An incredible selection of retro-tinged indie music, with Insomnia Radio's original creator and host back behind the mic.

Imagine Dragons released the first video and single from their upcoming new album Smoke and Mirrors last week. The single is called I Bet My Life. Since we featured the band back in June 2010, we’ve been watching...

A new show, hosted by Stuart, with a varied mix of music from USA, UK & Australia. Also a Podcrawl report from London. TRT: 39:38 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir184.mp3] Download IR:...

The pick of this week’s Video Submissions Equals – Autotelic BandCamp | Web Site | Twitter | Facebook | Web Site | Facebook | Web Site | Twitter Jail Weddings – Summer Fades Facebook |...

The pick of this week’s Video Submissions The Agency: Midnight Garden In The Valley Below: Peaches James: Frozen Britain Skating Polly: Alabama Movies Ships Have Sailed: Midnight Slow No Wake: Leave The Light On Got...

A new episode of Insomnia Radio, with bands from USA, UK, Australia and Israel. A relaunch. We’ll probably be producing this Podcast more often now. TRT: 55:50 Rating: Work...

Hi everyone. Just a quick update on what we’re planning for the Main Insomnia Radio Show The Daily Dose has been going from strength to strength over the four and a half years since we decided to make it truly Daily...

Hi Everyone. We’ve had a glitch with the address of the Insomnia Radio Superfeed (an RSS Feed which combines all the Family of Shows’ feeds in to a single easily managed stream). It seems that snipurl.com have...

While the forecast for Brooklyn might call for rain and a 20% chance of getting stung by ice pellets, in the not so distance past the metropolis was covered with snow.  This was likely around the time these two great...

A marathon episode of Insomnia Radio, with bands from Canada, USA, Australia, Spain, The Dominican Republic, Argentina, Italy, Holland and Sweden. And there is a BIG announcement. TRT: 1:18:35 Rating: Probably Work...

What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our representative...

On the eve of Memorial Day here in the States I wanted to bring two groups to your attention that helped supply the soundtrack for a newspaper digging odyssey into my southern ancestry over the past few days. From Civil...

Rodrigo de Sá hosts from the Azores islands, Portugal, the 180th edition of our main show. This show includes only artists that submitted their music to us. We must say thank you to all of them, as the quality of their...

Stuart Morrison presents a show with Direct Submissions, Archive from The Vault, a Daily Dose feature, and more. A wide range of music, from Ukrainian Brit-Pop to Metal to...

After the tail end of October I figured you all could use a palette cleanser to help wash away all the monster laden paranormal music and get us all back into the normal swing of things. Eight more tracks follow today,...

Inspired by Marci Brinker’s annual Horrorlando Halloween episodes of years past, we’ve gone and created a beast of a show as a tribute; possibly the longest on the network so far. In the next two hours on...

From the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, that is the Azores islands, Rodrigo de Sá hosts for the second time an Insomnia Radio main show. On this show you will listen to some tracks featured at our Daily Dose channel, a...

In the midst of our daily international music hunting here at the network we come across a wide range of musicians who have new releases forthcoming or whom have released new musical goodness in the last year or so.  ...

Stuart Morrison and the Insomnia Radio Team restart the show with a new format. Direct Submissions, Archive from The Vault, a Daily Dose feature, Regional Roundup, news, a spotlight on Philadelphia, and more. Welcome to...

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...

From the Archives, enjoy the eleventh 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...

This is the time to renew your hopes and wishes, but especially to be happy. And don’t forget good independent music. So, your favourite podcast family has chosen some Christmas tunes, from classic to originals, from...

Dan just delivered the third episode of the new Insomnia Radio: San Francisco, and it is dedicated to the holidays. Ten amazing holiday songs – ranging from hilarious to ironic to beautiful – for your enjoyment...

Moving away from our last episode’s melancholy moods, episode 175 of Insomnia Radio moves across several genres. The playlist runs the gamut from jazz to punk, acoustic pop to grunge to 8-bit rock, with minimal...

The San Francisco feed of Insomnia Radio has been dark since February 2008, but today I’m ridiculously excited to be throwing the switch once again. As we have with IR: Chicago, our San Francisco is getting a reboot of...

It happens every year, normally near November. The winter sets in and the melancholy attitude creeps its way into an Insomnia Radio playlist. Despite this collection of new songs and old favorites existing somewhere...

Ever since the 2005 MGM vs Grokster ruling (which declared companies Grokster and Streamcast could be sued for inducing copyright infringement), the proverbial hammer has been ready to drop on P2P File Sharing service...

(Download this article as an MP3 file) It needs to be said: The late Michael Campbell, aka Mikey Dread, was a severely under-appreciated artist. I first met Mikey at a crowded club near Cleveland, Ohio, where he and his...

Hey gang, welcome to a long overdue episode of a little show called Insomnia Radio. Find your best headphones, crank the volume to 11, and join us we journey into the sixth year of IR. Tons of new music, new energy, new...

In the video game world, we’d call this a teaser trailer, and this one is short, elegant, and to the point. Insomnia Radio favorite and friend Chance just debuted the video to promote a new single (likely titled...

…in which that slacker Jason introduces the station that truly never sleeps: IR 24/7. The newest addition to the family introduces a crystal clear 128k stream of never-ending independent goodness. Because hey,...

IR’s SoCal Sessions return after close to a years absence, bringing quality tracks from San Diego, Temecula, Long Beach, and basically all over the LA and OC regions. Please listen and help support these...