Episode number 98 of Insomnia Radio: UK Another twelve songs by UK artists, again very varied in style. Quite a lot of Electro-Rock this time, some Post Rock, a bit of Noise Pop, and even some straight Rock. Recording...

The title track from The UK’s Tall Ships EP released in April. Tall Ships are originally from Falmouth, and now based in Brighton on the South coast of the UK, fast becoming a centre for new independent bands. Plate...

The second single from their excellent album Strange Hearts. The first single and more info are available in our previous post here. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-secretcities-thepark.mp3] Download...

  Too Beautiful to Work is the title track from the new album by Montreal’s The Luyas, released on Dead Oceans. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-theluyas-toobeautifultowork.mp3] Download...

From their fifth album Loud Planes Fly Low. The Rosebuds are husband and wife duo Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, from Raleigh, North Carolina. Loud Planes Fly Low is out now on Merge...

ME & LP is Matthew Embree and Lisa Papineau. Together they have created a debut release called Chez Raymond. It will be released via Sargent House August 9, 2011....

“Advent Horizon are a modern, ‘prog rock power trio’ lead by singer/guitarist Rylee McDonald with bassist/singer Samuel Hopkins and drummer Mike Lofgreen. Advent Horizon mix high energy performances,...

From Botany‘s debut EP Feeling Today. Botany is Spencer Stephenson, from Weatherford, TX. His Feeling Today EP has just been released on Western Vinyl, and a full length album is expected later this...

Boy + Kite (“Boy Plus Kite”) was formed in 2009 in an an unlikely place – a hot tub. Back then, Boy + Kite’s Darvin Jones and Beth Puorro would often sneak into a spa on the outskirts of Austin to swim and...

From their new EP Vaede Collider is a young San Francisco rock band. Named after large particle accelerators, Collider’s music revels in both the bombastic beauty of energy and more subtle moments of delicacy, like...

The title track from their new EP. The five track Better Days is the first release from Los Angeles based Fonda (Emily Cook and David Klotz) since their last full-length album in 2003 Catching Up to the Future....

The Perfects, Insomnia Radio favourites, from Baltimore, were first brought to our attention by Tim Poggioli of Insomnia Radio: Baltimore. Over the years we have featured their music many times across the Network, as the...

The Young Things are from New York, and Talking Too Loud is the A-side their new limited edition 7” due out in July. Their debut EP …Is the Killer is a free download from their Web...

Sleeper Agent were formed in 2008 by guitarist/singer Tony Smith and drummer Justin Wilson. Smith rounded out the band’s line-up with friends and fans, including co-vocalist Alex Kandel (whose Debbie Harry style belies...

Fans of New Order will appreciate the sound of The Chain Gang of 1974, which is the project of Denver resident Kamtin Mohager. Undercover is the lead single from the recently released album Wayward Fire. TCGo74 is on...

Iceage are a young band (average age somewhere around 17) from Copenhagen in Denmark, who are riding the wave of the post-punk revival. Their album New Brigade crams 12 high energy punk songs into 25 minutes. They are on...

Episode 97 of Insomnia Radio: UK 12 diverse tracks from UK artists Recording Date: Sunday 03 July 2011 TRT: 59:15 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk97.mp3] Download IR: UK 97 Subscribe to IR: UK...

Clara May is Tom Silva, a Malaysian-born filmmaker, corporate executive, University of Chicago grad student and writer, and Nicole Sotelo, a Harvard-trained theologian and author, with Phillip Amerson, Chicago producer and...

Richtaste are from Zurich in Switzerland, and Beautiful Misery is from their album Lights And Shades available from Jamendo. If you would like to check out other tracks from the album, click on the Jamendo Player below....

“Los Angeles native John Gold is a singer/songwriter — or, as he puts it, “writer/songsinger” — who should be a poster child for DIY. With a little help from from his friends, his songs have found their way...

With what began as a childhood project that combined brothers Sean and Jimmy Galloway’s first names, The Shimmies has now created a self-appointed genre for itself, lovingly referred to as “home school rock.” First...

“Pop needn’t be fluffy, and can be catchy without being insipid. That’s the mantra of Scarlet Season. The new project from Seattle artist Aileen Paron takes a songcentric pop-rock approach and infuses it with...

“Half-android, Ahye hides the formula for love in her still-human heart (the Oculons seek to destroy this, in order to extinguish life on earth forever!) Captain Braxton, her lost love, has been on another planet...

Tidelands is the duo of San Francisco’s Gabriel Montana Leis (Guitar, Flugelhorn, Vocals) and Mie Araki (Drums, Keyboards, Vocals). Sharp, poignant, poetic lyrics are uniquely arranged with looped guitars, Moog bass and...

EDM [formerly called Early Day Miners] started as a musical-cooperative based in Bloomington, Indiana. The group formed when Daniel Burton and Rory Leitch (both of Ativin) began playing on front porches and basements with...

We sometimes describe often featured bands as “Network Favourites”, but to use that term for Oakland’s Sentinel is an understatement. Sentinel could justifiably be described as an Insomnia Radio House...

From Tripper, their newly completed fifth album, due out August 30th, 2011 on Sargent House. After a four year hiatus, the duo featuring drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim has returned. Stripped back down to the...

Metal Mother is the moniker of the newest musical undertaking of singer/soundmaker, Tara Tati. Shake is the second track we’ve featured from the album Bonfire Diaries. For the past ten years, Tati has been developing...

From the Archives, enjoy the twelfth volume of Scott Tinetti’s legendary The Best Music You’ve Never Heard. As always, if you like what you hear, buy a song, buy an album, send the musicians some...

Kaleidophone formed in Aug 2007 in Maidstone in the UK, and have just completed their debut album What’s Your Tonic After signing with Tin Robot Records in 2009, Kaleidophone quickly began to gain popularity with...

Garage-punk trio Le Butcherettes have released their debut full-length, Sin Sin Sin. Led by charismatic 21-year-old vocalist/guitarist/pianist Teri Gender Bender have been on the road supporting Deftones and The Dillinger...

Episode number 96 of Insomnia Radio: UK Twelve tracks by UK artists. Some questions about spelling. Recording Date: Sunday 05 June 2011 TRT: 45:29 Rating: Work...