The title track from The UK’s Tall Ships EP released in April. Tall Ships are originally from Falmouth, and now based in Brighton on the South coast of the UK, fast becoming a centre for new independent bands. Plate...

  We are used to listen to 30 seconds of a song, as a preview. Some of us live in countries that allow us to listen to 1 minute and 30 seconds of each song as a preview. But in this case, I just needed 1 second to know that...

The second single from their excellent album Strange Hearts. The first single and more info are available in our previous post here. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-secretcities-thepark.mp3] Download...

  Too Beautiful to Work is the title track from the new album by Montreal’s The Luyas, released on Dead Oceans. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-theluyas-toobeautifultowork.mp3] Download...

From their fifth album Loud Planes Fly Low. The Rosebuds are husband and wife duo Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, from Raleigh, North Carolina. Loud Planes Fly Low is out now on Merge...

ME & LP is Matthew Embree and Lisa Papineau. Together they have created a debut release called Chez Raymond. It will be released via Sargent House August 9, 2011....

Residing in the music of England, Film Noir World is a project by a one man band and producer, Mark Johnson, who makes music that have a movie soundtrack feel. From love, adventure, to suspense, thriller, mysterious, action,...

“Advent Horizon are a modern, ‘prog rock power trio’ lead by singer/guitarist Rylee McDonald with bassist/singer Samuel Hopkins and drummer Mike Lofgreen. Advent Horizon mix high energy performances,...

From Botany‘s debut EP Feeling Today. Botany is Spencer Stephenson, from Weatherford, TX. His Feeling Today EP has just been released on Western Vinyl, and a full length album is expected later this...

Boy + Kite (“Boy Plus Kite”) was formed in 2009 in an an unlikely place – a hot tub. Back then, Boy + Kite’s Darvin Jones and Beth Puorro would often sneak into a spa on the outskirts of Austin to swim and...

Have you ever listen to an album, and after the last song you thought that you wouldn’t change anything on it? Did you? It does make the album perfect, doesn’t it? Dark Mean is the name of these Canadian gods of...

From their new EP Vaede Collider is a young San Francisco rock band. Named after large particle accelerators, Collider’s music revels in both the bombastic beauty of energy and more subtle moments of delicacy, like...

The title track from their new EP. The five track Better Days is the first release from Los Angeles based Fonda (Emily Cook and David Klotz) since their last full-length album in 2003 Catching Up to the Future....

The Perfects, Insomnia Radio favourites, from Baltimore, were first brought to our attention by Tim Poggioli of Insomnia Radio: Baltimore. Over the years we have featured their music many times across the Network, as the...

The Spires were born at a mental asylum on the outskirts of Sheffield, where lead singer Matt Smith worked as a caretaker. Inspired by his surroundings, Matt put all his energy into riotous, lung bursting performances that...

The Young Things are from New York, and Talking Too Loud is the A-side their new limited edition 7” due out in July. Their debut EP …Is the Killer is a free download from their Web...

Sleeper Agent were formed in 2008 by guitarist/singer Tony Smith and drummer Justin Wilson. Smith rounded out the band’s line-up with friends and fans, including co-vocalist Alex Kandel (whose Debbie Harry style belies the...

Fans of New Order will appreciate the sound of The Chain Gang of 1974, which is the project of Denver resident Kamtin Mohager. Undercover is the lead single from the recently released album Wayward Fire. TCGo74 is on tour...

Sun Glitters sound is an ocean of lush melodies, pitch-shifted vocal samples, ghostly digi-diva choirs, warm bass melodies driven by alternately dense and relaxing beatwork combinations between downtempo and wonky...

Iceage are a young band (average age somewhere around 17) from Copenhagen in Denmark, who are riding the wave of the post-punk revival. Their album New Brigade crams 12 high energy punk songs into 25 minutes. They are on...

Clara May is Tom Silva, a Malaysian-born filmmaker, corporate executive, University of Chicago grad student and writer, and Nicole Sotelo, a Harvard-trained theologian and author, with Phillip Amerson, Chicago producer and...

Richtaste are from Zurich in Switzerland, and Beautiful Misery is from their album Lights And Shades available from Jamendo. If you would like to check out other tracks from the album, click on the Jamendo Player below....

“Los Angeles native John Gold is a singer/songwriter — or, as he puts it, “writer/songsinger” — who should be a poster child for DIY. With a little help from from his friends, his songs have found their way...

With what began as a childhood project that combined brothers Sean and Jimmy Galloway’s first names, The Shimmies has now created a self-appointed genre for itself, lovingly referred to as “home school rock.” First...

How many killer rock bands call Chicago home? Tons. How does a band manage to stand out from a crowd like that? By making music just like Welcome To Ashley does. Have a Hall-of-Fame list of musical influences, release a...

“Pop needn’t be fluffy, and can be catchy without being insipid. That’s the mantra of Scarlet Season. The new project from Seattle artist Aileen Paron takes a songcentric pop-rock approach and infuses it with a...

“Half-android, Ahye hides the formula for love in her still-human heart (the Oculons seek to destroy this, in order to extinguish life on earth forever!) Captain Braxton, her lost love, has been on another planet...

Tidelands is the duo of San Francisco’s Gabriel Montana Leis (Guitar, Flugelhorn, Vocals) and Mie Araki (Drums, Keyboards, Vocals). Sharp, poignant, poetic lyrics are uniquely arranged with looped guitars, Moog bass and...

EDM [formerly called Early Day Miners] started as a musical-cooperative based in Bloomington, Indiana. The group formed when Daniel Burton and Rory Leitch (both of Ativin) began playing on front porches and basements with...

We sometimes describe often featured bands as “Network Favourites”, but to use that term for Oakland’s Sentinel is an understatement. Sentinel could justifiably be described as an Insomnia Radio House...

Automatic Black is one of the premier rock groups of all time to be signed previously to Arista Records.  The news stunned the world when the major label dropped the stadium phenomenon Automatic Black group in 2004.  The...

From Tripper, their newly completed fifth album, due out August 30th, 2011 on Sargent House. After a four year hiatus, the duo featuring drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim has returned. Stripped back down to the...