Insomnia Radio #144: Constantly Catchy (Enhanced)

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A Cover, A Clooney, and Some Catchy Tunes! All this, plus mountain dew + zingers, on Insomnia Radio Episode #144! Click through for the details, including extra special shownotes and mp3 links.
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Insomnia Radio #144: Constantly Catchy

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A Cover, A Clooney, and Some Catchy Tunes! All this, plus mountain dew + zingers, on Insomnia Radio Episode #144! Click on through for the juicy details and set list.

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IR: SoCal – Local Bodog Battle Preview

Welcome to a special edition of Insomnia SoCal. Today’s piece brings us a small sampling of performers auditioning at the Bodog Battle of the Bands coming here to the Southland over the next two weeks, with first round stops in LA and Orange Counties as well as San Diego.

Insomnia SoCal will be at Bodog’s show at The Joint on Oct 30th, Nov 1st, and 4th, so drop in and watch some of the battles with me as well as with a few friends of the show. Apparenly the bands are vying for a $1 million dollar recording contract and lots of face time on Bodog’s reality show on Fuse TV.

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ARTISTS
1) Paper Thin Walls – Light Bright
2) Letters Burning – California Song
3) Out of State – Carry the Flag
4) Run Doris Run – Bonjour Bonjour
5) Building a Better Spaceship – Velvet

LINKS
Bodog Official Site
Bodog MySpace
Battle Lineups / Ticket Info

IR Chicago #10

This episode is a little on the mellow side. I have acoustic, alternative to adult contemporary for ya! So grab a cup of coffee or tea and snuggle under a blanket and enjoy!

Set list

Voice in My Head by Painkiller Hotel
Weeds by Whisperwall
Drifting by Andy McKee
The Cornflake Song by Dick Prall

IR Chicago Replay
Superpowers by Brian Sharpe
No Words by Michael McDermott

IR News
Insomnia Radio Detroit
The Muggs
America’s Next Great Band

IR Chicago #10 mp3

Insomnia Radio #143: Indie-Fi (Enhanced AAC)

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Insomnia Radio #143: Indie-Fi

Artist	Track	Album	Purchase Links
Skipping Girl Vinegar	One Chance	Single	PopBoomerang (AUSTRALIA)
Braam	Intoxication	Kings I & II (Double Album!)	CDBaby
WireTree	Big Coat	Bouldin	CDBaby | iTunes | NotLame
The Goldstars	D.M.V.	Purple Girlfriend	eMusic
Joshua Lanes	Dead	Insert At Rib	CDBaby
The Seldon Plan	Making Circles	The Collective Now	MagnaTune
Republic of Letters	No Time For Fears	Spirit or a Ghost	From the Band

Insomnia Radio #143: Indie-Fi

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Insomnia Radio #143: Indie-Fi

Artist	Track	Album	Purchase Links
Skipping Girl Vinegar	One Chance	Single	PopBoomerang (AUSTRALIA)
Braam	Intoxication	Kings I & II (Double Album!)	CDBaby
WireTree	Big Coat	Bouldin	CDBaby | iTunes | NotLame
The Goldstars	D.M.V.	Purple Girlfriend	eMusic
Joshua Lanes	Dead	Insert At Rib	CDBaby
The Seldon Plan	Making Circles	The Collective Now	MagnaTune
Republic of Letters	No Time For Fears	Spirit or a Ghost	From the Band

IR Orlando #22: Horrorlando

INSOMNIA RADIO: ORLANDO 22
Release date:10/24/2007

It’s that time of year again… time for Insomnia Radio HORRORLANDO 2! This time we have an enormous crop of scary music – from Orlando to as far away as New Zealand. We’ll also revisit a couple of favorites from last year. So sit back, turn down the lights and for God’s sake, LOCK THE DOOR!

01) The Threshold People (Massachusetts) | Radio Zombi | FREE DOWNLOAD

02) Lugosi’s Morphine (Scranton, PA) | Graves | MySpace

03) Lugosi’s Morphine | The Year Without a Halloween

04) NoCtUrNaL fReAkShOw (Auckland, NZ) | Tentacles

05) When the Dead Walk (Ft. Pierce, FL) | Blade’s Theme | FREE DOWNLOAD

06) When the Dead Walk | Blues for a Dead Age | FREE DOWNLOAD

07) HCA (Florida) | Halloween Comes Again | BUY

08) Graveyard Tramps movie trailer

09) Bloc Party (UK) | Hunting for Witches (Fury 666 remix) |
Podsafe Music Network

10) Scum of the Earth (Los Angeles, CA) | Get Your Dead On | eMusic

11) Digi Hartatak featuring J-Me (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) | Queen of the Cemetery | FREE DOWNLOAD

