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  • 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…

  • Sing Music Boy, Sing

    artist: OT-musicboy album: Jump Over (a fence of electric sound) genre: Indie Rock label: unsigned listen now: Not A Song :: Did You Tell Your Mother You Knew :: Dance (with the musicboy) buy now: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ot-musicboy/id403425750?uo=4″ title=”OT – Musicboy”] Why do I feel like OT-musicboy is a guilty pleasure? Maybe it’s because I didn’t…

  • Reminiscing about Elkland and Discovering The Drums

    artist: The Drums | genre: indie pop | label: unsigned | [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-drums/id313290516?uo=4″ title=”The Drums”] I just had a bit of a “where are they now” moment. Back in 2005 I went to see Erasure at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. A band called Elkland opened the show and it turned out to be…

  • 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…

  • Technical Hiccups

    We apologize for Froglix going up and down a bit the last few days. We are currently migrating to bigger and better infrastructure and we’ve had our share of hiccups along the way. The migration isn’t over yet, so please bear with us. Everything should be back to normal (and even better) very soon. –…

  • Attention Thieves Unleashing New Single Soon

    artist: Attention Thieves genre: Brit Alt-Rock itunes: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/attention-thieves/id384717519?uo=4″ title=”Attention Thieves”] Attention Thieves first hit our radar at the tail end of last summer and now they have a new single coming out in February that may just take them to the next level. Check out a clip of their latest offering “Let It All…

  • Hey, who stole my attention?

    artist: Attention Thieves genre: Brit Alt-Rock listen now Broken Promise From My Reach buy now   For me, when I think of quintessential Brit Alt-Rock over the last few years bands like Kaiser Chiefs, The Enemy, and Hard-Fi come immediately to my mind as some of my favourites. I have a new band to add…

  • Grimus Follow Up

    artist: Grimus | genre: alternative, indie rock | label: Eden Music Started    In A Glimpse When I introduced Romania’s Grimus on here a few weeks ago I mentioned their upcoming single “Started”. Well, here it is. I’m excited to finally add it to the global broadcast and share it with you. Tell us what you think.…

  • Introducing Romania's Grimus

    artist: Grimus genre: alternative | indie rock label: Eden Music listen now: In A GlimpseStarted (will be released in Aug) When you hear the name Transylvania, often the notion of a dark, yet somehow alluring, place comes to mind. From the stories we’ve all seen and heard, this place in the heart of Romania probably…