Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk49.mp3] What’s in this episode The Drowners – Let Me Out GK & The Renegades – Out Of Control The Casuals –...

The Turn-ons have been performing in the Northwest, California and NY with bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre, British Sea Power, and Ulrich Schnauss, and tirelessly writing and recording new material over the past 8 years....

(VOTE us to play WARPED TOUR!) “A mix of Pop/New Wave rock and modern sound, Goodnight Glamour Good Morning Disaster, the debut release from NYC’s The Crash Moderns is full of catchy songs that will remain in...

Following up on the first all hip-hop episode here at Insomnia Radio back at the end of 2006 (#103 – He’s Playing WHAT???), we eagerly bring you sixteen high quality tracks from a wide selection of regional...

And now for a head-trip around the planetary systems. From the UK, experimental electronic duo OrtzRoka has been recently described as ‘half mental techno, half down tempo mint and water’ by Fluokids. I have no...

From their soon to be released EP, From Toronto, Make Your Exit, Quarters Check their Blog and Myspace for release details of the EP. I’ve heard it and can recommend it....

PHOTOSYNTHESIS is songs. They come on CDs and in digital files that you can download from the internet. Sometimes there are these performance things that are done using a microphone and a computer. Don’t come to these...

From their 2008 EP Race To the Bottom of the Sea A polychromatic vision filled with synthesizers and echoey guitar, this EP combines electro-dream rock with post-punk angularity and an indie sensibility, complete with...

Every story needs a soundtrack. Just ask Mike Getches of Fort Collins-based RIDE YOUR BIKE who penned an imaginative screenplay to serve as the foundation for his addictive brand of indie pop….as well as his...

From the album Postcard To My Sewing Circle – June 10 2008 The Delicious sing of social and dietary anxiety. The Delicious spin yarns of dramatic resurrection: wooing and courting soul-affirmation, the threat of...

You may be familiar with Brooklyn NY based singer-songwriter Mike Doughty through his work in the 90’s with the group Soul Coughing. In 2000 he broke up that band and toured the country selling 20,000 copies of his...

Since I had such a great time researching specific tracks of groups performing at Warped, I thought we’d throw an extra tape together highlighting another eighteen artists performing at the festival this year. Enjoy...

From the album Amian [From Portugal] Human Cycle began their cultural and musical performance in the year 2004. Influenced by different styles of musical and cultural matrix, the members of the group found in the heart...

Please enjoy the second part of our Insomnia is Warped Mixtape ’08 series, released a day after the Warped Tour opener. Apparently the festival debuted in oppressive triple digit temperatures in Pomona, CA – but...

The 2008 Warped Tour engine fires up today in Pomona, California (US) and the musicians invited will spend the majority of the summer nomadically performing across the country, storming toward the East Coast and then making...

Summer arrives early in the evening here in the US amongst floods, heatwaves, and spiralling oil prices. What better way to ring it all in then with Los Angeles indie psychrock band “Darker My Love” and their...

From their album The Adventures of You Me & Iowa The Adventures of You Me & Iowa is the second release from the California quintet You Me & Iowa. Recorded in July of 2007 at Rollercoaster Recording in...

Good grief. From Washington DC, Jukebox the Ghost sounds as if they took the musical torch from Vince Guaraldi, continuing with more contemporary sounding theme songs for Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang. Jukebox the...

Beginning in 1992 as a folk duo from Coos Bay, OR, the Densmore Bros. released 3 full length cassettes, 4 full length CDs, 1 EP, and multiple singles. For most of the 90’s they were based in Olympia, WA and became known...

  From their first EP, released on 16 June. Hear more from them on IR: UK #49 soon. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-satellitestate-plans.mp3] Links satellitestate.com Myspace Download from...

On May 21st 2005, Black Violin, two classically trained musicians, took home the title ‘2005 Apollo Legends’ which catapulted them to international fame. These two gentlemen, Kev Marcus and Wil B along with their...

[Note: this was originally attributed incorrectly to The Bastards of the Universe] Its Fathers Day. So… Bio: From Wikipedia.org: Established in Queens New York in 1985, Six and Violence is a musical group in the...

Today we present one of Boston, Massachusetts best kept secrets, This Car Up. Since our basketball team in LA is currently being spanked by Boston as I type this, I figured today was as good as any to pay tribute to the...

  King Vidor was formed in 2006 by poet-fist fighter Clem Coleman in Cherry Valley, NY, an enclave of hippy dreams put to pasture. Debut Album “Dirty Little Millionaire” was released in 2007, a...

Per listener request, today’s selection comes from the Los Angeles based solo project “The Orphan Factory” off the “Sketches, Demoes and Skeletons” collection. ‘Chinese Water Torture [For...

  “The Drowners are a three-piece based in North London, who formed in January 2007. They are a beautiful rage. They are a mirror for your self-disgust. They want to mean something. They want to change...

Leamington Spa band, previously under the name ‘Interloper’, changed to ‘The Carter Manoeuvre’ in 2005. Their music is a fusion of progressive rock mixed with the raw energy and experimental aspects from influences...

Born in a barn in rural Oxfordshire, England back in 2006 THE IDEA is now based in Los Angeles. Look out for new material and shows in California soon. New single “M.M.D.G” ep coming July 3rd...

After Stuart’s 45 minute in-flight entertainment programming, our plane touches down in the Far East… well… far enough east – New Jersey. We begin our journey diving fist first into the action with...

From their 2007 Corporate Records release comes a somewhat progressive stylized rock epic from Hollywood based four-piece, Canon. Don’t Trust the Teachers, seemingly loosely based on the 70s slogan of questioning...

  With their recent win in the 2007 Indy Music Scene Battle of Birdys and after being voted into Nuvos Best of 2007, The Last Good Year is poised and ready to release their debut album. Working with engineer Jon...

Out of the fifty odd groups I saw in Texas this last March, Blitzen Trapper certainly earned itself a well fought best-in-show on my swollen showcase spreadsheet. The picture I took here is from their performance at the...