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Two years after releasing their debut album, Mega Rama, Radical Dads have emerged from Brooklyn’s sludgy Gowanus Canal to announce their second effort, Rapid Reality, due out Today on Uninhabitable Mansions. To preview the forthcoming record, the three-piece have let loose “Mountain Town”, a ferocious new track that seems born out of a musty garage, [...]

Gold Fields’ debut album Black Sun is armed with pop hooks, tribal beats, danceable rhythms, and plenty of emotion. The result of relentless work and playful experimentation, the album is released TODAY via Astralwerks at iTunes and all digital and physical retailers! In addition to kicking off the MTV “Artist To Watch” campaign this week, [...]

Photo Ops, the dream-pop project from Terry Price, is pleased to release How To Say Goodbye LP. In honor of the release, the entire record is streaming for your listening pleasure. The album as a whole shows Price’s knack for an infectious hook coupled with poignant lyrics, all framed by the lush arrangements and melodies. [...]

Today on WHOA 100 “Recently cited as ‘a cross between (Bowie’s) Ziggy Stardust and Serge Gainsbourg’ in Veglam Magazine, Steele brings his own unique blend of French-Anglo pop, folk, rock and jazz to the stage. Recent releases include a 21-track self-titled LP (February 2012) and a glam rock concept album “Ki & The Arrowtooth Waltz” [...]

The Birds of Night are a band that make nostalgically glazed Rock and Roll. Inspired by the sounds of the sixties, their music is made from sun-drenched guitars, haunting vocals, and well tightened drums. They fit nicelywith bands like Tennis, Ty Segall, Beach Fossils, and The Walkmen. The Birds of Night are a Rock and [...]

Tune in at 9:15 am EST www.whoa100.com EndAnd was the first self proclaimed record Daniel Fern pseudo-released at 2006. Moved to Brooklyn from “who cares”, and recorded and preformed with The Stoics for most of 2007 and 2008. After two years of writing, and over a year of King Killer, Daniel Fern now registers with [...]

www.reverbnation.com/countlessthousands Take a show choir reject who was never cool enough for punk rock, throw him a rockabilly axe and have him cash in on all the poetry classes. Take an east coast jazz legend and tell him to lay off the diminished chording and step up the distortion. Take a civil war reenacting drum [...]

Tune in tomorrow 9:45 am www.whoa100.com For over 20 years, Erik Gundel has been finely tuning his craft as a musician. Focusing early on piano and then guitar, the influence of Beethoven’s piano sonatas and the guitar playing of Jimmy Hendrix were instrumental in his approach to music. Understanding that even the wildest of musicians [...]

Check out their brand of instrumental Rock! Very cool! Born somewhere between the Neolithic Era and the Industrial Revolution, this band of merry gentleman and lady minstrel through the NYC subways with the Music Under New York Program. They also dropkick Woolly Mammoths and go bearbaiting with Polar Bears onefisted. The trio comprised of Epileptic [...]

Check them out! Let us know what you think. Midori and Ezra Boy have already rocked the stages of Warped Tour, Bufest, MethodFest, and Canadian Music Festival 2012, and will be playing TVIFF, California Music Industry Summit 2012, and Florida Music Festival 2012 Midori has just finished writing and recording the second CD, “Burned,” which [...]

Tune in 9:15 am EST www.whoa100.com British sensation Franco and the Dreadnought comes stateside with his powerhouse voice and agile fingers. This young lad has the goods and the capability of packing arenas full of people waving their lighters in the air and singing along with every fiber of their being. He and his trusty [...]

By Leah Kaplan Following their 2006 self titled debut album Beach House and two other albums in the ensuing years, Devotion (2008) and Teen Dream (2010), on May 8, 2012 indie rock band Beach House arrived in the city of Miami at the Fillmore Jackie Gleason, one of the many cities in their Bloom tour, [...]

Hailing from Toms River, New Jersey, Elevator Art’s six members (Daimon, Jen, Joe, Liz, Maureen and Mike) have been creating music since 2007. Utilizing multiple vocalists, a wide range of instruments, and rotating instrumentalists, each song is crafted to be energetic with a performance to match. By breaking the wall between the stage and the [...]

This Morning on WHOA100.com 9:15 am EST NYC based independent (indie pop rock) singer songwriter. She is a cross between Tracy Bonham, Aimee Mann and Emma Pollock, but a true genre defier by all means. Anyways. Here’s a link to her 5th album which you can download for free (for a couple of days only) [...]

TUNE IN this morning 9:15 am EST www.whoa100.com Winner of the award for Best Indie Rock Band at the Artists In Music Awards in Los Angeles and nominated for Best International Act at the LA Music Awards, the Monks of Mellonwah are now ready to release their second EP “Neurogenesis”. Set for official release on [...]

Zambri is the ethereal duo of Cristi Jo and Jessica, sisters whom have been making music together since they shared a bedroom as kids. Spending endless hours creating stories and building universes with their voices and toys, their debut album, House Of Baasa, out April 10th, 2012, is a powerful expression that embodies the spirit [...]

Tune In Tuesday  www.whoa100.com 9:15 am EST   Moonlight Bride is a noise-pop outfit born in the industrial outskirts of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The band consists of four members: Justin Giles, Matt Livingston, Justin Grasham, and Dave Maki. After relentless writing, reinvention, and touring, the band has developed a cult following as well as many critical [...]

On their recent recordings “20,000 Ghosts” and “Wellwisher,” The Rocketboys perfectly married themes of unity and brotherhood with rich, soaring rock, lifting the band to national critical acclaim. The band supported its releases with lengthy tours and multiple festival appearances. Almost inevitably though the rigors of the road took their toll, eventually rupturing the band’s [...]

Pick up your copy of Shadows on Stars new release at www.shadowsonstars.com let us know what you think!

By Chris Arters I Saw Gotye at the Tower on Friday night. Good show… clearly produced for a smaller venue. They were originally slated at the TLA – the Tower holds six times as many people and it was PACKED – not to mention, easily 2/3 of the crowd was female, a fact that a [...]