Is there a recipe for a good song? Is there a recipe for a good album? Perfection may not exist, but good songs and good albums exist after a formula. But forget good albums and good songs. Forget them, because artistic...

Over the past year or two we've featured Vancouver band, Said the Whale here on the Daily Dose and finally ran across their newer track 'Camilo', which was included in their October 2009 album entitled...

Stuart Morrison and the Insomnia Radio Team restart the show with a new format. Direct Submissions, Archive from The Vault, a Daily Dose feature, Regional Roundup, news, a spotlight on Philadelphia, and more. Welcome to the...

Zechs Marquise, the El Paso, TX quintet are back with their sophomore album Getting Paid, bringing an intensified swagger to the band’s multifaceted psych-prog haze for their most aggressive and versatile effort to...

The Team Me EP is the first official release of the Norwegian band of the same name, consisting of five songs recorded in Oslo and produced and mixed by by Tom McFall (REM, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol). The EP, released on...

Immersed in the ever-changing currents of Portland, Oregon’s music scene, John Craig & The Weekend’s newest release, Numbers, arrives as a breath of fresh air – something worlds apart from anything you’ve...

Mouth of a Fox is from the double single release from Los Angeles’ POLLS, released on May 24th of this year via Jaxart Records. You can also visit their Facebook page for a link to the RootsMusic player which has...

This is a single from their album Aokigahara, released on Errant Child Records on August 30th, 2011. The Nocturnes are the folkgaze brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Emma Ruth Rundle. While the band began as a duo in 2007 and...

Cool and Collected, the track featured today, made me feel like São Miguel island, in the Azores, was actually the best place one could live. The Delta Routine is a Milwaukee-based band committed to the project of reviving...

Guards was formed in New York City when Richie James Follin returned from a European tour to a recording studio with nothing in it but a broken electric 12 string guitar and an omnichord. He wrote and recorded a few songs...

Brooklyn, NY frenetic power-duo Noxious Foxes announce the release of their sophomore album, Légs. Noxious Foxes began in 2009 in Thump Studios, a Brooklyn recording studio owned by Levengood. Songs were written in live and...

Armand Margjeka was born in Tropoja, an Albanian town at the foot of the Alps. “Tropoja was one of the most isolated villages in an isolated country,” Margjeka says. The communist regime he grew up with was oppressive,...

From their new album Live at Sint-Elisabethkerk, released on Western Vinyl. “Though Balmorhea’s studio recordings never fail to impress, their songs have always been most powerful and affecting when performed...

Despite its title, Only Good Thoughts Can Stay is not an anthem for blind faith in simple pleasures. Pairing sometimes dark lyrical matter with uptempo major-chord progressions, the newest album from Portland, Oregon’s...

British electronic-infused post-rock faves 65Daysofstatic announce the North American release of their latest album We Were Exploding Anyway in a special deluxe edition that also features the recent Heavy Sky EP. The...

1975, the song you are listening today is by The New Slave, the San Francisco, California, based band, also featured at Insomnia Radio: Daily Dose on 2009 July the 6th. Forget Progress, Return to Instinct is their new...

Scattered Trees grew up together in the outskirts of Chicago, playing music together in various groups over the years. As is the case with any ambitious set of individuals with aspirations beyond their hometown, as they...

“NYC’s The Dig have been playing together since childhood in Westchester County. Bonds this tight might help explain why their debut album, Electric Toys, sounds less like a rookie effort, than the polished work of...

The Chakras “We The People” released 2nd May 2011, through Planet Function, an indie rock subsidiary of R&S Records Formed in Dublin by the brothers Rocky and Gordo Whittaker and now based in London, all five...

Another excellent band from Athens GA, Reptar have released their debut EP, Oblangle Fizz Y’all. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-reptar-stuckinmyid.mp3] Download “Stuck in my Id” Free...

Gottenberg Sweden’s Jens Lekman is back again with the five song ‘An Argument With Myself’ EP – out on Secretly Canadian on September 19 in the UK, September 20 in the US. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK |...

From Last Words: The Final Recordings, the final recording sessions of the Screaming Trees. Recorded in 1999-2000 and not released until now. The last work of the legendary Seattle band definitely deserves a...

From Montreal, Canada, Belgrave are one of the newest band to join Lovely Hearts Club, a music discovery project of the New York based indepenent label Paper Garden Records.  Belgrave’s debut release was in May with...

Zsammy is Sam McKinley, a one-man band out of Pittsburgh, PA. We’ve never seen too much information on the man himself, but have loved his music and featured it here several times on the network over the last few...

From the Swedish band’s free 36 track album The Silverslut 2000-2002. This is available for free from Jamendo, and is a compilation of the band’s first six EPs. Their more recent album Saturnine Songs is also...

Portland indie orchestra Typhoon turned many a critical head in 2010 after releasing their epic Hunger and Thirst on Tender Loving Empire, and have returned rather quickly with a new release. With 2 violins, 2 trumpets, 2...

Episode number 98 of Insomnia Radio: UK Another twelve songs by UK artists, again very varied in style. Quite a lot of Electro-Rock this time, some Post Rock, a bit of Noise Pop, and even some straight Rock. Recording Date:...

The title track from The UK’s Tall Ships EP released in April. Tall Ships are originally from Falmouth, and now based in Brighton on the South coast of the UK, fast becoming a centre for new independent bands. Plate...

Amy LaVere’s new studio album on Archer Records, “Stranger Me”, was released July 19th in the USA and July 4th in the UK. The highly anticipated album was produced by Craig Silvey whose work with Arcade Fire...

  We are used to listen to 30 seconds of a song, as a preview. Some of us live in countries that allow us to listen to 1 minute and 30 seconds of each song as a preview. But in this case, I just needed 1 second to know that...

The second single from their excellent album Strange Hearts. The first single and more info are available in our previous post here. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-secretcities-thepark.mp3] Download...

  Too Beautiful to Work is the title track from the new album by Montreal’s The Luyas, released on Dead Oceans. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-theluyas-toobeautifultowork.mp3] Download...