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The band Oh No Oh My has produced friendly rock tracks that speak humbly and directly to our subconscious mind. Their songs are a narrative of humble yet hopeful thoughts about how we navigate through life in our own way. Their songs claim their own space and time and don’t even notice that they are unique or brilliant or simple. They are what they are, and don’t mind if you don’t like their music. By their tone they seem perfectly content to go about their lives and enjoy music for what it is. Be sure to listen to more of their songs using the link below.

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I can’t believe these guys are from my home city of Vegas and I haven’t seen them before. This indie rock group mixes smooth synth rock elements with upbeat pop to create a unique but easily familiar sound. Catch the rest of their tracks on their official Imagine Dragons website.

Other songs of theirs I recommend are America and Hear Me.

Upside Down by dreamthieves

Dream Thieves is a 4 piece indie electro group out of Iowa City, Iowa that just released their debut album Ocean Spell this year. Their own unique blend of gradually progressing new wave synth pop dance beats and misty whispering lo-fi vocals bring back a dream-like reflections of the past.

Their music would be the perfect soundtrack to Cyndi-Lauper era films about teenage romance, adventure, and exploration. If you could take the Goonies, 16 candles, and a steamy romantic horror film about vampires and turned them into a music video with Ocean Spell as the audio you’d have one killer experience! Although their sound is equally fitting today with new wave electro bands like M83, Phantogram, and Sono.

Listen to their entire album “Ocean Spell” on Sound Cloud. Be sure to check out their song “Capsized” which is another one of my favorites off their album.

Dream Thieves has been doing live shows in and around the Iowa City area and are only just getting started. It was with luck that I met the group while flying into Moline about a month ago, so here they are, fresh out of their garage recording studio for your listening pleasure.

Starting with their EP in June of 2009 the classical ambient pop sounds of I’m Not A Pilot made their full length debut last November with “Need Money For Rocket Fuel” making waves on the Milwaukee music scene. With half the band working full-time throughout recording process the group has been building a grassroots following with the loyal support of friends and family along with their growing local fan base. Touring locally they earned the title of “Band Of The Year” by Radio Milwaukee and I believe has a bright future ahead of them.

Sample all of their latest tracks on the I’m Not A Pilot official website and get a free song download when you “Like” their Facebook page.

Also, check out the music video for their song No Heart off their EP.

The Jezabels rolled out of Sydney Australia in 2007. Here’s a little sample of what they have to offer. This song builds up and keeps racing like your heart at the moment of your life when your life’s passion meets the opportunity of a life-time. It keeps building and never lets you down. Their indie rock explodes with an indie pop sound that pushes the otherwise calm genre into a fit of passionate rage and excitement, and I like it!

Crashing into the folk music scene out of Milwaukee Winsconsin The Vitrolum Republic instantly comes across with the depth and tone of a group well worn with the experience of decades of music making. Perhaps the two and half years they took to produce the album allowed them to polish their sound, but even then the tracks stand on their own as timeless additions to folk music tradition.

For Highbrow Sideshows and Rowboat Serenades is their first full length album and well worth the wait (in case you already knew about them and were waiting). You can listen to the entire album and learn more about the band at the Vitrolum Republic official website.

Hot off the press Tonight the City Skyline’s self titled second album, released April 19th this month, is the latest work from Martin Moore and Brian Farvour out of Milwaukee, WI. I’m honored to review this group which came to my attention through direct submission by Martin.

The 7 song indie pop rock album moves between softer piano trimmed love songs and pounding guitar riffed anthems of desperation and longing. The group’s lyrics though simple and honest are able to pack a passionate punch and hit hard for me in this song Mantra For A Dark Lit December.

Be sure to listen to the entire album Tonight the City Skyline on SoundCloud.

You can connect with them on Facebook or Twitter through their official website here.

Their album was just released this month and is for sale at iTunes & Amazon at the links below.

Buy Tonight the City Skyline on iTunes

Buy Tonight the City Skyline at Amazon

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Please check out our amazing list of music that we’ve been compiling for you. We’re all about finding great music that is hard to find and bringing it to you so you can discover new music and artists that you’ll love. Use the categories on the left or the tag cloud on the right to navigate. Also, check out our playlist in the upper right corner of our site.

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Our goal is to spread the word about the ten of thousands of amazing bands that exist today but that never get a proper showing or chance to get exposure. We try to review as much music as we can. Until now the site has only had one writer but we are starting to add more and increase the amount of reviews and songs we are able to post.

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Please forgive us if we don’t reply back to you. We review all submissions and do our best to give everyone a showing, but not all submissions are used. Some factors that make us decide to not post music include: no embeddable music, poor production or sound quality, music video looks like a home video, our personal discretion.

Let’s say you just broke up with your girlfriend.  Or your girlfriend broke up with you.  But she didn’t tell you that you guys were broken up, just moved to Denver instead.  And now you’re writing emails everyday that you never send and running 5 miles a day because you gotta shed those 10 pounds you gained while dating her plus another 5   just so she knows what she’s missing when she comes back to pick up the knee high boots she left in your apartment.  This song is your soundtrack. It’s a wall of sound made from haunting, complimentary male and female vocal lines, the classic loud/soft/loud structure, an epic build up for the bridge, and solid simplicity wrapped in extensive layers of fuzz.  Less is so much more.

This track kicks off Broken Water’s appropriately titled debut album, Whet, that came out last year on Night People Records.  Although if you didn’t know any better you’d swear this came out in ’93 and was possibly the last thing Kurt Cobain heard before he blew his brains out.  You’ll probably be able to recognize some of their influences; Pavement, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Olympia’s own Unwound, even traces of Hum can be heard.  Perfect blend of early nineties Pacific Northwest nostalgia and lo-fi indie rock sensibilities.  This is what getting in on the ground floor sounds like.

Lissie’s from Rock Island Illinois, which is part of the Quad Cities, four cities that all straddle the Mississippi consisting of Bettendorf and Davenport Iowa along with Moline Illinois. It’s sort of the like the Kansas City of Iowa and Illinois, but that has nothing to do with music I guess. Although I’m proud to say I grew up just a 30 minute drive from there in Muscatine Iowa, so it’s interesting to see another person from the heartland getting the music out.

Lissie’s made big waves recently ever since the release of her debut EP “Why You Running” in 2009. Her real name is Elisabeth Maurus and she’s already got her name published in a lot of places. But I thought it’d be right to feature her here on my Song of the Day blog.

Her music has an extremely genuine, it’s all about the music vibe. She her voice, although perhaps seemingly rough at first listen becomes powerful and dexterous the more you listen. Her vocal chords are like a mix of Sia and Janis Joplin. I believe she’s about to make a dent in the alternative rock scene like a baseball bat to a birthday cake, but perhaps less messy and without hurting anyone’s feelings. Ok that’s a horrible analogy.

But Lissie has a softer side, one that shines bright with that good ‘ole midwestern folk feel backed by superior songwriting and complex vocal harmonies. Take a look below at another one of her songs that I really enjoy, “Little Lov’n”.

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