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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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

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.

The Best Music You’ve Never Heard: V8

From the Archives, enjoy the eighth 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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Playlist

The Botticellis – Killing Spree
Letterhead – The Us
Sweet Diss and the Comebacks – Craziest Girl
Ten Ways From Sunday – Had To Wake You
Inkwell – The Tragedy of David Gribble
Dead City Sunday – The Remaining Years
The May Fire – Nothing Today
Damsel Fly – Let You Go
Gasoline Heart – All The Way
Brady Bastards – Drown With Me
The Kellys – Blink
Parcourse – Us
Clothes Make the Man – WMD
Kerbslider – Carry On Screaming
Fools and Horses – Fly Me to the Moon

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

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 Mixtape: Injection

One from the Archive.  Originally posted by Jason on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 and recently rediscovered. We don’t have a playlist for this, so if anyone knows any of the bands/tracks please add to the comments. [update 15 Apr 2009-SM] I just found the playlist on The WayBack Machine.

Below are Jason’s notes at the time. I don’t think many of in the Northern Hemisphere will be mowing our lawns any time soon, but the other suggestions stand:

“We’re really enjoying our mixtapes lately, can ya tell? On the table for you to spin: A 45 minute injection of the hard rock magic. Keep this one around. Burn it for a friend. Crank it in the car, mowing the lawn, running through your neighborhood. 13 tracks that grab you by the throat and don’t let go. Turn it up gang.”

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The Tracklist: (44:44)

1. Mon Frere: Real Ultimate Power
2. Black Furies: Hard Luck
3. Fools & Horses: Fly Me to the Moon
4. Bastion: Scream with Me
5. Fightstar: Palahniuk’s Laughter
6. Recliner: Float Away
7. Bluekarma: Rise
8. Rick Temporao & The New Low: By The River
9. Fractional: Too Late
10. Complete: Broken
11. ThreeMan: Undone
12. Stereoside: Hey Joe
13. The Thieves: This Road (it never leads us)

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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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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The Best Music You’ve Never Heard: V6

From the Archives, enjoy the sixth volume of Scott Tinetti’s legendary The Best Music You’ve Never Heard, originally released to a select few members of the IR Forum back in 2006.

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 #159: FU Robot

The year is obviously 2008, not 2005 as the evil announcer at the show header describes. Yes, as you will quickly notice, there is some sort of robotic, computer, and videogame nerdery meshed together unseamlessly in this episode, gladly supplied by this uber-geek.

Seriously, we’ve got some great tracks and a few appearances by DJ’s from last month’s New Media Expo in Las Vegas, not to mention two artists have blood and sun in their names; what are the chances, and could that be an ominous sign? Enjoy and as usual, please help support all the hard-working artists below.

TRT – 50:38
Not work safe!

Countdown
*Ugress: Decepticons (intro clip)
10) Sun Like Blood: The Fury
9) The Truegoods: Revel the Rebel
8 ) Hot Bitch Arsenal: Fade In, Fade Out
7) Still Time: Stream of Consciousness
6) Lowry: Roads
5) Dawn Chorus: I’m Cured!
4) Deastro: Michael, The Lone Archer of the North Shore
3) Lejeune: Replaced by Robots
2) Sentinel: Skylark
1) Blood Red Sun: So It Goes
0) Pro Audio: FU Robot

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Mentions
Gamesareevil.com
Dave’s Lounge
Most People Are DJ’s
Association of Music Podcasting
Soundbed: Wyatt Gurp, 8 bit bEtty
Robot Attack! image by Dan Coulter (adapted under CC license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic)

IR: The Winter Sounds – Drive to Athens

We recently received a message from one of our favorite bands here at Insomnia. Patrick Keenan of The Winter Sounds wanted to proudly share one of the new tracks they just recorded over at Cacophony Recorders in Austin, and rightly so. Pinebox is the name of this beautiful new track and is now being released on a 3 song EP before the band makes it way to Athens in October and November to start afresh on their next full length album.

The band would really appreciate any donations or EP purchases to help them make this goal, so they can rightly sink their heart and soul into the creation of the next full length we are all eagerly anticipating.

Purchase links and donation information is location at their website:  thewintersounds.com

Tracks

• Sound Forged Like Spine
• Pinebox
• Trophy Wife (demo)

Poetry (Winter: A Dirge by Robert Burns)

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