In September the finest independent music by Portuguese artists is made by rock, two songs in Portuguese, one instrumental and the opening track that have been making people in the Azores islands real crazy. Rodrigo is...

Your favourite elctro duo are back in town. Sensual Harassment have released their second e.p. At last. Sensual Harassment seem to wistfully draw upon popular music of the past as a way forward – whether it be the...

Pop and soul 26 year old, self taught musician with a humble yet powerful stage presence. Stokes’s original sound is a series of stories woven together through a mixture of intricate wordplay, personal experience,...

A music group is not one of the first things that come to your mind when you think about Israel, but if your contacted by someone from that country asking you to listen to a band that has shared the stage with Dave...

Formed in Philadelphia in 2009, Song Dogs has been playing around the Mid-Atlantic for the past three years. A 2011 EP, Song Dogs and the Nightjar, helped them to gain legitimacy as a band and lend the fan support to create...

The South Korean music will change as you know it. Forget about non-sense horse movements and hysterical crowd reactions. Milo and Zee have created the band From The Airport. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself as...

The cold land of Sweden has another warm voice for us to listen. Josefina Sanner has relased as a single Do You Remember, a track from her album released in 2012 These Beads of Mine. But it’s not just the voice....

The legacy goes on. So the lyrics go, and while listening you can’t help but trying some moonwalking. Coming from Chile, Mecanico does an excellent work recreating the textures on Michael Jackson’s greatest...

Insomnia Radio: Portugal Metal gets its hands on the second show dedicated to hard music by Portuguse artists. Instrumental music, hardcore, real hard hardcore and heavy rock. It’s here in a five track playlist showing...

Steve Marino started writing songs in his bedroom back in Florida in 2008. Since then, he’s moved to Indiana, and his songs have become a little less cheesy and juvenile, and more abstract, and self-pitiful in nature....

The 21st show of Insomnia Radio: Portugal brings you another eclectic mix of the finest independent music by Portuguese artists. Folk, electronic, pop and rock. Also notice releases under Creative Commons Licence and a band...

It’s very usual these days to listen to a band with a non convencional rock band line up. Bands with 2 basses, bands with 2 drums, bands with no instruments at all, but mostly, just drums and a guitar. All right, Jack...

Jakarta Club have released last December a free self-titled e.p. where they feature 5 songs with clear melodies with a bit of 80’s music influence. The lucky people who have been at their concerts talk about a hell of...

You are about to listen, if you are not listening yet, to a very promissing band from Tampa Bay. Hope Darling don’t have anything officially released yet. Their sound reminds of many top selling bands, but with a...

After the recent post featuring Mambassa Blouz Band, get used to it, you will find songs wich lyrics most of you may not understand. Still, do you have a limit for the music you listen? This isn’t your place then. But...

A very promissing advanced single from Everything You Want Destroys What Others Have, album to be released this year, after the not less brilliant Lizards, released last year. Jorge Strofer, born in Dominican Republic, the...

Enjoying independent and experimental rock music is very easy if put in the pot Future History. Originary from Toronto, Canada, these five musicians have released Loss:/self digitaly, with the vinyl version planned for later...

Nettie Rose sings about People I Know (well, people she knows. This is actually the album tittle).  She wrote these songs with the help of those people, some in L.A., some in Nashville, some dead and some living, some real,...

Hi everyone, I’m proud to present my first solo album “Wings”. Although this is a totally “do it yourself” project, i would never make it without the help of some very special friends and artists. Yellow says...

The Canadian band Old English actually started as a solo work by Matt Henderson. But as the musicians were contributing in a great and unexpected ways, quoting Matt’s words, it turn out to be a band with potential 15...

The songs in Ha Ha, Vwah Lah (like voilá in French?) are just what you expect from an album with this name. Besides being hard to tell who they sound like, maybe because they simply sound like themselves, The Spell are a...

Insomnia Radio opens line for Wideboy Generation, a punk rock trio from Herts and Essex in England. Tracks heard: Looters and Sylvia from their album No Time to Be Shy Main site | Facebook | iTunes | Twitter |...

  Silence Is Sexy, what a name, is a band from Utrecht, in Netherlands. With references from the 80’s, Joy Dividson and stuff, but also more recent acts like The Bravery, this band has released since 2005. Mind...

In the weekend I’m celebrating 7 years of podcasting, I couldn’t let this date pass without putting up another show with the finest independent music from Portugal. Have a great 2013. 1: Carl Mendes – Cheer...

Singer and drummer Jackslacks is a founding member of San Diego regional bands Forbidden Pigs and Hot-Rod Lincoln, plus Detroit’s Nobody’s Business and others. He has shared the stage with classic and neo...

  Coming from Los Angeles, California, Noah Lebenzon and Thomas Froggatt met in Kansas. And recently, probably the second best thing that could happen to them, they released Asian She EP, recorded at Noah’s home...

Oh! My Blackbird were named one of the 10 bands to watch in 2012 by Music. Defined, along with Cloud Nothings or Tennis. Annie Sullivan gives voice to this New York trio inspired by choral music and madrigals, and though...

  Emerald Park are probably one of the most successful band releasing songs under Creative Commons. It’s been 10 years since we have heard for the first time about a new and legal way to share free music. Based in...

You have learned here that Reverend JM’S Panic Whorship are not in the mood to follow the rules. But this time they have really gone beyond what you know as Christmas music. Creepy, but beautifuly pleasent, this is...

Sun Glitters, previously featured at the Daily Dose and Insomnia Radio: Portugal, has been very busy with many live acts around Europe. So has other electronic music artists remixing tracks by the Portuguese artist that goes...

Here is something you never read about music: caffeinated rock n’ roll. But, don’t use just a regular coffee. Queued Up is a 4-piece power pop group hailing from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. They call their music...

A soul record, certainly. A project born of a shared feel for that idiom’s sounds. But not a suite of songs by its bold-faced names (well, maybe a couple – they couldn’t lay off that Sam classic, or from...