Since we first featured The Athens GA based Reptar in August last year they have gone on to record their first album Body Faucet, to be released 01 May on Vagrant Records. This is the second single from it, released as a...
Chailo Sim: Homerun
posted by Rodrigo
Chailo Sim, based in Pembrokeshire, Wales, has received the following comments: A very beautiful record. Has a gorgeous feel to it and the songs are lovely, (Simon Raymonde, Bella Union) or spectacularly mesmerizing live...
Marriages: Ride In M...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Marriages is a new band comprised of Red Sparowes members Emma Ruth Rundle (vocals, guitar), Greg Burns (bass, synthesizer) and David Clifford (drums). Their sound is a singularly sensual kind of heavy, dramatic...
Lumiere Brother: Fas...
posted by Rodrigo
Lumiere Brother’s music is an invitation to a cinematic journey with the listener as the protagonist. His debut solo album Fiction is inspired by the atmospheric 60s French films, the whimsical fairytales of Tim Burton and...
Sleep Maps: Men Agai...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Sleep Maps‘ Fiction Makes The Future was recorded in the woods of Delaware over 3 weeks in October 2011. The 5-song, 40-plus minute album was produced, performed and mixed by Ben Kaplan. It will be available on limited...
Brian Mackey: Honest...
posted by Rodrigo
Brian Mackey, New York based singer, has been invited to have his music featured at different movies and compilation albums. The list will include films directed by Oliver Robbins (Poltergeist) or movies with Sean Austin...
Kim Janssen: Tors
posted by Rodrigo
From now one Snowstar Records should be a frequent name at our posts. This Dutch label has sent in first place Kim Janssen and his latest album Ancient Crime. It is a album inspired by his years on boarding school in Asia....
Cairo Knife Fight: O...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Cairo Knife Fight: Gang of Two Wage Guerrilla Rock Warfare Though New Zealand’s Cairo Knife Fight is only comprised of two men, between the tom-tom attack of drummer/lead vocalist/bass synth man Nick Gaffaney and the...
The Finger: I Don...
posted by Rodrigo
You have recently heard The Finger with the track Die! Die Superhero! We post again the band that comes from Greece because the debut album named after the opening track, I Don’t Believe My Eyes is now officialy...
ExDetectives: The La...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Faris McReynolds, who also makes music as the minimalist avant-garde pop project One Finger Riot, takes a totally different songwriting approach as Exdetectives. McReynolds made the Exdetectives debut album Take My Forever...
Freeky Clean & ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
If you didn’t know, you likely wouldn’t guess where the two artists collaborating to produce today’s Dose are based. They are from Kiev in The Ukraine, and have been producing Blues and Blues Rock like this...
Dub Vision: Cool Sum...
posted by Rodrigo
You’ve seen them on stage all over the world. They tickle your soul with sweet melodies and move your feet with hard-hitting dub. With the Counter Attack! album, Dub Vision has moved from the back to the front,...
World Blanket: And H...
posted by Stuart Morrison
World Blanket‘s third album 2012 is officially released April 3rd, 2012. And Here We Are (Again Maybe)” is the first single from the...
Civil Twilight: Fire...
posted by Rodrigo
Today’s dose comes a little late, but press play and seconds after listening to Fire Escape you will forget any trouble this late post may have caused you. Holy Weather will only be available from the 26th of March,...
Lux: Coroner’s...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“The Seattle-based duo Lux has sewn a unique sleeve to wear its influences on. Inspired by some of the most essential artists of the era of indie and underground music, this boy-girl duo offers its own take on these...
:Papercutz: Disinteg...
posted by Rodrigo
By the time you read this lines, or listen to today’s dose, you won’t be able to catch officially :Papercutz at SXSW. It might be a chance that you find them around doing a session. Bruno Miguel, from Oporto,...
Tycho: Hours
posted by Stuart Morrison
Tycho is the music project of San Francisco based artist Scott Hansen (ISO50). This is the first single from his Album Dive. Tyco is appearing at the South By South West music festival in Austin Texas, this week. This also...
Little Tybee: Nero
posted by Rodrigo
Paper Garden Records, based in New York, is what we should call an independent major label, considering major related to quality. Top quality. Little Tybee are one of the bands part of the label’s catalog, and will be...
Cotton Mather: My Be...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Usually on the Daily Dose we feature new music. But sometimes we come across a reissue of something which needs a re-airing. A case in point is today’s track, from the reissue of the hugely influential album Kontiki...
Miniature Tigers: Se...
posted by Rodrigo
The song you’re listening today is from the much anticipated album Miniature Tigers, Mia Pharoah (Modern Art Records). The band will play at SXSW on the following dates: Tuesday, 13: Conflict of Interest Party with...
OHO: Free to Flee
posted by Rodrigo
OHO is a 2-member French band that met in Calcutta, India. Aurore (singer) writes most songs a-capella, and Paul (musician) creates atmospheres around them with several instruments. The first album Land of the Happy has...
Whitejacket: The Mod...
posted by Stuart Morrison
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...
Edgar Breau: Patches...
posted by Rodrigo
Does Edgar Breau reminds you of anything? In fact Edgar Breau was the frontman of Simply Saucer. Well, actually he is still the frontman of the band, as they back in the active this 2012. Still, Edgar Breau decided to finish...
Ed Schrader’s ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Baltimore Duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (ESMB) are releasing their album Jazz Mind on Load Records When I’m in a Car, Sermon, and more,...
Hooded Fang: ESP
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Toronto in Canada, Hooded Fang are releasing their album Tosta Mista on 12 Mar 2012 on Full Time Hobby. It’s their second album, the first was self-titled. UK readers have unfortunately just missed a short tour...
Marty Was Right: We&...
posted by Rodrigo
It’s hard to choose a track from Time Travelling Is Heavy, the free album by Marty Was Right. Actually, this is not a band, it’s a one man project from Lisbon, Portugal. Guitars play a major part on...
Mad Mav: Steel Concr...
posted by Stuart Morrison
On the Network we don’t play very much Metal, but what we do play is of the highest quality (to not offend Indie Rock ears). A case in point is today’s Dose. For Instrumental Thursday this week, we have German...
Trésors: Scarface (J...
posted by Rodrigo
Italian followers of Insomnia Radio, this one is for you: Trésors are starting today a tour around Italy. 29.02.12 Forli @ Diagonal 01.03.12 Milano – NO FUN @ Sagrestia w/ Be Forest 02.03.12 Brescia @ Lio Bar w/ Be...
Wishes and Thieves: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
NYC’s Wishes and Thieves release their second EP, Forest Fire in May 2012. Check out the video for the title track and lead single below. Meanwhile, their first EP Lighthouse is available as a free download from...
The Dead Leaves: Har...
posted by Rodrigo
The best kept secret of Insomnia Radio can now be revealed. The Australian band The Dead Leaves, Melbourne, have finaly released their debut album Cities on the Sea. We are happy, they are happy and we see no reason for you...
Silver Rocket: The W...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their first full length album Old Fashioned One year after the much praised debut EP the italian post punk band Silver Rocket returns with the new album Old Fashioned. Ten songs and a Frank Sinatra-cover combine the...
Red Nightfall: Windm...
posted by Rodrigo
They may be compared to many bands you been listening lately, but the Canadian Red Nightfall are with no doubt a band to watch. Emerging from Toronto, the band has released their first album named after them last year. The...