Baltimore Maryland five-piece art rock band SURF HARP are on the verge of releasing their newest LP ‘Mr. Big Picture‘, officially coming out February 23, 2018 on Friends Records. The first single ‘D.I....

The Edjacated Phools are a 6-piece fusion band based in Baltimore, MD. Comprised of Devin Barone (drums), Tyler Garrison (bass), Nick Hatzis, (vocals) Kyle Sappington (vocals), Logan Sappington (guitar, vocals), and Ben...

Baltimore based indie folk artist Leticia VanSant & The Bonafides first released their single ‘Rising Tide‘ in August of 2013, before it made its way onto her 2015 LP, ‘Parts &...

Old Nobodaddy puts out some of the best swamp inspired roots flavored music based out of New Orleans. His newest single in March, ‘Bury the Hatchet‘ is described as created by Nick Cave meeting a dust covered...

Five-piece Baltimore art rockers SURF HARP released their ten track LP “PEEL” not too long ago back in early 2016 on friends records. “POOL BOY” is the sixth track on the album, a solid...

Sunbathers are a five piece indie rock band based out of Baltimore, MD and Washington, D.C. which formed in the fall of 2013. Drawing from a wide range of influences, the band filters their brand of indie rock through a...

Diamond Youth is a rock group out of from Baltimore, Maryland with members from Chicago, Illinois and Richmond, Virginia. The band started off by dropping a few EP’s in 2011, notably DMND, Don’t Lose Your Cool...

Baltimore-DC based group AMFMS have just finished a successful tour to SXSW and are now gearing up for their next big event, the Firefly Musical Festival, which takes them into two days of perfomances in Dover, Delaware on...

The dance-rock saxophone fueled Christmas tune Snails Christmas (I Want a New Shell) comes from a side-project from two Future Island members. The band came about over five years ago when Spank Rock asked Future Islands to...

Today’s Dose is a little heavier than usual, but there is nothing wrong with that. It comes to you from Baltimore MD based band Fatally Yours and is from their EP Every Moment available from the iTunes link below....

Eli August & The Abandoned Buildings are a Baltimore, MD and Brooklyn, NY based Chamber Folk ensemble that plays dark and melodic heartfelt tunes. They’re releasing their EP A Heartache Suite on September 2,...

In the spring of 2013, Baltimore-based art-pop band New God, lead by brothers Kenny and Curt Tompkins, began crafting songs for their sophomore LP, Firework. Sessions continued in Baltimore throughout the summer of 2013,...

To the lucky ones: LA blogger, musician, and self-professed skeptic CherryTeresa has the following excellent piece up on her website featuring some profound spoken word over what sounds like AIR inspired electronic goodness....

Baltimore’s Eureka Birds are returning with their newest full length ‘Strangers’ a few short days before Halloween this year, with a nice ghostly album cover to go along with, designed by artist Bridget...

While most residents enjoyed hot dogs and beer watching the Baltimore Ravens play in the Super Bowl last February, The Petticoat Tearoom were busy recording their sophomore self-titled album at Baltimore’s Wright Way...

Songs like the ones in Houses On a Hill give meaning to life and to music as a form of art. In Bearkat’s case, it’s music with a cause and excellence. The songs are on it’s origin uplifting, but the...

From their EP Touch The Sound released November 1st. Christian Celaya (Benzos) and Woody Ranere (Lake Trout) make up the group known as WITH LIONS and November 1st marked the kick-off of an ambitious four-EPs-a-year cycle...

The Perfects, Insomnia Radio favourites, from Baltimore, were first brought to our attention by Tim Poggioli of Insomnia Radio: Baltimore. Over the years we have featured their music many times across the Network, as the...

Washington DC favorites EXIT CLOV are back with a newer single that was first put out in 2008, and more recently released on the 2010 full length, ‘Memento Mori’. The Lovely Hearts Club blog run by the good...

[UPDATE: Be sure to listen to the next episode of Insomnia Radio to win 1 of 3 copies of the EP!] Of the Eureka Birds debut album, IR New York host and frequent reviewer Sarah Morrison had this to say: “To write a long...

You know what’s awesome? When an old Insomnia Radio host (Tim Poggioli of IR Baltimore) connects with an old high school buddy (Dan Luperini) to discover he’s fronting a pretty sweet indie rock band –...

Baltimore post-rockers …soihadto... are releasing their debut LP, Adventure Stories (Not Based on Fact?), through Grape Juice Records on February 2nd, 2010.  Pre-orders for the album are currently available...

Ponytail is an explosive 4-piece noise pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, and signed to the label, We Are Free. Their sound has been compared to Deerhoof as well as Ecstatic Sunshine due to the band’s experimental...

Look out Paramore!

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...

No, we didn’t win the mustard yellow belt this past year, but we accumulated so many tracks last year and through the first few weeks of 2009, we’ve felt over-gorged on music and wanted to start sharing some with...

This week’s host: George Smyth from Eclectic Mix Show: The DarkCompass Metal Show Song: Tonight (Sanguine) Show: PC Podcast with Pete Cogle Song: Matador (Sky Larkin) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: Lazy Fat Stupid...

An overdue Insomnia-laden journey has left us saddle-sore as we have traveled long and far these last few months in order to document a motley assortment of musicians.  We uncovered them amongst the wild trappers of...

Baltimore & Silverlake based collaboration Esquimaux is back with their second EP “Wolf” within the animal named EP set of Tiger and Wolf; the track “In the Night” placed on this upcoming project,...

From their self-titled album. To write a long and detailed review of this album would be pointless, because honestly the songs speak for themselves. Remarkably it’s their debut album, which beggars belief because...

Named after the official state tree of Maryland, Wye Oak band members Andy Stack & Jenn Waster quickly decided to change the name from Monarch after realizing that there were at least seven other bands that had claimed...

On July 19, 2008 an incredible selection of musical talent assembled under the shadow of the famed eighty-one year old Cyclone rollercoaster at the storied community of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. This mixtape is a...