They are back. Actually, officially they are not back yet. Confused? Don’t be. One of the best 2011 albums is yet to be released, but you can get a preview of it listening to two addictive tracks. Clap Your Hands Say...

When asked if we could use their songs at Insomnia Radio, they said we could and we should. No wonder why we should. Suprah, the Portuguese band from Lisbon, don’t disapoint those who are looking for a powerful rock...

Is there a recipe for a good song? Is there a recipe for a good album? Perfection may not exist, but good songs and good albums exist after a formula. But forget good albums and good songs. Forget them, because artistic...

Cool and Collected, the track featured today, made me feel like São Miguel island, in the Azores, was actually the best place one could live. The Delta Routine is a Milwaukee-based band committed to the project of reviving...

1975, the song you are listening today is by The New Slave, the San Francisco, California, based band, also featured at Insomnia Radio: Daily Dose on 2009 July the 6th. Forget Progress, Return to Instinct is their new...

From Montreal, Canada, Belgrave are one of the newest band to join Lovely Hearts Club, a music discovery project of the New York based indepenent label Paper Garden Records.  Belgrave’s debut release was in May with...

  We are used to listen to 30 seconds of a song, as a preview. Some of us live in countries that allow us to listen to 1 minute and 30 seconds of each song as a preview. But in this case, I just needed 1 second to know that...

Residing in the music of England, Film Noir World is a project by a one man band and producer, Mark Johnson, who makes music that have a movie soundtrack feel. From love, adventure, to suspense, thriller, mysterious, action,...

Have you ever listen to an album, and after the last song you thought that you wouldn’t change anything on it? Did you? It does make the album perfect, doesn’t it? Dark Mean is the name of these Canadian gods of...

The Spires were born at a mental asylum on the outskirts of Sheffield, where lead singer Matt Smith worked as a caretaker. Inspired by his surroundings, Matt put all his energy into riotous, lung bursting performances that...

Sun Glitters sound is an ocean of lush melodies, pitch-shifted vocal samples, ghostly digi-diva choirs, warm bass melodies driven by alternately dense and relaxing beatwork combinations between downtempo and wonky...

How many killer rock bands call Chicago home? Tons. How does a band manage to stand out from a crowd like that? By making music just like Welcome To Ashley does. Have a Hall-of-Fame list of musical influences, release a...

Automatic Black is one of the premier rock groups of all time to be signed previously to Arista Records.  The news stunned the world when the major label dropped the stadium phenomenon Automatic Black group in 2004.  The...

The song you are listening today comes from the album The Reluctant Graveyard. Jeremy is from Minneapolis. To call Jeremy Messersmith a musician is half-truth: He’s also a storyteller, who has carefully crafted a trilogy...

With lots of hapiness, we bring you today Model Son, from the new e.p. Oui Camera Oui by the Oakland based The Heavenly States. The latest release from Oakland’s The Heavenly States, Oui Camera Oui is a dose of punk...

Buy You is the new e.p. by the band And And And. Released by Tender Loving Empire it’s a group of 4 songs, new and old by the band, available only as a download record. The best way to find it at your favourite store...

Recently Utter were in São Miguel island, here in the Azores, and I was with them the whole weekend, including in the backstage. When I left, wich happened 10 minutes before they started the concert, they told me to get...

Sleeping at Last are Ryan O’Neal and Dan Perdue. I have been listening to them for more than 3 years. I first had to understand them, then started to enjoy their music, until the day I realised I had to listen to...

Bill Majoros (Hamilton, Canada) is The Foreign Films, but that wasn’t something that happened overnight. As a teenager he was touring the world playing packed arenas, and empty bars. His last band Flux A.D. (a favourite of...

Today’s feature comes from an album called The Next Right Thing, wich could also be a comment about the artist you are listening. Seth Glier is a 21 year-old songwriter and musician from Massachusetts, who’s...

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart need no introduction to you, loyal fans of Insomnia Radio. Neither they need any introduction to independent music fans or even some mainstream music listeners. They have been in our ears and...

To put it a bit simply: Sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, and much of the time you’re somewhere in between. And it’s good, very good to have Goldenboy on hand to help navigate between these points of...

The Nameless is Cathy’s third album. Cathy was born in Dublin, and grew up in Monkstown. She found her way into music almost accidentally. She was signed by Parlophone’s Regal Recordings after a batch of...

From Brooklyn, Sensual Harassment may be the new heroes for the XXI century dance floor. With haunting voices singing songs, that are no more than anthems, Alpha Draconis is the first album by the trio and is available to...

Layers of Love United, the new album by the portuguese band Norton, is the face of a new era for the band. Their goal was to create an album with songs. Not just tracks. Songs you can sing, connect and remember. This new...

With songs that mix up different genres with rock being the main influence, Decision & Consequence puts out a positive energy with its sound while the lyrics show a more intimate side of the band’s ideals, life...

Butterfly Explosion are from Dublin, Ireland. It couldn’t be more perfect for today, as tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. Before you continue reading, let me inform you that the digital version of the album Lost...

Welsh indie/pop band OK released their debut album Under The Weather But Over The Moon on March 2010, and won over audiences throughout the United Kingdom having played Glastonbury and performed alongside Jersey Budd, Holly...

There is an old portuguese saying reminding us that there is a lot of fish in the sea. Many Fish to Fry, the title of the album and today’s featured track by Jake Morley, will prove this sentence doesn’t make...

Here at the Azores islands we are already feeling Spring, but Winter is still there. So, opening this show there is a fantastic track to listen next to someone you really like, or alone next to a fireplace. I’ll tell...

Carl Mendes is a singer-songwriter from Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, and he was named Song Poet by Willy Schwenken, a german manager and editor, who have wroked with musicians such as Tony Maude, Wizz Jones, Eric Bogle,...

DW Void members are not new in the portuguese music scene. In the late 80’s and beginning of the 90’s bands like K4 Quadrado Azul, Aix-La-Chapelle and specially Essa Entente marked the musical scene that time....