From NYC, Fan-Tan are currently putting the final touches to their forthcoming debut LP, entitled A Strange Game slated for a March release. Recently they released the album’s first single...

We do receive a lot of varied music here at The Network, and when Keshco sent us a track from their latest album Futile Peace Offering, and described their styles as “psychedelia, synthpop, bedsit folk, library music...

The last 2011 song is by the Springfield, Missouri bases Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. They have recently released their forth album. Tape Club documents the story of the band aurally, beginning with lo-fi home...

Uncles is an indie-folk band from Queens, NY. At its heart lies a songwriting collaboration between Dan Bateman and Will Schwartz, two friends who grew up together in Westchester, NY. Tom White (Little Anchor) plays upright...

Today’s cover art won’t fool you. We are posting a very appropriate song for your most haunted thoughts, yet inspiring. Jessica Letho is the woman that owns the main voice of Factory of Dreams, while Hugo Flores...

Siamese Twist are a 5 piece female fronted alternative/indie band from Halifax West Yorkshire, UK. This song appeared on the bands latest EP ‘Adored’ released in April this year. The EP is available from all good...

Last but one Christmas download, this time something really different from what you normally get from Insomnia Radio. Still, very appropriate for this night, especially if you will want to meditate. Published in Lima in...

Every Christmas for the past twelve years, a group of friends in Arbor New Jersey have a Christmas Show, and release a free album of music by local artists. All proceeds go to the Arbor Foundation, a local charity. A stand...

Today’s Christmas song comes from a band that recently was added to the Twilight saga soundtrack and it’s the third time you see this name at our posts. Actually, Sleeping at Last is at the moment a one man...

As we in the Northern Hemisphere approach the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, we though that the new song The Night by Network Favourites School Of Sever Bells (SVIIB) would be an appropriate choice for the...

Holiday music from serene to insane. This is how the Oregon artist Tom Grant describes his Christmas album Santa Claus is Going to Town! Expect to laugh or get mad at what Tom did to our favourite carols. But most of all,...

The Canadian band Belgrave were one of our best surprises during this 2011. We met them through Paper Garden’s Lovely Heart Club, and now the band present us an original for this...

In the spirit of the season, The Lulls in Traffic have released a free holiday song download entitled “Silver Bells Are Ringing Only Grey.” The Lulls in Traffic is the new alternative/hip-hop project of Aaron...

Welcome to Insomnia Radio: Daily Dose 13 Days of Christmas. From today on until the 25th of December you will be receiving a festive track. Doesn’t mean Christmas themed songs, but songs that will make you enjoy this...

Chicago’s Filligar are releasing their new album early in 2012. Two tracks from it, this one, and Knock Yourself Out are available for free download from their web site. This will be their fifth album, the previous...

Just Because it’s Christmas… 11:59 release a free single “11:59 are full of questions: Must I always take it on the chin? Why doesn’t everyone read the bus timetables? Who is Gareth Gates? “Stu,...

Ryan Karazija is Low Roar, an Iceland mased project. Adding players Júlíus Óttar Björgvinsson and Katie Buckley to the live show, Low Roar slowly reveals a beautiful and powerful set consisting of loops and layers of...

House of Light are Justin de Vries, Mark Kinchin, Valentina Veil, Diego Ferri, Greg Krouse. Based in Berlin, though half of its members come from Australia. This is taken from their 2009 album Come Into My...

For many, Babyhawk (Part II of III) by the Los Angeles based Rademacher, is one of the best 2011 releases. We at Insomnia Radio are one of those listeners who vote for Rademacher to be one of the best of...

November marked the release of Invisible Mustache’s 2nd album You Cool Girl. The band have been around since 2006, and are from Syracuse,...

Above all, Hall Music is a study in merging contrasts, an album of impossible pairings. The pacing is simultaneously fast and slow, with gently weaving harmonic structures propelled forward by quickly moving notes. The...

The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed the author of this post, and yes, it’s a New York band posted by the absentee host of IR: New York. Now we’re not promising anything, but do watch this space boys and...

Sound and the Urgency is the name of the album, the song and the project, or you could also call it Brian Senesac, from Portland. Sound and the Urgency is an indie-rock, folk-electronic masterpiece that was inspired by...

The Thomas Confession are from Fresno, CA, they formed in 2008, and are releasing a brand new album on December 5, 2011 called Convolutions, and this is the first single from it. A strong influence of new wave, indie dance,...

Ghost of Chance are an experimental rock band based in New Haven, Connecticut. The group’s distinctive style is characterized by subtle time signature changes and sonically open experimentation set to surrealist...

Into The Dark, Kirby’s second official release, wrestles the ideas of hostile despair, anguish of being unable to change, the worthlessness of envy and the desire to be wanted so unconditionally. It’s a glimpse...

The Ugly Club is a diverse and ever-growing project of musical ideas and stylings. Contrived of Ryan Egan, Taylor Mandel, Joe Stasio, Ryan McNulty, and Rick Sue-Poi, the band brings together unique musicality and songwriting...

“The Worsties are a high energy, female-fronted rock band from Nashville that mixes influences from 70’s era punk, 80’s pop and glam, with new wave dance beats thrown in for good measure. “The Worsties formed...

Big Troubles are Ian Drennan, Alex Craig, Luka Usmiani, Samuel Franklin from New Jersey, and this is from their second release, the album Romantic Comedy on Slumberland Records....

Brooklyn, NY’s Secret Music are Chase Nicholl and Daniel Fry, who recently released their infectious single T.O.Y.S. on Black Bell Records (whose artists include The Joy Formidable). The video (below) was directed by...

Hellás! If you follow football, the round ball sport, you probably will ask “how come a Portuguese guy is posting a song from a band based in Greece”? Well, 2004 was 7 years ago. I don’t remember...

RACES (formerly known as Black Jesus) formed in the fall of 2009 after singer/songwriter Wade Ryff escaped the sweaty grips of multiple bands, the San Fernando Valley and a real life witch. Originally formed as an impromptu...