The Ropes released a new 9-song album entitled "Post-entertainment".  Download and "pay what you like": http://music.theropesmusic.com/album/post-entertainment Video for "The 57th Floor": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5xFHdvYSs   … [Read more...]

Female, British Blues/roots guitar phenomena, Bex Marshall , released her third album, the self-produced House Of Mercy. Recorded over many late, wine-and-good-times-soaked nights around the kitchen table of her home in North London known as the House of Mercy, it was inevitable the album should be named the same. On House Of Mercy Marshall … [Read more...]

Memphis artist Kait Lawson's debut LP Until We Drown is out now via Madjack Records (Lucero, and more.) https://soundcloud.com/#teamclermont/kait-lawson-memphis After spending time as a musician in both Nashville and New York, Kait Lawson returned to her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee to record her debut album, Until We Drown. The songs on … [Read more...]

The Mezzotint Label is very happy to announce the release of ‘Dear Mark J Mulcahy I Love You.’ This will be the first studio release by Mark Mulcahy since 2005’s critically acclaimed In Pursuit Of Your Happiness. The US Release Date is June 18, 2013. "She Makes The World Turn Backwards": … [Read more...]

Long-awaited “Small Batch” EP from The Cannanes is out now https://soundcloud.com/#fanaticpro/the-cannanes-crawler The Cannanes have been releasing modest, ramshackle records since forming in Sydney, Australia almost 30 years ago.  Though essentially underground, the band has amassed a legion of fans in that time, including Kurt Cobain, who, … [Read more...]

California Clap Records is excited to announce the debut solo album from Anna Hillburg (of San Francisco's power-pop darlings, Dreamdate). http://annahillburg.bandcamp.com/ A classically trained trumpet player, Anna has spent the last decade in the Bay Area garage rock scene as a songwriter, singer, drummer, and bass player. Her songs have … [Read more...]

Pop music songsmith Dan Kaplan who hails from Boston has released a remixed track.  It's pop music with a dramatic scope and a melancholic subtext. Dan had music on TV's Deadliest Catch and John Doe and in a Mini Cooper ad. The Boston Globe has praised his "keen ear for pop hooks" and this song demonstrates that strength, with shimmering synths in … [Read more...]

  Chapel Hill "nightmare pop" noise-makers release album https://soundcloud.com/#teamclermont/pleasure-center Take the guitar-driven indie rock sound we all love, strip it naked and paint it with blood, then film it from an oblique, David Lynchian angle, and you might achieve the infectiously discomforting aesthetic Airstrip … [Read more...]

The 2nd Annual One Man Band Festival in Montreal 50 Artists - 10 Venues - 4 Days - 2 Workshops - 1 Festival Click here for Facebook Event page Steve Hill • Paul Cargnello • Bloodshot Bill • Laura Barrett • Chris Velan • Thomas Truax • Wax Mannequin • Montag • Lederhosen Lucil • Lonesome Organist • Books On Tape• World … [Read more...]

Formed in 1999, Hem self-released their debut, Rabbit Songs, in 2002 to critical acclaim, establishing themselves as one of the most promising bands to emerge from Brooklyn. Since then, they’ve released four full-length albums, including the music for the 2009 Public Theatre production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in … [Read more...]