The Beginning: Brit recorded an EP titled “Chapter One.” After its release, she realized it would be impossible to create the same sounds live without either growing octopus tentacles or putting a band...

London’s SWIMFASTER GODWHISPERS is back deep into Season 2 (aka Kolossus) of their singles release schedule. A Man From the Ivory Coast is the 11th single in their seasonal episodic release of 15th singles, each one...

Melodic, psychedelic, and inventive lo-fi guitars blend with whispery, multi-layered vocals, and sensible pop melodies on The Wagner Logic, the self-titled sophomore follow-up to The Wagner Logic’s 2007 debut release...

With Y LA BAMBA, Luzelena Mendoza draws from both her strict Catholic upbringing as an only daughter of a Mexican immigrant and a debilitating illness that led her to fall away from her faith, to create what LA Weekly...

Colorado’s The Still City put out their full length We Will Explain Everything in January 2010 which has been receiving rave local reviews. This independent release provides an emotional auditory mountain range with...

From the Haddons, the Hills and the Heights of suburban New Jersey, comes It’s a King Thing. Their songs can beat up your band’s songs. For the better part of last year, It’s a King Thing has been recording...

Beloved Rogue is a newly formed Brooklyn trio making music full of hazy imagery with hints of nostalgia and melancholy. Heavily reverbed vocals are buried under layers of delicate, melodic guitars that occasionally...

This is the new name for the Glasgow, UK based band Union of Knives, changed up in early 2010. We discovered this Glasgow, UK based group through Admiral Fallow’s Facebook page.  They were posting about a...

From their forthcoming EP “Strange Boy”, released in October. Graystar is a constantly evolving music project, a five piece band now based in Seattle, USA. At its core is Dominic James, singer songwriter from...

Welcome to episode 6 of Insomnia Radio Australia! On this episode of Insomnia Radio: Australia, Erk features music that was submitted directly to him as well as other Australian music that he found out was Australian...

On September 28th, Vagrant Records will release the latest studio album from Pete Yorn. Produced by Frank Black (The Pixies), this visceral 11-song collection follows Yorn’s two 2009 releases. Yorn’s forthcoming album,...

Tiddabadés is a Wellington based dancecore four piece in New Zealand, apparently self-proclaimed as “The Most Mispronounced Band In The Southern Hemisphere ™ “. Formerly Batman Tiddabadés, they weld the...

All the songs in this collection “It’s Been A Long Day” were recorded from 1991-1998. All have previously been released on various compilations and 7 inches with the exception of “Long Day”,...

New York’s Ra Ra Riot recently sent out a free gift to their fanbase to all those that had downloaded the original version of “Boy,” the very first single from their album The Orchard, which drops in a...

Middle Distance Runner is an indie pop group hailing from the District of Columbia. The group was started in 1998 by Allan Chappelear, Erik Dean and Steve Kilroy. Over the next few years, members Jay Smith and Ian Glinka...

The debut album from The Rest, Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour, is a collection of songs written by the band over the course of their first years playing music together. Recorded by Dan Achen at Catherine North Studio in...

Throw Television is a young indie-pop-rock group from Brussels, Belgium. Influenced by various artists by the likes of Foals, Death Cab For Cutie and Two Door Cinema Club, Throw Television create a sound that can be both...

From the start of “City On Fire”, the first track on the debut self-titled EP by Phoenix based Snake! Snake! Snakes! you hear that the new act has started with a deeply mature sound. The songs are epic, moving,...

The Radio Dept. is an indie pop band from Lund, Sweden signed to Labrador Records. The band was conceived in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a...

Two Door Cinema Club are an Electropop/Indie Rock band from Bangor and Donaghadee, Northern Ireland formed in 2007. They are signed to French record label Kitsuné Music, through which they released their debut album...

First Aid Kit are a Swedish (indie/folk) duo composed of sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, whose close vocal harmonies and woodsy, folk-influenced songwriting take influence from the likes of Fleet Foxes and Joanna...

Today’s featured track by AIR FRANCE is from PEACE, the first music atlas in the net, coproduced by Buffetlibre and Amnesty International Catalunya. By making a donation you can download the full mp3 compilation,...

Over the course of three albums in nearly a decade’s time, the Books have grown to become one of modern music’s most genuine innovators. Creatively complex and truly unclassifiable, The Way Out continues the...

Welcome to episode 5 of Insomnia Radio Australia! On this episode of Insomnia Radio: Australia, Erk has a look at the music charts on Reverbnation for his home town of Sydney. These positions are current for Sydney on ...

Their Three Song EP The Bit Parts Reviewed by Sarah Morrison Dreamy, lilting and with an occasional sharp edge, the debut EP from New Orleans’ Youth Sounds stands them in promising stead for things to come. A short but...

Today’s track from Long Island native Lauren O’Brien really resonated with me tonight – the perfectly spaced words and sound palette all fusing together in a fascinating mix of rock, poetry, with some...

Second Dan is ready to re-emerge after the past year holed up in the studio working on their new album, “Angeline”. These new recordings should cement the band in the echelons of New York City’s scene,...

On July 6th, post-punk garage rockers Lights On released their self-produced full-length debut ‘HERE COMES THE OCEAN’ (Self-Release), a well-crafted modern pop record comprised of multi-layered, new wave inspired...

Freedom Or Death are a duo from Toronto, who released their first self-titled EP in June 2010. They have both been in the Canadian music industry for over 10 years and decided to leave the corporate environment of the...

The beginnings of TJF began several years ago, when school friends Ritzy and Rhydian chatted on a night out in their hometown of Mold, North Wales. Both opinionated and madly into music, an instant respect was formed and...

Antenna Farm Records has gone and released Wind Up Wooden Heart, the long-awaited debut album from San Francisco’s Social Studies. WUWH is a study in contradictions, a balance of twee-leaning danceable pop and bold,...

Inu (e-nu) is the new band featuring San Francisco based producer Count (Radiohead, DJ Shadow, New Order, Halou, Galactic, Frank Sinatra), Zoe Keating (Rasuptina, Imogen Heap, Dresden Dolls) and Tim Hingston (Nyles...