From their album Escape Through The Trees Copilots are a five piece rock band from Vancouver, BC. Formed in 2005, their debut self-titled (2007) CD received glowing reviews across Canada. The band is Skye Brooks...

Insomnia Radio visits New York again Recording Date: Thursday 18th June 2009 TRT: 46:40 Rating: Worksafe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir166.mp3] DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE A regional showcase episode of Insomnia Radio,...

Episode number 70 of Insomnia Radio UK. Welcome to this somewhat delayed episode. Seven songs from UK artists, and one US. And a CD give-away contest! Recording Date: Tuesday 16 June 2009 TRT: 44:35 Rating: Mostly Work...

Ume (pronounced “ooo-may”) are from Austin, Texas, and Pendulum is a song on their EP Sunshower released earlier this year. The band’s genetic make-up is a little shoegaze, garage rock, noise and...

Album Review by Sarah Morrison of Miss Morrison’s Mix If New York based duo Swimming in Speakers (multi-instrumentalist Chris Clarke and lead vocalist Meadow Eliz) can do one thing, it’s defy categorisation. In...

Album Review by Sarah Morrison of Miss Morrison’s Mix The Flying Change, AKA songwriter Sam Jacobs and a selection of talented musicians, had an ingenious idea for spreading awareness and getting awesome coverage for...

From their self titled 5 track Mini Album which was just released on Graveface Records Sherri West and Taylor Clark grew up in Tulsa, but melded musical forces to form the band about seven years ago in Los...

From their upcoming album “Because I Am Not Myself, You See” Goodbye Gadget is an alt-rock/indie/punk band which has been gaining notoriety in the relative confines of the San Francisco’s music scene...

From the album The Simple Life    Nobody could accuse Josh Woodward of being a lazy songwriter. After releasing two CDs at once in August 2007, he announced a hiatus from live performing and headed straight...

To celebrate the third birthday of Insomnia Radio: UK we’ve reposted Episode One, originally released on 1st June 2006. So if you want to hear how it all started, with Phil Coyne at the helm, head over to the...

Episode number 69 of Insomnia Radio UK. Welcome to this somewhat delayed episode. Eight songs from UK artists. Recording Date: Friday 29 May 2009 TRT: 36:40 Rating: Work...

From their album Eating Us Black Moth Super Rainbow come from deep within the woods of Western Pennsylvania. An actual, 5-member band not comprised of the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psyche-pop group in...

From their EP I Will Still Be Wishing “If Phil Spector made an album with Jesus & Mary Chain and New Order it would sound like The Watermarks.” “Imagine rock, pop, and electronics creating a wall...

Jóan Petur is the first Faroese artist to be featured on Insomnia Radio, and this is from his album Bow & Arrow Jóan Petur is from the Faroe Islands. He is 27 years old, and educated as a chef. Jóan Petur is a...

Sarah Morrison brings you Miss Morrison’s Mixtape #1, a song from every independent artist and band reviewed on Miss Morrison’s Mix for Insomnia Radio. Most of these tracks were IR Daily Doses and...

From their EP Twilight Zone Alchemy are a Pop / Progressive Rock band Alchemy from Milan, Italy. Keep an eye on their website alchemy-rockband.it for gig dates to be announced in the future....

Another great band from Montreal in Canada Having each been implicated in numerous musical endeavors over the years, Pierre-Olivier Papineau and Keven Carrière united in October 2005 in an effort to concentrate on a...

The weekend’s Insomnia Radio: UK show has been postponed owing to circumstances beyond my control (thanks BT – rant to follow). Hopefully IR UK 69 will be with you...

From their 2007 album Love is, recently re-released on IODA. From Greece, Cosmicray is a project of Aggelos Mourvatis. The members of the band are: John Jeff Touch – Vocals Panos “Kargas”...

Their new album Radiation reviewed by Sarah Morrison The Morning Stars hail from Hamilton, Canada, although you’d never believe it to listen to their music because they sound as if they’d be right at home in...

Episode number 68 of Insomnia Radio UK. An interesting mix of hard rock and some downtempo, dubstep and post rock Recording Date: Sunday 10 May 2009 TRT: 54:37 Rating: Work...

From their self-titled EP, which is available as a free download Cool Devices pick up where Jason Fredrick’s previous group, The Means, left off.  Included on this EP, in fact, is this song, a reworked version...

The third album [Touchdown] by Brighton UK’s brakesbrakesbrakes finds the group, which features former and current members of British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade, and The Tenderfoot, polishing up their sound a bit...

Episode 67 of Insomnia Radio UK, an Eight Track Ska Special Recorded: 03 May 2009 TRT: 38:12 Rating: Work Safe   [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk67.mp3] Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in iTunes |...

Reviewed by Sarah Morrison Philadelphia foursome MorningSide are releasing their second full-length album The Abuse You Own later this year, but here at Insomnia Radio we couldn’t wait that long so we’ve got a...

Power Pop for the Summer, from Tulsa, Oklahoma Well-known for their harmony infused, three-minute rock explosions and eccentric pop experimentation, Admiral Twin’s latest CD, The Center of the Universe, features...

Episode Number 66 of Insomnia Radio UK Six songs from UK artists, one French and one UK/French. Includes a prototype Ska segment. Recording Date: Sun 26 April 2009 TRT: 34:36 Rating: Work...

Psychedelic-tinged Rock from Buenos Aires Argentina via Bibao Spain Released 25 April 2009, Rising Mountain is the eleventh Album from Capsula, who formed in 1999.    This prolific band are originally from Buenos...

Reviewed by Sarah Morrison New York based four-piece Her Vanished Grace have created a sound which is really something special with their newest album ‘Blue’. They describe themselves as dream pop (incidentally...

Singer/rhythm guitarist Andy Martin, lead guitarist Kyle Hammond and drummer Dan Ryan formed DEAD WORLD LEADERS in 2006. With the addition of Rob Nicholson on bass they have aired on Hallam FM, BBC Radio Sheffield and more...

Episode number 65 of Insomnia Radio UK. Another eight songs from UK based artists Recording Date:  Sunday 19 April 2009 (not Saturday as I said in the show) TRT: 38:28 Rating: Work...

From the Archives, enjoy the eighth 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...