Marching Band is an indie rock duo based in Linköping, Sweden. The band just finished recording their upcoming release “Spark Large” with Adam Lasus, renowned indie rock producer of such artists as Clap Your...

Losing ourselves in the San Francisco night, today’s Daily Dose takes a look inside Return To Mono‘s hybrid sound experimentations, specifically the sultronica musings of their track ‘Losing Faith’....

IR favorites, The Winter Sounds, are currently recording their second full length album entitled ‘Church of the Haunted South’ down in Austin, Texas. Apparently the recording is taking place at Cacophony...

So you are done with Side A, no? If not, you’ve stumbled across the second side of our mixtape set tipping a hat toward the Siren Music Festival presented annually at Coney Island, NY by the Village Voice. The image...

On July 19, 2008 an incredible selection of musical talent assembled under the shadow of the famed eighty-one year old Cyclone rollercoaster at the storied community of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. This mixtape is a...

Seattle’s Stuporhero is back with their third and latest album, Weightless, and they are pleased to announce that it’s available as a free download here on their website. In addition to high quality 320 kbps...

We’ve decoded a recent El Ten Eleven instrumental transmission here in Los Angeles and it seems to be ushering in a new album release: “El Ten Eleven’s third album, “These Promises Are Being...

From one of my favorite regions in Canada – Way to Go Einstein hails from Vancouver, British Columbia and we apparently enjoy saying their name so much as it doubles as a nice age-old method to convey epic failure to...

Today we bring you what they call in your country, ‘The Coffee Break’. Its a nice assortment of different sound selections starting off a heavier note and gradually ending at a light-hearted party somewhere in...

Starting out with a few appearances at a local open-mic showcase, Bag of Toys has quickly risen up the San Francisco venue circuit by entertaining the masses at venues such as The Independent and Slim’s while sharing...

WARNING: attempting to wear earplugs at any of The Foundation‘s live shows is futile…The Foundation will melt them into your skull. Nothing can prepare you for the top-fuel injected rawk & roll of The...

From Los Angeles, CA – Nico Stai has just released his newest four song EP, Dead Pony, a precursor to his second full length album coming to us all in the near future, undoubtably after this quality new teaser runs...

“Dread at the Controls – Evolutionary Rockers” was Insomnia Radio DJ and legendary performer/producer Mikey Dread‘s first reggae album, and has never been available on CD or in digital format before....

“Everybody wants to be known” – Dance Thunder Roiling guitarplay reminiscent of audible traits from the punk-grunge lineage of choice Seattle groups like Treepeople and Nirvana has boiled out of Long...

The LK is an experimental pop outfit from Malmo, Sweden. Pouring musique concrète-style collages of sound into iconic pop arrangements, they craft their own kind of playful, elegant “micro-jangle” using equal...

Make the Happiness Stop! After a lengthy hiatus, PRO AUDIO has returned with new life. Still co-fronted by John Hoelle on bass and Jason “Fish” Fischer on guitar and piano, the indestructible line-up now includes sexy...

Happy Independent’s Day. Today we bring you a glowing nugget from the new, yet fire-tested Seattle, Washington group Search/Rescue. The song is entitled Fireflies from S/R’s debut 10 song CD, “The...

Based in Los Angeles and formed in 2002, Summer Darling began as a three piece indie pop band with an interest in songwriting and melody. Comprised of vocalist / songwriter Ben Heywood, drummer / guitarist Dan Rossiter...

Schematics marks the third LP from Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer, and the first since 2003’s dance-a-thon Jalopy Go Far, released on Eyeball Records (My Chemical Romance, Thursday). Since then, the band released an...

The Turn-ons have been performing in the Northwest, California and NY with bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre, British Sea Power, and Ulrich Schnauss, and tirelessly writing and recording new material over the past 8...

Following up on the first all hip-hop episode here at Insomnia Radio back at the end of 2006 (#103 – He’s Playing WHAT???), we eagerly bring you sixteen high quality tracks from a wide selection of regional...

And now for a head-trip around the planetary systems. From the UK, experimental electronic duo OrtzRoka has been recently described as ‘half mental techno, half down tempo mint and water’ by Fluokids. I have...

PHOTOSYNTHESIS is songs. They come on CDs and in digital files that you can download from the internet. Sometimes there are these performance things that are done using a microphone and a computer. Don’t come to these...

Every story needs a soundtrack. Just ask Mike Getches of Fort Collins-based RIDE YOUR BIKE who penned an imaginative screenplay to serve as the foundation for his addictive brand of indie pop….as well as his...

You may be familiar with Brooklyn NY based singer-songwriter Mike Doughty through his work in the 90’s with the group Soul Coughing. In 2000 he broke up that band and toured the country selling 20,000 copies of his...

Since I had such a great time researching specific tracks of groups performing at Warped, I thought we’d throw an extra tape together highlighting another eighteen artists performing at the festival this year. Enjoy...

Please enjoy the second part of our Insomnia is Warped Mixtape ’08 series, released a day after the Warped Tour opener. Apparently the festival debuted in oppressive triple digit temperatures in Pomona, CA –...

The 2008 Warped Tour engine fires up today in Pomona, California (US) and the musicians invited will spend the majority of the summer nomadically performing across the country, storming toward the East Coast and then...

Summer arrives early in the evening here in the US amongst floods, heatwaves, and spiralling oil prices. What better way to ring it all in then with Los Angeles indie psychrock band “Darker My Love” and their...

Good grief. From Washington DC, Jukebox the Ghost sounds as if they took the musical torch from Vince Guaraldi, continuing with more contemporary sounding theme songs for Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang. Jukebox the...

On May 21st 2005, Black Violin, two classically trained musicians, took home the title ‘2005 Apollo Legends’ which catapulted them to international fame. These two gentlemen, Kev Marcus and Wil B along with...

Today we present one of Boston, Massachusetts best kept secrets, This Car Up. Since our basketball team in LA is currently being spanked by Boston as I type this, I figured today was as good as any to pay tribute to the...