh, Scotland whose name refers to an international anarchist political organization established in 1881. The band consists of core members Stewart Allan and Craig Peebles, although they occasionally do collaborate with others. After the first album self-release in 2011, the band later issued ‘A Lesson In Repression’, recorded in […]
6m Nov 19, 2016
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Kassassin Street: Do or Die
Since last single, the politically charged ‘Hand in My Pocket’, Portsmouth psych-pop 5-piece Kassassin Street have split their time between performing to thousands of people the length and breadth of the country (and abroad) and being holed up in their studio concocting a bunch of fresh new tracks. ‘Do or Die’ is the first taste […]
3m Nov 18, 2016
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The Cover Letter: Somethings
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 Chronicle and one of the country’s Hot 100 Unsigned Bands in 2015 by […]
3m Nov 17, 2016
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Palm Honey: Stick The Knife In
Reading UK band Palm Honey are releasing their EP Tucked into the Electronic Wave in January, and today’s Dose is a single from it. This new single marks a significant departure from Palm Honey ’s previous material. A furious motoric beat and eighth-note bass-line propels wails of feedback and quivering synthesiser to stratospheric heights – […]
4m Nov 16, 2016
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Why a Fox: Afloat
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 helm of vocals, guitars, bass, piano as well as drums. His recent EP Participation Medal, released this Oct 26th, […]
3m Nov 15, 2016
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Tiny Cuts: Free Now
Welsh band tiny cuts have released Free Now the latest and final track from their album Baby, You’ve Been Cut By Love’s Thrashing Blade. As AJ says “This track wraps up our debut album Baby, You’ve Been Cut By Love’s Thrashing Blade. It’s synthwave with a bit of punk and post-punk thrown in. Dedicated to […]
4m Nov 14, 2016
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Paris Youth Foundation: Losing Your Love
Liverpool based five-piece Paris Youth Foundation have announced the release of their debut single, Losing Your Love b/w If You Wanna. With a debut performance on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading Festival and Radio 1 acclaim already under their belts, Paris Youth Foundation are snapping at the heels of their musical contemporaries with all […]
3m Nov 13, 2016
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Easthampton Savings Band: Exene
Today’s feature comes to us out of Easthampton, Massachusetts via the EASTHAMPTON SAVINGS BAND, or ESP for short. The four-piece of Jenna Lloyd, Thomas Ferriter, Jeff Lloyd, Les LeBarge is tagged as experimental rock with a very wide range of influences ranging all the way from The Cramps down to Taylor Swift. The single Exene […]
5m Nov 13, 2016
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Film Jacket 35: Waiting For A Way Out
“We can move instantly or we can die forever.” This is the ethos of the young Athens, Greece lo-fi garage duo Film Jacket 35 who formed in 2014 while mired in the middle of a country with deep economic and social unrest. Two former graduate students who met while studying Economics and Regional Development Science […]
3m Nov 11, 2016
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Vervex: Needle & Thread
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 album art here is by Tobias Childs. Vervex also has further releases available through his Bandcamp site including the April 2016 release […]
5m Nov 11, 2016
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High Tide 15:47: When I’m With You
Newcastle [UK] six-piece High Tide 15:47 have announced the release of their brand new single When I’m With You. Following support slots with the likes of Primal Scream, Maximo Park and British Sea Power over the summer, the band are set to embark on their first UK tour to coincide with the release of ‘When […]
4m Nov 09, 2016
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Post-Punk Podge & the Technohippies: Post-Punk Election Party
As we officially cross over the threshold into what appears to potentially be a landmark election day here in the States, I thought it would be good to change it up and feature a political anthem from outside the country. In this case we bring you an great kraut punk tune crafted across the pond […]
6m Nov 08, 2016
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Family Friends: Look The Other Way
Brother-sister duo Family Friends, made up of Rebecca and Tom Fitzsimons, release stellar, dreamy new single Look the Other Way. Now living between Melbourne and London the group’s sound is East London cool glazed with South Australian Sun; bouncy psych elements combine with warm hazed-out dream-pop to create an infectious come back single. Whilst there […]
3m Nov 07, 2016
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Near Peak: Saturday Morning, 10:30am
Today’s beautiful instrumental feature comes from Brooklyn, New York three piece indie pop band NEAR PEAK, specifically the engaging lead-off track from their five song Saturday Morning EP released October 7, 2014. They’ve also got another four song EP released in 2013, both of which are available at their Bandcamp page below. Near Peak (in […]
3m Nov 07, 2016
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Known To Collapse: What is Said
The upcoming release from Known To Collapse, Transport Paradise, combines 90s lo-fi indie rock with elements of psych pop. Jangly, ethereal guitars sway back and forth between deep powerful piano and a breezy, coastal vocal melody. The album is due out on January 20 on Green Chair Music Ltd. We are lucky to have the […]
5m Nov 06, 2016
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White Room: Stole The I.V.
