From their upcoming album Ghost to be released November 17th, 2009 San Diego’s Tape Deck Mountain first made waves by releasing their debut EP Sparks on the unconventional (but quite fitting for their name) medium,...
Birds & Batteri...
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From their latest EP Up To No Good Never easy to categorize, Birds & Batteries continue to cut their own path of genre-less music. Heavily influenced by Bowie’s Scary Monsters, P-Funk, and John Carpenter films,...
IR: UK #75 – 2...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Episode number 75 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is the last of three retrospectives, ten of the best tracks from shows 51 to 72 in 2008 and 2009 Recording Date: Saturday 31 Oct 2009 TRT:...
Persian Claws: Yours...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Some Garage Punk for you today, from Burlington, VT PERSIAN CLAWS formed August 2008 in Burlington, VT. They are a Garage Punk band with Female vocals inspired by 60’s garage rock & cinema, 70’s punk...
The Tripwires: Drawi...
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From the album House To House on Spark And Shine...
Rep By Pop: Cell pho...
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The Title Track from their new Album. See the video over there ——————————–> Rep By Pop are a power pop trio playing infectious, danceable, synth/guitar...
The Prairie Cartel: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Where Did All My People Go “The next big thing out of the Windy City… raging and carnal… a nervous breakdown on the dance floor” [IODA] TPC are Scott Lucas, Blake Smith and Mike...
IR: UK #74 – 2...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Episode number 74 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is the second of three retrospectives, ten of the best tracks from shows 34 to 50 in 2007 and 2008 Recording Date: Thursday 22 Oct...
mr. Gnome: Slow Side
posted by Stuart Morrison
A single from their upcoming album Heave yer Skeleton to be released November 2009 Cleveland duo mr. Gnome launched a lengthy U.S. tour 1st October that will keep them on the road until late December. The trek is in...
Podcast Alley –...
posted by Stuart Morrison
If you have a minute free, would you consider voting for Insomnia Radio: UK at the Podcast Directory Podcast Alley please? In the last week we’ve got into the top twenty Music Podcasts as voted for by listeners, and...
Podcrawl 04
posted by Stuart Morrison
Podcrawl 4 is confirmed for November 21st in London. Be sure to come, details can be found at the Facebook event page, or visiting the Podcrawl Blog. People will be twittering with the hashtag #podcrawl, and we’d like to...
Podcrawl 04
posted by Stuart Morrison
Podcrawl 4 is confirmed for November 21st in London. Be sure to come, details can be found at the Facebook event page, or visiting the Podcrawl Blog. People will be twittering with the hashtag #podcrawl, and we’d like to...
The Lights Out: Five...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Boston, MA, The Lights Out are: Rishava Green (lead vocals, guitar) Jesse James (drums, vocals) Adam Ritchie (lead guitar, vocals) Matt King (bass, vocals) The quartet cranks out the perfect soundtrack to a bank...
Minto: Burnt Down Tr...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their album Lay It On Me Transformation. Rebirth. Renewal. The Vancouver vagabonds formerly known as The Smokes have charted something of a non-traditional course over their half-decade of existence. The...
The Littlest Viking:...
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From their debut full length album Labor & Lust From San Pedro, California, The Littlest Viking are: Christopher Patrick Gregory- Drum solos/What? Ruben Jesse Cortez- Guitar/delusions of grandeur We...
Today the Moon, Tomo...
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From their new EP “HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS” to be released on on Oct. 17 Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun is about the collaborative. It’s about the connections between sound and people. It’s about the...
The Paper Cranes: Ch...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The title song from their recent album The Paper Cranes are a husband and wife indie-pop band from Victoria, British Columbia whose specialty is crafting infectiously melodic pop songs with heart-wrenching lyrics that...
Any Day in June: Fea...
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From the upcoming album Love in the Time of Poverty Any Day in June is the studio project for J. Celestino. Currently ADIJ is working on a new album due out in September. J. Celestino is an Artist and a Teacher working...
Firekites: Same Subu...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From the album The Bowery Named after the abandoned dance hall in which it was recorded, The Bowery is a breath-taking debut album for Australian musical collective, Firekites. Formed in 2005 by Tim McPhee and Rod...
The Sweet Serenades:...
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Swedish duo The Sweet Serenades have now released their album Balcony Cigarettes Band Members are Martin Nordvall -vocals and rhythm guitar & Mathias Näslund – lead guitar. Other instruments played by...
Tripdavon: By The Ri...
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From their recent third album Sketches From Silence Tripdavon is an independent band from Santa Barbara, California. Since forming in 2004, they’ve been featured on HBO’s hit show “Entourage,”...
Angher: Emerge And B...
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From their Album Hidden Truth ANGHER was basically a one man project started by cellist/guitarist Greg Korniluk shortly after he was invited to record/guest on the Apocalyptica album “Reflections”. Still,...
The Dustys: Dangerou...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their EP Sticky Blood Emerging out of the garage-punk constellation around our nation’s capitol, The Dustys signal their arrival with a cacophonously brilliant debut EP, Sticky Blood, released earlier this month...
Restruct: Rain to Sn...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their self-titled EP Biography 1. Serving or designed to destroy. To destroy intentionally. 2. to do away with or cause the undoing of. Just the opposite of “destruct,” the term and band name RESTRUCT. Brought...
IR: UK #73 – 2...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Episode number 73 of Insomnia Radio UK. To mark my three years of Podcasting, here is a retrospective of ten of the best tracks from shows 11 to 33 in 2006 and 2007 Recording Date: Sunday 20th Sept 2009 TRT: 49:42 Rating:...
Brown Recluse: Night...
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Brilliant pop with tinges of soft rock, folk and lysergic jangle. From their recent EP The Soft Skin. The brown recluse spider or violin spider, Loxosceles reclusa, is a well-known member of the family Sicariidae (formerly...
Tealights: Exit
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Their debut EP will be released on on Sept. 29 TEALIGHTS is an indie-electronica band with classical infusions founded in June 2008. Early into its conception, the band found itself experimenting with vox harmonies,...
My First Earthquake:...
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From their first full length album Downstairs. Three of the four members of My First Earthquake attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, but they didn’t collaborate until they’d each separately moved to San...
Danish Daycare: A Pu...
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‘Danish Daycare’ is the solo project by Daniel Jonsson from Malmo, who has achieved quite a lot during his musical career besides being a solo performer. Between 2001-2005 Daniel played Keyboards for...
PromiseLab: Burned A...
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From their album When The Lights Go Down PromiseLab was born out of a shared vision between Shayne Hudson (vocals, guitar) and Larry Rohleder (drums). As roommates in an East Baltimore row house, Shayne, a...
Heels Catch Fire: A ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Furious new addition to the Brighton [UK] Post Hardcore Artrock scene” “Heels Catch Fire produce angular off-kilter songs that walk the tricky tightrope between post hardcore noise and danceable...
Glenn Jones: A Geran...
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From his album Barbecue Bob in Fishtown From Cambridge, Massachusetts, Glenn Jones is a A 30-plus-year devotee of the so-called Takoma School. His third album – Barbecue Bob in Fishtown – is out now...


