Episode number 75 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is the last of three retrospectives, ten of the best tracks from shows 51 to 72 in 2008 and 2009 Recording Date: Saturday 31 Oct 2009 TRT:...

Happy Halloween from the regional army of zombie programmers at Insomnia Radio. When a chilly breeze starts wrestling the leaves to the ground, and carefully carved pumpkins take on an eerie glow, you can be sure the...

‘Colossal’ is the title track from Seattle-based folker Levi Fuller’s third full length album. An uptempo, cheery yet laid-back dose of acoustic folk. With subdued, singalong-able vocals and specs of...

Some Garage Punk for you today, from Burlington, VT PERSIAN CLAWS formed August 2008 in Burlington, VT. They are a Garage Punk band with Female vocals inspired by 60’s garage rock & cinema, 70’s punk and...

PLANK (formerly Plank63) was formed in the Fall of 2000 in Boston, and today we felt like zipping back to 2004 to showcase a quality track called ‘Patchwork’ by this Massachusetts based group. With the release of...

From Oakland, CA, Saviours deliver a sharp burst of shredding, riffing metal for today’s Daily Dose with ‘We Roam’, from their newest album Accelerated Living. “Saviours have made the necessary...

AMPed: Show #202 This week’s host: Rowley from The DarkCompass Podcast Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Icarus (Christopher Schreiner) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: End Of Us (The Perfects) Show: Cowboy Cantor Song:...

From the album House To House on Spark And Shine...

This Will Destroy You are an instrumental quartet from the great state of Texas who play a cascading brand of cinematic rock music. The band is made up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bass player Donovan Jones...

The Title Track from their new Album. See the video over there ——————————–> Rep By Pop are a power pop trio playing infectious, danceable, synth/guitar...

From Where Did All My People Go “The next big thing out of the Windy City… raging and carnal… a nervous breakdown on the dance floor” [IODA] TPC are Scott Lucas, Blake Smith and Mike...

Episode number 74 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is the second of three retrospectives, ten of the best tracks from shows 34 to 50 in 2007 and 2008 Recording Date: Thursday 22 Oct 2009 TRT:...

As indicated by a recent trip to Chicago’s Electrical Audio Studio (owned by Nirvana/The Pixies mastermind Steve Albini), Chicago band SLEEPING AT LAST have once again upped the artistic ante in this ambitious,...

It’s almost Halloween, and that means it’s time for Insomnia Radio Horrorlando! This year’s installment is a mixtape of some favorites from the last three years’ worth of Halloween episodes....

A single from their upcoming album Heave yer Skeleton to be released November 2009 Cleveland duo mr. Gnome launched a lengthy U.S. tour 1st October that will keep them on the road until late December. The trek is in...

If you have a minute free, would you consider voting for Insomnia Radio: UK at the Podcast Directory Podcast Alley please? In the last week we’ve got into the top twenty Music Podcasts as voted for by listeners, and...

From their debut self-titled album, this is ‘Devil’ from Montreal-based band Beast, who are playing various venues this week in NYC for the CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival. “It’s hard to tell you...

Podcrawl 4 is confirmed for November 21st in London. Be sure to come, details can be found at the Facebook event page, or visiting the Podcrawl Blog. People will be twittering with the hashtag #podcrawl, and we’d like to...

Podcrawl 4 is confirmed for November 21st in London. Be sure to come, details can be found at the Facebook event page, or visiting the Podcrawl Blog. People will be twittering with the hashtag #podcrawl, and we’d like to...

AMPed: Show #201 This week’s host: Colin Gazeley from the Ourobouros Podcast Show: Audio Gumshoe Song: Footsteps (Will Mendenhall) Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Shrug It Off (F&M) Show: The DarkCompass Podcast Song:...

The Lovely Feathers started out, as most of many do, as a band in a bedroom in an old apartment in Montreal.  Shortly after being signed to Equator Records, they embarked on a sixty-three day North American Tour opening for...

From Boston, MA, The Lights Out are: Rishava Green (lead vocals, guitar) Jesse James (drums, vocals) Adam Ritchie (lead guitar, vocals) Matt King (bass, vocals) The quartet cranks out the perfect soundtrack to a bank...

[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/irdetroit30.mp3] IR Detroit is finally back, and bringing you a great interview with an incredible singer/songwriter, Vince Smith! Subscribe here! Download MP3 Don’t forget to...

We’ve got some Saturday morning Americana for you today folks, from Iowa collective She Swings, She Sways. Taken from their 2008 album Wasted Love Songs, this is ‘What I Wouldn’t Do’. “The...

If you are familiar with Akron/Family, you will know they are a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and its members currently live in New York City and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. All of the band...

From their album Lay It On Me Transformation. Rebirth. Renewal. The Vancouver vagabonds formerly known as The Smokes have charted something of a non-traditional course over their half-decade of existence. The beginning?...

AMPed: Show #200 – Part 2 This show’s host: Alan Carr from Darkhorse Radio Show: Audio Gumshoe Song: Set the Music Free (Geoff Smith) Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: Becoming (The Brilliant Mistakes) Show: The...

From their upcoming album Shape of the Shape, due for release on 27th October 2009. “On their Sophomore release, The Shape of the Shape, Manchester, England’s Starless & Bible Black have drawn together the...

On this day – October 13th, skilled troubadour Harper Simon, who adeptly utilizes the fabled vocal gift inherited from his father Paul Simon, releases his debut album to the world – 10 tracks paying tribute to the...

AMPed: Show #200 – Part 1 This show’s host: Rodrigo from Cowboy Cantor Show: Cowboy Cantor Song: Estranha (Goma) Show: Erk FM Song: Dosi Do (Julie The Band) Show: Suffolk And Cool Song: Struttin’...

From their debut full length album Labor & Lust From San Pedro, California, The Littlest Viking are: Christopher Patrick Gregory- Drum solos/What? Ruben Jesse Cortez- Guitar/delusions of grandeur   We...

Today’s Daily Dose comes to you from an unlikely source: the depths of the music section of Reddit.com. Jack James, of Glasgow, Scotland posted a link to his self-recorded album Lights Off, Headphones On and it caught...