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The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse is an alternative indie folk artist from the Scottish Highlands. While primarily a solo artist, he also performs with a backing band called The Wat Wat Kings. Previous to becoming The...

Pinact are my new favorite gratuitously-noisy and mind-spinningly fast two-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland; basically high school friends [Corrie Gillie and Lewis Reynolds] putting together some really great...

Glaswegian four-piece Verse Metrics bring you the free download single ‘Aches’. In August 2012 the band recorded 5 new tracks with engineer Jamie Savage at Chem19 studios. These tracks will make up Verse...

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...

Scotland’s Tango in the Attic have released the free download track Paw Prints, taken from their second album Sellotape that released on the 23rd of April. Sellotape is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2010...

The Moth & The Mirror have been proclaimed as a Scottish supergroup, comprising of members taken from an array of Scottish talent including: Stacey Sievwright from The Reindeer Section and Arab Strap (vocals/guitar),...

I must admit that Scotland has been topping my personal list of favorite music scenes over the course of the last few years, not to mention Sweden and San Francisco, with nods to dozens of others. Perth Scotland really...

From Glasgow,Scotland, the band you are listening today is called Galleries. They play epic and beautiful electronic guitar based pop songs. Their second single Young Wounds has now been released as a free download at the...

Vessels & Veins is the second EP from Scottish post-rock monsters Penguins Kill Polar Bears. Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut EP Dawn in June 2010, the band have been busy building their...

Today we take a look at a new acoustic release by Kilsyth, Scotland’s ‘The Twilight Sad’. The band actually got their start playing a few gigs in Glasgow, creating half hour pieces of music that...

Admiral Fallow is a stunning new group, formerly known as Brother Louis Collective, born in 2007 and gathered round the precocious talent of the young foot-stamping, faintly maniacal singer/song-writer Louis Abbott....

From their album All Creatures Will Make Merry on Song, by Toad Records All Creatures Will Make Merry is the second full length release by Edinburgh’s Meursault, who formed a few years ago when Neil Pennycook...

The title track from their album We featured Best Foot on the Ground by Edinburgh’s Callel back in November on the Daily Dose, and Insomnia Radio: UK. To mark the official release of the album, they have made...

Scottish band THERE WILL BE FIREWORKS are currently putting the finishing touches to their second album (due for release in 2010). Last month the band spent a day at Stonehaven’s Old Mill Studios to cut “In Excelsis...

For a long while here at Insomnia Radio we’ve been missing a forum for properly presenting the live tracks that we come across, and those few acoustic tracks that fall by the wayside and don’t get the...

From their album Body Discovery on Aardvark Records Some infectious Scottish Indie Pop from Edinburgh’s Callel. Why do we keep returning to Scotland for the Daily Dose? Just listen to find out.   Callel...

Night Noise Team’s first single ‘MENOLICK’ will be released on 30th November. It will be available on download only from iTunes and www.permwhale.com The band consists of Sean Ormsby from Belfast on...

AMPed: Show #199 This week’s host: Dave from The Bugcast Show: The Bugcast Song: Get On The Bus (Q*Ball) Show: Insomnia Radio Song: Black Wax (Dananananaykroyd) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: House Of Frauds (Dead...

From Glasgow in Scotland. From The Eisenhowers latest album ‘Film your own atrocities’, we thought that this would be a good song to mark the 40th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon....

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...

Formed in Scotland in 2006, the fight pop six piece, Dananananaykroyd just released their Black Wax single on March 22 and previous to that – the Pink Sabbath single which we’ve featured here today. NPR has...

Causing widespread panic and dancing since the turn of the century, Bombskare are Scotland’s heaviest export Known for their high energy live shows, they take their influences from Rage Against The Machine to...

Every year the fine folk at over at IODA Promonet host a nice party over at the South by SouthWest Music Festival in Austin. Repeating the fine lineup from last year, IODA has once again put together a great cross...

From Glasgow in Scotland. The Eisenhowers latest album ‘Film your own atrocities’ is now available. Anyone who buys the album through the band website (www.eisenhowers.co.uk) will get a free mini-album...

From Scottish band The Twilight Sad, Cold Days From the Birdhouse opens with a reoccurring piano ping, steadfastly continuing throughout a majority of the song up until it ultimately tapers off in the end. We know its...

From Selkirk Scotland, we are happy to dish out another track by Frightened Rabbit off The Midnight Organ Fight – the first single from the April release, called Head Rolls Off. The Rabbit have a live album coming...

Todays shortish themed session focuses in on Rob Crow, a San Diego resident who has worked and collaborated with countless quality local groups, and the number counter keeps spinning. Not only do we feature a track from...

Ho Ho Hooooooo! Welcome to Insomnia Radio: New Zealand and Merry Christmas to all. Tonight I have for you a varied collection of songs to get you into the Christmas mood. This is a no talking show, just some great...

Welcome to a very special Insomnia Radio: New Zealand Podcast – Which I have decided to step into doing my first ever Band Interview. As some of you may know I currently reside in Glasgow, Scotland and to cut a...

After ditching a hideous daily commute to work, we start of this short segment with an ode from ‘The Techno Squirrels’ to being stuck on SoCal’s 405 Freeway huffing smog…or any freeway in general for...