Seven years ago NYC-based singer-songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist David Bronson left a burgeoning New York indie rock band to begin a necessary calling: the realization of a 22-song autobiographical concept record...

  Coming from Los Angeles, California, Noah Lebenzon and Thomas Froggatt met in Kansas. And recently, probably the second best thing that could happen to them, they released Asian She EP, recorded at Noah’s home...

Oh! My Blackbird were named one of the 10 bands to watch in 2012 by Music. Defined, along with Cloud Nothings or Tennis. Annie Sullivan gives voice to this New York trio inspired by choral music and madrigals, and though...

Rather than recycle songs into Best of Lists at year end, I wanted to keep bringing fresh music, as new releases don’t stop coming our direction at the end of the year. The Lost Ark Studio recently helped direct our...

A summery song to brighten up a dreary holiday season here in the UK, by Peterborough-based The Vow [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-the-vow-awalkinthesunshine.mp3] Download A Walk In The Sunshine Free...

  Emerald Park are probably one of the most successful band releasing songs under Creative Commons. It’s been 10 years since we have heard for the first time about a new and legal way to share free music. Based in...

Merry Christmas to all from the IR family! You caught us just as we are unwrapping our final gift from California Bay area dreampop band SENTINEL. After getting in the holiday spirit close to October, the band put the...

From probably the most controversial and explicit Christmas album ever released, Christmas Greatest Tits. 14 tracks of crimbo chaos, filth and anarchy by the UK’s grammy nominated indie posters – The Pocket...

Another Holiday/Christmas themed song, this is Bells of St. Ignatius by Wormburner. Recorded in 2007 and released as a free single, it could be seen as the NYC power pop band’s answer to The Pogues’ Fairytale of...

You have learned here that Reverend JM’S Panic Whorship are not in the mood to follow the rules. But this time they have really gone beyond what you know as Christmas music. Creepy, but beautifuly pleasent, this is...

Running around in a panic stocking your bunker with that last box of Hostess fruit pies for the apocalypse? Need a breather? Put down that Chocodile my friend and take a listen to a holiday compilation of Vancouver’s...

It’s that time of year again. The first of our Holiday-Themed tracks is from the “Noise & Drone & Pop & Atmospheres” Christmas Compilation called Six Feet Under The Snow, put together by Silber...

Sun Glitters, previously featured at the Daily Dose and Insomnia Radio: Portugal, has been very busy with many live acts around Europe. So has other electronic music artists remixing tracks by the Portuguese artist that goes...

After the first two Skint & Demoralised albums, Love And Other Catastrophes and This Morning Life, the Wakefield UK band has returned with When Saturday Comes, the first single from the forthcoming third S&D album. ...

All Hits is from The Night Marchers LP Allez Allez out January 22, 2013 on Swami Records. The Night Marchers consist of ¾ Hot Snakes with John Reis, Gar Wood and JSinclair, accompanied by Thomas Kistos. From front to back...

Use ’em up if you got ’em. Today’s feature is from Toronto band, The Holiday Crowd. Lead vocalist Imran Haniff had this to say about their new LP, Over the Bluffs: “The whole mood of the record has...

Here is something you never read about music: caffeinated rock n’ roll. But, don’t use just a regular coffee. Queued Up is a 4-piece power pop group hailing from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. They call their music...

Here is the first single from the Finland trio K-X-P, off their new album titled “II” which will be out this coming February via Manimal and Melodic UK. Enjoy, and keep spreading the letters around. [Via...

AUSTRALASIA is a childhood spent listening to Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks; a youth on the sharp edge of the underground, extreme metal scene; a whole life sunk into the Post-rock molten wax with a strong fascination...

A soul record, certainly. A project born of a shared feel for that idiom’s sounds. But not a suite of songs by its bold-faced names (well, maybe a couple – they couldn’t lay off that Sam classic, or from...

Pinact are my new favorite gratuitously-noisy and mind-spinningly fast two-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland; basically high school friends [Corrie Gillie and Lewis Reynolds] putting together some really great...

Bear Cavalry, a rapidly emerging 4 piece from the sleepy town of Gosport on the south coast, are no strangers to making waves (…) it looks like a trend set to continue. (press release) We’re listening to Puryss,...

Well we’re back.  Another show packed full of great tunes.  We even have a few blues tunes today for  your listening enjoyment. Download IR: Canada #6 Subscribe Subscribe in...

The Swedish Gothenburg foursome Sambassadeur is back with the first production since the critically acclaimed album European (2010). The new single Memories is flirting with a contemporary Serge Gainsbourg and is fully...

Chicago-based five piece Souljunky just released a full length album titled I Found Your Dream. This follows the release of their EP Here and Now in 2011. Souljunky are a group of musicians who have wandered far and wide to...

London five piece Zulu Winter recently released their album ‘Language’ via Toronto label Arts & Crafts. The group had originally signed to to Play It Again Sam in the UK, a part of PIAS Entertainment Group....

Earlier this year Australian band All India Radio released their latest album Red Shadow Landing. To follow that they just released a free EP with the first track from the album, featured today, with three other rare tracks....

When we asked wich song could we post, Chris Arter (front-man, now full time keyboarder for the band) told us “you decide”. And we went for Don’t Stop Now. Why? Because we believe this is the track that...

Todays feature comes from the Minneapolis based band Rogue Valley, notably the lead-off track from the second album “The Bookseller’s House”, part of their four album seasonally themed catalog. All of...

From New England (possibly Enfield, CT if you believe Urban Dictionary) Drained Glory recently released their new e.p “Nothing Left to Lose” and this is off it. They say “We’re a simple band with a...

Coming out of Jersey City, NJ, three-piece garage roots rock band The MiCKS are carving out an unflinching foothold beyond the abounding vagueness of modern music. Founded by brothers Matt (singer/songwriter/guitarist) and...

(…) it was at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, in his darkest hour, when his band was nearly broke, that they finally hit and Benny became the King of Swing.  What could have been the end turned out to be just...