American Desi, the second album by Chicago-based band Clara May is scheduled for release on October 8th, 2013. The album’s first single “Badlands” is today’s Daily Dose. Main Site | Facebook | Twitter |...

This particular iteration of a music project named FLETCHER began in early 2012 as a basement collaboration between brothers from London, England [Oscar and Harvey Baker] and their Chicagoan friend Tom Fry. Fletcher’s...

Chicago quartet Pink Frost debut the first track from their forthcoming sophomore album Sundowning, to be released on September 3rd. Main Site | Facebook |...

Great Divide are from Chicago and they are releasing their self-titled, second album on March 5, 2013. Ain’t No Roads, featured today, is the opening track. With multiple appearances at festivals like SXSW, North Coast...

Chicago-based five piece Souljunky just released a full length album titled I Found Your Dream. This follows the release of their EP Here and Now in 2011. Souljunky are a group of musicians who have wandered far and wide to...

A second play on the Network for Chicago Indie Rockers California Wives. Purple belongs to the band’s anticipated full length Art History debut, arriving on September 4 via Vagrant. Working with producer Claudius...

What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our representative...

Our friends at Vagrant Records just let us know that they have signed Chicago based California Wives. The band are currently in the midst of wrapping up their debut full-length album (release date and title still...

Jon Elling, the man at the heart of Grand & Noble, grew up in Los Angeles and Jacksonville, Fla. His bi-coastal upbringing is partly responsible for his wide-open songwriting style. “I got the full L.A. experience,...

The Modern is the first single from the upcoming debut album Hollows and Rounds by Whitejacket. Chris McDuffie, formerly in Apples In Stereo, has produced an album inspired by his admiration of the baroque pop of the late...

Midwestern singer-songwriter and noted producer, Will Phalen, continues to blaze haunting Americana trails with his 3rd full-length release, Holy Ghost / Gold Coast, a collection of solo recordings that finds Phalen in a...

Message to Montauk is a five piece, Chicago based indie rock band that formed in the fall of 2009 and has been going strong ever since. In April 2011, they released their self-titled debut EP. Their most recent release,...

Chicago’s Filligar are releasing their new album early in 2012. Two tracks from it, this one, and Knock Yourself Out are available for free download from their web site. This will be their fifth album, the previous...

From their 4th album Empros, available Everywhere October 25, 2011. Chicago’s Russian Circles return with their fourth and heaviest album to date. Empros is Russian Circles‘ first full-length to be released...

Widowspeak is a trio from Brooklyn by way of Tacoma and Chicago, comprised of Molly Hamilton (vocals, guitar), Michael Stasiak (drums), and Rob Thomas (guitar). Stasiak and Hamilton both grew up in the dreary Pacific...

Scattered Trees grew up together in the outskirts of Chicago, playing music together in various groups over the years. As is the case with any ambitious set of individuals with aspirations beyond their hometown, as they...

Clara May is Tom Silva, a Malaysian-born filmmaker, corporate executive, University of Chicago grad student and writer, and Nicole Sotelo, a Harvard-trained theologian and author, with Phillip Amerson, Chicago producer and...

How many killer rock bands call Chicago home? Tons. How does a band manage to stand out from a crowd like that? By making music just like Welcome To Ashley does. Have a Hall-of-Fame list of musical influences, release a...

We were tipped off to this excellent free track by the Fat Cat Records SoundCloud site, a fresh blast of tropical beach pop posted from the newest album, ‘Perch Patchwork’ by Chicago’s Maps &...

From their album Chicken on a Bicycle Building on the critical acclaim of their 2004 debut, As Drawn by Ethan, Age 2, songwriter Todd Leiter-Weintraub and his motley crew of sonic dilettantes return with a new set of ten...

Today’s primarily Los Angeles based show slowly crept upward from 6 tracks,  doubling in size as we gradually realized that we had an oversharing problem. While this can swifly turn to embarrassment in social...

Olá. From now on I’ll be here too. Rodrigo, from Insomnia Radio: Portugal. For my first appearance here, I bring you a Chicago based band, who’s name was inspired in a song from The Who. Call Me Lightning has...

Gypsyblood release free EP, announce debut album Chicago hazy-pop band Gypsyblood has released a free 3-song EP for download in anticipation of the group’s forthcoming debut album via Sargent House in early...

All the songs in this collection “It’s Been A Long Day” were recorded from 1991-1998. All have previously been released on various compilations and 7 inches with the exception of “Long Day”,...

Bottomless Pit was formed in the fall of 2005 by erstwhile Silkworm members Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen. Their longtime friends Chris Manfrin (Seam) and Brian Orchard (.22) complete the quartet. Blood Under the Bridge is the...

[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/irregionalroundup_newblood.mp3] DOWNLOAD | iTUNES | ZUNE (1-Click) | RSS FEED Today’s episode of Insomnia Radio highlights all the new blood across the network, with quick...

If you’ve ever played old console videogames, notably the Nintendo, and you happened to walk by a live performance by Chicago’s I FIGHT DRAGONS, no doubt you would instantly gravitate toward the sound by the...

From Switchback’s 12th album Ghosts of the River Folk The indie Folk-Pop band Switchback, out of Chicago, has a brand new album coming out in January – Ghosts of the River Folk. Ghosts of the River Folk is the...

Derek Clegg, a one-man writing, recording, and producing machine out of Chicago, had sent me a message over at Last.FM the other night – something about a free album. Naturally I’m always curious when someone...

From Where Did All My People Go “The next big thing out of the Windy City… raging and carnal… a nervous breakdown on the dance floor” [IODA] TPC are Scott Lucas, Blake Smith and Mike...

From their debut self-titled album released in June 2009 MEN WHO LISTEN was formed in 2007 by Dan Pokorni on the heels of his solo release, “Guitarscapes.” Teaming up with top Chicago-area session players, drummer...

The brainchild of brothers David and Collin, Watching Cars is a unique blend of homespun roots and understated pop that will have you unknowingly whistling melodies the next day. Both boys, Texas born and bred, grew up on a...