AMPED: Show #145 This week’s host: Pete Cogle from PC Podcast Show: Insomnia Radio:UK Song: Blind (Blacktop Harrison) Show: It’s A Frog’s Life Acoustic Podcast Song: The View (David Buckingham) Show:...

In 2004, Peter Acuni of Connecticut formed Birdmonster with three other San Francisco musicians.  They released an EP, debut full length, and are now back as of August 2008 with their second widely anticipated full length...

We recently received a message from one of our favorite bands here at Insomnia. Patrick Keenan of The Winter Sounds wanted to proudly share one of the new tracks they just recorded over at Cacophony Recorders in Austin,...

From Vancouver British Columbia, we are happy to present a brand new band for you today called The Truegoods, formed in 2007 and currently working on recording and completing their debut release, Lollipops and Hand...

Hypnotist, the second track off Built for the Sea’s debut self-titled album was released in November of 2006.  It invitingly appeals for one to jump into the lush ethereal dream-pop world seemingly created...

Level 12 sums up their sound nicely in their bio: What if you took rock, soul, metal, tribal, funk, and jazz and put them in a big pot? Then what if you wrapped your head in tin foil and stuck your head in the microwave?*...

From Dallas Texas, comes a well crafted folk-rock styled pop song from Ezra Thomas which I first heard a little over a year ago. I was reminded of the track when Ike’s swirling eye changed trajectory this evening...

Hot Bitch Arsenal has one tight package. Seriously, Kim & Christina went to some lengths to mail out some great swag baskets containing HBA t-shirts and much more over a year ago to which we are eternally grateful. I...

If I’m not mistaken I believe San Francisco indie quartet, Minipop, closed out my South by Southwest 45+ band experience earlier this year in Austin. This picture was taken at Bourbon Rocks during the SFxSXSW party...

Bringing us a great blend of American rock ala The Replacements, Raleigh North Carolina based, Patty Hurst Shifter released this song, “Life is Mostly Waiting” on their Fugitive Glue EP in 2007. Its...

A year or two back we featured a demo of the Lorenzo’s Music song “Downtown” on the Daily Dose. Fast forward to this last week and we received the great piece of news that Bazar, their next studio album...

Experimental Aircraft was formed in October 1997 in Austin, Texas. Two years after formation, the band produced and released their self-titled debut in 1999 on sleepy bunny records (a fictitious local label). In March of...

This last week I was invited out to the Viper Room on Sunset to witness a live performance by the Fullerton, OC based independent rock six-piece, The Living Suns. The Living Suns combine a mixture of progressive and...

Great Gustav! Incomplete Neighbor, an indie rock band from San Diego has put together a batch of demos bound for their debut album coming late this Fall or possibly in the Spring. Incomplete Neighbor is also designing...

This is the story of The Pacific, a three piece indie group of some Japanese heritage, whom have been pouring their hearts into the many storied high-energy performances in the Los Angeles rock underground. For years The...

Out of the Woods of New Hampshire, Elks have announced that their primary sound genre is ‘face melting’, so we thought it was time to unleash this pent up beast right before your long weekend starts. Located...

Sentinel, a dream-pop four piece from Oakland has returned with another very solid effort on their May 2008 release, “Kites Without Strings”. Avalanche is the second track off their new CD, a beautiful and...

Formerly named Peggy Sue & The Pirates up until very recently, the self-annointed untraditional folk duo of Rosa ‘REX’ Slade and KatyBeth ‘KLAW’ Young from Brighton, UK, released a live version of this song in...

New York four-piece Bell Hollow has crafted a dark, lush, and somewhat wistful ten song masterpiece in their newest release ‘Foxgloves’. The song we are featuring today, ‘Copper Crayon’,...

With vocals swimming into the mystic range of Van Morrison and even Vedder or Duritz, San Luis Obispo’s Still Time adeptly soaks up a variety of rock, folk, jazz and reggae influences and styles in the ever-widening...

This last week, the New Media Expo arrived for the fourth time at its new home, the Las Vegas Convention Center. For the newly named 2008 Expo, I had the pleasure of staying with fellow content producer from Detroit,...

Since we’re not getting enough of the constant Sugar flowing from Bob Mould’s Minneapolis & now Washington based cookie jar, we’ve decided to forage further to the east and break the lock off the...

From Yonkers, New York we would like to introduce you to Mouthblocks, one of our favorite new hip-hop artists who just released his debut EP, Sing for Your Supper on fledgling Baby Grey Records. Mouthblock adeptly presents...

There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere, Head Like A Kite’s second full-length album, and first for Mush, is an expert blend of electronic rock production and pure pop-songcraft built on a bed of pillaged found-sound from...

From Toronto Ontario, Canadian foursome Put the Rifle Down seemingly has the incredible talent that allows them to craft non-disposable synth-pop styled masterpieces, which also happened to spark the same hibernating...

In early summer of 2004, San Francisco’s Finest Dearest began practicing in a basement bedroom, hashing out concepts and ideas. After a series of musical chairs in the lineup, the band emerged with a bolder, more...

We first heard from Phoenix, Arizona’s The Love Me Nots in IR: San Francisco’s lovefest around early ’07 during the period in which tLMN released their debut album Black & White, which shot up into...

Thanks for checking out the 24th full length edition of The SoCal Sessions here at Insomnia Radio. Today we’ve gathered up fourteen excellent tracks from fourteen talented artists, breaking out in Long Beach via a...

Beyond their years musically, Los Angeles based Drive A has just completed their full length record with Grammy Award winning Producer Julian Raymond and are on the verge of capping off their Warped Tour experience in late...

Kansas City based group, The Republic Tigers, got their name from a mixture of a former band name, “Golden Republic” and a certain animal mascot from one of the band member’s alma maters – two...

Out of Cedar Falls, Iowa, the Teddy Boys have managed to revive the sounds of 60’s Britain in the Corn Belt, the soil apparently UK friendly last year, with another crop of songs promised to be germinating in the...

Trains Followed Us is a promising two year old rock band residing in Jacksonville Beach, Florida that has just released an EP entitled “Sinking, Sleeping” to sit alongside last years deubt EP,...