Hi everyone, I’m proud to present my first solo album “Wings”. Although this is a totally “do it yourself” project, i would never make it without the help of some very special friends and artists. Yellow says...

Forro is the latest from the new Littles Ones album, The Dawn Sang Along releasing on Branches Recording Collective this February 12th. After the Los Angeles based band started out on Astralwerks, and also having released...

Today’s Daily Dose is by Max Greenhalgh (AKA the Eyelid Kid) from the lo-fi psych-pop project Inspired & the Sleep based in San Diego, CA. He’s just released the album Teenager. via Bad Panda...

Our Daily Dose Instrumental feature today is by prolific Spanish artist PeerGynt Lobogris. Head over to the Jamendo link for free downloads of hours of music. This track is a particular stand-out from a 2008 album, first...

Awning is the Brooklyn folktronica duo of Jon Sheldrick and Luke Smith, who initially met while studying music at NYU. They both are apparently classically trained musicians who have experimented with a variety of projects...

Australian duo The Cannanes return with their first official release in 11 years. The Cannanes have been putting out modest, ramshackle records since forming in Sydney, Australia, 29 years ago. The ‘Small Batch’ EP, due...

While the forecast for Brooklyn might call for rain and a 20% chance of getting stung by ice pellets, in the not so distance past the metropolis was covered with snow.  This was likely around the time these two great...

Picking up where their acclaimed debut single left off, AS ELEPHANTS ARE return with “Youth Blood”/”Lucifer”, another blistering slice of epic, widescreen indie which will be available on March 8th...

The Canadian band Old English actually started as a solo work by Matt Henderson. But as the musicians were contributing in a great and unexpected ways, quoting Matt’s words, it turn out to be a band with potential 15...

Tin Drum are from St. Paul, MN, and feature Steve Hillson on Trumpet, and Garth Anderson on drums, guitar and vox. They say of their music: “We’re not sure who we sound like. Morphine? Herb Albert? Herb Albert...

The songs in Ha Ha, Vwah Lah (like voilá in French?) are just what you expect from an album with this name. Besides being hard to tell who they sound like, maybe because they simply sound like themselves, The Spell are a...

Rich Man is the December 10th single release from London, UK band Shout Timber. Playing on two sides of an ever-existent and more than ever culturally relevant conundrum: rich and poor, happiness and unhappiness –...

IKIL ORIION is an enigmatic musical nomad of sorts. Born & bred in New Orleans his journey has taken him to the four corners of the globe New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles & Brazil. His varied living quarters have...

Good morning to all you caffeine-huffing Insomniacs and Hype Machinists. We’d like to introduce you to Irena Zilic of Zagreb, Croatia, an indie folk singer-songwriter who claims her influences are from artists along...

  Silence Is Sexy, what a name, is a band from Utrecht, in Netherlands. With references from the 80’s, Joy Dividson and stuff, but also more recent acts like The Bravery, this band has released since 2005. Mind...

Today’s featured post-rock song from Sweden’s MOONLIT SAILOR closes out the soundtrack for the somewhat recent film, Floating: The Nathan Gocke Story. This is a documentary film about a quadriplegic surfer who...

Echo Raptors are a 4 piece Rock ‘n’ Roll band from Belfast. Formed in late 2009, by four lovers of the 60’s and 90’s musical greats; Long-term friends Philip Rainey and Emmett Stewart teamed up with...

Singer and drummer Jackslacks is a founding member of San Diego regional bands Forbidden Pigs and Hot-Rod Lincoln, plus Detroit’s Nobody’s Business and others. He has shared the stage with classic and neo...

Happy 2013 to those Insomniacs that are still wide awake. Our first new year feature is My Pet Dragon, a NYC band named after lead singer Todd Michaelsen’s imaginary childhood nemesis. The group released Mountains...

Seven years ago NYC-based singer-songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist David Bronson left a burgeoning New York indie rock band to begin a necessary calling: the realization of a 22-song autobiographical concept record...

  Coming from Los Angeles, California, Noah Lebenzon and Thomas Froggatt met in Kansas. And recently, probably the second best thing that could happen to them, they released Asian She EP, recorded at Noah’s home...

Oh! My Blackbird were named one of the 10 bands to watch in 2012 by Music. Defined, along with Cloud Nothings or Tennis. Annie Sullivan gives voice to this New York trio inspired by choral music and madrigals, and though...

Rather than recycle songs into Best of Lists at year end, I wanted to keep bringing fresh music, as new releases don’t stop coming our direction at the end of the year. The Lost Ark Studio recently helped direct our...

A summery song to brighten up a dreary holiday season here in the UK, by Peterborough-based The Vow [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-the-vow-awalkinthesunshine.mp3] Download A Walk In The Sunshine Free...

  Emerald Park are probably one of the most successful band releasing songs under Creative Commons. It’s been 10 years since we have heard for the first time about a new and legal way to share free music. Based in...

Merry Christmas to all from the IR family! You caught us just as we are unwrapping our final gift from California Bay area dreampop band SENTINEL. After getting in the holiday spirit close to October, the band put the...

From probably the most controversial and explicit Christmas album ever released, Christmas Greatest Tits. 14 tracks of crimbo chaos, filth and anarchy by the UK’s grammy nominated indie posters – The Pocket...

Another Holiday/Christmas themed song, this is Bells of St. Ignatius by Wormburner. Recorded in 2007 and released as a free single, it could be seen as the NYC power pop band’s answer to The Pogues’ Fairytale of...

You have learned here that Reverend JM’S Panic Whorship are not in the mood to follow the rules. But this time they have really gone beyond what you know as Christmas music. Creepy, but beautifuly pleasent, this is...

Running around in a panic stocking your bunker with that last box of Hostess fruit pies for the apocalypse? Need a breather? Put down that Chocodile my friend and take a listen to a holiday compilation of Vancouver’s...

It’s that time of year again. The first of our Holiday-Themed tracks is from the “Noise & Drone & Pop & Atmospheres” Christmas Compilation called Six Feet Under The Snow, put together by Silber...

Sun Glitters, previously featured at the Daily Dose and Insomnia Radio: Portugal, has been very busy with many live acts around Europe. So has other electronic music artists remixing tracks by the Portuguese artist that goes...