Toronto ethereal, heavy psychedelic artrock group Ten Kens premiere the first video from the forthcoming International release of their third album, Namesame. Ten Kens is the brainchild of songwriting duo Brett Paulin and...
Tiger! Tiger! –...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The title track from the newest love/hate letter from Atlanta’s Tiger! Tiger! which features 15 new songs that capture the shifting moods of a waterfront tavern with floors of sawdust and broken teeth. “Cut Them...
Picture Day: Madolin...
posted by Stuart Morrison
St. Louis-based band Picture Day release “Every Day Is Picture Day” on April 16th. The band emerged from the demise of the local group Team Tomato, a band influenced by The Who, Guided By Voices, and middle-era Bowie....
The Laughing: Disapp...
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Austin, TX anthemic indie-pop band The Laughing premiere the first single from their forthcoming new album. This track, “Disappear” is culled from the quartet’s sophomore full length, Oscillation, set for...
The Crackling: Keep ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
On April 23, 2013, File Under: Music will release the sophomore album, Mary Magdalene, from the critically-acclaimed Vancouver band, The Crackling. The ballad features backing vocals from Vancouver’s Children’s...
Mortar & Pestle...
posted by Stuart Morrison
U.V. is the first single from the upcoming debut self-titled album by Oakland, California–based trio Mortar & Pestle, scheduled for release on May 7th, 2013 from the Post Primal...
Stokes: Camouflage
posted by Rodrigo
Pop and soul 26 year old, self taught musician with a humble yet powerful stage presence. Stokes’s original sound is a series of stories woven together through a mixture of intricate wordplay, personal experience,...
Rockfour: Too Many O...
posted by Rodrigo
A music group is not one of the first things that come to your mind when you think about Israel, but if your contacted by someone from that country asking you to listen to a band that has shared the stage with Dave...
Bonobo: Cirrus
posted by Stuart Morrison
Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, has origins in Hampshire in the UK, and moved through Brighton and London on his way to his current base in NYC. He is about to release his fifth album The North Borders available to pre-order from...
Song Dogs: Careless
posted by Rodrigo
Formed in Philadelphia in 2009, Song Dogs has been playing around the Mid-Atlantic for the past three years. A 2011 EP, Song Dogs and the Nightjar, helped them to gain legitimacy as a band and lend the fan support to create...
And So I Watch You F...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Belfast, Northern Ireland’s And So I Watch You From Afar announced that their forthcoming third album All Hail Bright Futures will be released on LP, CD and digitally worldwide on March 19, 2013 via Sargent House. Like...
LVMRKS: Valentine
posted by Stuart Morrison
Neil Busch, former vocalist/bassist/songwriter in …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead during that band’s peak is back with a new band called LVMRKS and forthcoming debut album. The group also features...
From The Airport: Ev...
posted by Rodrigo
The South Korean music will change as you know it. Forget about non-sense horse movements and hysterical crowd reactions. Milo and Zee have created the band From The Airport. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself as...
Permanent Makeup: No...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Void… It Creeps, the first official release from Permanent Makeup, is scheduled for release on February 26th via New Granada. “Tampa’s Permanent Makeup formed in 2010 and played its first show without...
Josefina Sanner: Do ...
posted by Rodrigo
The cold land of Sweden has another warm voice for us to listen. Josefina Sanner has relased as a single Do You Remember, a track from her album released in 2012 These Beads of Mine. But it’s not just the voice....
Great Divide: Ain...
posted by Stuart Morrison
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...
Mecanico: Legacy
posted by Rodrigo
The legacy goes on. So the lyrics go, and while listening you can’t help but trying some moonwalking. Coming from Chile, Mecanico does an excellent work recreating the textures on Michael Jackson’s greatest...
DNSQ3: Last Man Stan...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“DNSQ3 is songwriting duo David Creces and Steven Q Dawe III (SQ3). DNSQ3 combines love for great songs & songwriters with love for experimental arrangements of instruments. The result is a big ol’ mess of...
Moor Hound: Holiday
posted by Rodrigo
Steve Marino started writing songs in his bedroom back in Florida in 2008. Since then, he’s moved to Indiana, and his songs have become a little less cheesy and juvenile, and more abstract, and self-pitiful in nature....
Skinny Bitches: Just...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Robyn Craig and Ricardo Temporao are Toronto musicians and friends who decided to start jamming in early 2011 with him on guitar and her on drums. By experimenting with harmonies and heavy arrangements (reflecting...
Daddy Lion: The Scie...
posted by Sarah Morrison
Columbia, SC’s one-man folk-rock outfit Daddy Lion is an old friend of Insomnia Radio, so we were thrilled to learn of the release of his debut full-length album Habitat when he sent us the record’s opening...
Nymphidels: Wake Up
posted by Rodrigo
It’s very usual these days to listen to a band with a non convencional rock band line up. Bands with 2 basses, bands with 2 drums, bands with no instruments at all, but mostly, just drums and a guitar. All right, Jack...
The Rebel Light: My ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Comprised of 2 brothers from Montauk New York and their long lost cousin from Yucaipa California, The Rebel Light are an electronic-infused indie rock group based in Los Angeles. Embracing the spirit of DIY indie music, The...
Jakarta Club: Hey Je...
posted by Rodrigo
Jakarta Club have released last December a free self-titled e.p. where they feature 5 songs with clear melodies with a bit of 80’s music influence. The lucky people who have been at their concerts talk about a hell of...
Zen Mystery Fogg: Ra...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Zen Mystery Fogg are two transplants of the scenic Vancouver Island wilderness living in New Orleans. Chase Franson and Thomas Molander make sunny, breezy, garage rock that treads the line between pop and lo-fi. Their...
Niagara: Seal
posted by Stuart Morrison
Italian Duo Niagara are about to release their debut album Otto on 11 Feb in Europe and 25 Mar in the UK and the Rest of the World, on Monotreme Records. Niagara is the collaborative project of Turin-based singers/producers...
Hope Darling: Lifeli...
posted by Rodrigo
You are about to listen, if you are not listening yet, to a very promissing band from Tampa Bay. Hope Darling don’t have anything officially released yet. Their sound reminds of many top selling bands, but with a...
The Soft Breaking: (...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s ‘Instrumental Thursday’ feature is by The Soft Breaking, an instrumental rock band from South Florida. Born Old is their debut album, and (Un)serum is a stand out track from the album. It’s...
Shugo Tokumaru: Deco...
posted by Rodrigo
After the recent post featuring Mambassa Blouz Band, get used to it, you will find songs wich lyrics most of you may not understand. Still, do you have a limit for the music you listen? This isn’t your place then. But...
The Glorious Veins: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Bluesy post-punk rock band The Glorious Veins over the last few years have toured across the US, playing at SXSW and The Vans Warped Tour, and hitting 25 states. Last year they used Kickstarter to raise funds for their...
Dead Young Friends: ...
posted by Rodrigo
A very promissing advanced single from Everything You Want Destroys What Others Have, album to be released this year, after the not less brilliant Lizards, released last year. Jorge Strofer, born in Dominican Republic, the...
Myopic: Jura
posted by Stuart Morrison
Jeff Ryan, the Dallas-based Multi-instrumentalist and Drummer for St. Vincent, The War On Drugs and Baptist Generals will release the EP We were here as Myopic on 26...