In 1997, former Blanks member Pat Lillard (“Spider Stewart”) (Bass), formed The Riverboat Gamblers with Fadi el-Assad (“Freddy Castro”) (Lead Guitar), and Mike Wiebe (“Rookie Sensation”)...

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 since...

Pony Up is an indie pop band from Montreal, Canada. They formed on New Year’s Eve 2002 and, upon developing a relationship with singer Ben Lee, released their debut, self-titled EP in 2005 on his Ten Fingers label. Make...

Boston indie-pop quintet The Hush Now have made an impression on music critics and fans by wedding the “lush sugar-spun melodies of shoegaze’s dreamy heyday” to “the hooky muscle of bands like Guided by Voices and...

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...

Look out Paramore!

Pour yourself a drink. Place those expensive headphones gently over your ears. Turn the lights down. Light a few candles and a stick of Nag Champa. Kick back in that comfy chair you inherited from your Grandpa. Close your...

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...

What if Jane’s Addiction had been more inspired by Ride and late 80’s U2? What if Perry Ferrell would have been a little less neurotic and a touch more intense? What if a band said “You know, shoegaze could...

When Randolph Chabot first began recording his own albums at age 12, he discovered a means of living out his fantasies. Using whatever instrument he could find, Chabot began constructing hyper-emotional dream...

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 of...

[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-nelo-footsteps.mp3] For Matt Ragland, primary songwriter and acoustic guitarist, the release of their debut album, nelo, was a dream nearly 10 years in the making; going...

Drew Danburry is a musician who has toured independently and released records independently for approximately five years or so. He can’t remember all the specifics of his wack life, otherwise we’d know all the...

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...

We all miss Insomnia Radio Baltimore, but thankfully Tim Poggioli is still out in the trenches tipping us off to great Baltimore music… Ric Peters is The Perfects (much like Trent Reznor is NIN), and as Tim...

Copenhagen artist Peter Broderick is like the Swiss Army Knife of musicians; compact, elegant, multipurpose. What sets him apart is his restraint. With an arsenal of talents at his disposal, he prefers to reveal only one or...

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...

Yesterday’s Ring was started in 2000 on a hot summer day on the front porch of a punk house in Memphis, TN. Fred Jacques (guitar and vocals) and Hugo Mudie (vocals) were on tour with their band, The Sainte Catherines....

We last featured The Bloodsugars on Insomnia Radio #112, waaayyy back in a time known as January 2006. We were floored by the organic, infectious hooks of “Bloody Mary” and the gang definitely have not abandoned...

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” Karagiannis...

While exploring some online documentation about the Mexico City based group Simplifires, I ran across another great independent three-piece from the city, surprisingly with another English name – Hello Seahorse! As...

The album is an intricate masterpiece, piecing together individually beautiful and unique tracks to create a warming, powerful album full of contrast and intrigue.

8OObeloved is a Michigan-based group formed from the writing & production of singer/songwriter, Sean Lynch. The group’s moniker, taken from a 1-800 telephone number, hints at the merger between two opposing themes...

After putting out two records under the name taught the rabbits – “one but just another” (2002) & “mallet and watch” (2005) – Adam Faucett...

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...

Today is obviously Mother’s Day in most parts and as a reminder-tribute, we are cuing up an oligatory track by Seattle’s “Say Hi (To Your Mom)”, titled something along the lines of “Oh” x...

I have no idea what to say about these guys. What can be gathered from their decidedly minimalistic website are these decidedly vague facts: The list of people who haven’t helped them is much longer than the list of...

We’ve championed Chance on this network since Insomnia Radio Episode #5. It’s always difficult to choose a single song to highlight from his catalog, and while Life & Life Only is an exemplary example of...

Deadbeat Darling is a band living in New York City founded by singer/guitarist Joseph King, who after 7 years as a respected songwriter and frontman in the Austin music scene, moved to NYC in October of 2005 to begin work in...

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 of...

Just in time for Cinco De Mayo, up pops the Mexico City based four-piece indie rock band ‘Simplifires’;  oddly enough one part Irish, and three parts Mexican – a pretty interesting but oddly workable...