Dani Deahl and Animale have been taking the world of EDM by storm and force, and have recently released a new single "Thunderbolt". The track is apart of Dim Mak Records New Noise Compliation Vol. 5.

Andrew Bird & Tift Merritt traveled out to Quail Mountain in the Mojave Desert Land Trust on October 8th with 10 lucky contest winners to record an amazing concert video dubbed the "Quietest Show on Earth".

Bird has a new EP called "I Want to See Pulaski" coming out on November 12th.

Andrew Bird will be performing four shows at Fourth Presbyterian Church with Tiff Merritt on Dec. 9th through the 12th.

Fort Frances celebrated the release of their new digital EP, "Breathing Room", over the weekend. The EP features two new tracks "Plastic Hearts" and "Habits" and then two unplugged versions of those tracks.

This is the band’s follow-up to the EP, Habour, which was released earlier this year. The trio is currently working a full-length album for 2014.

Martyr’s have a great Halloween line-up tonight that features Terrible Spaceship performing Invaders 1938 and Zontar, the Thing from Venus, Diana & the Dishes performing Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and The Lincoln Squares performing Nirvana’s Nevermind.

Magicks released a new remix ep for their new track "Solstice". The original track will appear on their forthcoming LP, Their Satanic Majesties Third Request, due out this March.

You can catch Magicks with My Gold Mask and Minor Character on November 9th at Empty Bottle.

Garage rock trio The Thons have released their debut album Raw Real Rock. According to the band’s website "This eight track album was recorded in an afternoon at Public House Sound Recordings by Dave Vettraino in Chicago, Illinois. Each song was recorded all at once as a live take with no editing, overdubs, splices, punches or anything."

This process captures the raw energy of the band along side of the flaws. It is an honest approach and allows for an exciting debut effort.

You can catch The Thons at Lilly’s on November 1st with The Muzzlers.

Last week Hemmingbirds released a new video for their new single "My Love, Now Is Our Time". The band also recently had their Rooftop Session released. You can view that here.

You can catch Hemmingbirds on Nov. 1st at Subt with Brighton MA and Elsinore.

Cold Country released their latest EP, Missing The Muse, back in June. Earlier this month Daytrotter released the band’s session with them which finds the band performing four of the EP’s five tracks.

You can catch Cold Country on Dec. 5th at Empty Bottle.

Butterfat Mastermind released their album Real/Imagined back in July. The album was recorded in 2004 but never had a proper release. The trio is firmly planted in late ’60’s era rock and that’s not a bad place to plant your flag.

You can stream Real/Imagined on the band’s soundcloud page and you can catch Butterfat Mastermind at Martyr’s on Oct. 30th.

Rooftop Sessions Chicago has released a fantastic performance by Mooner. The band’s latest single is called "Making Americans" and can be downloaded for what ever amount you like below.

You can catch Mooner on Oct. 30th at Quenchers performing as Zevon.

Kid Sister has released a new single called "Hoes In The House". The new track was produced by Valentino Khan.

So Many Ways are releasing a new EP called "Seer" on November 19th via Staple Records. Last week they released the audio for the thrashing first single "Roraima" from the new EP through Youtube.

So Many Ways will be performing a live set on Audiotree on November 5th.