The Void… It Creeps, the first official release from Permanent Makeup, is scheduled for release on February 26th via New Granada. “Tampa’s Permanent Makeup formed in 2010 and played its first show without...
Josefina Sanner: Do ...
posted by Rodrigo
The cold land of Sweden has another warm voice for us to listen. Josefina Sanner has relased as a single Do You Remember, a track from her album released in 2012 These Beads of Mine. But it’s not just the voice....
Sallie Ford & Th...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Portland, Oregon group, Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside’s newest record Untamed Beast (February 19, 2013) is the follow up to 2011’s Dirty Radio. They recorded the album’s 11 tracks with Adam Landry and...
Great Divide: Ain...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Great Divide are from Chicago and they are releasing their self-titled, second album on March 5, 2013. Ain’t No Roads, featured today, is the opening track. With multiple appearances at festivals like SXSW, North Coast...
Little Scream: Boatm...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Born in Iowa and raised along the Mississippi River in an ‘Addams Family meets 700 Club’ home, Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer, emerged onto Montreal’s music scene at her own pace, appearing and...
Mecanico: Legacy
posted by Rodrigo
The legacy goes on. So the lyrics go, and while listening you can’t help but trying some moonwalking. Coming from Chile, Mecanico does an excellent work recreating the textures on Michael Jackson’s greatest...
Anna Bradley: Head f...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
This brilliant new track from New York’s Anna Bradley comes off the third edition of Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen compilation of artists, a free download over at BandCamp. The harmonies on this track really float...
DNSQ3: Last Man Stan...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“DNSQ3 is songwriting duo David Creces and Steven Q Dawe III (SQ3). DNSQ3 combines love for great songs & songwriters with love for experimental arrangements of instruments. The result is a big ol’ mess of...
Moor Hound: Holiday
posted by Rodrigo
Steve Marino started writing songs in his bedroom back in Florida in 2008. Since then, he’s moved to Indiana, and his songs have become a little less cheesy and juvenile, and more abstract, and self-pitiful in nature....
The Barr Brothers: B...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Some things are meant to the enjoyed with a little build, and so it goes with the full version of the track from the debut album of Montreal’s “The Barr Brothers”. While the radio cutdown is nice, its...
Skinny Bitches: Just...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Robyn Craig and Ricardo Temporao are Toronto musicians and friends who decided to start jamming in early 2011 with him on guitar and her on drums. By experimenting with harmonies and heavy arrangements (reflecting...
Daddy Lion: The Scie...
posted by Sarah Morrison
Columbia, SC’s one-man folk-rock outfit Daddy Lion is an old friend of Insomnia Radio, so we were thrilled to learn of the release of his debut full-length album Habitat when he sent us the record’s opening...
Nymphidels: Wake Up
posted by Rodrigo
It’s very usual these days to listen to a band with a non convencional rock band line up. Bands with 2 basses, bands with 2 drums, bands with no instruments at all, but mostly, just drums and a guitar. All right, Jack...
Fawn Spots: Watered ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Everyone once in a while it’s nice to have an artist come along to cleanse all the bad music out of the system that’s been lodged in the ol’ memory banks. Fawn Spots, a three-piece from York was recently...
The Rebel Light: My ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Comprised of 2 brothers from Montauk New York and their long lost cousin from Yucaipa California, The Rebel Light are an electronic-infused indie rock group based in Los Angeles. Embracing the spirit of DIY indie music, The...
Jakarta Club: Hey Je...
posted by Rodrigo
Jakarta Club have released last December a free self-titled e.p. where they feature 5 songs with clear melodies with a bit of 80’s music influence. The lucky people who have been at their concerts talk about a hell of...
Unsuddenly: You Let ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Unsuddenly is a musical collaboration built on the songwriting, singing and producing efforts of Will James in collaboration with several great friends and accomplished musicians. The lyrics of today’s featured single...
Zen Mystery Fogg: Ra...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Zen Mystery Fogg are two transplants of the scenic Vancouver Island wilderness living in New Orleans. Chase Franson and Thomas Molander make sunny, breezy, garage rock that treads the line between pop and lo-fi. Their...
Niagara: Seal
posted by Stuart Morrison
Italian Duo Niagara are about to release their debut album Otto on 11 Feb in Europe and 25 Mar in the UK and the Rest of the World, on Monotreme Records. Niagara is the collaborative project of Turin-based singers/producers...
Hope Darling: Lifeli...
posted by Rodrigo
You are about to listen, if you are not listening yet, to a very promissing band from Tampa Bay. Hope Darling don’t have anything officially released yet. Their sound reminds of many top selling bands, but with a...
American Babies: Dan...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Since 2007 American Babies has been the mouthpiece for Philadelphia based musician Tom Hamilton. After spending the early 2000s building a national fan base fronting the electro-rock band Brothers Past, releasing two...
The Soft Breaking: (...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Today’s ‘Instrumental Thursday’ feature is by The Soft Breaking, an instrumental rock band from South Florida. Born Old is their debut album, and (Un)serum is a stand out track from the album. It’s...
Shugo Tokumaru: Deco...
posted by Rodrigo
After the recent post featuring Mambassa Blouz Band, get used to it, you will find songs wich lyrics most of you may not understand. Still, do you have a limit for the music you listen? This isn’t your place then. But...
The Story So Far: Qu...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Story So Far are based in Walnut Creek on the outskirts of San Francisco. Under Soil and Dirt, the band’s debut full length was released in June of 2011 and follows up two highly acclaimed EPs. While the album is...
The Glorious Veins: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Bluesy post-punk rock band The Glorious Veins over the last few years have toured across the US, playing at SXSW and The Vans Warped Tour, and hitting 25 states. Last year they used Kickstarter to raise funds for their...
Dead Young Friends: ...
posted by Rodrigo
A very promissing advanced single from Everything You Want Destroys What Others Have, album to be released this year, after the not less brilliant Lizards, released last year. Jorge Strofer, born in Dominican Republic, the...
My Bubba & Mi: A...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
It all started a couple of years ago in Copenhagen, when Bubba moved into My’s apartment by chance. They started spending evenings together humming homely hymns, and soon found themselves in Italy making a record; the very...
Myopic: Jura
posted by Stuart Morrison
Jeff Ryan, the Dallas-based Multi-instrumentalist and Drummer for St. Vincent, The War On Drugs and Baptist Generals will release the EP We were here as Myopic on 26...
Future History: Surr...
posted by Rodrigo
Enjoying independent and experimental rock music is very easy if put in the pot Future History. Originary from Toronto, Canada, these five musicians have released Loss:/self digitaly, with the vinyl version planned for later...
Daniel Badeie: IR...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Daniel Badeie came to Sweden as a child from a war torn Teheran, Iran. The memories evolving around this and his upbringing in Uppsala, Sweden, came to form a critical view on the world around him. A feeling of seeing...
Heroes of Switzerlan...
posted by Stuart Morrison
The Heroes of Switzerland are about to release their new EP, No Easy Way Of Being on 21st January 2013 on Music To Bleed To (MBTB003) via all good digital music stores. Head to their web site for more information. No Easy...
Nettie Rose: To The ...
posted by Rodrigo
Nettie Rose sings about People I Know (well, people she knows. This is actually the album tittle). She wrote these songs with the help of those people, some in L.A., some in Nashville, some dead and some living, some real,...