“The Royal Bear was founded on the concept that rock music can be fun, danceable, and catchy. They understand and are not afraid to use pop hooks, drawing inspiration from pop’s past. They write songs with...

Network favorites SENTINEL are back with their newest single JET BLACK, a beautiful dream-pop driven work of art written and inspired at the edges of the San Francisco Bay, in the Summer of 2010. What you get from Sentinel...

“New Brunswick’s Tin Kitchen guitarist/vocalist Lindsay Minton and bassist Mercy Harper moved to Houston, TX in 2008 and soon formed football, etc. They self-released First Down EP (2009) which garnered attention...

To put it a bit simply: Sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, and much of the time you’re somewhere in between. And it’s good, very good to have Goldenboy on hand to help navigate between these points of...

Manchester solo artist Michael Bear goes by the dream enduced name of Perendiz, an epiphany of sorts etched into his eyelids by morning’s wake, which he quickly typed into his iPhone and adopted as his moniker. ...

From Edmund, Oklahoma, They Stay Dead say they are “former members of Wretch Like Me, Minutes Too Far, and 8000 other bands who decided to play some really fast punk rock!” This is from their self titled EP...

We were tipped off to this excellent free track by the Fat Cat Records SoundCloud site, a fresh blast of tropical beach pop posted from the newest album, ‘Perch Patchwork’ by Chicago’s Maps &...

The Nameless is Cathy’s third album. Cathy was born in Dublin, and grew up in Monkstown. She found her way into music almost accidentally. She was signed by Parlophone’s Regal Recordings after a batch of...

From their new album Led Zeppelin Five. Los Angeles based The Black Watch are long term favourites of Insomnia Radio. Their latest and boldly titled album is something like their seventeenth offering in their third decade of...

Brooklyn, NY indie-pop band overlord is proud to present a new album, In Soviet Russia, My Heart Breaks You” (released 1st April. “The misleadingly-named group draws inspiration from ’60s British Invasion,...

From Brooklyn, Sensual Harassment may be the new heroes for the XXI century dance floor. With haunting voices singing songs, that are no more than anthems, Alpha Draconis is the first album by the trio and is available to...

Charlotte, NC based band Side by Side released their self-titled EP in February. Michael and Joseph Pepe, twin brothers, met Joelle Kittrell through a mutual connection with the love of music and bringing their vision to the...

April’s assembly of thirteen local artists have all been in heavy rotation in my player in the last few months via work commutes, expeditions through the ice & snow, powder carving on top of the world, and while...

Tiny Victories debut recording, Mr Bones, has arrived. A Brooklyn via Athens/DC duo, Greg Walters and Cason Kelly combine experimental electronics with earthy vocals, lush orchestration, elements of noise rock and live...

Secret Cities’ new album Strange Hearts was released in February on Western Vinyl. It is available on Vinyl + CD/MP3s from the label’s site, or as MP3s from iTunes, Amazon and eMusic. “Started by MJ Parker and...

Sunshine Factory are a band from Palmdale, taking their name from a preschool in the town, in California just outside of Los Angeles. They comprise Tony Hammons, Jordan Judge, John Karwoski and Corey Judge. “Sunshine...

Layers of Love United, the new album by the portuguese band Norton, is the face of a new era for the band. Their goal was to create an album with songs. Not just tracks. Songs you can sing, connect and remember. This new...

Their second album the Teeth of Champions EP was just released on First of Three Records/IODA. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-themadisonsquaregardeners-innocent.mp3] Download “Innocent”...

Los Angeles based band – The Henry Clay People formed in 2005 in Glendale, CA and have played hundreds of shows, as well as touring the US multiple times, performing at large music festivals such as Lollapalooza, SXSW,...

Minneapolis based The Idle Hands just released their third album, the EP Life is Beautiful on The Pretty Kids Collective, and IODA. The Minneapolis band is made up of Irish ex-pats and Midwest natives. So who are The Idle...

We last featured Ontario Canada’s Ketch Harbour Wolves in February of ’09 with ‘So Long to the Ground’, a track off of their 2008 EP, ‘Dead Calm Horizon’. Their newer album Anachronisms...

Nice Cliques are an emerging Russian indie art rock band, and this is from their debut LP “Populra Art” The project was born out of collaborative musical experiments by Ivan Ilyin and Alexander Kashev [in the]...

In the spring of 2010 Ben S. traveled easterly from Los Angeles to Northern Michigan. He spent a week at the site of his childhood retreats: the shores of Lake Huron. It was there he set to work developing a batch of songs...

With songs that mix up different genres with rock being the main influence, Decision & Consequence puts out a positive energy with its sound while the lyrics show a more intimate side of the band’s ideals, life...

Faith and Mark are Stephanie Faith Wiens and Mark Posillico, based in Brooklyn. Their album album Scientific Facts is available as individual free tracks from Bandcamp, or you can get the album in one go for $5. The duo...

Brooklyn’s Laura Stevenson was schooled in the traditional music of her grandfather and grandmother (composer of “The Little Drummer Boy” and vocalist for the Benny Goodman Orchestra respectively) from an early...

Brooklyn based Shark? have recorded their first album which will be released later this year on Oops Baby Records (US) and Look Behind You/LBYRecords (UK). In the mean time, they have made a two track 7″ available...

Bear Driver’s twitter bio describes them as a six piece melodic, psych-pop band based between Leeds and London, UK. Their regular bio describes them as six people in a band that play instruments and take them up on...

London UK post-dubstep trio Nedry has issued a new MP3 single and video for the song, “Dusk Till Dawn” in anticipation of the band’s U.S. live debut during SXSW in March. The “Dusk Till Dawn”...

Butterfly Explosion are from Dublin, Ireland. It couldn’t be more perfect for today, as tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day. Before you continue reading, let me inform you that the digital version of the album Lost...

We first featured Fresh Body Shop just over a year ago. The French band just released a new album, available for free, or you can make a donation, on Jamendo. “Fresh Body Shop is an Electro Pop band based in Nantes...

Los Angeles beach rock group The Smiles released their newest offering called the Hermosa EP in May of 2010. The title of this 6-song EP, crowd-funded for $2,000 off KickStarter, originates from the Southern California city...