New York Noise Rock/Punk band EndAnd released their album Mechanics & Energetics of Stilt-Running, available from Bandcamp on a pay what you like basis. Fronted by Daniel Fern on guitar & vocals, with Bill...
Field Mouse: Tomorro...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Field Mouse is a four-piece dream pop band from Brooklyn, NY, seamlessly interweaving influences from shoegaze, indie, and power pop. The band has been recording tracks for their first full length album and are...
Trivial Shields: Eno...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Trivial Shields release their second single Enough, in anticipation of their forthcoming EP Invisible Winter. The song was recorded to tape at esteemed SF studio Tiny Telephone by Bay Area luminary Robert Shelton (DRMS);...
Monks of Mellonwah: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Australian Progresssive Rock band Monks of Mellonwah have released their third EP called Sky And The Dark Night, and this is Part 2 – Control, the single from it. The EP is being released on Vinyl and Digital only....
Teenage Kicks: Middl...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Toronto’s TEENAGE KICKS have released their latest six song EP ‘Be On My Side’, which finds the group expanding beyond the grungy power-pop of the first release. We like the description of the music which...
A Grave With No Name...
posted by Stuart Morrison
On Tuesday 2nd July A Grave With No Name will return with a new album titled Whirlpool on Lefse Records. Recorded over the course of a year at Holy Mountain Studios in London. Whirlpool completes a narrative trilogy for A...
Joe Hertler & Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Four of the six members of today’s featured Detroit based band have fronted other projects, but during the past few years they have united under first-time bandleader, Joe Hertler, to create sublime folk tinged with...
Fossil Collective: L...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Yorkshire, UK’s Fossil Collective’s debut album Tell Where I Lie is now available, Let It Go is the single from it. Fossil Collective, a two-piece from Leeds, consists of multi instrumentalists David Fendick and...
Skyways Are Highways...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today we have a proper introduction to the Melbourne Australia pop-punk band SKYWAYS ARE HIGHWAYS, specifically their first self-titled 2 song release in 2012. A new EP release that has been in the works, ‘So...
The Dead Heads: When...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Monday, right? Start the week with this uplifting track from The Dead Heads. The Dead Heads are a band from Sydney formed by brothers Oscar Jeffery, Ali Jeffery and Ferg Davison in mid ’10. They play an upbeat drag you...
ATRINA: Thrush and T...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
ATRINA is a indie rock group out of New Haven Connecticut who released their newest album ‘In Planetary Sugar’ in January of this year. Thrush and Thrasher is in the latter half of the record and we really love...
Sensual Harassment: ...
posted by Rodrigo
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...
Sorrow: Dreamstone f...
posted by Stuart Morrison
British producer Sorrow announces his forthcoming debut album via esteemed London label Monotreme Records. Facebook | BandCamp | Twitter [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-sorrow-dreamstone.mp3] Download...
Hey Anna: Dance Unti...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hey Anna, a New York based band are 3 sisters and two long-time best friends who started out in a small practice space in Newark, NJ. The band’s new EP arrived yesterday on May 8th, and this is the first very...
The Sunsleepers: Kal...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Sunsleepers are an indie-pop band from Melbourne, Australia. “Stace + Amanda bring a fresh feel to indie-pop with the latest single ‘Kaleidoscope’ from their new EP aptly titled Brightness. The...
Ketch Harbour Wolves...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Recorded in the winter of 2012, Ketch Harbour Wolves’ third album, Queen City: Volume One, is now available on Dead Calm Records in Canada. The eight songs on Queen City: Volume One attempt to create a map of songs for...
His Name Is Codeine:...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Hailing from Elgin in the north east of Scotland, His Name Is Codeine are releasing their album The Only Truth Is Music on 30th May. “Starting as a trio of Lyn Ralph (vocals, bass, drum looper), Marc Roy (guitar,...
Dark Colour: The Gam...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Dark Colour is a one man project crafted and fronted by Randall Rigdon, based in Cincinnati, OH. He is releasing his first full length album Prisoner soon (releases TBA). Today’s track The Games Are Killing Us was...
The West: Wild Heart...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
THE WEST, a female fronted group from Los Angeles, CA have released a new single, ‘Wild Hearts’ after about five months of working on tracks with producer DJ Schwartz. Their goal is a possible new album and...
Red Aces: The End
posted by Stuart Morrison
Red Aces are four brothers who have gone from playing covers of The Easybeats and Paul Kelly at family gatherings to dark power pop at iconic Melbourne Venues such as The Espy and the Workers Club. The End features on their...
The Ghost in You: Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
A notable favorite from the last handful of years, today’s track is from Philadelphia songwriter and musician Billy Polard. He goes by the moniker, THE GHOST IN YOU, under which he’s released a second full...
Picture Day: One of ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
A second play for Picture Day on The Dose, from their album Every Day is Picture Day, released on April 16th. Facebook | Twitter |...
Charity Children: El...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Elizabeth, the debut single from Berlin-based Indie-Folk band ‘Charity Children’, is a tribute to the unloved; a marching exaltation devoted to the downtrodden, bullied and supposedly weak. In 2011 the two lovers...
Jesse Ruins: Laura I...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Jesse Ruins, started in 2010 in Tokyo Japan by Nobuyuki Sakuma as a solo endeavour, has since expanded. In 2011, Nah joined Sukama as the second member in Jesse Ruins. Most recently, the support drummer, Yosuke...
Sau Poler: Isolated
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Sau Poler is from Badalona, a little town on the outskirts of Barcelona. He started making music one year ago as a way to explore his needs and to have some fun. Influenced by artists like Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Four...
UNMAP: When to Lead ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
UNMAP emerged on German label Sinnbus with the release of their debut single, When To Lead And When To Follow, out on May 13th 2013. When To Lead And When To Follow pulses with naive yet sublime pride elegantly combining...
Firehorse: Good
posted by Stuart Morrison
Firehorse is the project of Leah Siegel. The NYC group will deliver their sophomore release, Pills From Strangers on June 25. Pills From Strangers is the follow-up to the widely acclaimed, And so they ran faster… Main...
cLn: Beats and Break...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Callan Alexander is based in Brisbane, Australia and produces chilled, glitchy electronic beats under the moniker cLn. He self describes his music as falling somewhere along the lines of that of producers like Flying Lotus,...
I Come to Shanghai: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
I Come to Shanghai (Sam Frigard and Robert Ashley) are originally from Oakland, California, where they made music for several years and released a self-titled album. They moved to Athens, Georgia in 2010 to work on music...
The Almighty Rhombus...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Sudbury Ontario (Canada) band THE ALMIGHTY RHOMBUS released their self-titled EP in 2012 and are getting geared up to put out a full-length LP entitled “Lucid Living” very shortly. Today’s single is the...
Úlfur: So Very Stran...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From the recent release White Mountain by Úlfur, So Very Strange features vocals by Alexandra Sauser-Monnig of Mountain Man. The album was released by Western Vinyl in March. Having played in various bands including Swords...
Holy Folk: Jump the ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Los Angeles quartet Holy Folk is a collaboration between songwriters Keith Waggoner, Josh Caldwell, Ryan George and Jonathan Hylander (Les Blanks, Amateurs, The Voyeurs, Honey Loving Cells). What began as a studio venture,...