Today we’ve got a bonus track from the sessions that produced “Carey’s Cold Spring”, the excellent album assembled over the course of three years and released this past October from Victoria, BC...

Today’s feature is a mid-2012 single from London, UK’s THE CORRESPONDENTS, following the excellent 2011 debut EP, “What’s Happened to Soho?”. You may be familiar with this track if...

Austin based group HEADSHY are on the verge of releasing their conceptual Triple EP La Belle Epoque: The Head Chord, The Heart Chord, The Base Chord this upcoming January 14th, 2014 via Medicina Records. The upcoming...

Empty Lanes is the new single from Växjö, Sweden indie pop group KINETICS, the first of four singles that will soon comprise what appears to be a forthcoming EP. The single officially released on the 5th and each...

After two successful albums Brother Dege (AKA Dege Legg) is one of the best kept secrets in Louisiana; a musician, writer, and heir to a long line of eccentric characters born and raised in the Deep South. Hailing from the...

Scottish four piece, This Silent Forest, have a new single, Root To The Seed, taken from their debut album Indivision via Never Make Friends Records. While Indivision is the band’s debut album, it follows the...

Named after a poem about a haunted canal lock, The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock match Irish folk and traditional sounds with more modern experimental rock sounds. With the release of their new album The Brutal Here and Now...

Happy Halloween from the graveyard shift ghouls and zombies here at Insomnia Radio. Today we have a special feature off the brand new 2013 Electronic Music Group Compilation, “The Last Halloween, Vol.II”. The...

The Cloud Room’s new song Mrs. Marquis de Sade is the first featured single off the forthcoming You Be My Heart compilation benefiting the 826 National non-profit. The compilation, due out December 9 is dedicated to...

Today’s feature comes by way of Calgary, Canada, a play on the traditional children’s books “Dick and Jane” (in my case it was “Janet and Mark”). This single is currently being offered...

In August of 2011, Adrian Krygowski had a relatively normal life. He worked for a telecom giant in Northern Virginia, had a commute, and on the weekends he would travel the east coast with his aggressive folk music, making...

The music of Austin, Texas band MOUNT PRESSMORE straddles the jazz-rock line with a level of proficiency that brings to mind an indie-rock Steely Dan on the debut album “Enjoy,” scheduled for release on Mount...

Cosmic Thoughts are a four-piece post punk group from East Kent, Britain – another fine new single brought to our attention by the nice folks at Fat Cat Records. Their logo reminds me slightly of the blue on black...

Weathered is the performance moniker of the Queensland born musician Upile Mkoka, a musical project birthed from the purchase of a guitar in 2010. Moving a few years beyond his bedroom EP project in December 2010 takes us...

STONE COLD FOX is a musical project based out of New York founded by self-taught musicians Kevin Olken Henthorn and Ariel Loh in 2011. The new single from earlier this year ‘Seventeen’ has an accompanying...

To the lucky ones: LA blogger, musician, and self-professed skeptic CherryTeresa has the following excellent piece up on her website featuring some profound spoken word over what sounds like AIR inspired electronic...

Formerly called ‘We Are Trees’ the duo is back and named ‘Dream Shake’, having released their debut album this past week on Frenchkiss Records. Check the band out at CMJ several days later this...

Brooklyn’s SNOWMINE are back with the first beautiful single of their forthcoming release titled – Dialects. Per their website the album has reportedly been ready for about a year while they shopped around for...

After a handful of brilliant singles, Swedish band HONEYMILK have their debut album “Lean on the Sun” slated for release next month, November 6th. Check out our earlier feature of one of the excellent first...

Western Australia’s EMPERORS hit New York this month for CMJ, and they’ve got a new album in tow with the big and bright single ‘Be Ready When I Say Go’ from their excellent release ‘Stay...

‘The Unbearable Heaviness Of Having’ is a track taken from UK artist Vincent Vocoder Voice’s self-titled debut album out via Sonic Anhedonic on the 18th of November. They have a great description over on...

Fiig are a Melbourne based indie pop band with a new single coming out October 29th. The songs are written by singer/songwriters Hannah Petocz and Andrew Jordan and this track has a great high charged feel reminiscent of...

Lo Fine is Kevin O’Rourke, an indie rock instrumentalist and singer/songwriter who launched the long-running project in the late 1990’s in Northampton, Massachusetts. Earlier in the year Kevin successfully crowdfunded...

Today’s featured single is from last summer’s release by Oakland’s TRAILS AND WAYS. A note about the track from the band: “The song is about a rock climbing trip our singer KBB took last fall...

Colorful Kids is from the Missouri band’s new Bloodshot Records album ‘Lessons,’ out earlier this week. For those new to the band, they are named after Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton, Missouri...

Today’s Irish spotlight was a tip off from the fine people over at Fat Cat Records, a nice follow-up to yesterday’s feature out of the Dublin area. Policy are a four piece, also near Dublin who recorded a debut...

The new song by Lafayette’s The Formal Institute of Great Hit Tunes (FIGHTs) off their upcoming album ‘Music by Villains’ definitely stands out from the norm. ‘Beginning’ has some flavorful...

Seattle’s The Head and the Heart are about to launch a new LP via Subpop this October 15th entitled ‘Let’s Be Still’. As we have our heads in the sand occasionally we have not played them yet on...

Austin’s Shearwater have a new album called ‘Fellow Travellers’ on the way delivering in late November through Subpop, which we are all anxiously awaiting. However, before that arrives I’d like...

Today we dive back into the Arizona music scene with a band out of Tempe – Future Loves Past, an excellent psychedelic soul-pop group with an album on the way. Their debut full-length album, All the Luscious Plants...

While the experimental electronic tracks by San Francisco artist, Smokething, may be a couple of years old, they deserve a second or fifteenth listen from us and other listeners. I found this outstanding track at the old...

Martin McNulty Crane V comes from a long line of exceptional Martins. There’s an orphan who became attorney general of Texas and fought the KKK, a lieutenant who fought in WWI, an airline pilot who raised his family...