Today’s ‘Instrumental Thursday’ feature is by The Soft Breaking, an instrumental rock band from South Florida. Born Old is their debut album, and (Un)serum is a stand out track from the album. It’s...

  Welcome to show 9.  Five months in and we’re on the 9th show and about to hit our first double digit.  I’ve got some excellent tracks this week including one in french. Download IR: Canada...

After the recent post featuring Mambassa Blouz Band, get used to it, you will find songs wich lyrics most of you may not understand. Still, do you have a limit for the music you listen? This isn’t your place then. But...

The Story So Far are based in Walnut Creek on the outskirts of San Francisco. Under Soil and Dirt, the band’s debut full length was released in June of 2011 and follows up two highly acclaimed EPs. While the album is...

Bluesy post-punk rock band The Glorious Veins over the last few years have toured across the US, playing at SXSW and The Vans Warped Tour, and hitting 25 states. Last year they used Kickstarter to raise funds for their...

MBB are a Liège, France based trio with 12 releases behind them since their formation in July of 1990. From what we could discern from our translator, the group is self described as a punk/ska/rock/reggae fiesta with a...

A very promissing advanced single from Everything You Want Destroys What Others Have, album to be released this year, after the not less brilliant Lizards, released last year. Jorge Strofer, born in Dominican Republic, the...

It all started a couple of years ago in Copenhagen, when Bubba moved into My’s apartment by chance. They started spending evenings together humming homely hymns, and soon found themselves in Italy making a record; the very...

Jeff Ryan, the Dallas-based Multi-instrumentalist and Drummer for St. Vincent, The War On Drugs and Baptist Generals will release the EP We were here as Myopic on 26...

Enjoying independent and experimental rock music is very easy if put in the pot Future History. Originary from Toronto, Canada, these five musicians have released Loss:/self digitaly, with the vinyl version planned for later...

Daniel Badeie came to Sweden as a child from a war torn Teheran, Iran. The memories evolving around this and his upbringing in Uppsala, Sweden, came to form a critical view on the world around him. A feeling of seeing...

The Heroes of Switzerland are about to release their new EP, No Easy Way Of Being on 21st January 2013 on Music To Bleed To (MBTB003) via all good digital music stores. Head to their web site for more information. No Easy...

Nettie Rose sings about People I Know (well, people she knows. This is actually the album tittle).  She wrote these songs with the help of those people, some in L.A., some in Nashville, some dead and some living, some real,...

Hi everyone, I’m proud to present my first solo album “Wings”. Although this is a totally “do it yourself” project, i would never make it without the help of some very special friends and artists. Yellow says...

Forro is the latest from the new Littles Ones album, The Dawn Sang Along releasing on Branches Recording Collective this February 12th. After the Los Angeles based band started out on Astralwerks, and also having released...

Today’s Daily Dose is by Max Greenhalgh (AKA the Eyelid Kid) from the lo-fi psych-pop project Inspired & the Sleep based in San Diego, CA. He’s just released the album Teenager. via Bad Panda...

Our Daily Dose Instrumental feature today is by prolific Spanish artist PeerGynt Lobogris. Head over to the Jamendo link for free downloads of hours of music. This track is a particular stand-out from a 2008 album, first...

Awning is the Brooklyn folktronica duo of Jon Sheldrick and Luke Smith, who initially met while studying music at NYU. They both are apparently classically trained musicians who have experimented with a variety of projects...

Australian duo The Cannanes return with their first official release in 11 years. The Cannanes have been putting out modest, ramshackle records since forming in Sydney, Australia, 29 years ago. The ‘Small Batch’ EP, due...

While the forecast for Brooklyn might call for rain and a 20% chance of getting stung by ice pellets, in the not so distance past the metropolis was covered with snow.  This was likely around the time these two great...

Picking up where their acclaimed debut single left off, AS ELEPHANTS ARE return with “Youth Blood”/”Lucifer”, another blistering slice of epic, widescreen indie which will be available on March 8th...

The Canadian band Old English actually started as a solo work by Matt Henderson. But as the musicians were contributing in a great and unexpected ways, quoting Matt’s words, it turn out to be a band with potential 15...

The Mad Writer is L’Orange’s new LP which made its debut this past Nov. 20th. The track Alone is the first single and features the smooth vocals of Blu conjoined with a mellow beat layered over with at least one...

This week it looks like every band comes from the province of Ontario.  And I play my first dubstep track. Later I will play some video games with elo boosting services.   Download IR: Canada...

Tin Drum are from St. Paul, MN, and feature Steve Hillson on Trumpet, and Garth Anderson on drums, guitar and vox. They say of their music: “We’re not sure who we sound like. Morphine? Herb Albert? Herb Albert...

The songs in Ha Ha, Vwah Lah (like voilá in French?) are just what you expect from an album with this name. Besides being hard to tell who they sound like, maybe because they simply sound like themselves, The Spell are a...

Rich Man is the December 10th single release from London, UK band Shout Timber. Playing on two sides of an ever-existent and more than ever culturally relevant conundrum: rich and poor, happiness and unhappiness –...

IKIL ORIION is an enigmatic musical nomad of sorts. Born & bred in New Orleans his journey has taken him to the four corners of the globe New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles & Brazil. His varied living quarters have...

Good morning to all you caffeine-huffing Insomniacs and Hype Machinists. We’d like to introduce you to Irena Zilic of Zagreb, Croatia, an indie folk singer-songwriter who claims her influences are from artists along...

Insomnia Radio opens line for Wideboy Generation, a punk rock trio from Herts and Essex in England. Tracks heard: Looters and Sylvia from their album No Time to Be Shy Main site | Facebook | iTunes | Twitter |...

  Silence Is Sexy, what a name, is a band from Utrecht, in Netherlands. With references from the 80’s, Joy Dividson and stuff, but also more recent acts like The Bravery, this band has released since 2005. Mind...

In the weekend I’m celebrating 7 years of podcasting, I couldn’t let this date pass without putting up another show with the finest independent music from Portugal. Have a great 2013. 1: Carl Mendes – Cheer...