Elizabeth, the debut single from Berlin-based Indie-Folk band ‘Charity Children’, is a tribute to the unloved; a marching exaltation devoted to the downtrodden, bullied and supposedly weak. In 2011 the two lovers...

Welcome to episode 23 of Insomnia Radio: Australia.  On this episode, Erk wanders back through the Insomnia Radio archives to find Australian artists. Some of the artists are well known to Erk while others are new...

  Slightly shorter than normal show this week due to the very busy month I have had. Download IR: Canada #15 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada15.mp3     Wilton Said From:...

“Jesse Ruins, started in 2010 in Tokyo Japan by Nobuyuki Sakuma as a solo endeavour, has since expanded. In 2011, Nah joined Sukama as the second member in Jesse Ruins. Most recently, the support drummer, Yosuke...

Sau Poler is from Badalona, a little town on the outskirts of Barcelona. He started making music one year ago as a way to explore his needs and to have some fun. Influenced by artists like Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Four...

UNMAP emerged on German label Sinnbus with the release of their debut single, When To Lead And When To Follow, out on May 13th 2013. When To Lead And When To Follow pulses with naive yet sublime pride elegantly combining...

Firehorse is the project of Leah Siegel. The NYC group will deliver their sophomore release, Pills From Strangers on June 25. Pills From Strangers is the follow-up to the widely acclaimed, And so they ran faster… Main...

Callan Alexander is based in Brisbane, Australia and produces chilled, glitchy electronic beats under the moniker cLn. He self describes his music as falling somewhere along the lines of that of producers like Flying Lotus,...

I Come to Shanghai (Sam Frigard and Robert Ashley) are originally from Oakland, California, where they made music for several years and released a self-titled album. They moved to Athens, Georgia in 2010 to work on music...

Sudbury Ontario (Canada) band THE ALMIGHTY RHOMBUS released their self-titled EP in 2012 and are getting geared up to put out a full-length LP entitled “Lucid Living” very shortly. Today’s single is the...

From the recent release White Mountain by Úlfur, So Very Strange features vocals by Alexandra Sauser-Monnig of Mountain Man. The album was released by Western Vinyl in March. Having played in various bands including Swords...

Los Angeles quartet Holy Folk is a collaboration between songwriters Keith Waggoner, Josh Caldwell, Ryan George and Jonathan Hylander (Les Blanks, Amateurs, The Voyeurs, Honey Loving Cells). What began as a studio venture,...

Welcome to episode 22 of Insomnia Radio: Australia! Erk likes it when PR companies help to make creating a playlist really easily. On this episode, Erk features some artists who have been on Insomnia Radio: Australia before...

This is the second feature here on the network for German Error Message who began in 2004 as the solo bedroom-recording project of Louisiana native Paul Kintzing. His debut full length, After the Warmth, came out in 2010...

From the Swedish band’s debut LP, Instinct, released last year. Main Site | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-nikiandthedove-djeasemymind.mp3] Download DJ, Ease My Mind...

Horizons, today’s featured dose, comes from the upcoming third E.P from Sydney, Australia five-piece THE CADRES. It’s a very solid piece of indie rock coming over from across the Pacific via our new friends at...

Seatraffic are a duo from San Francisco who have been working on a series of new free singles. Check out their BandCamp page at the link below for more. Seatraffic is Mark Zannad (vox, synths) and Brandon Harrison (drums)....

Baobab is the solo project of Phil Torres, a writer and former philosophy / neuroscience graduate student based out of Durham, North Carolina. The debut album Baobab was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Torres in his...

Formed in the cold and isolated expanse of North Dakota, The Earth And Everything In It is an art project led by primary songwriter and vocalist Yishai Mags, forged from the remains of Crime Rate in Iowa. Their debut LP We...

US based band Brøthers released their excellent debut single, ‘We Are Pushing On’ at the tail end of 2012 via Soundcloud as a free download, and are currently amid recording their first full-length album. We...

Welcome to episode 21 of Insomnia Radio: Australia. Continuing with the weekly format, Erk thought that he would revisit his debut gig as a promoter last year, Erkstock. Held to celebrate his birthday, Erk selected a range...

The Money Go Round are an excellent psychedelic rock group out of Sydney, Australia that recently released a new single, “Endless Sun”. Today’s feature is very 60s-centric and will hopefully propel you...

Los Angeles band Cobalt Cranes just released their debut LP, Head In The Clouds, via their own Anticc Records. “Led by Kate Betuel and Tim Foley, Cobalt Cranes blend elements of garage, psychedelic and shoegaze...

Betsy and Jon Heibler started the Sugar Stems in the fall of 2007 in Wisconsin with bassist Steph Swinney Conard and soon added Drew Fredrichsen on guitar. The band apparently issued a single and LP before releasing...

Everything from today's show is a preview of the show that Chris is going to see on the weekend. 5 bands, one venue, promising to be one amazing night of loud rocking music. This show features 3 of the 5 bands playing this weekend. Persist, Core and Men To Wolves.

From their recently released EP Barncat Sees All available as a free download, and on CD, from BandCamp. Barncat are from West Chester, Pennsylvania, and they say “Some things simply fall into place, without a purpose...

Sweden’s four-piece BEAT THE HEART recorded their new EP Glebe Market in a studio built at a loft of a barn in the Swedish countryside in early 2013, and have released their new endeavor over the course of the past...

Spoons and Chopsticks are a band from Erk River MN, and have spent two years recording their debut album. Check the links below for more information, including the YouTube link which is an hour long stream of the whole...

Local Channel’s follow up single to the band’s debut track, Arctic (see video below). Local Channel are a new band out of the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. They plan to officially release Paths on their debut...

Episode number 104 of Insomnia Radio: UK The return of our UK show after a bit of a break Recording Date: Sunday 07 April 2013 TRT: 50:42 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk104.mp3] Download IR: UK...

Welcome back to Insomnia Radio: Australia! Erk’s been off seeing the world again including a trip to America, Mexico & a Caribbean cruise on 70000 Tons Of Metal. Erk is pleased to announce that Insomnia Radio:...

From Sydney, Australia comes the new quality single from reggae/rock and hip-hop group CROSSING RED LINES via our friends at the A&R Dept. Apparently the single dropped at the very tail end of March, and we just...