AMPED: Show #166 This week’s host: Daniel Johnson Jr. from the Journey Inside My Mind Podcast Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Play Dead (Ian McGlynn) Show: Cowboy Cantor Song: I Blame You (Spleen Poetry) Show: Indie Music...

The most infectious blast of pop perfection you will hear all year, a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents – early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship – but with that incredible...

Amongst the broadening horizons of the European music scene you will find the Beangrowers. Hailing from the Mediterranean island of Malta, this female-fronted three-piece has become known for their unique style and...

No, we didn’t win the mustard yellow belt this past year, but we accumulated so many tracks last year and through the first few weeks of 2009, we’ve felt over-gorged on music and wanted to start sharing some...

Ketch Harbour Wolves hail from across Ontario while fostering a deep connection to Nova Scotia where in 2003 the band’s predecessor, The Flying Buttresses, was forged in the small coastal town of Ketch Harbour. After...

Signal Hill is an instrumental band from Los Angeles, CA. With influences such as The Mercury Program, Tristeza, My Bloody Valentine, Cinematic Orchestra and others, they play melodic, mid tempo, vocal-less ditties. Signal...

This week’s host: George Smyth from Eclectic Mix Show: The DarkCompass Metal Show Song: Tonight (Sanguine) Show: PC Podcast with Pete Cogle Song: Matador (Sky Larkin) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: Lazy Fat Stupid...

As a member of the indie-rock sensation Hello Stranger, Juliette Commagere has toured the world and shared the stage with the likes of Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon. Now she has stepped out on her own with her debut solo...

A.C. Newman is best known as the lead for The New Pornographers, but got his start in Canadian indie bands Superconductor and Zumpano.   Four years into TNP, A.C. branched off with his solo offshoot in 2004, and released...

If you happen to be in Austin this March for SXSW, I’d highly recommend you check out the firing soul, funk, and r&b combo – T Bird & The Breaks. High School for the lead singer Tim Crane, A.K.A. T...

One half of the Swedish duo formerly known as The Lovekevins, now The LK, singer-songwriter Fredrik Hultin is branching out on a solo endeavor to win the hearts of kittens and people alike. His debut album, titled The...

Playfully drawing their name from that of a simple Nashville bank teller, Darla Farmer is an eccentric 7-piece carnival-rock band that manages to gracefully shatter genre borders in ways that even the most critical of...

Indie darlings Wintersleep are wasting no time making 2009 another memorable year. This week the band climbs to #26 on CMJ’s Top 200 chart with their critically acclaimed third album Welcome To The Night Sky. This...

An overdue Insomnia-laden journey has left us saddle-sore as we have traveled long and far these last few months in order to document a motley assortment of musicians.  We uncovered them amongst the wild trappers of...

AMPED: Show #163 This week’s host: Graham Holland from the It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: She Ain’t Me (Carrrie Rodriguez) Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Meander...

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with...

Already having achieved some major feats including a YouTube featured video with nearly 300,000 views, Said The Whale is one of those bands that only continues to build off its previous successes. One-part Brian Wilson,...

Over the course of several nights, this IR coffee-fiend powered through multiple cups of caffeine in order to bring you the following local tracks on our Daily Dose feed, amongst scores of others great tracks from outside...

Taking their name from a lyric in the U2 song “New Years Day”, San Diego indie rock trio Arms Entwined is on the verge of releasing their debut EP, “Tell Them I Sent You”, in early 2009. This is the...

Baltimore & Silverlake based collaboration Esquimaux is back with their second EP “Wolf” within the animal named EP set of Tiger and Wolf; the track “In the Night” placed on this upcoming...

From Odense, Denmark, A Sunday Honeymoon is: MIKAEL (voice) ANDERS (guitar) ESBEN (guitar/harmonica) RASMUS (bass) ANDERS (drums) JEPPE (guitar/synth) Currently taking over the charts at Garageband after consistently being...

Los Angeles based band-to-watch, Pedestrian recently released their fourth endeavor entitled “Sidegeist”, a follow up to their two EPs in 2003 and first full length in 2006 called “Ghostly...

One of the network’s favorite hip-hop artists, Psyche Origami is back with a new track produced by El Chavo, a reggae DJ and producer from Allela Spain, a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. El Chavo is the...

Mon, 12 January 2009 AMPED: Show #161 This week’s host: Rich Palmer from Audio Gumshoe Show: Cowboy Cantor Song: Back Yard Baby (Rickolus) Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Water (Deep 6 Holiday) Show: Insomnia Radio Song:...

If you are ever in Omaha Nebraska and find yourself hitching, perhaps you will be picked up by lead singer, Kacynna Tompsett of indie pop six-piece Thunder Power, and just maybe you will be driven to a fantasy locale such...

Hippocampus is the moniker of Sioux Falls, SD native Tom Weismantel.  The hippocampus is also part of the forebrain, and plays major roles in short term memory and spatial navigation.  Interesting, no? The former version...

Released under a Creative Commons License, San Franciso’s Bloomsday Rising is back with their 2008 release “Unlocked” a five song EP, issued completely free, under the “pay what you want”,...

This is Charles from The SoCal Sessions here at Insomnia Radio. I recently had the opportunity to share one of our regional acoustic artists on Graham Holland’s music show out of the UK, It’s a Frog’s...

Hollywood based group, SexTapes™ is self-described as sounding like a modern mixture of Jane’s Addiction, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, consisting of co-writer/founding member Kelly Wheeler on guitars, Marko Fox on...

AMPED: Show #160 This week’s host: Alan from Darkhorse Radio Show: Atlantic Wave Radio Song: Better Off Alone (Daydream On Autopilot) Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: Kim Cladas (Maybe If I Leave You) Show: The...

Jay & Jawnee birthed That Noise in the heart of Los Angeles in 2007.  Originally Jay had started composing original songs under the name Appogee, which soon came to be known as Unconscious Ruckus. Kanpai Records soon...

The New Year has arrived and what better inspiration moving forward then to hear four brand new releases by three old local friends to the network: Chance, Nico Stai, and The Black Watch; as well as one new courtesy of...