Cattle Arithmetic, the debut album from Los Angeles based Ballerina Black released globally on January 1st, 2010 and features the excellent lead-off track ‘Leaves’ that we are bringing you today. Aside from two...

Here at the Azores islands we are already feeling Spring, but Winter is still there. So, opening this show there is a fantastic track to listen next to someone you really like, or alone next to a fireplace. I’ll tell...

Papermaps‘ self-titled debut album is coming out April 19th. This is a stand-out track from the ten track full-length. Canadian band, Papermaps is a Toronto-based rock quartet formed by producer/songwriter Dean Marino...

San Francisco’s The Dodos have a new album set for release on March 15th called ‘No Color’, and their record company Frenchkiss are yet again teasing us with another great track. Neko Case apparently...

The sound of Uppsala, Sweden’s cult-beloved Jeniferever is often described in epic terms: majestic, soaring, atmospheric, careening, sweeping. This is the second free track from their third album, titled Silesia, to...

Solvents are a “folk art rock pop” group from the Olympic Peninsula in the great state of Washington. Jarrod Bramson, main songwriter for the group,has managed to write, record and produce seven albums in about...

Carl Mendes is a singer-songwriter from Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, and he was named Song Poet by Willy Schwenken, a german manager and editor, who have wroked with musicians such as Tony Maude, Wizz Jones, Eric Bogle,...

Welcome to episode 12 of Insomnia Radio Australia!  It’s hard to believe that it is the end of February and nearly the end of the Australian summer already! This month, Erk brings you a range of artists from around...

A 6-piece baroque pop band from Portland, Oregon, Sunbeam is the brainchild of music producer Brian Hall. The typical sentiment in modern folk music might be one of melancholy and withdrawal, but Sunbeam aims to evoke, as...

Bournemouth, UK 5 piece band Rapids! formed in August 2009 and released their first 3 track, self titled EP a few months later in November. It was limited to just 200 copies and containing their earliest songs; Maps, Void...

After taking last summer to record new music, Los Angeles based Letting Up Despite Great Faults, has hit the road again this month. Joining Future Sound’s Rumble Tour, the band played a string of FREE west coast dates...

Generationals is the New Orleans duo of Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner, a project formed after their previous group, the Eames Era, disbanded. After their debut for Park the Van in 2009 called Con Law, they came back together...

Their fourth full-length studio album, Hope & Ruin, due on Bumstead Records on April 12, is a level-raising evolution for the Toronto-based rock band with two gold records, ten top-10 singles and 800-plus concerts...

Named after a vintage Gretsch bass drum pedal, Floating Action is the pseudonym of Black Mountain, North Carolina-based musician, songwriter, and producer Seth Kauffman. Following the 2007 homemade gem Research (released...

DW Void members are not new in the portuguese music scene. In the late 80’s and beginning of the 90’s bands like K4 Quadrado Azul, Aix-La-Chapelle and specially Essa Entente marked the musical scene that time....

Folly and the Hunter arrives with their debut record Residents. Available March 5th 2011. Recorded in a shared practice space in Montreal s storied Mile End neighbourhood, Folly and the Hunter s debut album Residents is at...

Cutting through the romantic sap straight to the more explicit underpinnings of Valentines Day, we present to you the newest single by Vancouver’s Apollo Ghosts, recently offered up for free on their Facebook page. ...

Febuary’s thirteen track show starts off in a comedic rock vein with some strong local tracks inspired by Tenacious D and even containing their rock-god DNA stamped all over them. From here we take you into a stretch...

Episode number 92 of Insomnia Radio: UK Eight great tracks from UK artists Recording Date: Sunday 13th February 2011 TRT: 45:20 Rating: Mostly Work Safe (a couple of Fs in the third...

Great things take time and Voxhaul Broadcast is set to release their long-awaited debut full-length, Timing Is Everything on March 22, 2011. Voxhaul Broadcast are performing at Noise Pop in San Francisco in February w/ Yo...

Peace Signs is the first single via Mistletone from Sharon Van Etten’s new album Epic, releasing in Australia March 11. Sharon came to her current residence of Brooklyn via Jersey via Tennessee via Jersey. Along the...

The members of the band Batwings Catwings hail from all over the US and converge upon the wasteland of Southern California to give underground dwellers a reason to shake and sweat. Comprised of members from some of LA’s...

Released on January 25th via Arts & Crafts , TRE3S, the new album by Mexico City’s Chikita Violenta, was recorded on three sporadic trips to Canada throughout a year and a half (2009-2010). Many recognized...

Dear Leader’s 4th album, Stay Epic captures the band in rare form. Singer Aaron Perrino delivers his best work on this recording, with standout performances on Barbarians and Empires. Produced by Paul Kolderie...

The first weekend of February 2011 saw 25 bands descend on the Lucky Australian Tavern at St Marys in Sydney’s greater west in order to raise funds for victims of the recent widespread floods in Queensland. Jointly...

From Ventriloquizzing, the eighth album released since they formed in 2000. Fujiya & Miyagi are a four piece band from Brighton on the South coast of England. They are self-described as being heavily influenced by...

We recently heard Northampton, Mass band DARLINGSIDE’s song Catbird Seat on another blog and realized that we had to immediately look into their catalog, which at the moment consists of a debut EP. Luckily the band...

Brooklyn-based band The Shondes released the latest single from their My Dear One album in November in the form of an EP. “Lines & Hooks +3” contains the title track culled from the band’s second album along with...

Formed at the University of Manchester about five years back, The Answering Machine have their newest effort, LIFELINE coming out Feb. 21, released a few short years after their ’09 debut album Another City, Another...

Over the course of their upcoming EP, “Why We Need Night” (Tricycle), The Union Trade follow the contours of proven terrain and map the outlines of an evolving sound. In moments throughout, the band strips away the epic...

Today brings us a group with a distinctive sonic palette, specifically chosen for the occasion of the Chinese New Year. We’re happy to cue up a live track from the hypnotizing orchestral group from Shanghai, Cold...

Norton are a portuguese band from Castelo Branco. They have been around for almost ten years, and in these last months we heard a lot about them in Portugal, due to their rock version of Pump Up the Jam. Remember...