Brighton outfit White Room have announced the upcoming release of their brand new single Stole The I.V.. With an impressive summer of festival appearances under their belts, including performances at Isle Of Wight, Reading & Leeds and Dot To Dot alongside the likes of Black Honey, The Vryll Society and YAK, the five-piece regrouped in […]
3m Nov 04, 2016
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Mitch Bradford: Now, Ballerina
Born in Brownsville, TX, Mitch Bradford is an Ann Arbor based singer-songwriter. His music is a mix of garage rock and new folk – old American rhythms made new. Today’s outstanding feature comes from his Kansas City LP, released November of 2012. It was actually the first album we came across in his catalog and […]
7m Nov 04, 2016
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Plaza: Youth
PLAZA are 4 late-teens from the industrial seaside town of Hartlepool, writing anthems that resonate the trials and tribulations of growing up; youthful romance, lukewarm beers and parmos. With their third Single ‘Youth’ PLAZA return to the foreground with another dose of their defiant brand of self-destructive, socio-political Post-Indie. PLAZA will be releasing ‘Youth’ via […]
4m Nov 02, 2016
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Peter J Hochstedler: Smoke That Rose From the Old House
The Saltpeter Wars is a 2012 collection of DIY self-released songs of resistance and defeat by Lansing Michigan based anti-folk artist, Peter J Hochstedler. Per his website, “its geography is varied but centers around a mountain, a brain, under siege. Buses blow up, mountain people pickax the raw material of bombs from mine tunnels, and […]
4m Nov 01, 2016
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The Zombie Dandies: Halloween Again
The Zombie Dandies are a musical project from Normandy, France. The story of the group started in 2011, when two bored ghouls, Marty Dandy (Drums, Bass, Guitar & Vocals ) and K1000 Zombie (Guitar & Vocals), woke up from their graves with the unlikely idea of creating a glam-metal-meets-garage-rock musical project. Website | Facebook | […]
4m Oct 31, 2016
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Handgrenades: The Watcher
Handgrenades announces first batch of tour dates supporting “Tunnels”; Produced by Zach Shipps of ??Electric Six, new album arrives Nov. 4th. Handgrenades was formed by high school friends Andrew Pawelski and Nick Chevillet in “Downriver,” the unofficial name of a collection of suburban cities south of Detroit. The band released its debut full-length in 2012, […]
3m Oct 30, 2016
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ROARS: Ghosts and Demons A
ROARS is a project currently based in Berlin Germany, with today’s feature coming from a December 2013 two ‘side’ Ghost and Demons single release that was self-produced and written/recorded/mixed/mastered in the same time period. Also available via BandCamp is their Fake Eyelash EP released in Feb 2013 and Is This a Strategy And More Important: […]
5m Oct 30, 2016
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Mat Hunsley: Fires
Fires is the lead single from Mat Hunsley’s debut EP, which is available to pre-order from iTunes now. Just last month the Newcastle-based artist premiered his debut song Dropping [featured as a Daily Dose], which has led to a who’s who of music industry tastemakers talking about Mat, with the likes of Clash, Crack in […]
3m Oct 28, 2016
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Queridas: Pasantia
Andrés Yeah of Rosario, Argentina is the creative force behind indie rock project, Queridas and outside this spirited effort is also a Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Art Director. Today’s feature Pasantia comes from her nine track album Heridas which was released on August 16, 2016. This third track on the release is a beautiful daydream […]
2m Oct 28, 2016
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Bryde: Wouldn’t That Make You Feel Good?
