AURAI comes from the excellent eight track debut 2016 self-titled release, “The Great Cold“, via the instrumental progressive metal 4-piece of the same name from Marburg, Germany. The Great Cold made this first...

Bahhaj Taherzadeh is the creative force behind the moniker We/Or/Me, pulling together beautiful dark passionate folk songs in his hometown in Chicago. Bajjah apparently often writes songs in his car on his lunch breaks at...

Cork, Ireland based death pop band The Vincents have just released a new double A side single ‘Throne Song’ / ‘Fever Dreams’, on March 14th via FIFA Records. The lead vocals on ‘Throne...

After the impressive debut “A Violet Day” and the Single “You Know, I’m Sick”, the Russian Post Punks of The Quinsy are back with the new album “Colours of the World”. From St....

Dark Patrick consists of Ukrainian Eva and Englishman Paul, two outstanding musicians who pull together elements from a variety of differing musical styles using a wide array of instruments. For today’s track...

For fans of Electronic, Dark 80s Analog Synthpop (like me) this is for you. In Loving Memory is from the debut album from TSTI, from Upstate New York, called Evaluations, out on Nov...

Yeah, you might have heard this excellent single from Barsuk earlier in the year for a quickie on NPR, but I though it could use an appropriate witching appearance in October. I think this excellent song has flipped the...

I first heard this song on DJ AmperDan’s Monday Night Pop Show on Radio Valencia FM. (DJ AmperDan is AKA Dan Hooper, some time host of IR: San Francisco). There is very little information about Californian artist...

Something a bit darker than usual today, from Seattle electronic trio Crypts. Fancy is from their debut self-titled full-length release, out in September on Sargent House. There is an excellent video to accompany the track...

Never Joy is the slightly dark and very promising debut from 18 year old Brighton indie folk musician Ed Tullett. You’ll definitely hear some of the his influences here, specifically Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Iron &...

The Old Sister’s Home is Orpheum Bell’s most ambitious CD to date (it’s third!) with an eclectic style mixing folk, country, Eastern, and even a hard-driving song sung in Russian. “Poor...

St. Petersburg Russia’s exotica phenoms Messer Chups bring us a subtly creepy track right before Halloween, perfect for puttering around the foggy town at night with your trusty undead black cat in the car looking to...

Metal Mother is the moniker of the newest musical undertaking of singer/soundmaker, Tara Tati. Shake is the second track we’ve featured from the album Bonfire Diaries. For the past ten years, Tati has been developing...

Faith and Mark are Stephanie Faith Wiens and Mark Posillico, based in Brooklyn. Their album album Scientific Facts is available as individual free tracks from Bandcamp, or you can get the album in one go for $5. The duo...

On the eve of Hallowe’en we bring you some dark humour from North Carolina North Carolina’s own Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands are gearing up to release their first full length album, which was ...

From Bright Teeth, the debut double A-side digital single from Secret Cities, released on Western Vinyl The band [formally known as White Foliage] began with 4-track cassette tapes flying through the mail back and forth...

A man once said: “To say that you know what Francis is about without having experienced it face to face is like saying that you’ve had sexual intercourse when you actually only have seen porn”. The area of...

From the album To Kill a King, originally released in 2004, available from Jamendo for free, or for a donation. Hungry Lucy began by chance in 1998 when War-N Harrison (Fishtank No.9) was asked to contribute to a...

As its title would lead one to believe, the Black River Killer EP contains the disturbing and great song “Black River Killer” from Blitzen Trapper’s excellent Sept. ‘08 full-length album Furr. What is perhaps...

Ryan Sollee: “I moved to Portland in the fall of 2003 from Alaska with my band at the time, The Born Losers, which played rockandroll/punk. After playing a ton of shows and a bit of touring with a lot of expectations, it...

My pick as we get nearer to All Hallows Eve comes from Jesika von Rabbit and fellow conspirators with the track Dirty Horse from Joshua Tree-based, Gram Rabbit. Gram Rabbit emerged from the Southern California deserts in...

Out of the Woods of New Hampshire, Elks have announced that their primary sound genre is ‘face melting’, so we thought it was time to unleash this pent up beast right before your long weekend starts. Located...

[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/godfiresman_dark.mp3] Continuing our Daily Dose/SXSW Festivus, here’s a band whose members represent a very strong history. Collectively coming from such bands as errortype:11,...