The Papertiger Sound is a transatlantic project created in 2006 by Dan Gelder who is from England’s Eastern shore. Hailing from the Eastern shores of Canada, Kerstin Wilson later joined when both Dan and Kerstin were...

Los Angeles instrumental outfit Signal Hill is back with a new album as of June 11th, twelve songs and 61 minutes of universally understood tracks without the vocal interjection that occasionally takes away from the artistry...

In honor of our fathers past and present today, we are providing a track by one of the friends to the network – Orlando band, The OaKs.  Here’s a bit of back story on their previous release, Our Fathers and the...

The combination of rock, punk, and folk never sounded so sweet as the Brooklyn duo, Hollands, have accomplished on their debut EP, Faces released last fall. Consisting of multi-instrumentalist John-Paul Norpoth (formally of...

The summer months quickly approach heralding San Luis Obispo group Still Time’s long awaited second release in May, “See America”, along with a slew of very non-traditional sounding tour dates up the west...

On The Beach are a four-piece indie rock band from Durham and Chapel Hill NC in the hallowed vein of post-hardcore band Fugazi. Nagendra and John were in a band called Strunken White from 1996-2001 while John, Rachel and...

Reunion Tour is another superb tome from indie rock’s most singular narrators, the Weakerthans. Their newest album from 2007 was recorded after-hours above a closed factory in the cold Canadian spring, weaving the...

The Aggrolites are more than a band they are a movement unto themselves. They carry a banner – one created with their own hands. This banner reads, “Dirty Reggae,” and represents their signature fusion of...

Pony Up is an indie pop band from Montreal, Canada. They formed on New Year’s Eve 2002 and, upon developing a relationship with singer Ben Lee, released their debut, self-titled EP in 2005 on his Ten Fingers label. Make...

Boston indie-pop quintet The Hush Now have made an impression on music critics and fans by wedding the “lush sugar-spun melodies of shoegaze’s dreamy heyday” to “the hooky muscle of bands like Guided by Voices and...

Pour yourself a drink. Place those expensive headphones gently over your ears. Turn the lights down. Light a few candles and a stick of Nag Champa. Kick back in that comfy chair you inherited from your Grandpa. Close your...

When Randolph Chabot first began recording his own albums at age 12, he discovered a means of living out his fantasies. Using whatever instrument he could find, Chabot began constructing hyper-emotional dream...

Drew Danburry is a musician who has toured independently and released records independently for approximately five years or so. He can’t remember all the specifics of his wack life, otherwise we’d know all the...

Copenhagen artist Peter Broderick is like the Swiss Army Knife of musicians; compact, elegant, multipurpose. What sets him apart is his restraint. With an arsenal of talents at his disposal, he prefers to reveal only one or...

Yesterday’s Ring was started in 2000 on a hot summer day on the front porch of a punk house in Memphis, TN. Fred Jacques (guitar and vocals) and Hugo Mudie (vocals) were on tour with their band, The Sainte Catherines....

While exploring some online documentation about the Mexico City based group Simplifires, I ran across another great independent three-piece from the city, surprisingly with another English name – Hello Seahorse! As...

8OObeloved is a Michigan-based group formed from the writing & production of singer/songwriter, Sean Lynch. The group’s moniker, taken from a 1-800 telephone number, hints at the merger between two opposing themes...

Today’s episode warms us up a bit with a healthy dose of rock from UK, Canada, New York, Mexico City (and beyond) before our founder, Jason Evangelho takes over the controls for IR #165. The name of this episode has...

Today is obviously Mother’s Day in most parts and as a reminder-tribute, we are cuing up an oligatory track by Seattle’s “Say Hi (To Your Mom)”, titled something along the lines of “Oh” x...

Deadbeat Darling is a band living in New York City founded by singer/guitarist Joseph King, who after 7 years as a respected songwriter and frontman in the Austin music scene, moved to NYC in October of 2005 to begin work in...

Just in time for Cinco De Mayo, up pops the Mexico City based four-piece indie rock band ‘Simplifires’;  oddly enough one part Irish, and three parts Mexican – a pretty interesting but oddly workable...

LA indie pop group Great Northern just released their newest opus and you can quickly tell they have poured their souls into it. What we’ve been hearing at Insomnia Radio the last few days is quite...

Fresh back from a trip to Hangzhou China and beyond, Chicago musician David B Henson has sent us a handful of tracks from his upcoming debut 12-song LP slated to be untethered in May.  The spaceman adorned album is dubbed,...

“If I can’t be someone of consequence, I’d rather die than have to crawl.” The above quote is part of the notable lyrics to the three song EP that Los Angeles rock band Immune put out a little over a...

Four years after travelling to Jamaica with an acoustic guitar, “echo box” and megaphone, Mr. Anonymous is back with “Mr. Anonymous 2”. For this mission, boundaries were pushed to “the...

Grrr… is the third full length album by Brooklyn, New York indie rock group Bishop Allen. It was just released last month on March 10th and is a follow-up to their 2007 album, The Broken String. Bishop Allen formed...

AMPED: Show #175 . This week’s host: George Smyth from Eclectic Mix Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: Freaks up Front (His Mischief) Show: Audio Gumshoe Song: If I Were You (Aaron Zimmer) Show: Suffolk And Cool Song:...

Originally born to a musical family in California, Katie has also called Colorado as well as Nashville home. From her early beginnings on backup vocals and drums in the band “Newcomers Home”, Herzig initially...

Seattle, Washington’s Hey Marseilles plays simple folk songs, interweaving orchestral instrumentation with melodic musings on time and place. Having garnered favorable reviews since their formation in late 2006,...

AMPED: Show #174 This week’s host: Rich Palmer from Audio Gumshoe Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: Addicted (Strangers In Wonderland) Show: Eclectic Mix Song: The Longing – Part 1 (Felixdroid) Show: Ourobouros...

O+S is a new project by Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). Orenda and Scalpelist, long-time friends from their shared hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, have created a...

Today’s episode starts off with a little CB chatter from a cat in New Jersey talking to his homeboy Juice in Northern California – then launches into a standout intro track by the funk and soul powerhouse, T Bird...