http://insomniaradio.net All Your Favorite Stuff, Under One Roof. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:45:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From their album Kids with Songs After ten years of touring, broken bones, dealing with death, destruction and the general mayhem of living in a van, recording when possible, and writing amazing songs, Nashville-based band, The Coal Men have signed with indie, Funzalo Records. They have also signed with Mike Lembo’s ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/07/04/the-coal-men-nightingale/ Here's a band from Austin, TX that is not only tech savvy (a necessary trait for ALL indie bands now) but creates incredible music and gives it away for free, including their two releases EP1 and EP2. There's no excuse not to gobble up their tunes and spread the word. ~ Ranging ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/07/03/jets-under-fire-like-waves-like-sea/ Australian band Howling Bells formed out of the ashes of the group Waikiki, moving to the UK shortly thereafter for purposes of recording, where they released their highly praised debut "Bella Union" in 2006. The newest release from Howling Bells on Nettwerk, "Radio Wars", was released in February of this year ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/07/02/howling-bells-into-the-chaos/ From their album Birds Fly South Echo Slightly is a downtempo project that draws influences from Massive Attack, Imogen Heap, Portishead, and The Gathering. In 2005, Morgan Long did guest vocals on Stabilizer’s “A Project Called Red” album. The track, called “Grey to Green,” demonstrated a keen chemistry between the her ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/07/01/echo-slightly-run-so-fast/ I'm on a retro video game kick lately, and when I stumbled across this artist @ The Sixtyone, I was hooked. Here's his bio: Henry Homesweet is a music project to express all of my creativity. I work with lots of diffrent styles, experimenting with all sorts of retro video game ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/30/henry-homesweet-okiirobo_navigation_system/ As a nice audial cannonball into Summer, we've got a handful of tracks from San Luis Obispo roots-rock group STILL TIME's newest album "See America" which were recently passed along into our greedy little hands. Just a short week back or so, we featured the first single from this album, "Come ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/29/ir-socal-album-release-still-time-see-america/ Seattle, Washington's Throw Me the Statue is currently working on their second album, Creaturesque, available August 4 (Worldwide) and August 17 (UK), via Secretly Canadian. Originally the one-man project of multifaceted musician and songwriter Scott Reitherman, TMTS has since expanded to a quartet with drummer Jarred Grimes, and multi-instrumentalists ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/29/throw-me-the-statue-ancestors/ From their album Gather, Form & Fly This is the Summer of Megafaun. Their highly-anticipated second album, Gather, Form & Fly, is a monument to a band that hundreds have experienced on stages, under trees, in galleries, on ?oors, in headphones, and through radios-with-the-windows-down over the past three years. All the ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/28/megafaun-the-fade/ "More expensive Casio equipment than Devo" - CMJ Math the Band is equal parts Atom and His Package and Andrew WK. Sampled casio sk1 drums, paired with solid square waves and more BPMs than can possibly be considered reasonable. Started by a sixteen year old kid who was kicked out of ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/27/math-the-band-why-didnt-you-get-a-haircut/ The Papertiger Sound is a transatlantic project created in 2006 by Dan Gelder who is from England's Eastern shore. Hailing from the Eastern shores of Canada, Kerstin Wilson later joined when both Dan and Kerstin were living in Leeds later that year. They now function as a long distance duo between ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/26/the-papertiger-sound-tiny-robot-love/ To mark the release of the second album "Born on Flag Day", here is a song from their first album "War Elephant". Head over to Partisan Records to check out both of them. Deer Tick is a rock n roll band originally from Providence, Rhode Island. The band is John Joseph ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/25/deer-tick-standing-at-the-threshold/ Note from Jason: I'm a sucker for "The Bends"-era Radiohead. Plajia (pronounced "plah-gee-ah") scratches that itch nicely! Lauded by music critics in Canada and abroad, trip-rock group Plajia, composed of Patrick Pleau (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica), Simon Boivin (bass and backing vocals) and Pascal Laviolette (drums, percussion and backing ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/24/plajia-dummy/ IR: Motor city is back again for another interview episode - this episode is an interview with Mikal, a great up and coming indie artist from South East Michigan! This was a fun interview, it was a pleasure to talk with Mikal. He is also playing live ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/23/ir-detroit-28-interview-with-mikal/ Los Angeles instrumental outfit Signal Hill is back with a new album as of June 11th, twelve songs and 61 minutes of universally understood tracks without the vocal interjection that occasionally takes away from the artistry when the songs are played outside the realm of the band's native tongue. We recently ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/23/signal-hill-stunning-clarity/ From Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada Neil Dobson was a regular on the Toronto club circuit for years with various original bands. "I go back a ways in Toronto, we played Larry's Hideaway a lot -such a classic venue- I met Joe Strummer in there one time..." And now this...Fabulous Hats !! ... http://insomniaradio.net/2009/06/22/fabulous-hats-trance/