Now, this episode has little to do with the Lord, aside from the fact he brought you the tunes today. Kidding. As far as the wacky intro, it was personally mixed using samples from serious folk with vivid imaginations. ...

Fellow Insomniacs, In Mid-November we brought you a review of a great new band that put in their first public performance at the Roxy Theater on the Sunset Strip here in Los Angeles on 11/15/07. Well, in December I had the...

Todays shortish themed session focuses in on Rob Crow, a San Diego resident who has worked and collaborated with countless quality local groups, and the number counter keeps spinning. Not only do we feature a track from...

Since we enjoyed doing our previous double shot so much last week, we figured another was in order, this time with two high adrenaline pulsing local rock groups from Los Angeles as well as Murietta. The first group is a...

We wanted to direct your attention to ‘The Dragons’ BFI album notes as presented over at IODA Promonet. Alternatively you can read a fantastic article over at the LA Weekly which delves a bit deeper into the...

Step right up folks and witness the degentrification of Southern California one sweet track at a time. Yes, in less than an hours time, you too can enter our musical blackhole and witness the fiery future of...

Today marks the triumphant return of Automatic 7 after a hiatus of over five years. After legal struggles, backbreaking cliff-diving injuries, and major record label mergers destroying smaller labels, the group reemerged and...

Welcome to a special edition of Insomnia SoCal. Today’s piece brings us a small sampling of performers auditioning at the Bodog Battle of the Bands coming here to the Southland over the next two weeks, with first...

This session has a French title although it was probably butchered by the Babel Fish free translator to mean something completely offensive. In a perfect world it should roughly translate to ‘Female Musicians of...

DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/irtscspb3.mp3] Last Sunday: Scenario at the Scene (*warning: show synopsis written after experiencing excessive high-end frequencies during performances) A tour...

Today’s session is almost entirely electronic in theme and heralds in several new albums from locals, including a new full length effort by the LA based electronica duo, ‘Techno Squirrels’, called...

From the actual LA Underground: Go Metro to see progressive rock band Canon on Saturday, Sept. 8 starting at 8 p.m. in an environmental event to be held at Union Station’s Old Ticket Room. Only those people using the...

Nearly 80% of the world’s population uses caffeine, and 25% of the population is diagnosed with a mental disorder. Clinical studies indicate that there may be significant overlap between those figures, and that many...

Dear listener, Due to some unexplained technical sabotage, we had to scrub our listener’s choice classic opera and romantic standards program, unfortunately funded by you, our Opera Gold Club VIP members. In its place...

Mini-Novela Catorce: Episode fourteen receives a Bitter:Sweet slap and enters the world on an electronic wave of bossa nova followed by a live Jazz Bakery performance by sweltering vocalist, Sara Gazarek. Leo from the TLP...

Today’s session heralds in the summer with two shots apiece by LA artists “Adam Freedman” as well as the “Blue James Band”. “Adam Freedman” showcases his indie pop jazz fusion that...

Starting us off on an eerie welcoming note, the ‘Mississippi Mudsharks’ rise again with a darkly polished new album of originals, and lead the charge from the Devil’s Road toward LA. This is where we find...

The SoCal Sessions is proud to present our first double shot, which is helping promote a very important cause over at Savenetradio.org. In conjunction with the effort to help push the Internet Radio Equality Act, the...

Presenting a somewhat wide cross-section of the LA music scene, ‘This is the City’ brings us several tracks from a cadre of talented artists with new undiscovered music to share with the world. Fishbone returns...

Possibly our only episode so far with a smattering of colorful content comes just in time for Easter delivery along with a pair of earmuffs for the children. We are completely excited to bring you a bunch of new releases in...

Hey everyone! Today I’m giving away five CD’s from a great Santa Barbara band called The Coral Sea, so make sure you check this one out sometime during the week in order to have a chance to win. We’ve also...

We’ve got an assortment of superb tracks for you in this session, starting with a blast of rock-oxygen from the Kristin Hersh fronted group, 50 Foot Wave, and ending on a jazzy tear jerker, “Yours” from LA...

A brand new music feed has opened up solely for Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and surrounding areas. Bundled with this feed is a new episode of The SoCal Sessions, namely our fifth...

Hola amigo/amiga, Welcome to the fourth installment of The SoCal Sessions. Today’s show powers us into January with five independent rock acts from Los Angeles. Newer groups Power Cords and Pro Audio bring us two...

After last week’s session we do a quick 180 and bring in New Years with an all-electronica celebration. In honor of all the DJ driven events that occur every year-end all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, we...

Welcome back for episode #2 of the SoCal Sessions. We’ve got five more great LA based (and related) artists in this new session that might help you conjure up the imagery of a less developed California. The title of...

Welcome! I’m Charles Stepczyk and I’d like to officially take the bear leash from the main show host Jason E. and fire up “The SoCal Sessions” music grinder. IR San Diego will continue as normal on...