The Deer Tracks is David Lehnberg & Elin Lindfors from the small village of Gävle in the Swedish countryside. After their critically acclaimed 2008 debut album, “Aurora” released and excessive touring...
IR: Australia #13 ...
posted by Erk
Welcome to episode 13 of Insomnia Radio Australia! It has been a busy month at the Channel Erk studio with a lot of music coming in Erk’s direction. To celebrate episode 13 (lucky for some!), let’s celebrate...
Norton: Two Points
posted by Rodrigo
Layers of Love United, the new album by the portuguese band Norton, is the face of a new era for the band. Their goal was to create an album with songs. Not just tracks. Songs you can sing, connect and remember. This new...
The Madison Square G...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Their second album the Teeth of Champions EP was just released on First of Three Records/IODA. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-themadisonsquaregardeners-innocent.mp3] Download “Innocent”...
The Henry Clay Peopl...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Los Angeles based band – The Henry Clay People formed in 2005 in Glendale, CA and have played hundreds of shows, as well as touring the US multiple times, performing at large music festivals such as Lollapalooza, SXSW,...
The Idle Hands: Soci...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Minneapolis based The Idle Hands just released their third album, the EP Life is Beautiful on The Pretty Kids Collective, and IODA. The Minneapolis band is made up of Irish ex-pats and Midwest natives. So who are The Idle...
Ketch Harbour Wolves...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We last featured Ontario Canada’s Ketch Harbour Wolves in February of ’09 with ‘So Long to the Ground’, a track off of their 2008 EP, ‘Dead Calm Horizon’. Their newer album Anachronisms...
Nice Cliques: No (Th...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Nice Cliques are an emerging Russian indie art rock band, and this is from their debut LP “Populra Art” The project was born out of collaborative musical experiments by Ivan Ilyin and Alexander Kashev [in the]...
Lord Huron: Mighty
posted by Charles Stepczyk
In the spring of 2010 Ben S. traveled easterly from Los Angeles to Northern Michigan. He spent a week at the site of his childhood retreats: the shores of Lake Huron. It was there he set to work developing a batch of songs...
The Quest: Without L...
posted by Rodrigo
With songs that mix up different genres with rock being the main influence, Decision & Consequence puts out a positive energy with its sound while the lyrics show a more intimate side of the band’s ideals, life...
Faith and Mark: Life...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Faith and Mark are Stephanie Faith Wiens and Mark Posillico, based in Brooklyn. Their album album Scientific Facts is available as individual free tracks from Bandcamp, or you can get the album in one go for $5. The duo...
Laura Stevenson &...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brooklyn’s Laura Stevenson was schooled in the traditional music of her grandfather and grandmother (composer of “The Little Drummer Boy” and vocalist for the Benny Goodman Orchestra respectively) from an early...
Shark? You Don’...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn based Shark? have recorded their first album which will be released later this year on Oops Baby Records (US) and Look Behind You/LBYRecords (UK). In the mean time, they have made a two track 7″ available...
Bear Driver: Enemy
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Bear Driver’s twitter bio describes them as a six piece melodic, psych-pop band based between Leeds and London, UK. Their regular bio describes them as six people in a band that play instruments and take them up on...
Nedry: Dusk Till Daw...
posted by Stuart Morrison
London UK post-dubstep trio Nedry has issued a new MP3 single and video for the song, “Dusk Till Dawn” in anticipation of the band’s U.S. live debut during SXSW in March. The “Dusk Till Dawn”...
Adebisi Shank: Genki...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Happy St. Patricks day to all of our listeners and avid supporters. Lets move aside the U2 cover bands, silence ye olde bagpipe tributes, and set aside that dusty celtic pan-flute vinyl of your grandfathers. We’ve...
Butterfly Explosion:...
posted by Rodrigo
Butterfly Explosion are from Dublin, Ireland. It couldn’t be more perfect for today, as tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. Before you continue reading, let me inform you that the digital version of the album Lost...
Fresh Body Shop: Nex...
posted by Stuart Morrison
We first featured Fresh Body Shop just over a year ago. The French band just released a new album, available for free, or you can make a donation, on Jamendo. “Fresh Body Shop is an Electro Pop band based in Nantes...
The Smiles: Cala Col...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Los Angeles beach rock group The Smiles released their newest offering called the Hermosa EP in May of 2010. The title of this 6-song EP, crowd-funded for $2,000 off KickStarter, originates from the Southern California city...
Reading Rainbow: Was...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their album Prism Eyes on Hozac records. Reading Rainbow are a duo from Philadelphia, whose two-word Facebook bio, “loud & simple” sums up “Wasting Time”, the stand out track from the album. The 12 track...
The Seedy Seeds: Ver...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The concept for Cincinatti Ohio band The Seedy Seeds was born of a casual conversation in late 2005, in which the founding members hypothesized performing as a group with the instruments they owned but hadn’t yet learned...
Anchorless: Alignmen...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Anchorless is a 6-piece band out of Copenhagen forming late 2009. Starting out with just a single song on MySpace in December to show for themselves, the band has definitely not been wasting time. Within it’s first year of...
Royal Forest: Civilw...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Formerly known as Loxsly, Austin’s Royal Forest are slated to perform at this years musical edition of the South by Southwest Festival on Sat March 19th at the Marq – 11pm. You can pick up Royal Forest’s...
OK: Magazines
posted by Rodrigo
Welsh indie/pop band OK released their debut album Under The Weather But Over The Moon on March 2010, and won over audiences throughout the United Kingdom having played Glastonbury and performed alongside Jersey Budd, Holly...
Sisters: Sky
posted by Stuart Morrison
In September last year, Brooklyn based Aaron Pfannebecker and Matt Conboy released Ghost Fits, their debut as Sisters on Narnack Records. As part of the legendary Death By Audio warehouse in Williamsburg (Conboy is one of...
Smoosh: We Are Our O...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Withershins is the follow-up LP to Brooklyn/Seattle based band Smoosh’s 2006 release of Free To Stay, released on June 29, 2010. Last years new album was not released on any official record label, but independently...
Hello Morning: The F...
posted by Stuart Morrison
We first featured Hello Morning on the Daily Dose in March last year, when they released their first EP. Since then they have recorded a full length album called A Fiction which has just been released, and was launched in...
Corbu: We Are Sound ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Yesterday I stumbled on this great band out of Brooklyn via SoundCloud, as they were announced as a featured artist over on the SC Facebook profile. Their bio lists them as making electronic music with shamanic soul vocals...
My Cousin, The Emper...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Alt-country Brooklynites MY COUSIN, THE EMPEROR release their single disc, double EP entitled, THE SUBWAY EPs on March 29, 2011. Next week, they begin a string of shows with Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas as THE SMALL PONDS....
Tunng: Don’t L...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Tunng are an experimental folk band, formed in 2003 in London, England. Today’s selection is taken from their March 2010 release …And Then We Saw Land. The band consists of Mike Lindsay (vocals, guitar), Sam...
Jake Morley: Many Fi...
posted by Rodrigo
There is an old portuguese saying reminding us that there is a lot of fish in the sea. Many Fish to Fry, the title of the album and today’s featured track by Jake Morley, will prove this sentence doesn’t make...
Dumbo Gets Mad: Plum...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Italian Psych Rock outfit Dumbo Gets Mad first came to our attention back in October when Bad Panda Records sent us the track Eclectic Prawn. Now that and the current track have been included in a new full-length release...