Too Beautiful to Work is the title track from the new album by Montreal’s The Luyas, released on Dead Oceans. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-theluyas-toobeautifultowork.mp3] Download...

Before signing to Reekus Records in 2009, Dublin Ireland quartet, Sweet Jane, independently released their debut EP ‘Blackboots & Blackhearts’, limiting physical copies to 300, which included 50 limited...

From their fifth album Loud Planes Fly Low. The Rosebuds are husband and wife duo Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, from Raleigh, North Carolina. Loud Planes Fly Low is out now on Merge...

When playing at Lewisham’s Dirty South, five piece Brighton band PHORIA caught the attention of producer Dan Lucas. He felt their material and performance was so strong that he offered his time for free, enabling the band...

ME & LP is Matthew Embree and Lisa Papineau. Together they have created a debut release called Chez Raymond. It will be released via Sargent House August 9, 2011....

Lifejackets is the 2nd album from Aarhus, Denmark based band MIMAS. According to the group, the first one was about worries in life, and the newest is about Lifejackets; the lifejackets that keep over water, the...

Residing in the music of England, Film Noir World is a project by a one man band and producer, Mark Johnson, who makes music that have a movie soundtrack feel. From love, adventure, to suspense, thriller, mysterious, action,...

“Advent Horizon are a modern, ‘prog rock power trio’ lead by singer/guitarist Rylee McDonald with bassist/singer Samuel Hopkins and drummer Mike Lofgreen. Advent Horizon mix high energy performances,...

Copenhagen, Denmark based Fifty Foot Spiders, mix art rock with punk, indie and noise into a brutish and bumptious experience – with room for both thinking and dancing. The quintet released their debut EP in 2008 on...

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...

Before New York’s Luke Temple gained attention with his new band Here We Go Magic (via Western Vinyl), he released his first solo CD in late 2005 ‘Hold A Match to a gasoline World’ on Mill Pond Records out...

Boy + Kite (“Boy Plus Kite”) was formed in 2009 in an an unlikely place – a hot tub. Back then, Boy + Kite’s Darvin Jones and Beth Puorro would often sneak into a spa on the outskirts of Austin to swim and...

Today’s feature is taken from Sacramento, California band Ganglian’s brand new album ‘Still Living’ out August 29th on Souterrain Transmissions. Their official video for the track...

Have you ever listen to an album, and after the last song you thought that you wouldn’t change anything on it? Did you? It does make the album perfect, doesn’t it? Dark Mean is the name of these Canadian gods of...

From their new EP Vaede Collider is a young San Francisco rock band. Named after large particle accelerators, Collider’s music revels in both the bombastic beauty of energy and more subtle moments of delicacy, like...

The title track from their new EP. The five track Better Days is the first release from Los Angeles based Fonda (Emily Cook and David Klotz) since their last full-length album in 2003 Catching Up to the Future....

Sydney Australia’s New Navy have recently released their highly anticipated debut EP ‘Uluwatu’, with the first single re-released via new label Future Classic. Named after the location where the EP was conceived,...

The Perfects, Insomnia Radio favourites, from Baltimore, were first brought to our attention by Tim Poggioli of Insomnia Radio: Baltimore. Over the years we have featured their music many times across the Network, as the...

Brooklyn-based Jangula released their first EP last year, and are returning to the studio to record a full-length album, featuring the single “Light Left Hand.” The quartet started out of several incarnations at...

The Spires were born at a mental asylum on the outskirts of Sheffield, where lead singer Matt Smith worked as a caretaker. Inspired by his surroundings, Matt put all his energy into riotous, lung bursting performances that...

The Young Things are from New York, and Talking Too Loud is the A-side their new limited edition 7” due out in July. Their debut EP …Is the Killer is a free download from their Web...

Although Brooklyn quartet MILES’ current sound is best described as melodic alternative music, the bands’ very name stands as an obvious and undeniable reminder of a treasured jazz past. However, there is more...

Sleeper Agent were formed in 2008 by guitarist/singer Tony Smith and drummer Justin Wilson. Smith rounded out the band’s line-up with friends and fans, including co-vocalist Alex Kandel (whose Debbie Harry style belies the...

After getting started in 1992 with their debut EP Peppermint, and having been signed to Geffen early in their careers, Canadian favorites Sloan have continued to release quality music over the last two decades, with their...

Fans of New Order will appreciate the sound of The Chain Gang of 1974, which is the project of Denver resident Kamtin Mohager. Undercover is the lead single from the recently released album Wayward Fire. TCGo74 is on tour...

Its bands like Brooklyn three piece Field Theory that make me want to live on the East Coast and get swept up in the live music scene. With that in mind, the band actually does have an upcoming East Coast tour date in...

Sun Glitters sound is an ocean of lush melodies, pitch-shifted vocal samples, ghostly digi-diva choirs, warm bass melodies driven by alternately dense and relaxing beatwork combinations between downtempo and wonky...

Iceage are a young band (average age somewhere around 17) from Copenhagen in Denmark, who are riding the wave of the post-punk revival. Their album New Brigade crams 12 high energy punk songs into 25 minutes. They are on...

Clara May is Tom Silva, a Malaysian-born filmmaker, corporate executive, University of Chicago grad student and writer, and Nicole Sotelo, a Harvard-trained theologian and author, with Phillip Amerson, Chicago producer and...

The Natural Shocks are a three-piece indie rock band from Toronto who just released their debut full length, Complete With Comfortable Lighting this past June 9th. Thankfully the Natural Shocks nudged us with a reminder...

Richtaste are from Zurich in Switzerland, and Beautiful Misery is from their album Lights And Shades available from Jamendo. If you would like to check out other tracks from the album, click on the Jamendo Player below....

Within a grainy film-still between a summer sunset and the end of times lies the post-punk squall of Weekend. Weekend filter the aggression, tempo and sneer of punk through a wall of reverb, haunting melody, feedback and...