Pearl and the Beard is three voices, one cello, one guitar, one glockenspiel, one melodica, several drums, one accordion, ninety-six teeth, and one soul. Former strangers Jocelyn Mackenzie, Emily Hope Price, and Jeremy...

The music of Australian performer Emma Dean has been stuck in my head for days. After playing her song Sincerely Fearful on Insomnia Radio: Australia episode 8 and more recently my other music podcast Erk FM, the song...

Brave Chandeliers is a Portland, OR band that sounds like Billy Joel’s Porsche (before he crashed it). For such a young band, they come off as old souls, writing the catchiest alt-pop that manages to portray a...

Norman, Oklahoma’s grunge-psych-goth-dance band Depth & Current to release new single (7″ vinyl & download). Band’s own Nice People label is helping to put the Oklahoma City suburb on the musical...

The Kopecky Family Band is a living and breathing collage of sorts, combining sound, people, and a DIY sensibility, exemplified in all aspects of their music and aesthetic. Their infectious multi-layered harmonies,...

Corwyn simply writes fiercely melodic, straight-up, non-pretentious rock and roll dipped in grunge-y goodness, and he does so with such consistent quality and production values you'd swear he was turning down major labels left and right.

Something a little heavier than the average Daily Dose offering today, from their upcoming single release on 30 November A trio of transplanted Floridians, Dead Meat live in San Francisco. After a couple of cassettes,...

Missouri’s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (SSLYBY) recently released their third album for Polyvinyl Records, this time produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, as well as Beau Sorenson.  Release...

The San Francisco feed of Insomnia Radio has been dark since February 2008, but today I’m ridiculously excited to be throwing the switch once again. As we have with IR: Chicago, our San Francisco is getting a reboot of...

[UPDATE: Be sure to listen to the next episode of Insomnia Radio to win 1 of 3 copies of the EP!] Of the Eureka Birds debut album, IR New York host and frequent reviewer Sarah Morrison had this to say: “To write a...