Now I know Bright Eyes isn’t a “new” undiscovered artists but I’m hooked on this song right now so its going up.  First Day of My Life comes from the band’s 2005 release I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning.  The album received high praise from critics and was featured on many best-of-2005 lists including Rolling Stone, [...]

Tonight’s tune comes from the Oakland, California alternative-rock band The Matches.  Formed in 1997, The Matches have released three studio albums via Epitaph Records.  Wake the Sun comes from the band’s third album A Band in Hope, released in March of 2008.  Following the release of the album, The Matches lost their long time bassist Justin [...]

This song was introduced to me by a close friend at York university, and I fell in love with it immediately.  I think it’s the passion and fierce delivery that impressed me so much. 
Bon Iver, or good winter in french, is the current musical project of indie-folk singer/songwriter Justin Vernon.  The song itself comes from [...]

The shock that Devendra Banhart had not been added to this website yet hit me like a ton of bricks today as my iPod played this song (Note From Chris:  Don’t be so friggen dramatic).  Devendra is one of the most talented and passionate artists I know, reaching out through every branch of the fine [...]

My iPod alarm clock woke me up at the ungodly hour of 6:30 today (note: Somehow I still managed to show up late for work).  Appropriately, the song was Wake Up from my reigning favorite Canadian indie band Arcade Fire.  For whatever reason I didn’t post this song until today, even though it was one of the [...]

I’ve got another band-submitted track for everyone tonight, coming from the UK alternative group Lanterns On The Lake.  Citing influences such as Bright Eyes and Radiohead, Lanterns On The Lake delivers an incredibly memorable listening experience.  In fact, on the highlighted track If I Have Been Unkind, from the band’s The Starlight EP, the vocals [...]

In the spirit of mixing things up, I’ve got some easy 70’s listening to tap your foot to.
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) was Looking Glass‘  first and only #1 hit single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1972.  The song can be found on the band’s debut self-titled album released by Epic Records. The song competed head [...]

I stumbled upon a pretty cool track today from Asher Roth, a hip-hop artist from…. wait for it… Morrisville, Pennsylvania.  Like Mickey Avalon before him, Roth is another white hip-hop artist with a sense of humour who is benefiting from the doors opened by Eminem.  After posting some verses on his Myspace page while in [...]

Tonight’s post is coming out later than usual, thanks in part to terrible drivers on the highway that don’t understand the concept of merging, speed limits, or lanes.  Anyways, during my daily Facebook-creeping window I came across this tune in an old friend’s status and remembered how much I loved it.  Mexico comes from Cake’s [...]

Another song from the amazing Regina Spektor tonight, who I am still completely smitten with by the way.  The anti-folk/indie artist released Carbon Monoxide as the first single from her third album Soviet Kitsch.  Soviet Kitsch, released in 2004, was Spektor’s first major-album release.  I was sucked into this song right from the get go with [...]

Note From Chris: We are currently working to get through all the different material that has been submitted to BowlingStone.com………. and we love it so keep it coming.
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The Camellias submitted a tune for us to review early in the new year, and as we do with all the submissions we get, we approached it with [...]

Tonight’s post comes from the Omaha, Nebraska indie band Neva Dinova.  Clouds can be found on the band’s 3rd full-length album You May Already Be Dreaming, released in 2008 on Saddle Creek Records.  I have a special place in my heart for Saddle Creek Records, as they were behind the release of the Canadian indie-rock band Tokyo Police [...]

Tonight’s song comes from the brilliant compilation album Guilt By Association, released by Engine Room Recordings.  The concept of the album is the bringing together of indie artists to record a cover of their guilty pleasure pop song.  Notable tracks from this album include Devendra Banhart’s cover of Don’t Look Back in Anger and Petra Haden’s [...]

Quick post today as I (hopefully) watch the Arizona Larry Fitzgeralds roll into the Superbowl.  Skull comes to us from Massachusetts indie-rock band Sebadoh’s fifth album Bakesale, released in 1994.  Though the album received only moderate chart success in the UK, it is considered the bands most critically acclaimed album.  While I was reading up on Sebadoh [...]

Another tune tonight, coming from Canadian Dallas Green’s solo acoustic-folk side-project City and Colour.  On the song in question, Sleeping Sickness, the legendary Gord Downie lends his incredible vocals to the track.  Up until Gord begins singing I really enjoyed the song.  However, when his voice cut in I was stopped dead in my tracks.  His [...]

I’ve got a pretty sick cover for everyone today from the indie-rock/folk artist Cat Power.  Covering the Oasis mega-hit Wonderwall, Power delivers a minimalist rendition of the song wrapped in her signature smokey style.  The song was one of the tracks left off of Power’s 5th album The Covers Record, which consisted almost entirely of [...]

After recently leaving my hometown to go back to school, I found myself distant and alone in my rez room desperately looking for music that paralleled.  There are few things better than lying on your bed in the dark and listening to music that leaves you slightly more depressed then when you started. This song fit the [...]

Tonight’s post is another track from the Berkeley, California hip-hop/indie-rock band Why?. It seems like every song I hear from this group I end up liking more than the last.  Simeon’s Dilemma comes from the bands third full-length studio album Alopecia.  The two previous Why? songs I posted, The Hollows and These Few Presidents, come from [...]

Today’s tune comes from the Canadian indie-pop/rock group Stars, and is a new take on the classic Smiths song This Charming Man.  Written by Johnny Marr (Currently with Modest Mouse) and Morrissey, This Charming Man would hit #1 on the UK Indie Chart.  Stars took a run at the track on their first album Nightsongs released in [...]

This evening’s tune comes to us via the Scottish alt-rock band The Fratellis.  Baby Fratelli is the 4th single from the band’s 2006 debut album Costello Music.  Baby Fratelli was featured on the 2007 epic Hot Fuzz and was ranked by Time Magazine as the #10 song on their list of The 10 Best Songs of 2007.  Costello Music [...]