Give it up for pep-rock. There’s a skill in keeping your music upbeat without paying heed to whatever darker tendencies lurk in your fringes. For their newest release, Brooklyn’s The Canon Logic serve up five tracks...

From their new album Searchlights, just released on Exotic Fever Records. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-theshondes-oceantoocean.mp3] Download “Ocean to Ocean” Free Music, Every Day....

Early in the first track on Scattered Smothered Covered, the new album by Appetite, Teddy Briggs sings, “songs keep writing themselves” and the resulting collection of music seems to do exactly that. This early lyric...

The song you are listening today comes from British Columbia, Canada. Faith, My Atheist Love released Sweet Fear as a single and than as part of the free e.p. High Achievers. At the bandcamp for the project, you will also...

From the album War Is Yesterday,we bring today Antihero by the Brooklyn based band Futurist. After checking Futurist’s links, make shure you know Curtis Peel, the lead singer, and his visual art...

Perpetually positive guitar heroes Fang Island are currently in the studio recording the followup to last year’s wildly popular self-titled debut. Small hints of the recording process have been popping up on the...

Featuring ex-Air Traffic lead singer Chris Wall, Soft Bullets is his new project. Rescue Radio is the title track from his new EP. “After a break from the stage following Air Traffic, singer Chris Wall has resurfaced...

Burbank International is the ongoing recording project of instrumentalist/producer H.A.Eugene, formerly of electronic duo The Luxury Tax, and bassist of the band Anderson Congress. Liquor Crush is a standout track from his...

Fierce Creatures, under their own power, have captured the hearts of many, they have built a loyal following through their music and live performances. After a successeful radio campaign with The Syndicate February 2011,...

We don’t hear much music from The Ukraine here on The Network, but we recently came across Sample Rate from Lviv. This is a selection from their last full length album The Breath, released in 2008. The band have just...

Today’s dose is by the Portuguese band Evols. They are based in the north city of Oporto. They have released a selftitled album, wich you can download or get it on vinyl. Evols are not guitars or fuzzwahs or...

The Bay Area’s The Sea People are releasing a new EP called Ruins, and Lukka is a signature track from it. This is what they call they Bio of sorts: “With a sound that could be described as socially conscious...

They are back. Actually, officially they are not back yet. Confused? Don’t be. One of the best 2011 albums is yet to be released, but you can get a preview of it listening to two addictive tracks. Clap Your Hands...

London Indie pop band Pocketbooks are releasing their new album Carousel on 19 September on Odd Box Records, and this is a track from it. They say of themselves: “Pocketbooks are a pop band from London, combining...

When asked if we could use their songs at Insomnia Radio, they said we could and we should. No wonder why we should. Suprah, the Portuguese band from Lisbon, don’t disapoint those who are looking for a powerful rock...

A track from Here We Go Magic front man’s new album Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care, to be released on September 6th in the US, available for pre-order now from Western Vinyl. Listen to the track from his...

Austin Texas Prog/Psych Rock outfit The Boxing Lesson have released a new EP, Muerta. This is the title track from it, and was on their their first album Wild Streaks & Windy Days. This was featured on a Insomnia...

thenewno2, lead by Dhani Harrison (George’s son), will be releasing a brand new EP on Sept 27, entitled EP002, via HOT Records. “thenewno2 announce the release of their second EP, EP002 out September 27th...

Is there a recipe for a good song? Is there a recipe for a good album? Perfection may not exist, but good songs and good albums exist after a formula. But forget good albums and good songs. Forget them, because artistic...

Zechs Marquise, the El Paso, TX quintet are back with their sophomore album Getting Paid, bringing an intensified swagger to the band’s multifaceted psych-prog haze for their most aggressive and versatile effort to...

Immersed in the ever-changing currents of Portland, Oregon’s music scene, John Craig & The Weekend’s newest release, Numbers, arrives as a breath of fresh air – something worlds apart from anything you’ve...

This is a single from their album Aokigahara, released on Errant Child Records on August 30th, 2011. The Nocturnes are the folkgaze brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Emma Ruth Rundle. While the band began as a duo in 2007...

Cool and Collected, the track featured today, made me feel like São Miguel island, in the Azores, was actually the best place one could live. The Delta Routine is a Milwaukee-based band committed to the project of...

Brooklyn, NY frenetic power-duo Noxious Foxes announce the release of their sophomore album, Légs. Noxious Foxes began in 2009 in Thump Studios, a Brooklyn recording studio owned by Levengood. Songs were written in live...

From their new album Live at Sint-Elisabethkerk, released on Western Vinyl. “Though Balmorhea’s studio recordings never fail to impress, their songs have always been most powerful and affecting when performed...

British electronic-infused post-rock faves 65Daysofstatic announce the North American release of their latest album We Were Exploding Anyway in a special deluxe edition that also features the recent Heavy Sky EP. The...

1975, the song you are listening today is by The New Slave, the San Francisco, California, based band, also featured at Insomnia Radio: Daily Dose on 2009 July the 6th. Forget Progress, Return to Instinct is their new...

“NYC’s The Dig have been playing together since childhood in Westchester County. Bonds this tight might help explain why their debut album, Electric Toys, sounds less like a rookie effort, than the polished work...

Another excellent band from Athens GA, Reptar have released their debut EP, Oblangle Fizz Y’all. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-reptar-stuckinmyid.mp3] Download “Stuck in my Id”...

From Last Words: The Final Recordings, the final recording sessions of the Screaming Trees. Recorded in 1999-2000 and not released until now. The last work of the legendary Seattle band definitely deserves a...

From Montreal, Canada, Belgrave are one of the newest band to join Lovely Hearts Club, a music discovery project of the New York based indepenent label Paper Garden Records.  Belgrave’s debut release was in May with...

From the Swedish band’s free 36 track album The Silverslut 2000-2002. This is available for free from Jamendo, and is a compilation of the band’s first six EPs. Their more recent album Saturnine Songs is also...