Welcome to Insomnia Radio: Daily Dose 13 Days of Christmas. From today on until the 25th of December you will be receiving a festive track. Doesn’t mean Christmas themed songs, but songs that will make you enjoy this...

Chicago’s Filligar are releasing their new album early in 2012. Two tracks from it, this one, and Knock Yourself Out are available for free download from their web site. This will be their fifth album, the previous...

Just Because it’s Christmas… 11:59 release a free single “11:59 are full of questions: Must I always take it on the chin? Why doesn’t everyone read the bus timetables? Who is Gareth Gates? “Stu,...

Ryan Karazija is Low Roar, an Iceland mased project. Adding players Júlíus Óttar Björgvinsson and Katie Buckley to the live show, Low Roar slowly reveals a beautiful and powerful set consisting of loops and layers of...

Philadelphia based band Jukebox the Ghost released their second album, Everything Under the Sun, last September, the follow-up to their debut 2008 release, Live & Let Ghosts. Today’s featured track features the...

House of Light are Justin de Vries, Mark Kinchin, Valentina Veil, Diego Ferri, Greg Krouse. Based in Berlin, though half of its members come from Australia. This is taken from their 2009 album Come Into My...

For many, Babyhawk (Part II of III) by the Los Angeles based Rademacher, is one of the best 2011 releases. We at Insomnia Radio are one of those listeners who vote for Rademacher to be one of the best of...

November marked the release of Invisible Mustache’s 2nd album You Cool Girl. The band have been around since 2006, and are from Syracuse,...

Stuart Morrison presents a show with Direct Submissions, Archive from The Vault, a Daily Dose feature, and more. A wide range of music, from Ukrainian Brit-Pop to Metal to...

The members of Toronto five-piece Young Doctors in Love were apparently brought together by the desire to create 3 minute pop-rock assaults. According to their Twitter feed, they are close to completing work on their full...

Above all, Hall Music is a study in merging contrasts, an album of impossible pairings. The pacing is simultaneously fast and slow, with gently weaving harmonic structures propelled forward by quickly moving notes. The...

The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed the author of this post, and yes, it’s a New York band posted by the absentee host of IR: New York. Now we’re not promising anything, but do watch this space boys and...

Sound and the Urgency is the name of the album, the song and the project, or you could also call it Brian Senesac, from Portland. Sound and the Urgency is an indie-rock, folk-electronic masterpiece that was inspired by...

Southern romantic via Savannah, Dare Dukes has returned with the debut single from his forthcoming fan-funded, early 2012 full length, ‘Thugs and China Dolls’. ‘Lets be reckless, just the two of us’...

The Thomas Confession are from Fresno, CA, they formed in 2008, and are releasing a brand new album on December 5, 2011 called Convolutions, and this is the first single from it. A strong influence of new wave, indie dance,...

Ghost of Chance are an experimental rock band based in New Haven, Connecticut. The group’s distinctive style is characterized by subtle time signature changes and sonically open experimentation set to surrealist...

Into The Dark, Kirby’s second official release, wrestles the ideas of hostile despair, anguish of being unable to change, the worthlessness of envy and the desire to be wanted so unconditionally. It’s a glimpse...

Jump Into The Gospel is fronted by Louis Epstein, a native New Yorker, whose emphatic vocals and interspersed wailing falsettos, are reminiscent of Robert Smith, David Byrne, and Shaun Ryder. Featuring an assemblage of...

The Ugly Club is a diverse and ever-growing project of musical ideas and stylings. Contrived of Ryan Egan, Taylor Mandel, Joe Stasio, Ryan McNulty, and Rick Sue-Poi, the band brings together unique musicality and songwriting...

“The Worsties are a high energy, female-fronted rock band from Nashville that mixes influences from 70’s era punk, 80’s pop and glam, with new wave dance beats thrown in for good measure. “The Worsties formed...

Before San Francisco band Koalacaust broke up in October, they left us a few new releases of excellent well formulated material, namely the full length ‘Smiles Shine Like Broken Glass’ last August and the...

Big Troubles are Ian Drennan, Alex Craig, Luka Usmiani, Samuel Franklin from New Jersey, and this is from their second release, the album Romantic Comedy on Slumberland Records....

Brooklyn, NY’s Secret Music are Chase Nicholl and Daniel Fry, who recently released their infectious single T.O.Y.S. on Black Bell Records (whose artists include The Joy Formidable). The video (below) was directed by...

Hellás! If you follow football, the round ball sport, you probably will ask “how come a Portuguese guy is posting a song from a band based in Greece”? Well, 2004 was 7 years ago. I don’t remember...

The fourth and newest release from Minnesota based group Halloween, Alaska – ‘All Night the Calls Came In’ also marks the solidification of a new lineup following an extended period of tension and...

RACES (formerly known as Black Jesus) formed in the fall of 2009 after singer/songwriter Wade Ryff escaped the sweaty grips of multiple bands, the San Fernando Valley and a real life witch. Originally formed as an impromptu...

Das Fluff is a London based electro pop band. In this case I would like to use the word power. Superior vibes and musical productions, in wich Dawn Lintern voice stands out. Not only from the band best feature’s, as...

The rootsy trio began when Jazz Mills (T-Bird and the Breaks) got together with Jesse Plemons to write their first song. The collaboration took off and before long the pair was drawing major buzz at SXSW. Daniel James...

New York’s Apollo Run released their sophomore EP, Here Be Dragons, Volume 2 a few months ago. “With a sound that straddles classic Queen, Muse, and Electric Light Orchestra, this harmony-driven power trio is best...

Kansas City uke musician Elsa Rae recently was featured as the SoundClouder of the day, which is where we first heard of this excellent track ‘Don’t Move to Minnesota’. A forgotten e-mail to myself and...

About the New York based singer Corey TuT, Matt Phillp from the DNA Magazine said TuT’s music is brutally honest and his voice is as powerful and hard as it is warm and pure…a bona fide rock star! And James...

We take Movember in a totally different direction today with Miami quintet Ex Norwegian telling a tale of a Mustang driving moustachioed girl. The band spent the later half of 2009 and early 2010 recording this second album,...