12) Vampire Playgirls movie trailer

13) Rocket 88 (Orlando, FL) | Mission Control | BUY

14) Mississippi Mudsharks (San Diego, CA) | Hangin’ Tree | iTunes | eMusic

15) Get Three Coffins Ready (Colorado) | The Cemetary | Podsafe Music Network

16) Koma Katz (Brighton, South, UK) | Beastman Boogie | FREE DOWNLOAD

17) The Deformities (Omaha, Nebraska) | Creature Feature Show | MySpace

18) The Deformities | Zombie Twist | Podsafe Music Network

19) The Last Call Brawlers (Arizona) | Los Muertos Rock | BUY

20) Dr. Jeckyl and Sister Hyde movie trailer

21) Jonathan Coulton (NY, NY) | Re: Your Brains | BUY

22) Stephen Lynch(NY, NY) | Halloween | eMusic | Download Punk

23) The Threshold People | KROK calling

Things to dig up:

Interview with The Threshold People

What Are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse?

Podsafe Music Network

Calling All Fiends | FREE DOWNLOAD

Movie trailer sound bytes

IR: So Cal

IR: New Zealand

IR: Baltimore

Music Bed: Ephyu Ayhole | Earth

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Insomnia Radio #142: Tell Me Something

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Welcome to a decidedly rocking episode of Insomnia Radio. Inside is brand new music from Leslie, The Thieves, Pensive, Automatic 7, and Mr Bella.

Featuring: Straight ahead hard rock, sweet southern vocal harmonies, and some Cowbell!

Artist	Track	Album	Buy Link
The Thieves	Tell Me Something	Where The Bright Lights Bloom	Unreleased
Leslie	Su Car Car	Demo	Unreleased
Mr. Bella	Awake Now	2 Song Single	Band Site
Pensive	Live Fast	Artifacts	Band Site
Automatic 7	Start Over	At Funeral Speed	Releasing October 16th 2007

Noteworthy Notes:

• Pensive Live Review @ The SoCal Sessions
• Rock & Roll Jew Show
• We’ll keep you posted about The Thieves album!

Insomnia Radio #142: Tell Me Something (Enhanced)

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Artist	Track	Album	Buy Link
The Thieves	Tell Me Something	Where The Bright Lights Bloom	Unreleased
Leslie	Su Car Car	Demo	Unreleased
Mr. Bella	Awake Now	2 Song Single	Band Site
Pensive	Live Fast	Artifacts	Band Site
Automatic 7	Start Over	At Funeral Speed	Releasing October 16th 2007

Noteworthy Notes:

• Pensive Live Review @ The SoCal Sessions
• Rock & Roll Jew Show
• We’ll keep you posted about The Thieves album!

IR: The SoCal Sessions #18 – Les Musiciens de Femmes de Californie Meridionale

This session has a French title although it was probably butchered by the Babel Fish free translator to mean something completely offensive. In a perfect world it should roughly translate to ‘Female Musicians of Southern California’, which equates to ten great tracks of Southern California mainstream rock, indie rock, pop, folk and some blues mixed in to make quite the mixture for today’s session.

Why French? Well, I found a nice little song by Otis Fodder called ‘Nouis Amons Oui’ that you hear somewhere near the beginning that sets the tone. In addition we have a ’20s blues opener by Kansas old-timer Lottie Kimbrough can be found in the free-for-download musicbed in our shownotes.

From China, to Baltimore, New York, Texas and Alabama, we have a nice series of ten diverse songs from some of the best up-and-coming female artists who now call the area home, or have all along. Enjoy and please help support these artists where you can.

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FEATURED ARTISTS
1) Beth Thornley – Birmingham | itunes | store
2) Esquimaux – All Winter Long | snocap
3) Jeriko – From Me To You | itunes
4) Brenda Xu – Count to Ten | snocap | cdbaby
5) Kim Kline – Sick Reality | e-music
6) Dakota – In the Bar Tonight | itunes | cdbaby
7) Eloise – Kill You
8 ) Fontaine – The Chemistry Between Us | e-music | cdbaby
9) Heroin Skinny – For You | snocap
10) Samantha Murphy – I Wanna Go Home | e-music | cdbaby

LINKS TO EXPLORE
The Husband (videocast)
Most People Are DJs
Insomnia Radio: Baltimore
Insomnia Radio: Chicago
Insomnia Radio: Detroit
Zaldor’s World
LA Podcasters
iProng Radio
Wander Radio
Von Iva (Expo performer)
Lee Coulter (Expo performer)
SMTV
IODA Promonet
Cognitive Collective
Podsafe Music Network

ADDITIONAL MEDIA

Beth Thornley @ Hotel Cafe

IR: SoCal Music News – MLS Represent

In a change of pace, we are bringing you a bit of music news from Southern California, and oddly enough its all about soccer. Apparently, Adidas and MLS Represent have come together and paired each Major League soccer team with a hometown artist to record an original song that represents each MLS team and its home city.

