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On their debut LP, All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go, Bay Area post-punk revivalists Bears! Bears! Bears! intimately chronicle soured relationships, identity crises, and personal inadequacies in 10 gloom-and-doom dance...

The Story So Far are based in Walnut Creek on the outskirts of San Francisco. Under Soil and Dirt, the band’s debut full length was released in June of 2011 and follows up two highly acclaimed EPs. While the album is...

I was trying to find the best words to introduce you to hunters., but looking at their description on Facebook, I had nothing left to say. hunters. sounds like: pick a word from the first column and pair it with one from...

Complimenting the coming of Fall tomorrow, we see the arrival of Sentinel’s new single, Somewhere Else, a nice representation of the changing of the seasons that seemingly synchs up perfectly with the brand new...

What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our...

Tidelands re-teams with Magik*Magik Orchestra on new album We’ve Got A Map out August 7th. Exactly a year after we first featured Tidelands, here is a single from their new album, their follow up to last year’s...

Down The Doors is the third studio album from San Francisco Bay Area electronic music group Chance’s End. Currently a duo, classical violinist Ryan Avery and singersongwriter Emily Zisman have found common ground in...

Lila Rose has released an album called Heart Machine (RTFM Records, 2012). This release proves that you still can push play on the first track and let the album stop playing by itself. Do not get a track, or two....

Eux Autres (pronounced ooz-oh-tra) are an Omaha-born, San Francisco-based trio, channeling sixties French pop and with a unique sensibility. The brother/sister duo, Heather and Nicholas Larimer, share lead vocals with...

San Francisco area Mountain Tamer variously describe their music as “Psychedelic Fusion” and “Interstellar/Grunge/Funk”. Whatever the genre, it’s noisy and we like it. Check it out for...

A little while back a band out of the San Francisco Bay area caught my attention, describing themselves as a jazzy, bluesy, folky indie-rock group. The eclectic mix fits and each song definitely has a unique styling that...

With a little under two weeks until Christmas, I figured a holiday-centric song clocking in around two minutes would be a good fit for your stressed out red & green light schedule. If you dig this track, you can find...

Before San Francisco band Koalacaust broke up in October, they left us a few new releases of excellent well formulated material, namely the full length ‘Smiles Shine Like Broken Glass’ last August and the...

The song you are listening today comes a little late for Halloween, still we want you to meet Forrest Day. The rhythms of hip-hop provide a placemat for nervously melodic splendor and a melting pot of genres. What are we...

“Blue State”, the Downer Party’s second release this year and first 7″, is the perfect follow-up to their spring EP “Cities”. As an ongoing theme, much of the groups lyrics and...

Today marks our third feature of San Francisco based band Birdmonster here on the Network, with a spitfire of a track from their late 2009 release ‘Blood Memory’.  It was produced up at Hyde Street Studios by...

After spending the bulk of the past year on the road in support of last November’s excellent “Sports” LP on Slumberland Records, Weekend have also been hard at work on their followup record. Prior to...

Burbank International is the ongoing recording project of instrumentalist/producer H.A.Eugene, formerly of electronic duo The Luxury Tax, and bassist of the band Anderson Congress. Liquor Crush is a standout track from...

The Bay Area’s The Sea People are releasing a new EP called Ruins, and Lukka is a signature track from it. This is what they call they Bio of sorts: “With a sound that could be described as socially conscious...

1975, the song you are listening today is by The New Slave, the San Francisco, California, based band, also featured at Insomnia Radio: Daily Dose on 2009 July the 6th. Forget Progress, Return to Instinct is their new...

From their new EP Vaede Collider is a young San Francisco rock band. Named after large particle accelerators, Collider’s music revels in both the bombastic beauty of energy and more subtle moments of delicacy, like...

Within a grainy film-still between a summer sunset and the end of times lies the post-punk squall of Weekend. Weekend filter the aggression, tempo and sneer of punk through a wall of reverb, haunting melody, feedback and...

“Half-android, Ahye hides the formula for love in her still-human heart (the Oculons seek to destroy this, in order to extinguish life on earth forever!) Captain Braxton, her lost love, has been on another planet...

Tidelands is the duo of San Francisco’s Gabriel Montana Leis (Guitar, Flugelhorn, Vocals) and Mie Araki (Drums, Keyboards, Vocals). Sharp, poignant, poetic lyrics are uniquely arranged with looped guitars, Moog bass...

We sometimes describe often featured bands as “Network Favourites”, but to use that term for Oakland’s Sentinel is an understatement. Sentinel could justifiably be described as an Insomnia Radio House...

This is free single from San Francisco network favourites My First Earthquake, taken from their soon to be released (7th June) album Friction Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this...

Taking their name from a spiritual village in India, Dust of Vraj is a cultural presentation of east meets west in a musical style that’s cutting edge, incorporating classical Indian instruments, ancient Sanskrit...

Network favorites SENTINEL are back with their newest single JET BLACK, a beautiful dream-pop driven work of art written and inspired at the edges of the San Francisco Bay, in the Summer of 2010. What you get from...

San Francisco’s The Dodos have a new album set for release on March 15th called ‘No Color’, and their record company Frenchkiss are yet again teasing us with another great track. Neko Case apparently...

Febuary’s thirteen track show starts off in a comedic rock vein with some strong local tracks inspired by Tenacious D and even containing their rock-god DNA stamped all over them. From here we take you into a...

Over the course of their upcoming EP, “Why We Need Night” (Tricycle), The Union Trade follow the contours of proven terrain and map the outlines of an evolving sound. In moments throughout, the band strips away the...