Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, has origins in Hampshire in the UK, and moved through Brighton and London on his way to his current base in NYC. He is about to release his fifth album The North Borders available to pre-order from...
Song Dogs: Careless
posted by Rodrigo
Formed in Philadelphia in 2009, Song Dogs has been playing around the Mid-Atlantic for the past three years. A 2011 EP, Song Dogs and the Nightjar, helped them to gain legitimacy as a band and lend the fan support to create...
Great Peacock: Take ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s feature come off the new Nashville band, Great Peacock’s self-titled debut EP ; out March 5, 2013 through This Is American Music. Instead of trying to live in a long-gone past, Great Peacock draws from...
And So I Watch You F...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Belfast, Northern Ireland’s And So I Watch You From Afar announced that their forthcoming third album All Hail Bright Futures will be released on LP, CD and digitally worldwide on March 19, 2013 via Sargent House. Like...
LVMRKS: Valentine
posted by Stuart Morrison
Neil Busch, former vocalist/bassist/songwriter in …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead during that band’s peak is back with a new band called LVMRKS and forthcoming debut album. The group also features...
From The Airport: Ev...
posted by Rodrigo
The South Korean music will change as you know it. Forget about non-sense horse movements and hysterical crowd reactions. Milo and Zee have created the band From The Airport. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself as...
Brittsommar: Tell Me
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Sawyer L Gebauer has come a long way in the past year. From recording Brittsommar’s first album Day of Living Velvet solo in an abandoned synagogue to working with artists and musicians from all over Europe and the US...
IR: Canada Show #11 ...
posted by Chris
The second double digit show. And what a great show this week. Great tunes from all over the Country. East coast to West coast. Hitting lots of the provinces, and many different genre's.
Permanent Makeup: No...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Void… It Creeps, the first official release from Permanent Makeup, is scheduled for release on February 26th via New Granada. “Tampa’s Permanent Makeup formed in 2010 and played its first show without...
Josefina Sanner: Do ...
posted by Rodrigo
The cold land of Sweden has another warm voice for us to listen. Josefina Sanner has relased as a single Do You Remember, a track from her album released in 2012 These Beads of Mine. But it’s not just the voice....
Sallie Ford & Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland, Oregon group, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside’s newest record Untamed Beast (February 19, 2013) is the follow up to 2011’s Dirty Radio. They recorded the album’s 11 tracks with Adam Landry and...
Great Divide: Ain...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Great Divide are from Chicago and they are releasing their self-titled, second album on March 5, 2013. Ain’t No Roads, featured today, is the opening track. With multiple appearances at festivals like SXSW, North Coast...
Little Scream: Boatm...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Born in Iowa and raised along the Mississippi River in an ‘Addams Family meets 700 Club’ home, Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer, emerged onto Montreal’s music scene at her own pace, appearing and...
Mecanico: Legacy
posted by Rodrigo
The legacy goes on. So the lyrics go, and while listening you can’t help but trying some moonwalking. Coming from Chile, Mecanico does an excellent work recreating the textures on Michael Jackson’s greatest...
IR: Portugal Metal 2
posted by Rodrigo
Insomnia Radio: Portugal Metal gets its hands on the second show dedicated to hard music by Portuguse artists. Instrumental music, hardcore, real hard hardcore and heavy rock. It’s here in a five track playlist showing...
Anna Bradley: Head f...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
This brilliant new track from New York’s Anna Bradley comes off the third edition of Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen compilation of artists, a free download over at BandCamp. The harmonies on this track really float...
DNSQ3: Last Man Stan...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“DNSQ3 is songwriting duo David Creces and Steven Q Dawe III (SQ3). DNSQ3 combines love for great songs & songwriters with love for experimental arrangements of instruments. The result is a big ol’ mess of...
Moor Hound: Holiday
posted by Rodrigo
Steve Marino started writing songs in his bedroom back in Florida in 2008. Since then, he’s moved to Indiana, and his songs have become a little less cheesy and juvenile, and more abstract, and self-pitiful in nature....
The Barr Brothers: B...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Some things are meant to the enjoyed with a little build, and so it goes with the full version of the track from the debut album of Montreal’s “The Barr Brothers”. While the radio cutdown is nice, its...
Skinny Bitches: Just...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Robyn Craig and Ricardo Temporao are Toronto musicians and friends who decided to start jamming in early 2011 with him on guitar and her on drums. By experimenting with harmonies and heavy arrangements (reflecting...
IR: Portugal 21
posted by Rodrigo
The 21st show of Insomnia Radio: Portugal brings you another eclectic mix of the finest independent music by Portuguese artists. Folk, electronic, pop and rock. Also notice releases under Creative Commons Licence and a band...
Daddy Lion: The Scie...
posted by Sarah Morrison
Columbia, SC’s one-man folk-rock outfit Daddy Lion is an old friend of Insomnia Radio, so we were thrilled to learn of the release of his debut full-length album Habitat when he sent us the record’s opening...
Nymphidels: Wake Up
posted by Rodrigo
It’s very usual these days to listen to a band with a non convencional rock band line up. Bands with 2 basses, bands with 2 drums, bands with no instruments at all, but mostly, just drums and a guitar. All right, Jack...
IR Canada #10 –...
posted by Chris
Welcome to show 10! Yes, 10! We’ve hit double digits. Lots of great music this week. Though with all the Metal music being submitted I’m wondering about doing one whole show with nothing but...
Fawn Spots: Watered ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Everyone once in a while it’s nice to have an artist come along to cleanse all the bad music out of the system that’s been lodged in the ol’ memory banks. Fawn Spots, a three-piece from York was recently...
The Rebel Light: My ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Comprised of 2 brothers from Montauk New York and their long lost cousin from Yucaipa California, The Rebel Light are an electronic-infused indie rock group based in Los Angeles. Embracing the spirit of DIY indie music, The...
Jakarta Club: Hey Je...
posted by Rodrigo
Jakarta Club have released last December a free self-titled e.p. where they feature 5 songs with clear melodies with a bit of 80’s music influence. The lucky people who have been at their concerts talk about a hell of...
Unsuddenly: You Let ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Unsuddenly is a musical collaboration built on the songwriting, singing and producing efforts of Will James in collaboration with several great friends and accomplished musicians. The lyrics of today’s featured single...
Zen Mystery Fogg: Ra...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Zen Mystery Fogg are two transplants of the scenic Vancouver Island wilderness living in New Orleans. Chase Franson and Thomas Molander make sunny, breezy, garage rock that treads the line between pop and lo-fi. Their...
Niagara: Seal
posted by Stuart Morrison
Italian Duo Niagara are about to release their debut album Otto on 11 Feb in Europe and 25 Mar in the UK and the Rest of the World, on Monotreme Records. Niagara is the collaborative project of Turin-based singers/producers...
Hope Darling: Lifeli...
posted by Rodrigo
You are about to listen, if you are not listening yet, to a very promissing band from Tampa Bay. Hope Darling don’t have anything officially released yet. Their sound reminds of many top selling bands, but with a...
American Babies: Dan...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Since 2007 American Babies has been the mouthpiece for Philadelphia based musician Tom Hamilton. After spending the early 2000s building a national fan base fronting the electro-rock band Brothers Past, releasing two...