“The Royal Bear was founded on the concept that rock music can be fun, danceable, and catchy. They understand and are not afraid to use pop hooks, drawing inspiration from pop’s past. They write songs with...

“New Brunswick’s Tin Kitchen guitarist/vocalist Lindsay Minton and bassist Mercy Harper moved to Houston, TX in 2008 and soon formed football, etc. They self-released First Down EP (2009) which garnered...

To put it a bit simply: Sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, and much of the time you’re somewhere in between. And it’s good, very good to have Goldenboy on hand to help navigate between these points of...

From Edmund, Oklahoma, They Stay Dead say they are “former members of Wretch Like Me, Minutes Too Far, and 8000 other bands who decided to play some really fast punk rock!” This is from their self titled EP...

The Nameless is Cathy’s third album. Cathy was born in Dublin, and grew up in Monkstown. She found her way into music almost accidentally. She was signed by Parlophone’s Regal Recordings after a batch of...

From their new album Led Zeppelin Five. Los Angeles based The Black Watch are long term favourites of Insomnia Radio. Their latest and boldly titled album is something like their seventeenth offering in their third decade...

Brooklyn, NY indie-pop band overlord is proud to present a new album, In Soviet Russia, My Heart Breaks You” (released 1st April. “The misleadingly-named group draws inspiration from ’60s British...

From Brooklyn, Sensual Harassment may be the new heroes for the XXI century dance floor. With haunting voices singing songs, that are no more than anthems, Alpha Draconis is the first album by the trio and is available to...

Charlotte, NC based band Side by Side released their self-titled EP in February. Michael and Joseph Pepe, twin brothers, met Joelle Kittrell through a mutual connection with the love of music and bringing their vision to...

Secret Cities’ new album Strange Hearts was released in February on Western Vinyl. It is available on Vinyl + CD/MP3s from the label’s site, or as MP3s from iTunes, Amazon and eMusic. “Started by MJ Parker...

Sunshine Factory are a band from Palmdale, taking their name from a preschool in the town, in California just outside of Los Angeles. They comprise Tony Hammons, Jordan Judge, John Karwoski and Corey Judge....

Layers of Love United, the new album by the portuguese band Norton, is the face of a new era for the band. Their goal was to create an album with songs. Not just tracks. Songs you can sing, connect and remember. This new...

Their second album the Teeth of Champions EP was just released on First of Three Records/IODA. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-themadisonsquaregardeners-innocent.mp3] Download “Innocent”...

Minneapolis based The Idle Hands just released their third album, the EP Life is Beautiful on The Pretty Kids Collective, and IODA. The Minneapolis band is made up of Irish ex-pats and Midwest natives. So who are The Idle...

Nice Cliques are an emerging Russian indie art rock band, and this is from their debut LP “Populra Art” The project was born out of collaborative musical experiments by Ivan Ilyin and Alexander Kashev [in the]...

With songs that mix up different genres with rock being the main influence, Decision & Consequence puts out a positive energy with its sound while the lyrics show a more intimate side of the band’s ideals, life...

Faith and Mark are Stephanie Faith Wiens and Mark Posillico, based in Brooklyn. Their album album Scientific Facts is available as individual free tracks from Bandcamp, or you can get the album in one go for $5. The duo...

Brooklyn based Shark? have recorded their first album which will be released later this year on Oops Baby Records (US) and Look Behind You/LBYRecords (UK). In the mean time, they have made a two track 7″ available...

London UK post-dubstep trio Nedry has issued a new MP3 single and video for the song, “Dusk Till Dawn” in anticipation of the band’s U.S. live debut during SXSW in March. The “Dusk Till Dawn”...

Butterfly Explosion are from Dublin, Ireland. It couldn’t be more perfect for today, as tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. Before you continue reading, let me inform you that the digital version of the album Lost...

We first featured Fresh Body Shop just over a year ago. The French band just released a new album, available for free, or you can make a donation, on Jamendo. “Fresh Body Shop is an Electro Pop band based in Nantes...

From their album Prism Eyes on Hozac records. Reading Rainbow are a duo from Philadelphia, whose two-word Facebook bio, “loud & simple” sums up “Wasting Time”, the stand out track from the album. The 12 track...

Anchorless is a 6-piece band out of Copenhagen forming late 2009. Starting out with just a single song on MySpace in December to show for themselves, the band has definitely not been wasting time. Within it’s first year...

Welsh indie/pop band OK released their debut album Under The Weather But Over The Moon on March 2010, and won over audiences throughout the United Kingdom having played Glastonbury and performed alongside Jersey Budd,...

In September last year, Brooklyn based Aaron Pfannebecker and Matt Conboy released Ghost Fits, their debut as Sisters on Narnack Records. As part of the legendary Death By Audio warehouse in Williamsburg (Conboy is one of...

We first featured Hello Morning on the Daily Dose in March last year, when they released their first EP. Since then they have recorded a full length album called A Fiction which has just been released, and was launched in...

Alt-country Brooklynites MY COUSIN, THE EMPEROR release their single disc, double EP entitled, THE SUBWAY EPs on March 29, 2011. Next week, they begin a string of shows with Caitlin Cary and Matt Douglas as THE SMALL...

There is an old portuguese saying reminding us that there is a lot of fish in the sea. Many Fish to Fry, the title of the album and today’s featured track by Jake Morley, will prove this sentence doesn’t make...

Italian Psych Rock outfit Dumbo Gets Mad first came to our attention back in October when Bad Panda Records sent us the track Eclectic Prawn. Now that and the current track have been included in a new full-length release...

Papermaps‘ self-titled debut album is coming out April 19th. This is a stand-out track from the ten track full-length. Canadian band, Papermaps is a Toronto-based rock quartet formed by producer/songwriter Dean...

The sound of Uppsala, Sweden’s cult-beloved Jeniferever is often described in epic terms: majestic, soaring, atmospheric, careening, sweeping. This is the second free track from their third album, titled Silesia,...

Carl Mendes is a singer-songwriter from Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, and he was named Song Poet by Willy Schwenken, a german manager and editor, who have wroked with musicians such as Tony Maude, Wizz Jones, Eric Bogle,...