San Antonio, TX musician and beat crafter DIEGO BERNAL released his most recent inspiring love letter to music this past August on local label, Exponential Records. While I’d love to spell out the new album name here,...

Formed in 2012, Sunhaze originated from the vision of Danae Labraña, a San Francisco transplant hailing from the shores of Santa Barbara. Through the next few years the membership count was fleshed out to the current count...

Born in 2015, Oakland, CA artists EL DUO blend lo-fi electronics and afro dance grooves while drawing from their deep love of improvisation. Their brilliant track “Diamonds” is the opening song on the debut EP...

Bay-area California based indie-pop singer-songwriter Kacey Johansing has been a member of San Francisco groups Geographer and Honeycomb, and is a current member of the experimental folk duo Yesway. Collaboration has proven...

Cynthia Lin is a singer, songwriter, vocal coach, and ukulele teacher based in San Francisco who released this featured single last year on December 31, appropriately titled ‘What Are You Doing New Year’s...

What’s the point of going solo? A musical polymath versed in jazz studies and Madlib beats, Doug Stuart has spent the last several years etched deep into the grooves of some of the Bay Area’s funkiest ensembles,...

Alpha Six Romeo is the promising new indie-electro rock project of singer-songwriter Dennis Bestafka who you may know as the guitarist of formative Bay area dreampop band, Sentinel. We were pleasantly surprised to hear the...

Today’s feature comes from the self-titled debut EP from Oakland, CA based group Happy Diving, released two years ago in November of 2013. Band members are Matthew Berry (Guitar/Vocals), Matthew Yankovich (Guitar),...

Broke For Free is a electronic driven project from Oakland native, Tom Cascino who has made all of his music available for free or under the pay-what-you-will model via his website below. Today’s feature ‘Golden...

Black Angel originated in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles in 1999. Currently based in the Bay Area, they’ve just released two free singles, one is today’s Dose, this song features the bass playing of Mike Stever...

Bay Area based Idea the Artist just released the third track Seafloor from her upcoming album The Seafloor, which will be released 24th March. Idea the Artist is the project of singer-songwriter Inés Beltranena, and...

San Francisco-based duo Tidelands returns with a revitalized organic sound on new EP Old Mill Park, released on 3rd March. Today’s Dose is from that EP, and Dog Named Bart features contributions from John...

Bay Area (Northern California) residents Karmen Kimball and Alex Lasner fortuitously met at a party on December 21st, 2012, the day the Mayan calendar had predicted the world was to end. That night, they struck up a...

Bay Area band The Seshen just released their new EP Unravel. Today’s Dose is the first single from it, they released another single Shapes yesterday too. The Seshen are: Vocals: Akasha Orr + Lalin St. Juste Bass: Aki...

From the San Franscisco Bay Area band’s album “Saturday”, released 14 March 2014. “Summer Peaks is an indie rock trio from the East Bay Area. Their influences include Bertolt Brecht, science, and...

Mama, No!!! is the first single from EVERYONE IS DIRTY’s forthcoming debut full-length, which will see release on Breakup Records this April. The track officially drops on January 23rd and is accompanied by a video...

Today’s featured single is from last summer’s release by Oakland’s TRAILS AND WAYS. A note about the track from the band: “The song is about a rock climbing trip our singer KBB took last fall with...

Merry Christmas to all from the IR family! You caught us just as we are unwrapping our final gift from California Bay area dreampop band SENTINEL. After getting in the holiday spirit close to October, the band put the...

Complimenting the coming of Fall tomorrow, we see the arrival of Sentinel’s new single, Somewhere Else, a nice representation of the changing of the seasons that seemingly synchs up perfectly with the brand new video...

The Bay Area’s The Sea People are releasing a new EP called Ruins, and Lukka is a signature track from it. This is what they call they Bio of sorts: “With a sound that could be described as socially conscious...

This is free single from San Francisco network favourites My First Earthquake, taken from their soon to be released (7th June) album...

DJ AmperDan returns to IR:SF for 2011, looking back at the Bay Area music that rocked his world and his eardrums.

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...

Duranta D. Cook (born December 31 1980 in Vallejo, California, USA), is an indie singer-songwriter that goes by his artist name Vital. Prior to starting his solo career Vital wanted to be behind the music scene, writing and...

Tonight I’ve been feeling like a fat kid in a candy store, drooling against the display case perusing so many stand-out tracks on the new release by Oakland, CA based SENTINEL. Their new EP “For Days Deep”...

Today’s Double Shot pinpoints two sets of musical roots spread out over a few separate areas of Northern California, and is partially inspired by a creative commons poem by Mill Valley, CA resident Peter...

UPCOMING ALBUM, “City Lights Are Blinding You” IN THE STREETS THIS JUNE 2008 Song of the Siren’s upcoming debut, City Lights Are Blinding You, is a no-frills showcase of the band’s ever-growing...