Italy’s A CLASSIC EDUCATION is back, with a tour to the states in March for SXSW – a repeat performance and momentum gathering session to properly start off 2010 after last year’s CMJ highlight. The Bologna...

Retribution Gospel Choir is a rock trio founded in 2007, featuring Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker,...

Chris Otepka is back again with his post-Troubled Hubble project THE HELIGOATS, whom we last visited a few short years back with the track ‘Been a Drill’ from 2008’s EP ‘The End of All...

From Sydney Australia, ISAAC GRAHAM is a singer/songwriter type who grew up on punk rock but now likes country, folk and punk rock and records his music with a Tascam 8-Track with a cheap microphone and attempts to...

From Los Angeles, indie rock band STARS DON’T SLEEP have just released their new EP featuring the title track “In the Daylight”, which tells the story of a disoriented East Coast kid squinting cautiously at...

Toronto indie pop outfit THE GHOST IS DANCING just recently springboarded off the release off of 2007’s “The Darkest Spark” with their newest indie rock offering which was issued last April, “Battles...

Brooklyn, New York “sissy-pop” band THE BALLET released their new album called “Bear Life” this past year, a follow up to 2006’s “Mattachine!” We don’t know too much about these guys...

In early 2008, San Francisco’s LOVELIKEFIRE signed to Heist or Hit records and went into Tiny Telephone studios in their hometown with producer Bill Racine (Mates of State, Rogue Wave) to record their full-length...

Over the course of the last several months I happened to find myself being subliminally spoon fed a few raw acoustic stylized tracks by Arkansas based group NAMASKAR, an experimental duo who really doesn’t have too...

Previously from the Orlando area, singer-songwriter Levi Conner and his band MILLION YEAR ECHO recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY – where they apparently picked up a new drummer. I haven’t seen too much...

Like any good San Francisco band, OR, THE WHALE partially owes its inception to the online bulletin board service Craigslist; at one point, Robins and Matt Sartain (guitar and vocals) posted an ad titled “Wanna Form a...

If you haven’t already been acquainted, MOONBABIES is a Swedish duo formed in 1997 by core members Ola Frick (Vocals, Guitar and misc. Instruments) and Carina Johansson (Vocals & Keys). Their earliest efforts...

The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice...

Here’s a short blast of a song before the decade ends, an important list as put together by Cardiff’s LOS CAMPESINOS!   Rarely do you see lyrics for songs that earn several stars on the...

As (mis)fortune may have it –  Brooklyn, NY band Pela have called it quits this September after subjected to a load of tremendous obstacles over the last few years; from recording the same album twice, to firing...

Brian Sullivan is the driving force behind Boston’s DYLAN IN THE MOVIES, on track to deliver their long awaited debut full-length “Josephine If You Only Knew” in Spring 2010 on American Laundromat Records. ...

Tarabud, lead singer of Oakland dream-pop band SENTINEL sent us another great recreation of a 50’s Christmas classic recently – properly helping get us in the mood for tomorrow’s holiday. This is their...

Scottish band THERE WILL BE FIREWORKS are currently putting the finishing touches to their second album (due for release in 2010). Last month the band spent a day at Stonehaven’s Old Mill Studios to cut “In Excelsis...

Another year has passed and the Winter Sounds have gotten together early for their delivery of a holiday track on the 2nd volume of XO Publicity’s ‘XO for the Holidays’ sampler.   According to their...

Swedish group Sambassadeur are just putting the finishing touch to their upcoming album “European”, which looks to have a February release date on the Labrador label. Upon sending over the single, Labrador...

If you’ve ever played old console videogames, notably the Nintendo, and you happened to walk by a live performance by Chicago’s I FIGHT DRAGONS, no doubt you would instantly gravitate toward the sound by the...

Fang Island describes its sound as “everyone high-fiving everyone.” And, the Brooklyn quintet’s anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description. Its...

The Good Graces was formed in early 2007 when Kim Ware, founder of Eskimo Kiss Records, picked up a $90 guitar from Atlanta’s late great Lakewood Antiques Market and started fiddling around with some simple chords and...

Derek Clegg, a one-man writing, recording, and producing machine out of Chicago, had sent me a message over at Last.FM the other night – something about a free album. Naturally I’m always curious when someone...

Live at the Echo 10/6/06 is the first live album by New York-based shoegazing band Asobi Seksu. It was recorded at The Echo in Los Angeles, California and contains mostly songs from the Citrus album, two from their...

We had originally discovered the originality of the musical duo RUE ROYALE a few short years back via our Chicago show here at the network. Named after a road running through the Chicago suburbs, the duo of Ruth and Brookln...

Every day when I jump on the road to work, my commute takes me on a road down that curves down by the beach through a small corridor of refineries and waste treatment plants.  Daily, I drive past two looming painted...

I think in many ways our staff here at Insomnia Radio can relate to the name of our featured band as well as track name today. I basically had stumbled across this new track by Canada’s SLEEPLESS NIGHTS when I was...

Paper Moon are from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. For their third full-length record, Only During Thunderstorms, the band was looking for an edgier, more energetic sound that better suited their personalities. This goal was...

For a long while here at Insomnia Radio we’ve been missing a forum for properly presenting the live tracks that we come across, and those few acoustic tracks that fall by the wayside and don’t get the promotion...

We were recently sent a haunting track from local Los Angeles (Highland Park) based singer-songwriter ANNY CELSI via our friends at IODA, and we haven’t had a chance to get it up until today – the day after...

Today we feel privileged to showcase the band MASERATI, a psychedelic post-rock group from Athens, Georgia. Unfortunately they are going through some tough times; apparently a terrible tragedy struck on November 8th when...