A perfect mix between Americana music and folk/pop sensibility, Camaromance’s new album, The Parade, is the album of a women now in full control of her destiny, who is now leading the parade instead of watching...

From the album Moths Seven years ago The Salteens started Boompa Records to put out their sophomore album, Let Go Of Your Bad Days. Since then Boompa has released a lot of other albums while the Salteens have remained...

Since the release of their acclaimed debut LP, Pop-Up Book, Halifax’s THE SUPERFANTASTICS have toured Eastern Canada steadily with bands such as Julie Doiron and Shotgun Jimmie, opened for Joel Plaskett and Two Hours...

From The Whitsundays’ second album, just released on Friendly Fire Recordings. The Whitsundays are the weird and wonderful musical brainchild of Edmonton, Alberta’s Paul Arnusch. Saul is an emotional...

Toronto’s THE HIDDEN CAMERAS are the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joel Gibb.  “In The NA” was the first single taken from The Hidden Cameras latest symphonic pop masterpiece ‘Origin:...

“Territory” is the follow up to the Charlottetown band’s Polaris Prize nominated and internationally acclaimed sophomore album, “Little Jabs”. Once again produced by Joel Plaskett, Territory builds on the promise...

The title track as a teaser from their upcoming album Lauded by music critics in Canada and abroad, trip-rock group Plajia, composed of Patrick Pleau (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica), Simon Boivin (bass...

French indie rocker and self-taught multi-instrumentalist Julie Peel writes smart, well-crafted folk rock with a pop sensibility reminiscent of Aimee Mann, Neil Young, Beth Orton and Feist. Julie’s debut album...

Toronto indie pop outfit THE GHOST IS DANCING just recently springboarded off the release off of 2007’s “The Darkest Spark” with their newest indie rock offering which was issued last April, “Battles...

There’s something appealing about Cousins, a new quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, but it takes patience to discover that appeal. After listening to several cuts from their debut album, I was disappointed with the...

The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice...

From the album Wron: Suicide Goat Tripping Hazard was conceived in a bathtub in downtown Toronto on February 11th, 2005, and born in the upstairs of the Poor Alex Theatre over drinks, conversations concerning Frank...

I think in many ways our staff here at Insomnia Radio can relate to the name of our featured band as well as track name today. I basically had stumbled across this new track by Canada’s SLEEPLESS NIGHTS when I was...

Paper Moon are from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. For their third full-length record, Only During Thunderstorms, the band was looking for an edgier, more energetic sound that better suited their personalities. This goal was...

Today on the Dose we bring you a unlikely collaboration of Canadian artists of three differing genres, and a beautiful song they quickly put together in one day. Every Wednesday for 16 weeks, 3 musicians showed up at MCM...

Japandroids (JPNDRDS) is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. This ‘band’ started in 2006 as a creative outlet for the post-teenage angst of Brian King and David Prowse. Originally intending to be a trio, the...

The Title Track from their new Album. See the video over there ——————————–> Rep By Pop are a power pop trio playing infectious, danceable, synth/guitar...

The Lovely Feathers started out, as most of many do, as a band in a bedroom in an old apartment in Montreal.  Shortly after being signed to Equator Records, they embarked on a sixty-three day North American Tour opening for...

From their album Lay It On Me Transformation. Rebirth. Renewal. The Vancouver vagabonds formerly known as The Smokes have charted something of a non-traditional course over their half-decade of existence. The beginning?...

The title song from their recent album The Paper Cranes are a husband and wife indie-pop band from Victoria, British Columbia whose specialty is crafting infectiously melodic pop songs with heart-wrenching lyrics that...

Bent By Elephants are a 7 piece folk rock band stationed in Montreal, linking patch-work improv pieces into rhythmic pop-folk songs. Luke Fowlie and vocalist Chesley Walsh began BBE in the Spring of 2008. After a year of...

Hot off of their Bedrooms and Backstreets Tour and the Canadian release of their second album “If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone”, Toronto-based outfit The Wooden Sky is excited to be hitting the...

From London, Ontario, this is from their recent EP The StandStills are: Jonny Fox – Vocals/ Guitar Renee Couture – Drums/ Percussion Check their upcoming shows and request plays on radio in the London...

Big Thing on Mars are a four-piece indie rock group from Prince Edward, British Colombia in Canada. I initially had heard this track on Garageband and thought it would be fun to feature here at the Dose. The group...

From the recently released album Still Life, we bring you Mantis with ‘What? (feat. Justis)’. “Possibly one of Canada’s freshest offspring of the love triangle between funk, soul, and hiphop,...

Saskatchewan based outfit Volcanoless in Canada strives to combine precise rhythms and intricate melodies with the appeal and high-paced energy of rock music. Their sonic principle lies in the coordinated...

Great Bloomers was formed when childhood pals Lowell Sostomi and Nate Hindle moved to Toronto and met Andrew Kekewich. The trio quickly formed a strong friendship based upon similar record collections— all three valued...

The Papertiger Sound is a transatlantic project created in 2006 by Dan Gelder who is from England’s Eastern shore. Hailing from the Eastern shores of Canada, Kerstin Wilson later joined when both Dan and Kerstin were...

Note from Jason: I’m a sucker for “The Bends”-era Radiohead. Plajia (pronounced “plah-gee-ah”) scratches that itch nicely! Lauded by music critics in Canada and abroad, trip-rock group Plajia,...

From Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada Neil Dobson was a regular on the Toronto club circuit for years with various original bands. “I go back a ways in Toronto, we played Larry’s Hideaway a lot -such a...

Reunion Tour is another superb tome from indie rock’s most singular narrators, the Weakerthans. Their newest album from 2007 was recorded after-hours above a closed factory in the cold Canadian spring, weaving the...

Pony Up is an indie pop band from Montreal, Canada. They formed on New Year’s Eve 2002 and, upon developing a relationship with singer Ben Lee, released their debut, self-titled EP in 2005 on his Ten Fingers label. Make...