If you happen to be in Austin this March for SXSW, I’d highly recommend you check out the firing soul, funk, and r&b combo – T Bird & The Breaks. High School for the lead singer Tim Crane, A.K.A. T Bird,...

From their excellent new, debut album – “Loomings” Amid the much publicized downfall of Lookout! Records, indie-poppers Troubled Hubble took a cue from their then label and officially ended their...

One half of the Swedish duo formerly known as The Lovekevins, now The LK, singer-songwriter Fredrik Hultin is branching out on a solo endeavor to win the hearts of kittens and people alike. His debut album, titled The...

  A selection of songs by UK artists featured on the Daily Dose last year. What’s in this episode The Travelling Band: Desolate Icicle The Modern Fighting Vehicles: Robot The Shipman Project: Cradle JJ...

From Manchester in the UK, The Whip, from X Marks Destination. Who the hell is making important music in Manchester these days? Well, The Whip, for starters. Just ask the Parisians who run Kitsun Records, a taste-making...

Playfully drawing their name from that of a simple Nashville bank teller, Darla Farmer is an eccentric 7-piece carnival-rock band that manages to gracefully shatter genre borders in ways that even the most critical of...

From his second Album Meetoo, from London in the UK, Muddy Suzuki Artist Bio   Damo Waters is a person who likes to make sounds. Muddy Suzuki is the name he uses for his personal endeavours, but he also plays with many...

Indie darlings Wintersleep are wasting no time making 2009 another memorable year. This week the band climbs to #26 on CMJ’s Top 200 chart with their critically acclaimed third album Welcome To The Night Sky. This...

From Bern in  Switzerland, the band first came to our attention on Twitter CHOO CHOO is bringing „the garage“ back into Pop Music. Drawing influences from 60-ies Teenage Beat, Soul, and Pop to today’s Garage...

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with extravagant...

From the just-released album “Psycheclectic” by Portland Oregan Band Obscured By Clouds Obscured By Clouds steps out from behind all veils, preconceptions, or limitations here. This new music is a very...

Already having achieved some major feats including a YouTube featured video with nearly 300,000 views, Said The Whale is one of those bands that only continues to build off its previous successes. One-part Brian Wilson,...

Over the course of several nights, this IR coffee-fiend powered through multiple cups of caffeine in order to bring you the following local tracks on our Daily Dose feed, amongst scores of others great tracks from outside...

Taking their name from a lyric in the U2 song “New Years Day”, San Diego indie rock trio Arms Entwined is on the verge of releasing their debut EP, “Tell Them I Sent You”, in early 2009. This is the...

From their soon to be released (Feb. 15, 2009) album “Your Star Was Shining” Listening to this song, it’s hard to believe L’Avventura is a 7-piece from San Francisco – although it comes as no...

Baltimore & Silverlake based collaboration Esquimaux is back with their second EP “Wolf” within the animal named EP set of Tiger and Wolf; the track “In the Night” placed on this upcoming project,...

From Thessaloniki, Greece I believe they are the first Greek band to be featured on Insomnia Radio, Dark Souls Day are: Nikos: bass, guitar, vocals, drums, piano, lyrics, recording (everything) Pepi: lyrics,...

From Odense, Denmark, A Sunday Honeymoon is: MIKAEL (voice) ANDERS (guitar) ESBEN (guitar/harmonica) RASMUS (bass) ANDERS (drums) JEPPE (guitar/synth) Currently taking over the charts at Garageband after consistently being...

From the soon to be released album Attracted To Disaster. Long term Insomnia Radio favorites Letters Burning from Los Angeles are releasing their 6 track (+ 2 bonus tracks) album Attracted To Disaster in February, and...

Los Angeles based band-to-watch, Pedestrian recently released their fourth endeavor entitled “Sidegeist”, a follow up to their two EPs in 2003 and first full length in 2006 called “Ghostly Life”. The...

One of the network’s favorite hip-hop artists, Psyche Origami is back with a new track produced by El Chavo, a reggae DJ and producer from Allela Spain, a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. El Chavo is the host...

If you are ever in Omaha Nebraska and find yourself hitching, perhaps you will be picked up by lead singer, Kacynna Tompsett of indie pop six-piece Thunder Power, and just maybe you will be driven to a fantasy locale such as...

Hippocampus is the moniker of Sioux Falls, SD native Tom Weismantel.  The hippocampus is also part of the forebrain, and plays major roles in short term memory and spatial navigation.  Interesting, no? The former version...

From their self-titled album. To write a long and detailed review of this album would be pointless, because honestly the songs speak for themselves. Remarkably it’s their debut album, which beggars belief because...

Released under a Creative Commons License, San Franciso’s Bloomsday Rising is back with their 2008 release “Unlocked” a five song EP, issued completely free, under the “pay what you want”, guilt...

Often described as a modern version of classic rock, this Atlanta quartet prides itself on the special connection they are able to make with people of all types. Traditional and not so traditional music fans alike are...

Hollywood based group, SexTapes™ is self-described as sounding like a modern mixture of Jane’s Addiction, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, consisting of co-writer/founding member Kelly Wheeler on guitars, Marko Fox on bass,...

From his recently released album “Drunk With Translation” Geoff Ereth is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Fountain Valley, CA. His music has been described as orchestral folk due to the...

Jay & Jawnee birthed That Noise in the heart of Los Angeles in 2007.  Originally Jay had started composing original songs under the name Appogee, which soon came to be known as Unconscious Ruckus. Kanpai Records soon...

.    5 musicians that have come together to express themselves musically, lyrically and uniquely.  In the pursuit of a name that perfectly represents who they are and what they believe in, a simple symbol was decided...

After a notable period over which he issued three EP sized collections of singles, Los Angeles based musician Chance has just released his newest long awaited pièce de résistance, “”Famous Words &...

Happy New Year from We Swim You Jump and Insomnia Radio We swim you jump is not about sports, it’s about songs. This is from their recently released EP on Subroutine Records.   We Swim You Jump is Richard...