Indie Sounds NY & Austin

Breaking Laces New Single "Better Than Me"

The Laces' new single Better Than Me is on iTunes.  The album - Come Get Some - is set for release on October 30th.

Smile Smile Release "Marry A Stranger"

Dallas duo Smile Smile has released Marry A Stranger, the follow up to the superb Truth on Tape.

Download the album from iTunes.  Here's the video for the title track ...

Ryan Star Signs to Island, Releases "Stay Awhile"

Ryan Star is now an Island Def Jam recording artist.  And he has released his single Stay Awhile on iTunes.  The video for it is here.



Oh, and here is the Indie Sounds interview with Ryan from 2005 when he said he didn't need a label ... we'll have to chat to him again I guess!

The Trishas Release "High, Wide & Handsome" Today

The Trishas have released their debut full length album today, titled High, Wide & Handsome.



Download it at iTunes.

See The Trishas this Thursday at KGSR's free Unplugged at Shady Grove show.

American Folk Art Museum Releasing Compilation CD at Special Free Music Fridays Show

NYC's American Folk Art Museum at 2 Lincoln Square - which runs the Free Music Fridays series (hosted by Lara Ewen) - is releasing a compilation CD and is holding a release party this Friday, from 5pm.



The physical CD (no online release is planned) will be for sale for just $5 from the museum store, and comprises 16 tracks.  A number of the contributing artists will perform on Friday:

5:15 Karen Dahlstrom
5:30 Shannon Pelcher
5:45 Sean Lee
6:00 Lara Ewen
6:15 Lily Neill
6:30 (set break)
6:45 Julia Barry
7:00 Robert German
7:15 Jessi Robertson
7:30 Justin King
7:45 The Tres Amigos

Moonlight Social Release "Heading South"

Austin's Moonlight Social have released their debut album, Heading South.

Here's a video for the title track.  You can download the album at iTunes.

Ruby Jane's "Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness)" Drops Today ... And It's Awesome!

This Song is on the album.

Download it at iTunes.

More on RJ here.

Underline The Sky Video for "Bad News"

The latest from Underline The Sky, from Ipswich in the U.K. Taken from their just-released EP Days Like These. Download it at iTunes.

Finally: The Spring Standards Release Yellow//Gold Double EP Today!

Download it from iTunes.

More on The Spring Standards here.

And here is the official video for Here We Go, from the record ...

Five Minutes with Grace London

I first met Grace London last year, when she was singing with local rocksters Residual Kid, who played Harris Radio's birthday show - and blown away I was.  But writing, performing and recording her own music was in her future, and it is now in the present, with a debut EP, and an upcoming show to release it - and for a great cause too.  Indie Sounds caught up with Grace for all the news.


Photo by Michael Bullock

Indie Sounds: You're throwing a party this coming Sunday.  What's it all about?

Grace London: I just finished my EP, Rocketship Girl, and I am doing a release party to, well, release it and sell it for the first time!  It's an early evening event at a new restaurant on Congress called Swift's Attic.  Les RAV is also performing, and all the information is here.