Following up from rabble stomper ‘Honey’, London artist Bryde reveals a second track from her upcoming EP. ‘Wouldn’t That Make You Feel Good?’ channels an intimate woosy blues dynamic with an injection of a towering guitar episode bearing the indelible stamp of Bill Ryder-Jones. Such dynamism shows Bryde pushing boundaries emphatically, exploring a grittiness now […]
4m Oct 26, 2016
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Bread & Butter: Desperation
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 cramming their songs full of good fun, bad fun, rad sounds, and killer moves. We agree that the songs will make […]
3m Oct 25, 2016
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Craig Hallsworth: We’re Too Far Away (My Other Future, My Other Youth)
Today’s Dose is the single from the album What’s The Story With This Hole? (out 24th Oct), the debut solo album by Western Australian songwriter Craig Hallsworth. “With over 30 years of songwriting experience under his belt, Craig Hallsworth makes What’s The Story With This Hole? feel effortless yet boundless. Recorded and produced with long-time […]
4m Oct 24, 2016
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Cat Clyde: Mama Said
Cat Clyde is based out of Stratford, Ontario and offers up a fresh take on the classic sounds of yesteryear; breathing new life into the velvety vocal, tack-piano, slide-guitar-style that can instantly walk you through the swinging doors of a packed saloon. Her track Mama Said looks to possibly be a first single from the […]
4m Oct 23, 2016
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Procession: Spring Thaw
PROCESSION are a shoegaze band from Grand Rapids, Michigan who released ‘Your Turn to Feel‘, an eight song release on May 26, 2012. Today’s feature ‘Spring Thaw‘ is a lush yet bittersweet song about the end of a relationship and the strong yet tattered emotions playing out amongst the passing seasons, through the end of […]
3m Oct 22, 2016
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Mira: Ghost
We dream ourselves away to deep forests, high mountains and late nights. We’re following the sound of a whispering voice, to a place where electronic drums fusions with choirs, synths, guitars and a bass, heavily vibrating under our bare feet. To a place where lyrics speak tales we’ve longed hearing, where melodies encourages us to […]
5m Oct 21, 2016
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My Expansive Awareness: Space
MY EXPANSIVE AWARENESS are a self described neopsychedelic and space rock five-piece band from Zaragoza, Spain. Today’s excellent introductory feature comes from their Uroboros (EP) released February 17, 2014 although the band apparently has several more releases for us all to explore up to the April 2016 release of the singles, “Do You Wanna Be […]
5m Oct 20, 2016
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The Vryll Society: A Perfect Rhythm
Psychedelic rockers The Vryll Society have announced the release of their brand new single A Perfect Rhythm via Deltasonic Records ahead of their eagerly anticipated Levitation UK tour this autumn. Following a busy summer which has seen their fierce live reputation enhanced through appearances on the BBC Introducing stage at Glastonbury, as well as Reading […]
3m Oct 19, 2016
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One Day, After School: When I Loved Music, When Everything Was New
Wakefield indie/artrock UK band One Day, After School are back with quite an impressive instrumental single, “When I Loved Music, Everything Was New“, released October 13th on Philophobia Music. The band has released records on various DIY labels, including the aforementioned Philophobia Music as well as Geek Pie Records and have played gigs with people/groups […]
3m Oct 18, 2016
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Fairchild: Relevance
Australian six-piece FAIRCHILD [now based in Manchester, UK] are set to continue their string of 1980s musical praises with the release of trailblazing new single Relevance. Channeling the restless groove-ability of Talking Heads and the dance floor sensibilities of INXS – FAIRCHILD are keeping their cards close to their chest on what is to come […]
4m Oct 17, 2016
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James Leonard Hewitson : The Screen
Following on from his acclaimed debut single, the melodic anti-folk of ‘Care Less, Love Less’ [a Daily Dose in July], Hartlepool [UK] songwriter James Leonard Hewitson announces the release of his second track ‘The Screen’, a darkly intense musing on the effect social media on our daily lives. Drawing from strong American influences such as […]
4m Oct 16, 2016
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Swamp Baby: Seeing Stars
Today’s evocative indie-folk styled song, Seeing Stars comes from the excellent 2010 release, “All Fours” from Albany New York band, SWAMP BABY. Formed in 2005 out of the ashes of acclaimed alt-country (and originally Kingston-based) outfit knotworking, Albany psych-folktronica band Swamp Baby have been gaining notice slowly but steadily, both far and wide, for their […]
5m Oct 15, 2016
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Handgrenades: Daily Routine
Handgrenades was formed by high school friends Andrew Pawelski and Nick Chevillet in “Downriver,” the unofficial name of a collection of suburban cities south of Detroit. Bonding over a shared love of The Beatles, the pair began performing together in 2008 as The HandGrenades (“The band wasn’t a joke, but the name was,” says Pawelski.) […]
3m Oct 14, 2016
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Stars and Rabbit: The House
Jarkarta, Indonesia based band STARS AND RABBIT released today’s excellent featured indie-folk tinged track ‘The House‘ on their May 2015 album Constellation via Green Island Music. The band has two members, Elda Suryani & Adi Widodo, and they are currently in the midst of a short UK tour of four venues, with one venue down… […]
4m Oct 13, 2016
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Matthew and Me: Silver
Matthew and Me unveil Silver the stunning opener to their forthcoming Startpoint EP, out November 18th on Beatnik Creative. The band is focussed around lead vocalist/songwriter Matthew Board and drummer Lucy Fawcett, who by living and writing in the expansive landscape of South Devon, exist so far from the mainstream that their unique style has grown […]
6m Oct 12, 2016
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