Category: new release

  • Creative Catalysts

    artist: Race You There | genre: indie-pop, alt-rock | label: unsigned listen now: White Flag    Casualties It’s no secret.  Music is everywhere.  One could travel to the far reaches of this our beloved planet Earth and could easily find people from the remotest locales expressing themselves through some sort of musical medium.   As has been said/written about many…

  • It's Official…Rude City Riot signs with Stomp Records

    Congratulations are most certainly in order for Rude City Riot who will be celebrating the release of their newest CD on June 6th at The Media Club in Vancouver, BC…but wait there’s more!  Nothing But Time is not only RCR’s first full-length disc it is also the first of 2-record with Stomp Records!  Yup.  No…

  • Gumshen :: What You Make It

    artist: Gumshen genre: alternative, indie-pop, rock label: unsigned listen now: Not Every One Of Us I Know You Girl I first heard of Gumshen while working with “another network,” as they say, and was so impressed that I felt compelled to include select tracks from their previous album, Super Buffet, as part of our global broadcast here…

  • Reminder: Vetoes EP Now Available

    artist: Vetoes | genre: alternative, indie-rock | label: SpaceRay Music EP: Ritalin/Ritalout [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sonic-turge/id425160671?uo=4″ title=”Vetoes – Ritalin/Ritalout”] A few weeks ago we wrote a review (read it here) about a new EP coming out from Vetoes called Ritalin/Ritalout. In case you forgot, it hit stores yesterday and is now available to download via iTunes. [itunes…

  • Music Sounds Better With Castanets

    artist: Acid House Kings | genre: indie pop | label: Labrador Records Album: Music Sounds Better With You [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/would-you-say-stop/id417884796?uo=4″ title=”Acid House Kings – Music Sounds Better With You”] In 2007 Labrador Records released a Summer Sampler via bit torrent. I don’t even remember where I heard about this Sampler, but I do remember deciding…

  • Ritalin… Ritalout… ¿qué Tejano?

    artist: Vetoes | genre: alternative, indie-rock | label: SpaceRay Music EP: Ritalin / Ritalout It’s not often we mention a producer on here, but we would not have heard the band Vetoes if it weren’t for Adam Whittaker. And his hand can be found elsewhere on Froglix too (on a few earlier tracks from Grimus…

  • Jump Back :: The Week in Review

    Patrons of Punk re-embraced a re-post of an article written a few weeks back…before the meltdown…about a band from Phoenix called Moovalya. I felt a bit bad as it was our technical difficulties that caused the article to disappear for a bit. More post-hardcore punk followed on Tuesday  with Thurdeen’s review of Sleep City’s debut…

  • Picking Up Where They Left Off

    artist: Small City Calling | genre: alternative, indie-pop | label: unsigned listen: Hold Me Closer :: Standing Room Only :: Satellites When last we visited Small City Calling they were racking up 2010 Froglix Music Awards in bunches. Fast forward to 2011 and we find this talented quintet from sunny San Diego on the verge…

  • Attention Thieves Let Out the Rock

    artist: Attention Thieves genre: Brit Alt-Rock label: unsigned buy now: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/let-it-all-out/id417188146?uo=4″ title=”Attention Thieves – Let It All Out”] listen now: Let It All Out Sometimes you just want rock. You don’t want gimmicks. You don’t care for the latest thing rock has been paired up with or some niche genre of rock. No synth-rock,…

  • Simply Punk :: SIMPL3JACK

    artist: SIMPL3JACK | genre: punk | label: Holy War Entertainment What do you get when a thirteen year old boy falls asleep and dreams of a space odyssey searching for Bob Mould and Grant Hart from Hüsker Dü? You get a song dedicated to White Stripes drummer Meg White of course. If that makes any…