http://insomniaradio.net All Your Favorite Stuff, Under One Roof. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:00:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This Town Needs Guns are Stuart Smith, Tim Collis, Chris Collis, & Jamie Cooper from Oxford in the UK [From their Myspace] We do releases through independent labels who are surviving from one release to the next. We are so pleased when we see blogs and torrent sites offering our music for free ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/20/this-town-needs-guns-baboon/ Since we're not getting enough of the constant Sugar flowing from Bob Mould's Minneapolis & now Washington based cookie jar, we've decided to forage further to the east and break the lock off the overstocked New York musical pantry, bringing you a somewhat similar sounding and striking selection off the ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/19/blood-red-sun-all-at-once/ Over the years, The Clintons have become a huge hit with a very small group of people. In other words, they’re not for everyone. If you have Montana roots, you’ve no doubt heard of this energetic, humor-driven four-piece, but they may not have tickled your musical fancy. But if you ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/18/the-clintons-dance-slow/ From Yonkers, New York we would like to introduce you to Mouthblocks, one of our favorite new hip-hop artists who just released his debut EP, Sing for Your Supper on fledgling Baby Grey Records. Mouthblock adeptly presents tightly packaged edible beats, unwrapping them with a flurry of scratches and lyrical chops ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/17/mouthblocks-put-em-together-feat-bnice/ From the first EP released by Australian band Drawn from Bees. Drawing on their influences of art and literature, the first EP is a tale of survival, struggle and desolation, set against a backdrop of seafaring antiquity. The principal character begins his sojourn quite carelessly bathing in the ocean safely near ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/16/drawn-from-bees-all-this-time/ There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere, Head Like A Kite’s second full-length album, and first for Mush, is an expert blend of electronic rock production and pure pop-songcraft built on a bed of pillaged found-sound from cities the Seattle based band visited on their 2006 US tour. No stranger to sharing the ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/15/head-like-a-kite-no-ordinary-caveman/ Conquest formed in late 1989 by founder Derrick Brumley, frontman and guitar player of the band. Joined by Tony Restivo, Tim Fleetwood and Adrian Vesper, Conquest played locally and made their first full length heavy metal record titled Hellraiser (demo). Through the 90’s the band experimented with a variety of ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/14/conquest-its-all-over/ From Toronto Ontario, Canadian foursome Put the Rifle Down seemingly has the incredible talent that allows them to craft non-disposable synth-pop styled masterpieces, which also happened to spark the same hibernating auditory receptors that lept to life when I first heard New Order in the 80s. Architekt is a demo from ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/13/put-the-rifle-down-architekt-demo/   Hot Little Hands – armed with two synthesizers and Wurlitzer - aren’t just a reflection of the 80’s revival scene. Insert 1950’s electronic-voodoo-swamp-blues, 1960’s garage disco. Enter some old soul, a touch of electro, four part harmonies and now you’re getting the picture. Once framed, the picture is Hot Little ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/12/hot-little-hands-scene-of-the-crime/ In early summer of 2004, San Francisco’s Finest Dearest began practicing in a basement bedroom, hashing out concepts and ideas. After a series of musical chairs in the lineup, the band emerged with a bolder, more confident sound as showcased on their new self-titled, full length album released in April ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/11/finest-dearest-your-hometown/ Formed in San Francisco in the spring of 2006, The Union Trade consists of Don Joslin (guitar), Nate Munger (bass/vocals), Eric Salk (guitar /vocals), and Dan Rodkewich (drums). The Union Trade’s sound is the product of a collaborative writing style and mind-set, largely free of the barriers of role or ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/10/the-union-trade-talk/ We first heard from Phoenix, Arizona's The Love Me Nots in IR: San Francisco's lovefest around early '07 during the period in which tLMN released their debut album Black & White, which shot up into the CMJ Top 100 within a week of release. The Love Me Nots have finally emerged ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/09/the-love-me-nots-youre-really-something/ As a three-piece band with a progressive metal drummer, a post punk guitarist, and a thrash rock bassist and with song names as bizarre as Perverted Shark and Where is My Skeleton, Cactus's self proclaimed style of Tropical Punk is actually something fresh and different in rock. With influences ranging ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/08/cactuss-tiny-teeth/ Thanks for checking out the 24th full length edition of The SoCal Sessions here at Insomnia Radio. Today we've gathered up fourteen excellent tracks from fourteen talented artists, breaking out in Long Beach via a tasty funk concoction of 70's cinematic car chases and crime. From there it's all downhill ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/07/ir-the-socal-sessions-24-carnal-pleasures-lewd-designs/ Beyond their years musically, Los Angeles based Drive A has just completed their full length record with Grammy Award winning Producer Julian Raymond and are on the verge of capping off their Warped Tour experience in late August with dates in San Diego and Carson, California. In 2009 ... http://insomniaradio.net/2008/08/07/drive-a-rule-the-world/