Album Review by Sarah Morrison of Miss Morrison’s Mix If New York based duo Swimming in Speakers (multi-instrumentalist Chris Clarke and lead vocalist Meadow Eliz) can do one thing, it’s defy categorisation. In fact,...

*We’re finding a TON of amazing music (like this track) via a newish website called The Sixtyone. Picture Digg+Last.FM+HypeMachine+Xbox 360 Achievements. Seriously. Get over there and sign up. And if ya do, use...

Album Review by Sarah Morrison of Miss Morrison’s Mix The Flying Change, AKA songwriter Sam Jacobs and a selection of talented musicians, had an ingenious idea for spreading awareness and getting awesome coverage for his...

The story of these three unique musicians started back when Spencer Riley Alfonso & Patrick Hill got their first gig opening for the Cold War Kids in Whittier, California. Encouraged by a conversation with the Indie...

From their self titled 5 track Mini Album which was just released on Graveface Records Sherri West and Taylor Clark grew up in Tulsa, but melded musical forces to form the band about seven years ago in Los Angeles. With...

In 1997, former Blanks member Pat Lillard (“Spider Stewart”) (Bass), formed The Riverboat Gamblers with Fadi el-Assad (“Freddy Castro”) (Lead Guitar), and Mike Wiebe (“Rookie Sensation”)...

From their upcoming album “Because I Am Not Myself, You See” Goodbye Gadget is an alt-rock/indie/punk band which has been gaining notoriety in the relative confines of the San Francisco’s music scene since...

From the album The Simple Life    Nobody could accuse Josh Woodward of being a lazy songwriter. After releasing two CDs at once in August 2007, he announced a hiatus from live performing and headed straight...

Look out Paramore!

From their album Eating Us Black Moth Super Rainbow come from deep within the woods of Western Pennsylvania. An actual, 5-member band not comprised of the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psyche-pop group in...

What if Jane’s Addiction had been more inspired by Ride and late 80’s U2? What if Perry Ferrell would have been a little less neurotic and a touch more intense? What if a band said “You know, shoegaze could...

From their EP I Will Still Be Wishing “If Phil Spector made an album with Jesus & Mary Chain and New Order it would sound like The Watermarks.” “Imagine rock, pop, and electronics creating a wall of...

[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-nelo-footsteps.mp3] For Matt Ragland, primary songwriter and acoustic guitarist, the release of their debut album, nelo, was a dream nearly 10 years in the making; going...

Jóan Petur is the first Faroese artist to be featured on Insomnia Radio, and this is from his album Bow & Arrow Jóan Petur is from the Faroe Islands. He is 27 years old, and educated as a chef. Jóan Petur is a...

We all miss Insomnia Radio Baltimore, but thankfully Tim Poggioli is still out in the trenches tipping us off to great Baltimore music… Ric Peters is The Perfects (much like Trent Reznor is NIN), and as Tim...

From their EP Twilight Zone Alchemy are a Pop / Progressive Rock band Alchemy from Milan, Italy. Keep an eye on their website alchemy-rockband.it for gig dates to be announced in the future....

Another great band from Montreal in Canada Having each been implicated in numerous musical endeavors over the years, Pierre-Olivier Papineau and Keven Carrière united in October 2005 in an effort to concentrate on a...

We last featured The Bloodsugars on Insomnia Radio #112, waaayyy back in a time known as January 2006. We were floored by the organic, infectious hooks of “Bloody Mary” and the gang definitely have not abandoned...

From their 2007 album Love is, recently re-released on IODA. From Greece, Cosmicray is a project of Aggelos Mourvatis. The members of the band are: John Jeff Touch – Vocals Panos “Kargas” Karagiannis...

The album is an intricate masterpiece, piecing together individually beautiful and unique tracks to create a warming, powerful album full of contrast and intrigue.

After putting out two records under the name taught the rabbits – “one but just another” (2002) & “mallet and watch” (2005) – Adam Faucett...

Their new album Radiation reviewed by Sarah Morrison The Morning Stars hail from Hamilton, Canada, although you’d never believe it to listen to their music because they sound as if they’d be right at home in...

I have no idea what to say about these guys. What can be gathered from their decidedly minimalistic website are these decidedly vague facts: The list of people who haven’t helped them is much longer than the list of...

We’ve championed Chance on this network since Insomnia Radio Episode #5. It’s always difficult to choose a single song to highlight from his catalog, and while Life & Life Only is an exemplary example of...

From their self-titled EP, which is available as a free download Cool Devices pick up where Jason Fredrick’s previous group, The Means, left off.  Included on this EP, in fact, is this song, a reworked version of...

The third album [Touchdown] by Brighton UK’s brakesbrakesbrakes finds the group, which features former and current members of British Sea Power, Electric Soft Parade, and The Tenderfoot, polishing up their sound a bit...

When not playing in his full-time gig with Wilco, New Jersey native-via-Chicagoan-via-Brooklynite Mikael Jorgensen crafts pitch-perfect pop songs under the moniker of Pronto. The full story begins all the way back in 1995,...

Reviewed by Sarah Morrison Philadelphia foursome MorningSide are releasing their second full-length album The Abuse You Own later this year, but here at Insomnia Radio we couldn’t wait that long so we’ve got a...

Power Pop for the Summer, from Tulsa, Oklahoma Well-known for their harmony infused, three-minute rock explosions and eccentric pop experimentation, Admiral Twin’s latest CD, The Center of the Universe, features...

Psychedelic-tinged Rock from Buenos Aires Argentina via Bibao Spain Released 25 April 2009, Rising Mountain is the eleventh Album from Capsula, who formed in 1999.    This prolific band are originally from Buenos...

Yes, folks, another band from Montreal deserves your attention. (checks notes…damn, the whole “great musicianship is in the water” thing has been done to death…) Formed in 2005 with a strong DIY...

Reviewed by Sarah Morrison New York based four-piece Her Vanished Grace have created a sound which is really something special with their newest album ‘Blue’. They describe themselves as dream pop (incidentally...