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Pour yourself a drink. Place those expensive headphones gently over your ears. Turn the lights down. Light a few candles and a stick of Nag Champa. Kick back in that comfy chair you inherited from your Grandpa. Close your...

Episode number 69 of Insomnia Radio UK. Welcome to this somewhat delayed episode. Eight songs from UK artists. Recording Date: Friday 29 May 2009 TRT: 36:40 Rating: Work Safe Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or...

From their album Eating Us Black Moth Super Rainbow come from deep within the woods of Western Pennsylvania. An actual, 5-member band not comprised of the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psyche-pop group in...

What if Jane’s Addiction had been more inspired by Ride and late 80′s U2? What if Perry Ferrell would have been a little less neurotic and a touch more intense? What if a band said “You know, shoegaze...

Hey gang! I can’t accurately express the myriad of feelings (including anxiety & excitement) I experienced leading up to this episode, nor the overwhelming sense of completion and contentedness when it was...

When Randolph Chabot first began recording his own albums at age 12, he discovered a means of living out his fantasies. Using whatever instrument he could find, Chabot began constructing hyper-emotional dream...

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. IR:Detroit returns with a great...

From their EP I Will Still Be Wishing “If Phil Spector made an album with Jesus & Mary Chain and New Order it would sound like The Watermarks.” “Imagine rock, pop, and electronics creating a wall...

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. For Matt Ragland, primary songwriter...

Drew Danburry is a musician who has toured independently and released records independently for approximately five years or so. He can’t remember all the specifics of his wack life, otherwise we’d know all the...

Jóan Petur is the first Faroese artist to be featured on Insomnia Radio, and this is from his album Bow & Arrow Jóan Petur is from the Faroe Islands. He is 27 years old, and educated as a chef. Jóan Petur is a...

Sarah Morrison brings you Miss Morrison’s Mixtape #1, a song from every independent artist and band reviewed on Miss Morrison’s Mix for Insomnia Radio. Most of these tracks were IR Daily Doses and...

We all miss Insomnia Radio Baltimore, but thankfully Tim Poggioli is still out in the trenches tipping us off to great Baltimore music… Ric Peters is The Perfects (much like Trent Reznor is NIN), and as Tim...

Copenhagen artist Peter Broderick is like the Swiss Army Knife of musicians; compact, elegant, multipurpose. What sets him apart is his restraint. With an arsenal of talents at his disposal, he prefers to reveal only one...