Insomnia Radio #166: No Sleep till Brooklyn

Insomnia Radio visits New York again

Recording Date: Thursday 18th June 2009
TRT: 46:40
Rating: Worksafe

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A regional showcase episode of Insomnia Radio, featuring artists from New York City. And it is a precursor to the relaunch of Insomnia Radio New York, with Sarah Morrison at the helm. Click below for the detailed show notes and links
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IR: Dread at the Controls #5: “DJ Style”

This was the 2nd to last podcast Mikey recorded for our network before his untimely passing in March 2008. His energy, his music, and his enthusiasm are still deeply missed.

Mikey’s 6th & final un-aired episode will be posting soon.

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EPISODE 5: DJ STYLE

Showcasing some of the prominent Jamaican DJ’s of the 1970’s.

In the USA, the DJ is called “The Selector.”

In Jamaica the DJ (man or woman) who works the microphone at a party, or dance, or studio recording is called the DJ. But in Jamaica the man or woman who PLAYS the music is called “The Selector.”

In the UK, the DJ on the record and sound system is called a “Toaster!!”
Enjoy the 5th episode of “Dread at the Controls.”

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Mikey Dread & his music live on at http://www.mikeydread.com

RUN IT!

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Insomnia Radio #165: Homecoming

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 finished. Over the past 18 months my life has run the gamut of changes, but Insomnia Radio has soldiered forward thanks to Charles, Stuart, and the rest of the gang. Because of them, I’m able to grab the mic once again and rock the music I love for the world.

I had aspirations to record a gigantic, super-produced episode that would be a marathon of awesomeness, but instead I’ve opted to stay the course and serve up some killer indie music with my trademarked non-professional rambling in between

One more thing to mention: This ain’t no guest hosting gig Now kick back and enjoy the show…

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13 Reasons Insomnia Radio exists:

• The Winter Sounds: O’Fear | Site | Store
• Anemo: She’s Not Me | Site | Store
• Chance: Finger on the Trigger Makes a Man Feel Bigger | Site | Store | Twitter
• EDITORIAL: The Pirate Bay Decision | by Sarah Morrison
• Geri X, Geri X: Kiss on Both Eyelids | Site | Store
• The Exits: You Gotta Help Me Out | Site | Store
• The Perfects: End of Us | Site | FREE Store! (thanks Tim!)
• Ashtray: Brainless | Myspace
• The Bloodsugars: Purpose Was Again | Site
• Esquimaux: Gleaming the Truth | Site | Christian Slater!
• Pawnshop Diamond: Cabernet Sauvignon | Myspace
• Nelo: Love Solution | Site |
• Renegade Ride: Stars | Myspace

(”Welcome Back Kotter” a capella intro by After Dark, out of Trinity College in Hartford, CT.)

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER:

@killyourfm | @insomniaradio | @iruk | @irsocal | @zaldor | @SarahCM

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Miss Morrison’s Mixtape #1

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 they’re all completely free and legal, so make copies, burn CDs, share with your friends and spread the music around! And don’t forget to show the artists some love!

They are giving away free music after all, so if you like a song let them know – drop them a message, buy a CD or a tshirt, go to a show, just let them know they’ve got a new fan. Because we all know music tastes better when it’s free, but musicians still have to eat!

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Playlist and MySpace Links

1. Waves – Can You Say
2. Eureka Birds – Oh! My Dear
3. L’Avventura – Here’s to Absent Friends
4. Lemonwilde – Just This Ashtray
5. In Isolation – The Wrong Girl
6. Christopher Marc – Here Is The City (Chicago)
7. Inside View – Judas
8. Her Vanished Grace – Slip Away
9. MorningSide – Alone In Your Grave
10.The Morning Stars – Slipped Away
11.The Winter Sounds – Trophy Wife
12.Venice Is Sinking – Ryan’s Song

Insomnia Radio #164: Home Fires

Today’s episode warms us up a bit with a healthy dose of rock from UK, Canada, New York, Mexico City (and beyond) before our founder, Jason Evangelho takes over the controls for IR #165.

The name of this episode has double meaning for me personally as I’m planning on destroying most of my home CD collection in the near future and backing them all up digitally.  It also has something to do with putting forth our best effort to keep the musical fire burning since Jason’s short hiatus from the network.

