Surfer Blood are from West Palm Beach, Florida and surprisingly recorded these tracks in a Florida Atlantic residence hall where John Paul Pitts was attending college.  The group’s debut album, Astro Coast was...

Free, creative commons piano rock from Austin’s Fulton Read. But there’s more to today’s Daily Dose than just a title… Austin’s Fulton Read are on a mission to promote the Creative Commons...

Episode number 80 of Insomnia Radio UK. Back to the old format for this one. Seven tracks by UK artists and one guest artist. Recording Date: Friday 29 January 2010 TRT: 40:00 Rating: Work...

From their album Dreams In Formaline to be released Feb 16, 2010 on Artoffact Records From the small Croatian town of Umag come four piece metal outfit Omega Lithium. The band’s figurehead is 19-year-old vocalist Mya...

Italy’s A CLASSIC EDUCATION is back, with a tour to the states in March for SXSW – a repeat performance and momentum gathering session to properly start off 2010 after last year’s CMJ highlight. The Bologna...

Baltimore post-rockers …soihadto... are releasing their debut LP, Adventure Stories (Not Based on Fact?), through Grape Juice Records on February 2nd, 2010.  Pre-orders for the album are currently available...

Retribution Gospel Choir is a rock trio founded in 2007, featuring Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker,...

Jason locks into his classic groove (which is to say he’s overly verbose and kinda silly) with 10 killer tracks, and…Not one, but TWO major announcements the likes of which we haven’t heard since those...

I was thrilled to find myself some Frightened Rabbit on IODA tonight, after falling in love with their melancholy tune “Backwards Walk” in 2008. Read up about them, go support them, and get yourself some or all...

Currently working on their fourth studio album Opus, this is a taster of what is to come It’s been seven years since The Kellys entered their first stage of evolution. Birthed out of the desire to create powerful,...

Chris Otepka is back again with his post-Troubled Hubble project THE HELIGOATS, whom we last visited a few short years back with the track ‘Been a Drill’ from 2008’s EP ‘The End of All...

We have a special Daily Dose for you today to promote Nottingham/London based band M1 Connect, who have scored a gig next Friday (29th Jan) supporting a DJ set from the legendary Paul Hartnoll of Orbital! It’s at The...

Episode number 79 of Insomnia Radio UK. Three songs each by two UK Artists Recording Date: Thu 21 Jan 2010 TRT: 34:06 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk79.mp3] Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in...

From Sydney Australia, ISAAC GRAHAM is a singer/songwriter type who grew up on punk rock but now likes country, folk and punk rock and records his music with a Tascam 8-Track with a cheap microphone and attempts to...

From their just released album Eggs (Friendly Fire Recordings)   Oh No Ono is an experimental pop quintet from the tiny Danish town of Aalborg. Their music, intricate and otherworldly, defies conventions and...

From Los Angeles, indie rock band STARS DON’T SLEEP have just released their new EP featuring the title track “In the Daylight”, which tells the story of a disoriented East Coast kid squinting cautiously at...

The title track from his soon to be released (March 2010) album The Lucky Ones is the second album from NYC resident Doug Keith. The material on The Lucky Ones ranges from the acoustic starkness of “We Left...

Remember Pink Floyd’s “The Wall?” To many, self included, a start-to-finish listening session could leave you teetering on the edge of depression. Well friends, the Eels upcoming album “End...

Toronto indie pop outfit THE GHOST IS DANCING just recently springboarded off the release off of 2007’s “The Darkest Spark” with their newest indie rock offering which was issued last April, “Battles...

From the album Aloneluna – a free download from the links below Mezzamo is a new wave / indie pop band from Tver, Russia. Formed in 2006, Mezzamo has to date released a Russian-language album...

Episode number 78 of Insomnia Radio UK. Recording Date: Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 TRT: 29:18 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk78.mp3] Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes | Subscribe to The...

Brooklyn, New York “sissy-pop” band THE BALLET released their new album called “Bear Life” this past year, a follow up to 2006’s “Mattachine!” We don’t know too much about these guys...

Some lo-fi melancholic indie pop from The Boombox Hearts who are based in Hovedstaden, Denmark The Band members are: Ivan Petersen – Vocals & Guitar Ida Tommerup – Vocals & Bass Steffen Christensen...

In early 2008, San Francisco’s LOVELIKEFIRE signed to Heist or Hit records and went into Tiny Telephone studios in their hometown with producer Bill Racine (Mates of State, Rogue Wave) to record their full-length...

Over the course of the last several months I happened to find myself being subliminally spoon fed a few raw acoustic stylized tracks by Arkansas based group NAMASKAR, an experimental duo who really doesn’t have too...

From their album Ruth released 12 Jan 2010 on Orange Twin Records Nana Grizol is a rock band from Athens, Ga. The band formed in the beginning of 2007 and in 2008 released their first album “Love It, Love...

Previously from the Orlando area, singer-songwriter Levi Conner and his band MILLION YEAR ECHO recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY – where they apparently picked up a new drummer. I haven’t seen too much...

There’s something appealing about Cousins, a new quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, but it takes patience to discover that appeal. After listening to several cuts from their debut album, I was disappointed with the...

From Realize the Ghost, their full-length album just out on Tricycle Records. Silver Swans are named for a group of super-villains in the Wonder Woman comics. The evil Swans have the ability to create powerful sound...

Episode number 77 of Insomnia Radio UK. Kind-of an IR: UK Triple Shots. Three songs each by two UK Bands Recording Date: Thursday 07 Jan 2010 TRT: 30:55 Rating: NOT Work Safe (NSFW) Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in...

Like any good San Francisco band, OR, THE WHALE partially owes its inception to the online bulletin board service Craigslist; at one point, Robins and Matt Sartain (guitar and vocals) posted an ad titled “Wanna Form a...

From the album Phi on Fuzzorama Records, Truckfighters’ second full length album. Truckfighters are from Örebro in Sweden. When Truckfighters were formed back in the days of 2000 they had a bunch of musical...