Skeletons! Monsters! Living Shadows that talk–and KILL!! Once they were human, even as you and I… The Threshold People debuted in October 2005 on This Plague of Dreaming, with their now-legendary album Night of the...
Broken Gold: Turning...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Led by The Riverboat Gamblers guitarist Ian MacDougall, Broken Gold returns with their Turning Blue EP on 20 Nov 20, an efficient batch of four songs, via Chicken Ranch Records, digitally and on 7-inch vinyl. The title...
We/Or/Me: The Dusty ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Bahhaj Taherzadeh is the creative force behind the moniker We/Or/Me, pulling together beautiful dark passionate folk songs in his hometown in Chicago. Bajjah apparently often writes songs in his car on his lunch breaks at...
Chance’s End :...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is by Chance’s End “In the latest EP Almost Home by this San Francisco-based production outfit, solo violin sits front and center in an album of downtempo electronic music. The project was...
Brass Bed: I Am Just...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brass Bed is the lifelong collaboration of Jonny Campos, Christiaan Mader, and Peter DeHart, begun during a bedroom recording session in Lafayette, Louisiana. It has blossomed from studio to stage through changes in lineup,...
Poppy Seed and The L...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Look At You” is taken from the current album Beyond The Seventh Sun by Toronto-based band Poppy Seed and The Love Explosion. The album took thousands of studio hours spread over 15 years to complete. Read more at the...
IR: UK #140
posted by Stuart Morrison
Episode number 140 of Insomnia Radio: UK Ro at the controls again. Eight tracks from UK Artists Release Date: Sunday 25th October 2015 TRT: 31:31 Rating: Work Safe https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk140.mp3 Download...
Jacob Pearson: Her F...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Jacob Pearson is an unsigned musician from New South Wales, Australia who released the exceptional indie-folk flavored acoustic track “Her Flaw, My Floor” around three short months back via his Soundcloud page. ...
Bright Falls: Mr. Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Bright Falls is a shoegaze and post-punk band from Uva, Russia who seemingly take their name from the Xbox game and related live-action web series “Alan Wake.” The debut self-titled EP is out now via Free Music...
Tree Machines: To Be...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“This is an exciting time for us as people and as artists,” explains Douglas Wooldridge of Tree Machines referring to the duo’s decision to relocate from its hometown of Lawrence, Kansas to Los Angeles this past...
Wild Shores: Sundanc...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Matthew Zedolik is Wild Shores, an Wilkes Barre Pennyslvania based musician and composer who has been putting out post-rock and shoegaze goodness for the last few years via his Bandcamp and Soundcloud pages below. The...
Katie Zaccardi: Craz...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Katie Zaccardi is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, ukulele, piano) who is based in New York City and has been playing music and writing songs since the age of 8. Katie’s band was formed when she met...
John Travoltage: Sma...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
John Travoltage is a new music art project whose members hail from San Francisco, and who are releasing their debut EP “Done to Death” today, October 20th. In addition they’ve got a live show lined up at...
Sad Blood: Spider Di...
posted by Stuart Morrison
London, UK pun-loving, emo, power-pop band Sad Blood were formed by drummer Daniel Goldberg and guitarist, vocalist and songwriter George Phillips in the Summer of 2014. They first bonded over a love of Pet Symmetry,...
Audionauta: Venecia
posted by Stuart Morrison
Audionauta are an instrumental acoustic post-rock band from Argentina. They started to play some years ago in a search for merging acoustic and analog sounds and textures with electronics rhythms, trying to maintain a...
Ex Libras: Drive
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Formed in West London, Ex Libras just released four tracks yesterday via the excellent new EP ‘Woe’, hand picked from their private stash and mixed by Alan Moulder (Slaves, Royal Blood, Nine Inch Nails). The band...
J Hacha De Zola: Bet...
posted by Stuart Morrison
A salvaged toy piano, noise makers, 25-cent whistles, rattles, plastic flutes, cheap candy ocarinas color J Hacha De Zola’s “urban junkyard” sound. Better Run is taken from the upcoming album by the Jersey...
Broke for Free: Gold...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Broke For Free is a electronic driven project from Oakland native, Tom Cascino who has made all of his music available for free or under the pay-what-you-will model via his website below. Today’s feature ‘Golden...
Frozen Houses: Birmi...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is Frozen Houses new single Birmingham Road Birthday Song, this version featuring Lucy Hill on piano. Check out the SoundCloud and BandCamp links below for lots more by the London UK based songwriter,...
Team Callahan: Point...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Denver based husband/wife duo Team Callahan hail from St. Petersburg, Florida but made the jump to Colorado after finishing their first effort, Afterglow in late August. The superb full length album was a year in the...
Phone Home: I Went A...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn, New York based duo Phone Home released their fourth EP Heights in September, and have just released a video for the track I Went And Got A Gatorade from it. The duo consists of brothers John Vallarelli on Drums...
Inchange: Winter
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Founded in 2013, Inchange is an electronic producer from Vladimir Russia who has several other releases under his belt available through Bandcamp. Winter comes via the release “Found Records”, an inspired track...
IR Canada Show #53 &...
posted by Chris
A rant about stupid drivers, a short Rock Band 4 review and lots of great music.
IR: UK #139 – ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Episode number 139 of Insomnia Radio: UK – Are You Inexperienced? Stuart at the controls again. Eight tracks from UK Artists Recording Date: Thursday 10 October 2015 (Sorry its a week late) TRT: 42:16 Rating: Work...
Offbeat Cooperative:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Offbeat Cooperative is a four to five piece band from Dresden, Germany who mix the best of a selection of musical genres like ska, polka and reggae. Several additional inspiring tracks from their catalog can be found via...
Emerald Park: Gradua...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s Dose is another excellent track by Emerald Park, from their album Go!Go!Go! released in June. We featured Liberteens in April, a single from the album. Head over to the Jamendo link below for a free...
Sofie Letitre: Slip
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Utretch Netherlands based indie electro artist Sofie Letitre released The Uncanny Valley EP on the 21st of September, the first beautiful down-tempo single “Slip” having been released on July 5th. The entire new...
Great White Buffalo:...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Great White Buffalo are from California and put out their their second release, the EP Fangs in February 2015. Today’s Dose is from that. Its well worth checking it out using the links below. The band are: Graham...
Cloudkicker: Digital...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Cloudkicker is the project of Pennsylvania based artist Ben Sharp who has been making music under the banner of Cloudkicker since 2007. He reportedly writes, records, mixes, and masters all of his material at his home in...
The Handcuffs: All T...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Chicago garage-glam band The Handcuffs have announced the release of their their first-ever cassette on the East Nashville-based Semi-Pro Records on October 17, to commemorate Cassette Store Day. The tape-only release,...
Seastock: Lift Up
posted by Stuart Morrison
Seastock are a collaboration of two established composers and sound designers (Neil Hampton & Jesse Proctor from Seattle, Washington) whose mission is to produce high quality royalty-free music. If you check out the...
Brazzmatazz: Hua!
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Brazzmatazz is a 18 -piece brass band formed in 2014 on and off the stage and via the streets of Ghent Belgium. As they are a bunch of musicians from different corners of the musical universe, they are influenced by New...