The Halloween night is not the first idea that comes to mind while listening to Craig Black’s The Fallout, but you feel something dark and mysterious on it, and a bit of suspense. A perfect pop...

Liverpool group Zombina and the Skeletones, have unearthed their lost mini-album from 2003 featuring the earlier lineup from “Taste the Blood…”, recorded in the basement of Doc Horror’s mum over a...

Emerging from Bristol’s ever-fertile music scene (perhaps most famous for legends like Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but also widely considered “Britain’s most musical city”), Stumbleine has...

Welcome to the official first show of Insomnia Radio: Portugal Metal. Wonderful hard-rock and metal from Portugal is coming your way. 1: Phazer – I’ve Been Shot (Buy and download for free at Bandcamp) 2: HU...

If you don’t like the defination of dreamrock, take Candidate as a superawsome rock make out party. Based in Brooklyn, they have self released this month Psychic Dissonance From The...

Eric Harvey is an American musician and songwriter. Born and raised in upstate New York he currently lives in Dallas, Texas. Since 2004 he has been a member of the band Spoon, appearing on the albums Gimme...

Dark Patrick consists of Ukrainian Eva and Englishman Paul, two outstanding musicians who pull together elements from a variety of differing musical styles using a wide array of instruments. For today’s track...

For fans of Electronic, Dark 80s Analog Synthpop (like me) this is for you. In Loving Memory is from the debut album from TSTI, from Upstate New York, called Evaluations, out on Nov...

California Wives have been featured previously at the Daily Dose, and Marianne was also posted here. At that time the songs were a pre-release of the album Art History, wich was finaly released by Vagrant in September. This...

For the last several days I’ve been listening non-stop to an excellent self-titled EP that came into my inbox from the Portland, Maine group – Endless Jags. The six member indie rock band reportedly spend time...

Radio DCS is a duo from Vienna with a seemingly paradoxical sound, as it is “modern” Retro Dark Wave with a heavy dose of pop appeal. Radio DCS is comprised of two members, Richard Pustina and Gert...

London band Hot Fiction have just released their second album Apply Within. Head over to their Main Site, or Jamendo, for a free download of the whole album, and make a donation if you like it. Their first album Dark Room...

I hosted the Special 150th edition of the Made in the UK Show. [audio:https://www.insomniaradio.net/audio/miuk/miuk150.mp3] Download MIUK 150 With submissions from myself and: Rowley Cutler of Dark Compass Colin Gazely of...

Honey Mustard, another courtesy of Birds Will Sing For You, released their first full lenght album this year, but their previous releases, two e.p. and a maxi single, have made them being listened not only at Sweddish...

Now based in Austin, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie electro-based sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Since their 2009 self-titled debut LP they’ve refined and expanded their sound, bridging the gap...

From the North Eastern United States (or more specifically Blairstown, NJ) The Soviet have released a three track self-titled EP, and this track is from it. “The Soviet is a band of four close friends, based in the...

Little Rock, Arkansas, is the home for Whale Fire. A rock quartet, as normal, made of two guitars, Clay Grubbs and John Steel, a bass guitar, Matthew Steel, and a set of drums, Will Vick. It is also normal for us to listen...

Yeah, you might have heard this excellent single from Barsuk earlier in the year for a quickie on NPR, but I though it could use an appropriate witching appearance in October. I think this excellent song has flipped the...

Minneapolis based Mark Mallman’s new album Double Silhouette was just released. The title track is today’s Dose. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-markmallman-doublesilhouette.mp3] Download Double...

This week we feature 6 great bands, and all but one is from Ontario! Currently running with bi-weekly shows, which may return to the original plan of monthly shows depending on music submissions and well, life. ...

Tear into that BBQ leg son, multitask with your favorite 12 oz, and get ready for some quality blues rock. The compilation ‘Alive at the Deep Blues Fest’ is arriving this November 27th via Alive NaturalSound...

After their 2010 debut, Vancouver five piece, 41ST AND HOME returned last July with a seven song EP, Raised by Wolves. Today’s featured track is the first single, Gorbachev, of which they’ve also made a great...

If you are going to listen to The Wallies in order to relax a bit, forget it. Their not here to ease your mind. In fact, they won’t let you just being there doing nothing. Or… actually, the first time I was...

Anchorage Alaska’s Marian Call has a new album “Something Fierce” officially arriving Nov. 13th. Her personal transformation after moving to Alaska, and her journeys to and from the Last Frontier, served as...

Snooze are an Alternative rock band from Córdoba, Argentina. This is their first single, with video to match. They play songs in Spanish and English, I’ll Let You Go is the only one we’ve heard so far, but it...

A-new. That’s how you should read it. But it means A Kind Never Understood. And you should remember them as the trio that writes and play their music, and also create their own choreography, with talent. Otherwise we...

After three years of touring and world-wandering in the wake of 2007’s The Golden Hour, Firewater ringleader Tod A finally touched down in Istanbul, Turkey. “The city is fascinating. It’s a melting pot—a lot like...

“Guy Fox is an explosion of talent and eclectic songwriting – an apt description for a band that [almost] shares its name with an 17th century assassin that tried blow up Britain’s Parliament.” Currently...

Insomnia Radio: Open Line brings you this time the Portuguese artist living in London, Walter Benjamin. Facebook | MySpace | Soundcloud | CD Baby | Bandcamp | Pataca...

Ivy presents herself as the thin white dame that sings. All right, let’s face it: this is too short for what you are about the hear. We won’t mind about how heavy or what’s Ivy’s color. Dame? No one...

The album Lungs, Dirt & Dreams, by the Atlanta based Damon Moon and The Whispering, is a new dimension of the so called Americana music. While there are formulas, others prefer to go behind the established rules. I...

While Oakland’s Chris Sullivan has been working on a full length release called Sweet Rebel Three he quietly put out what looks to be a collaboration from the piece this last year, feat. Tanya Donelly. I happily ran...