Download IR: Canada #30 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada30.mp3 Skinny Bitches Song: Just A Little Different From:  Toronto Ontario http://skinnybitchesmusic.com Slooky Song: Run...

It all started in Parkdale, a west-end neighbourhood of Toronto. Kat Burns of former band Forest City Lovers started exploring new sounds and songwriting styles, which led to a collaboration with longtime friend and producer...

Ummagma is Shauna McLarnon (a Canadian) and Alexx Kretov (from Ukraine). Today’s Dose is from their debut album “Antigravity”. “Ummagma brings an extraordinary soundtrack of reverie for both...

Blizzard baby is from the special edition October release “The Romantics” via Toronto, Canadian band INLET SOUND. Their bio explains ‘the album is a narrative of sorts, forged from the anxiety of growing...

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Today we’ve got a bonus track from the sessions that produced “Carey’s Cold Spring”, the excellent album assembled over the course of three years and released this past October from Victoria, BC...

Today’s feature comes by way of Calgary, Canada, a play on the traditional children’s books “Dick and Jane” (in my case it was “Janet and Mark”). This single is currently being offered as...

Mother Leads are a a touring band originally from Ajax Ontario, now based in Durham. They have just finished a tour, and have released today’s Daily Dose as a single and Video. After recording two EPs in 2009 and 2010...

Lush multilayered synth arrangements, thick bass lines, and catchy guitars run Top Less through the gamut of electro, dance and glam pop. Hooky vocals elevate their songs to anthemic heights. The lyrics, often ironic and...

Following up on our last feature from Toronto Canada’s RED NIGHTFALL in 2012 (the song ‘Windmills’ taken from their late 2011 self-titled debut), we are happy to see the indie rock four-piece returned last...

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...

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...

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...

14 piece Toronto brass-hop band My Son the Hurricane release a new e.p. titled “Cashing a Dead Man’s Cheque” (Vegas Funeral Records) on March 5th....

On April 23, 2013, File Under: Music will release the sophomore album, Mary Magdalene, from the critically-acclaimed Vancouver band, The Crackling. The ballad features backing vocals from Vancouver’s Children’s...

Today we reach back a full year to the Feb 2012 album by Montreal’s Plants and Animals – The End of That. The album sees the Canadian trio bridging the gap between their 2008 debut, Parc Avenue, and 2010’s...

Born in Iowa and raised along the Mississippi River in an ‘Addams Family meets 700 Club’ home, Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer, emerged onto Montreal’s music scene at her own pace, appearing and...

“DNSQ3 is songwriting duo David Creces and Steven Q Dawe III (SQ3). DNSQ3 combines love for great songs & songwriters with love for experimental arrangements of instruments. The result is a big ol’ mess of...

“Robyn Craig and Ricardo Temporao are Toronto musicians and friends who decided to start jamming in early 2011 with him on guitar and her on drums. By experimenting with harmonies and heavy arrangements (reflecting...

Enjoying independent and experimental rock music is very easy if put in the pot Future History. Originary from Toronto, Canada, these five musicians have released Loss:/self digitaly, with the vinyl version planned for later...

The Canadian band Old English actually started as a solo work by Matt Henderson. But as the musicians were contributing in a great and unexpected ways, quoting Matt’s words, it turn out to be a band with potential 15...

Running around in a panic stocking your bunker with that last box of Hostess fruit pies for the apocalypse? Need a breather? Put down that Chocodile my friend and take a listen to a holiday compilation of Vancouver’s...

Use ’em up if you got ’em. Today’s feature is from Toronto band, The Holiday Crowd. Lead vocalist Imran Haniff had this to say about their new LP, Over the Bluffs: “The whole mood of the record has...

Show 5 is not quite like any of the other shows so far!  11 Bands, 12 songs, and not all from Ontario! I had a lot of fun putting this show together. There is a wide variety of music from several different musical...

  Show four is pack with all sorts of new things!   Bedding music, and submissions to CC Hits!     [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada4.mp3] Download Subscribe   Tracks And Listings Band:...

This week we feature 6 great bands, and all but one is from Ontario! Currently running with bi-weekly shows, which may return to the original plan of monthly shows depending on music submissions and well, life. ...

After their 2010 debut, Vancouver five piece, 41ST AND HOME returned last July with a seven song EP, Raised by Wolves. Today’s featured track is the first single, Gorbachev, of which they’ve also made a great...

We were all very excited when The Rest announced their new album SEESAW. But actually from the announcing of the album and releasing, therewas three years gone. Kori Pop, another Hamilton artist, featured here has shown her...

Well the plan was to make a monthly one hour show. As you can see, it’s not even been two weeks, but I couldn’t wait. So here is, show two. Packed full of more great songs. Seven great bands, and thirteen...

Mark Lenover, from Chatham, Ontario, Canada, has released his eighth album. Yes, eighth. This one, The Wreckage, sets his recent diagnosis of schizophrenia and all the emotions around it. Expect to be surprised and...

Welcome to the first ever Insomnia Radio Canada! For our first show we have six great bands and eleven great songs, with a variety of genres. This is the very first in what I hope will be a long time running show. Yes,...

Coming soon, the latest Insomnia Radio Regional Show. Hosted by Chris from Canada, this monthly show will bring you the best independent music from that great country. Keep checking back here for more details. You can...