The New Year was formed in the summer of 1999, has released three albums on Touch and Go Records – Newness Ends, in February 2001, The End is Near, in May 2004, and the just-released self-titled album The New Year in...

From their 2007 Album Funny Day Bird Mancini’s third and newest CD features 13 all new songs with lush vocal arrangements–performed entirely by Ruby Bird and Billy Carl Mancini–along with a plethora of...

They said, “Don’t go. Nothing in Bakersfield” From Savannah, Georgia – we welcome artist Dare Dukes back to the storied country & rock byways (Merle Haggard, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead) of the...

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Sarah Hethcoat has released her new EP “Nobody Likes a Bully” on October 27, 2008, produced by famed producer Dave Cobb (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chris Cornell). The track...

Here at The Socal Sessions, we have several containers full of musical goodness passed down from the Daily Dose feed that we will be slowly releasing into this stream over the next few months. Once new tracks are released on...

From Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, this is from their album Post-Apocalyptic Love, available to pre-order or free download from their Website theverysexuals.com or myspace.com/theverysexuals The Very...

Von Iva creates their own brand of music by combining breakbeat cool with a dance punk attitude. Imagine Tina Turner singing over hammering dance beats and layers of synths. These ladies are turning out new and exciting...

  From Santa Barbara, California, Never let you go is from their album The Enlightened Operative, available from the usual places, such as CD Baby and...

Our Christmas music selections end this year with a track by Maybe It’s Reno, a new band featuring Bridget Cross, formerly of DC bands Unrest, Velocity Girl, and Air Miami. The 2008 debut release on Teenbeat features...

  “Happy Holidays from the Toddies! We just recorded a quick song that we wanted to share with our friends and fans this...

XO Publicity, a small PR firm established in 2003, recently put out a free Holiday Sampler entitled “XO for the Holidays”, featuring a wealth of holiday themed songs from artists such as The Service Group, Paris...

Oakland dream-pop favorites Sentinel recently sent us a cover of Let it Snow, just in time for the holidays. Originally released in 1945 as “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”, it hit number one on the...

The Sleep is an alternative electronic band based in the American Midwest and consists of Laura Smith on vocals, Dave Eberhardt on guitars, and Neil Smith ..boards and electronics. Neil has been releasing self-produced...

While many artists are currently wrapping up projects for 2008, Connecticut based musician, Dylan Connor is pressing ahead into the new year with a new album on the front burners. We were just told by the MuseBox that Dylan...

  In their Bio they write: “If you’re a fan of Boys Like Girls and +44 then this album will definitely fill your hearts …” This might give you an idea of the music on the new album...

Home: London, UK Kev & The Rainpals record and produce fantastic music, perfect for film, tv, radio, etc, soundscape and emotional impact productions, with various styles of vocal songs and instrumental tracks, here...

From the Archives, enjoy the seventh volume of Scott Tinetti’s legendary The Best Music You’ve Never Heard. As always, if you like what you hear, buy a song, buy an album, send the musicians some...

STEVE WYNN TALKS ABOUT HIS 2008 RELEASE, “CROSSING DRAGON BRIDGE” “The days during my three weeks in Ljubljana were pretty simple. I would wake up early and leave my apartment on Trubarjeva Street and cross...

AMPED: Show #157 This week’s host: Pete Cogle from the PC Podcast Show: Music And Mumblings Song: Stogey (Spidersleg) Show: Insomnia Radio:UK Song: Reign of the Stupid (The Eisenhowers) Show: It’s A Frog’s...

After the unexpected deaths of his sister and father, Geographer founder Michael Deni left his hometown in New Jersey for San Francisco. He spent the next several months with his guitar and a synthesizer he found on the...

Hard, dark edged, apocalyptic Post Punk with provocative sex themes, biting social Commentary, and Bukowski-esk stories of excess and debauchery from an innovator of Post Punk Bruce (Ravens) Moreland. Moreland who co founded...

New album Somniloquy by the Endless will be released January 13, 2009. the Republic of Heaven was the first full-length release from husband-and-wife dreampop band the Endless. After two widely successful EPs, 2002s...

From Brooklyn, New York, this is from their 2008 EP Bedrooms,which you can download for free from their web site. New York-based pop band Xylos (a variation of the founder’s last name) began as Eric Zeiler’s lyrics....

For five years Point Juncture, WA has been a collaboration between four Portland, OR. songwriters, instrumentalists, recording engineers, and friends: Amanda Spring (vocals, drums) Victor Nash (keyboards, vocals) Skyler...

  Terramara is the brainchild of Minneapolis-based singer/songwriter/keyboardist Rob Meany, who formed the group in 1998. Over the last ten years the band has released three full-length albums and won numerous...

Deep Elm unleashes Sampler No. 8 “Bonfire Of Trust” with 16 songs from every killer new release in the catalog. “Expect to be impressed by a label that is the finest at what it does” says Jersey...

Soren Anders is from New York, and this is from his Album ‘I Know A Hundred Ways To Die’ The former frontman of critically acclaimed band Shimmerplanet now has a solo career. The new Anders songs are scored...

Alias’ first solo instrumental album in five years, one which finds the accomplished electro/acoustic musician and beat-smith returning to a proven foundation, while building all else anew. Alias’ most melodic work yet,...

Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, this is from their 2008 album Blood Red Tape There’s an old adage that says that good things come in threes, and that number has certainly found significance for independent...

We ran into Chris Otepka earlier this year in Austin performing under the pseudonym, The Heligoats. You may remember his previous band of six years – Troubled Hubble – played here in the past at Insomnia by past...

From London, UK – ZMG – from their 2007 album It Came From The Moon Found on The Podsafe Music Network, I was surprised from their Garage/Punk/Surf sound that this band is from London, UK. And any band that...

Insomnia Radio: UK #53 Another mix of seven songs we haven’t heard before, by UK artists who we have featured before on IR: UK. Includes an Insomnia Radio: UK Exclusive. Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in...