Happy Pre-Halloween Weekend! Today’s feature of “Trick or Treat” is an nice surprise coming from the folks over at Concentrated Records based out of Manchester, UK. Twisted Roots & Visceral put a nice...

Tampa Florida based experimental electronic and hip-hop artist P.SUS released the following track “Happily Ever After” on his five-track EP “Heart Beats” back on July 4th, 2011. Its a bright and...

Brighton UK musician Rob O’Hara is MUTE SPEAKER, currently based in Kampot, Cambodia where he produced the exploratory and psychedelic track ‘Bokator‘ the opening number on his twenty-two song ‘Radio...

A little over five years ago in March 2012, the netlabel Blocsonic released the debut digital fortyFive release. Shortly thereafter Tha Silent Partner reinvented the format with the release of his first SIX ONNA 7 release....

The Impossebulls returned in late November with the fourth installment in their exceptional Five By Five EP series with Gluttony. As fans have come to expect with this series, it features previously unreleased gems,...

Indiana natives Scott Matelic and Jay McElfresh (A-Grav Lab) originally had a version of today’s featured track relased back in 2002, part of a handful of downloadable singles by indie artists released via Chuck...

Back To It is lead single from the forthcoming new album “The Devils You Know” by The Impossebulls and with some help by Professor Daddyo of the legenendary group Stetsasonic! Quality label blocSonic recently...

Hip-hop producer and musician C-DOC returned a few weeks back on May 17th with a large twelve track mix featuring members of the blocSonic family, including Badluck, Cheese N Pot-C, D3Zs, DJ Def Chad, Donnie Ozone, The...

London’s Paul Croker (aka dustmotes) began his love affair with vinyl at the age of 4 when he was given his first 7″ single, his love growing throughout the next few decades in the Hip Hop, Trip Hop and Big Beat...

Naturally with my part Polish heritage, the name of this group has been a magnet over the last decade or so since I first heard what was likely their debut on My(old)Space. It was just the other day that I stumbled upon and...

The debut album from Toronto’s BLACK LADY SOUL is set to be released August 16th, 2014. Their first single, ‘The Fall’ is a well put together mixture of jazz, rock, and hip-hop with all styles intersecting...

Cairoglyphs is the electronic brainchild of Kansas City based hip-hop artist/producer Ryan Forest. His debut EP, “The Veil” has just been released on Russian Winter Records. Cairoglyphs features retro-futuristic...

Brooklyn DJ – THE BINS has a new album coming out September 4 called “Corrugations” but we really wanted to start off and introduce you to a song we heard not too long ago, the sample-laden track...

Isla Vista, CA’s finest The Olés provide the perfect start to the Memorial Day weekend here in the US. In the vein of Rebelution, Iration, and their northern neighbors, The Expendables; they are an excellent new...

From Sydney, Australia comes the new quality single from reggae/rock and hip-hop group CROSSING RED LINES via our friends at the A&R Dept. Apparently the single dropped at the very tail end of March, and we just...

The Mad Writer is L’Orange’s new LP which made its debut this past Nov. 20th. The track Alone is the first single and features the smooth vocals of Blu conjoined with a mellow beat layered over with at least one...

Holmes can often be found buried under a mountain of vintage recording gear in his cozy Silverlake, California home studio, cooking up tracks for himself, other artists, television and film. Roy Shakked, under his moniker...

Here’s a really brief intro to today’s featured musician courtesy of the Wiki collective: Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Messianic Jewish parents. Before his first year in high...

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...

Pigeon John returns with his first new album in 4 years. “Dragon Slayer” represents a shift for PJ as he takes on full production duties and hand crafts his most personal album to date. Pigeon John’s second...

Step right up! We’ve got eighteen tracks from eighteen different indie artists hailing from the Central Valley region of California, with a regional bullseye on the city of Fresno – presented in the traditional...

Per local musician Brian Kenney Fresno’s mission statement, the holy triumvirate of activities in the Central California city of Fresno are: car theft, methlabs and chop shops.   While you often hear the area...

From the recently released album Still Life, we bring you Mantis with ‘What? (feat. Justis)’. “Possibly one of Canada’s freshest offspring of the love triangle between funk, soul, and hiphop,...

One of the network’s favorite hip-hop artists, Psyche Origami is back with a new track produced by El Chavo, a reggae DJ and producer from Allela Spain, a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. El Chavo is the host...

From Yonkers, New York we would like to introduce you to Mouthblocks, one of our favorite new hip-hop artists who just released his debut EP, Sing for Your Supper on fledgling Baby Grey Records. Mouthblock adeptly presents...

Thanks for checking out the 24th full length edition of The SoCal Sessions here at Insomnia Radio. Today we’ve gathered up fourteen excellent tracks from fourteen talented artists, breaking out in Long Beach via a...

Following up on the first all hip-hop episode here at Insomnia Radio back at the end of 2006 (#103 – He’s Playing WHAT???), we eagerly bring you sixteen high quality tracks from a wide selection of regional...

On May 21st 2005, Black Violin, two classically trained musicians, took home the title ‘2005 Apollo Legends’ which catapulted them to international fame. These two gentlemen, Kev Marcus and Wil B along with their...

Cover the kiddies ears on this episode! But don’t let it stop you listening to it later! There is Janis Joplin reincarnated, Jen Porter! Also, Hip Hop, Reggae, Alternative Rock and we go to the dark side to finish...

Dear listener, Due to some unexplained technical sabotage, we had to scrub our listener’s choice classic opera and romantic standards program, unfortunately funded by you, our Opera Gold Club VIP members. In its place...

Presenting a somewhat wide cross-section of the LA music scene, ‘This is the City’ brings us several tracks from a cadre of talented artists with new undiscovered music to share with the world. Fishbone returns...

Hey everyone! Today I’m giving away five CD’s from a great Santa Barbara band called The Coral Sea, so make sure you check this one out sometime during the week in order to have a chance to win. We’ve also...