Toronto’s THE HIDDEN CAMERAS are the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joel Gibb.  “In The NA” was the first single taken from The Hidden Cameras latest symphonic pop masterpiece ‘Origin:...

Some retro sounding 70s influenced Rock on the Daily Dose today. Best of all, the album The NotreMonde Demos by Los Angeles’ Echoes de Luxe is available as a free download from Bandcamp For those who miss the era...

The rock trio Miggs will be releasing its fifth album, “Wide Awake,” on May 18, 2010, via Rock Ridge Music. The first album to feature drummer Ryan Scarbrough (who joined vocalist/guitarist Don Miggs and bassist...

Some 80’s tinged electro-pop on the Daily Dose today. Taken from the EP “Pt.III” released May 10th on af-music as a limited edition CD or Download In the darkest woods in Sweden there’s a small...

When Jason Davis and Daniel Walker met at an archaeological research site in Eastern Washington, little did they know how strikingly similar the paths that led to their convergence were. Both endured childhoods spent...

The scatterbrained, deconstructionist folk-rock created by Ohtis is a study in contrasts. Crisp, serene strings and soothing vocal melodies flank intense layers of instrumentation and harmony, like a more deliberate and less...

The Title track from Open Hand’s new album on Anodyne Records California’s Open Hand is your modern alt/rock band with stony guitars and a heavy beat. But you can expect to hear playful female vocals,...

Welcome to episode 1 of Insomnia Radio Australia! Hosted by Erk from Channel Erk, Insomnia Radio: Australia is dedicated to bringing you a wide range of indie music from across Australia. Produced in Sydney, if the music is...

Real Estate is a band from New Jersey, now based in Brooklyn, N.Y. The band has roots in the Garden State and they’re led by singer/guitarist Martin Courtney and feature guitarist Matthew Mondanile (the latter known to...

From their recently released self-titled EP Conceived by songwriters Donna Jay Rubin and Chris Schadler upon Rubin’s return from the West coast, Fists of Love began as a three-piece joined by drummer Mathew Arnold...

In a music scene where shock-poppers, like Lady Gaga, and girl rockers, like Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, attract so much (too much?) public attention, it’s refreshing to once again hear an honest-to-goodness hard...

From 2004 to 2009, Todd Goldstein wrote music under the name ARMS, playing most of the instruments himself and recording them in his bedroom in the moments between playing guitar in his main band at the time,...

From the album Chamberlain Waits out now on Red Scare After releasing an especially lauded EP and touring much of 2009, Philadelphia’s Menzingers have been dubbed a “Band You Need To Know” in 2010 by...

Episode number 84 of Insomnia Radio UK. Twice The Answer (To Life, The Universe, And Everything) Recording Date: Saturday 17 April 2010 TRT: 51:20 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk84.mp3] Download...

Household Names is a four-piece alternative pop band from Austin, Texas, featuring vocalist and guitarist, Jason Garcia, bassist Chris Peters, guitarist Eric Roberts, and drummer Joey Spivey. The band will self-release its...

From their album Sunrise, released 27 April on Strange Attractors For the past ten years, Austin, TX instrumentalists My Education have splashed their cinematic sound all over the great silver screen that is the Central...

90s indie noise rock band POLVO is back after a farewell tour in 1998, having re-signed to Merge Records and released a new album ‘In Prism’ on 9/8/09. Here are some comments from the Merge site that sum it up...

From their debut album, released 20 April on Bird Song Recordings Bird Song Recordings presents the self-titled debut album from Painted Hills, led by former Beachwood Sparks guitarist, singer & songwriter Josh...

Kimmi’s batting first and furious this time bringing some great metal tracks along, including the David Shankle Group and Nekropsy.  I’m combating the evil spirits with some flowery indie pop from Iowans The Nadas...

Nashville’s Shotgun Lover recently got a pretty amazing endorsement: Paste Magazine’s Steve LaBate loves the band so much he’s decided to manage them! We’ve got a killer track from the band, some...

When fans lined up to see the sold-out Bon Iver performances at New York City’s Town Hall in late 2008, few of them went with any expectations of the opening act. But the audience that night, and on every other night of...

From the Album “im not as good at it as you” S is Jenn Ghetto, co-leader of sorely missed Carissa’s Wierd. The songs on her new album are shining with Ghetto’s singular ability to write lyrics...

I had recently promised you all more Wisconsin-based rock over on my Twitter account after realizing that we were sorely lacking in showcasing the home state in which our trademark java is sent out to the masses for...

A little more than a week away from his second album release on April 20th – Chapel Hill based bartender by night and songwriter by day, WESLEY WOLFE has apparently been writing great songs you’ve never heard.....

The title track from her recently released album Toronto’s Jessica Stuart has hit her groove – while the surging rhythms are clearly rooted in the improvisational give-and-take of modern jazz and progressive...

What’s not to like in a band with a lead song on Last.FM entitled ‘Lullaby for Insomniacs’? Well anyway, it takes at least a crate full of horse tranquilizers to put us to sleep here on the network, so we...

From their fifth full-length release, the double album In, Out, About, which arrives more than two years since the release of their last album Another Year in Philadelphia (2007) Started in 1998 [by Costas Nakassis] as...

Based out of Minneapolis, MN – THE KING AND THE THIEF brings a refreshing blend of ambient rock music to the land of 10,000 lakes. Since the release of their 2008 EP of wounds and blessings, the band (under the name...

It’s finally happened, we’ve pushed the reset button and the ol’ machine’s finally back up and runnin’.  Woohoo! Kimmi and Justin are on board this week with eleven great tracks for y’all, from in and around our...

From the fifth release Cracked Maps and Blue Reports of New Orleans based Rotary Downs Rotary Downs is currently rolling out its spanking new collection of songs, Cracked Maps & Blue Reports , with a nationwide...

Hailing from Groningen (The Netherlands), The Black Atlantic is an acoustic pop quartet, formed around singer-songwriter and former Shai Hulud frontman, Geert van der Velde. With an ambient feel that tickles the nerves of...

From their Debut Album Sand Kitzu is a Jerusalem-based alt-experimental band, which rapidly establishing itself as one of the most interesting and captivating bands to emerge in the local scene in recent years. During...