A selection of songs by UK artists featured on the Daily Dose last year. What’s in this episode The Travelling Band: Desolate Icicle The Modern Fighting Vehicles: Robot The Shipman Project: Cradle JJ...
The Whip: Trash
From Manchester in the UK, The Whip, from X Marks Destination. Who the hell is making important music in Manchester these days? Well, The Whip, for starters. Just ask the Parisians who run Kitsun Records, a taste-making...
Insomnia Radio: Doub...
Welcome to the first in the new series of Double Shots, this one is celebrating the longevity of Prog Rock, with a distinctly Floydian theme. And this is dedicated to the memory of Richard Wright RIP and sadly missed,...
Darla Farmer: Big Ac...
Playfully drawing their name from that of a simple Nashville bank teller, Darla Farmer is an eccentric 7-piece carnival-rock band that manages to gracefully shatter genre borders in ways that even the most critical of...
Muddy Suzuki: D-Punk...
From his second Album Meetoo, from London in the UK, Muddy Suzuki Artist Bio Damo Waters is a person who likes to make sounds. Muddy Suzuki is the name he uses for his personal endeavours, but he also plays with many...
Wintersleep: Oblivio...
Indie darlings Wintersleep are wasting no time making 2009 another memorable year. This week the band climbs to #26 on CMJ’s Top 200 chart with their critically acclaimed third album Welcome To The Night Sky. This...
CHOO CHOO: A little ...
From Bern in Switzerland, the band first came to our attention on Twitter CHOO CHOO is bringing „the garage“ back into Pop Music. Drawing influences from 60-ies Teenage Beat, Soul, and Pop to today’s Garage...
Insomnia Radio #160:...
An overdue Insomnia-laden journey has left us saddle-sore as we have traveled long and far these last few months in order to document a motley assortment of musicians. We uncovered them amongst the wild trappers of...
AMPed New Music Week...
AMPED: Show #163 This week’s host: Graham Holland from the It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: She Ain’t Me (Carrrie Rodriguez) Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Meander...
Emanuel & The F...
With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with extravagant...
Obscured By Clouds: ...
From the just-released album “Psycheclectic” by Portland Oregan Band Obscured By Clouds Obscured By Clouds steps out from behind all veils, preconceptions, or limitations here. This new music is a very...
Said the Whale: This...
Already having achieved some major feats including a YouTube featured video with nearly 300,000 views, Said The Whale is one of those bands that only continues to build off its previous successes. One-part Brian Wilson,...
Gaia Epicus: A Hero ...
From the Norwegian band’s just released 4th album “Damnation” About Gaia Epicus [MySpace] Gaia Epicus 2001 – The band has been around since 1992, but have changed music style and members many...
IR SoCal: Local Dail...
Over the course of several nights, this IR coffee-fiend powered through multiple cups of caffeine in order to bring you the following local tracks on our Daily Dose feed, amongst scores of others great tracks from outside...
IR: UK #54
Insomnia Radio: UK in association with Deuce Management & Promotion, presents… Insomnia Radio: UK #54 What’s in this episode Worldview – One Rule For You Breaking Rome – Learning...
Arms Entwined: Suici...
Taking their name from a lyric in the U2 song “New Years Day”, San Diego indie rock trio Arms Entwined is on the verge of releasing their debut EP, “Tell Them I Sent You”, in early 2009. This is the...
L’Avventura: H...
From their soon to be released (Feb. 15, 2009) album “Your Star Was Shining” Listening to this song, it’s hard to believe L’Avventura is a 7-piece from San Francisco – although it comes as no...
Esquimaux: In the Ni...
Baltimore & Silverlake based collaboration Esquimaux is back with their second EP “Wolf” within the animal named EP set of Tiger and Wolf; the track “In the Night” placed on this upcoming project,...
Dark Souls Day: Fain...
From Thessaloniki, Greece I believe they are the first Greek band to be featured on Insomnia Radio, Dark Souls Day are: Nikos: bass, guitar, vocals, drums, piano, lyrics, recording (everything) Pepi: lyrics,...
A Sunday Honeymoon: ...
From Odense, Denmark, A Sunday Honeymoon is: MIKAEL (voice) ANDERS (guitar) ESBEN (guitar/harmonica) RASMUS (bass) ANDERS (drums) JEPPE (guitar/synth) Currently taking over the charts at Garageband after consistently being...
Letters Burning: Str...
From the soon to be released album Attracted To Disaster. Long term Insomnia Radio favorites Letters Burning from Los Angeles are releasing their 6 track (+ 2 bonus tracks) album Attracted To Disaster in February, and...
Pedestrian: Go
Los Angeles based band-to-watch, Pedestrian recently released their fourth endeavor entitled “Sidegeist”, a follow up to their two EPs in 2003 and first full length in 2006 called “Ghostly Life”. The...
The Outer Vibe: Anyb...
From Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, and from their 2006 release The Games We Play. The Outer Vibe is the revival of rock and roll’s classic power and free thinking soul. The high energy 5 piece group uses...
IR Superfeed unavail...
Update The Superfeed is available on a different link which is http://feedproxy.feedburner.com/irsuperfeed It does not have all the posts in it yet, we’re working on it. The Insomnia Radio Superfeed RSS Feed is...
El Chavo: The Heat (...
One of the network’s favorite hip-hop artists, Psyche Origami is back with a new track produced by El Chavo, a reggae DJ and producer from Allela Spain, a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. El Chavo is the host...
BJ Block: The Colori...
From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and from the 2008 release Glitterball. BJ block started in music studying classical piano at age 8. At 15 he received his first electric guitar, a love affair that would later...
AMPed New Music Week...
Mon, 12 January 2009 AMPED: Show #161 This week’s host: Rich Palmer from Audio Gumshoe Show: Cowboy Cantor Song: Back Yard Baby (Rickolus) Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Water (Deep 6 Holiday) Show: Insomnia Radio Song:...
Thunder Power: Take ...
If you are ever in Omaha Nebraska and find yourself hitching, perhaps you will be picked up by lead singer, Kacynna Tompsett of indie pop six-piece Thunder Power, and just maybe you will be driven to a fantasy locale such as...
Jack and Four Men: N...
From Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, the first Indonesian Band on Insomnia Radio “The name of our band is JACK AND FOUR MEN. we are the indie band from Bandung, Indonesia which is the third most country (definitely...
Hippocampus: Razor B...
Hippocampus is the moniker of Sioux Falls, SD native Tom Weismantel. The hippocampus is also part of the forebrain, and plays major roles in short term memory and spatial navigation. Interesting, no? The former version...
Eureka Birds: Now Th...
From their self-titled album. To write a long and detailed review of this album would be pointless, because honestly the songs speak for themselves. Remarkably it’s their debut album, which beggars belief because...
Bloomsday Rising: He...
Released under a Creative Commons License, San Franciso’s Bloomsday Rising is back with their 2008 release “Unlocked” a five song EP, issued completely free, under the “pay what you want”, guilt...