Artists participating in this project include the Rapture, OK Go, Bad Brains, Barenaked Ladies, RJD2, The Polyphonic Spree and more. Some of the teams being represented are DC United, the New York Red Bulls, the Chicago Fire, Columbus Crew and the list continues.

MLS Represent is also a call to action for all MLS fans, as they’ve been asking for fans to pick their favorite MLS team and support them via originally created songs by each hometown artist. Fans have the opportunity to customize music videos online using the anthems mashed-up with MLS footage and can then share their videos with friends and rivals, giving US soccer fans a new way to represent their favorites.

In that vein, here is the new Los Angeles Galaxy Theme, called ‘We Are the Galaxy’ by none other than Kinky. Enjoy and please visit the link below to a few free downloads for your mash-up enjoyment, including one for LA based Chivas USA

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MLS Promotional Website

IR Chicago #9

I am very excited about this episode! New theme, a Friends of the
Family Segment from Charles at The SoCal Sessions and a lot of awesome
music! This episode will get you up and movin’!

Set List

Face Down by Katie Todd
The Rumors are Flying by A Kidnap in Color
What She Wants by White Hot Knife

Friends of the Family Segment with Charles from The SoCal Sessions
Live Fast by Pensive

IR Chicago Replay Segment
Built to Burn by Kevin Lee
Invincible by The Good Luck Joes

IR Chicago #9 mp3

Insomnia Radio #141: Acoustics Day 3 (Enhanced)

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The 3rd and final episode featuring acoustic flavor kicks off with a wonderfully simple and tasty blues track from Davis Coen, and is punctated by new music from Warm in the Wake, Aussie Matt Seaberg, and old favorites from The Rewinds and The Rolling Drunks.

Welcome to Insomnia Radio #141!

Artist	Track	Album	Purchase Link
Davis Coen	Precious Time Blues	Blues from the Get-Go	iTunes
Warm in the Wake	Devil w/ A Fist	American Prehistoric	iTunes | LiveWire
Matt Seaberg	‘Till London	Gemini’s Many Sides	CDBaby
The Rolling Drunks	The Long Road		Unknown (Do you know?)
The Rewinds	Turns Out That Way	S/T	iTunes | eMusic

Thanks a lot for hanging in there gang. I appreciate your patience with all the RSS troubles. The next stop is Insomnia Radio #142, which promises to be the complete opposite of the last 3 episodes

Take care!
Jason

Insomnia Radio #141: Acoustics Day 3

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The 3rd and final episode featuring acoustic flavor kicks off with a wonderfully simple and tasty blues track from Davis Coen, and is punctuated by new music from Warm in the Wake, Aussie Matt Seaberg, and old favorites from The Rewinds and The Rolling Drunks.

Welcome to Insomnia Radio #141!

Artist	Track	Album	Purchase Link
Davis Coen	Precious Time Blues	Blues from the Get-Go	iTunes
Warm in the Wake	Devil w/ A Fist	American Prehistoric	iTunes | LiveWire
Matt Seaberg	‘Till London	Gemini’s Many Sides	CDBaby
The Rolling Drunks	The Long Road		Unknown (Do you know?)
The Rewinds	Turns Out That Way	S/T	iTunes | eMusic

Thanks a lot for hanging in there gang. I appreciate your patience with all the RSS troubles. The next stop is Insomnia Radio #142, which promises to be the complete opposite of the last 3 episodes

Take care!
Jason

Insomnia Radio #140: Acoustics Day 2 (Enhanced)

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The 2nd of 3 mini-episodes highlighting some newer acoustic music hitting our submission pages. It kicks off with two stellar female singer-songwriters, and wraps up with IR favorite Ashton Allen and Aussie Jeremy Dundas.

By the way, I COMPLETELY blew it by not telling you who Jeremy Dundas’ Uncle was in the mid-80’s. He managed The Cure! Enjoy the show.

Artist	Track	Album	Purchase Links
Brenda Xu	Count To 10	It’s True	CD Baby
Elizabeth & The Catapults	Momma’s Boy	S/T	CD Baby
Ashton Allen	Dewdrops	Dewdrops	LiveWire | eMusic
Jeremy Dundas	What I Do	(Single)	N/A

Note that CD Baby is now doing digital downloads in most cases, which is exciting news.

Just ahead is IR #141, and then an absolutely rocking Episode #142 which I can’t wait to put out.

J.

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