Anyway, please enjoy the tracks that I’ve put together for this episode and help support these great musicians. More on the way shortly!

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TRT: 36:48

ARTISTS

• Dananananaykroyd: Black Wax
• Simplifires: Yourself Only
• Tokyo Police Club: Your English is Good
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Everything With You
• Sky Larkin: Fossil I
• Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
• The Most Serene Republic: Heavens to Purgatory
• Head Like a Kite: Noisy at the Circus
• Mr. Anonymous: Rockin’ She Rock (feat. Dave Wakeling & Boubacar Diabate)

SHOUT-OUTS

• The Musebox.net
• IODA Promonet
• The Portable Gamer
• On the Brink (Head Like a Kite)
• Soundbed:  Raised by Swans, Sora Shima
• Image by Ghirigori Baumann used under a Attribution-Noncommercial Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.

Insomnia Radio #163: Hey Juice!

Today’s episode starts off with a little CB chatter from a cat in New Jersey talking to his homeboy Juice in Northern California – then launches into a standout intro track by the funk and soul powerhouse, T Bird & The Breaks from Austin, Texas.

The show today follows no rhyme of reason and the tracks were put together as the juices flowed forward, the program progressively taking on a life of its own – my favorite way to do things creatively.

TRT: 51:04
*NOT WORK SAFE

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TRACK LISTING

• T Bird & The Breaks – Juice
• I Was Totally Destroying It – Done Waiting
• Even Heroes – Make Me Burn
• Fanfarlo – Harold T Wilkins
• Half Acre Day – BIOTA
• Caroline Smith & The Good Night Sleeps – Closing the Door
• Johnny Foreigner – Our Bipolar Friends
• Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer – Death or Radio
• Magic Me – Soft Cases
• Dead Leaf Echo – Act of Truth
• Nathaniel Carroll & The Party Line – You’ll Make a Killing
• The Very Best – Dinosaur on the Ark
• *BONUS!   The Matthew Show – The Copyright Song

(Purchase and Download Links to follow shortly!  Check Back)

LINKS

• Insomnia Radio: UK
• Insomnia Radio: Detroit
• Wander Radio
• IODA Promonet
• Insomnia Radio: Elm Street???!!!?
• Soundbed:  Years of Rice and Salt
• Image by jason_shipps’ used under a Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License

Swimfaster Godwhispers: One Year Anniversary

Today marks the first anniversary of the restructuring of the Daily Dose music blog here at IR, helmed by Stuart Morrison (UK) and Charles Stepczyk (US) – 365 tracks in a row hand picked from submissions and from across the world. The blog also re-started with help from Kara Balicki (US) and has occasional reviews from guest blogger Sarah Morrison from Nottingham (UK).

In celebration of this milestone we have decided to bring you a beautiful creative commons track by Swimfaster Godwhispers, a collaboration started in Sweden which later moved to London.

Life as Promised in our Early Days – Season One is the latest release from this UK based band. After releasing albums and EPs for years, the band decided to do something completely new and try to break the mold of the ageing music industry.

The result is a season-based format borrowed from the world of television. A new single is released every week during a period of 5-6 months. In addition to this, all music will be free, available to download from the official website, MySpace, Purevolume and other music websites. You will even be able to subscribe to the season through iTunes. No physical albums will be released.

NEW UPDATE! Season Two will start soon, check their website below for more information.

• Artist Website
• SFGW @ MySpace
• SFGW @ thesixtyone
• SFGW @ Twitter
• SFGW @ Facebook

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Insomnia Radio #162 – From A to Z

From the beautifully crafted Pop/Rock of Brooklyn-based Aaron Zimmer to the Outlaw Rock Style of Zen Thesis from the Great American West.

For this episode we stay mainly in the United States, venturing North of the Border to Canada a couple of times, thence to the UK, and a short side trip to mainland Europe, to two countries not renowned for their Indie Music Scenes.

All this music was submitted to Insomnia Radio in the last few weeks, so thanks to the Artists, their Managements, Labels and PR Companies for sending it for you the listeners to enjoy.

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TRT: 1:05:24 | MOSTLY WORK SAFE
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Insomnia Radio #161 – Bursting at the Seams

No, we didn’t win the mustard yellow belt this past year, but we accumulated so many tracks last year and through the first few weeks of 2009, we’ve felt over-gorged on music and wanted to start sharing some with you while we recover from this champion binge session.

The format of today’s show is slightly different in the sense there are no themes really – just a bit of dialogue, and some great musical incentive to down your 161 hot dogs to.

Today’s competitors are:

• Zsammy – City, I Need You Now | free .mp3s
  
• Arms Entwined – Incandescent Thought Process
• Wintersleep – Archeologists | e-music
  
• Takka Takka – Silence | e-music
  
• Kid, You’ll Move Mountains – Make It Sing | store
  
• Ketch Harbour Wolves – Words | free .mp3s | itunes
  
• Chance – Ambulance Chaser | store
  
• Dare Dukes – Kick + Holler | itunes
  
• Esquimaux – Red Rover | itunes
  
• Signal Hill – Standby, Sir | itunes
  

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TRT: 40:13 | WORK SAFE

IR Superfeed (new!)
Dare Dukes @ Twitter
Chance @ Twitter
Signal Hill @ Twitter
Association of Music Podcasters

Image by Vidiot used under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License

Insomnia Radio: Double Shots #29 – Which One’s Pink?

Welcome to the first in the new series of Double Shots, this one is celebrating the longevity of Prog Rock, with a distinctly Floydian theme.

And this is dedicated to the memory of Richard Wright RIP and sadly missed, keyboardist with Pink Floyd.

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Insomnia Radio #160: Saga of the Sagebrush

An overdue Insomnia-laden journey has left us saddle-sore as we have traveled long and far these last few months in order to document a motley assortment of musicians.  We uncovered them amongst the wild trappers of Portland, to the silver ore miners flooding San Francisco – and deep inside the musical heart of old Texas.

Enjoy our Saga of the Sagebrush, presumably a soul stirring drama with short actors and actresses, but in all actuality; a long overdue collection of folk and Americana flavored music to tend your beards to.

Now, which one of you killed Tex Preston?

TRT – 70:48 | Work-SAFE

TRACK LISTING

• Blitzen Trapper – Furr
• Larkin Grimm – Ride That Cyclone
• Great Lakes Swimmers – Various Stages
• Jolie Holland – Mexico City
• Joe Pug – Hymn 101
• Horse Feathers – Curs in the Weeds
• Bloomsday Rising – Orange Flags
• Austin Hartley-Leonard – Golden Opportunity
• Ray’s Vast Basement – California’s Gone (Grapes of Wrath)
• Wye Oak – Regret
• Two Gallants – The Hand That Held You Down
• Mirah – Lone Star
• Sam Amidon – Saro
• AA Bondy – There’s a Reason
• Alela Diane – The Rifle
• South San Gabriel – I Am Six Pounds of Dynamite

Gangsta-Grass Opener: Rench – Oh Sleeper (clip)

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IR Superfeed unavailable

Update

The Superfeed is available on a different link which is http://feedproxy.feedburner.com/irsuperfeed It does not have all the posts in it yet, we’re working on it.

The Insomnia Radio Superfeed RSS Feed is currently unavailable, as Google have ‘done something’ to Feedburner to stop it working. Hopefully it will be back soon.

The RSS Feeds for the Individual Shows can be found here: http://insomniaradio.net/our-shows/

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The Best Music You’ve Never Heard: V7

From the Archives, enjoy the seventh volume of Scott Tinetti’s legendary The Best Music You’ve Never Heard.

As always, if you like what you hear, buy a song, buy an album, send the musicians some love.

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Insomnia Radio UK: Episode One

By: Phil Coyne
Submitted: 6/1/2006

The very first episode of IR: UK, featuring the very best under the radar bands from the wonderful land that brought you top hats, wooden teeth and the Beatles (two out of three ain’t bad, right?)

• Vite! Vite!, by Seeing Scarlet, from London
  • Website: http://myspace.com/seeingscarlet
• What Is The Feeling, by The Sessions, 5-piece from London.
  • Website: http://www.thesessions.co.uk/
• San Fransisco Rain, by Mooli, from London
  • Website: http://myspace.com/moolimusic
• Bigger Boat, by Finka, 4-piece from Manchester.
  • Website: http://www.finka.co.uk/
• We Are Now, by The Electric Mainline, from London.
  • Website: http://myspace.com/theelectricmainline
• Moment of Transparency, by Serotone, from Glasgow.
  • Website: http://www.serotoneband.co.uk/

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