Portland’s Kyle Morton sings the first line of Typhoon’s Hunger & Thirst, “I’ve started a new beginning… suspiciously like the old one, only this time, I’m ready”, with the...

Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic have announced the UK release date for their brand new album ‘Pigeons’, alongside details of their UK live dates and festival appearances from May onwards. ‘Pigeons’ is set for release...

Toronto’s THE HIDDEN CAMERAS are the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joel Gibb.  “In The NA” was the first single taken from The Hidden Cameras latest symphonic pop masterpiece ‘Origin:...

The rock trio Miggs will be releasing its fifth album, “Wide Awake,” on May 18, 2010, via Rock Ridge Music. The first album to feature drummer Ryan Scarbrough (who joined vocalist/guitarist Don Miggs and bassist...

When Jason Davis and Daniel Walker met at an archaeological research site in Eastern Washington, little did they know how strikingly similar the paths that led to their convergence were. Both endured childhoods spent...

The scatterbrained, deconstructionist folk-rock created by Ohtis is a study in contrasts. Crisp, serene strings and soothing vocal melodies flank intense layers of instrumentation and harmony, like a more deliberate and less...

Welcome to episode 1 of Insomnia Radio Australia! Hosted by Erk from Channel Erk, Insomnia Radio: Australia is dedicated to bringing you a wide range of indie music from across Australia. Produced in Sydney, if the music is...

Real Estate is a band from New Jersey, now based in Brooklyn, N.Y. The band has roots in the Garden State and they’re led by singer/guitarist Martin Courtney and feature guitarist Matthew Mondanile (the latter known to...

In a music scene where shock-poppers, like Lady Gaga, and girl rockers, like Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, attract so much (too much?) public attention, it’s refreshing to once again hear an honest-to-goodness hard...

From 2004 to 2009, Todd Goldstein wrote music under the name ARMS, playing most of the instruments himself and recording them in his bedroom in the moments between playing guitar in his main band at the time,...

Household Names is a four-piece alternative pop band from Austin, Texas, featuring vocalist and guitarist, Jason Garcia, bassist Chris Peters, guitarist Eric Roberts, and drummer Joey Spivey. The band will self-release its...

90s indie noise rock band POLVO is back after a farewell tour in 1998, having re-signed to Merge Records and released a new album ‘In Prism’ on 9/8/09. Here are some comments from the Merge site that sum it up...

From their debut album, released 20 April on Bird Song Recordings Bird Song Recordings presents the self-titled debut album from Painted Hills, led by former Beachwood Sparks guitarist, singer & songwriter Josh...

Nashville’s Shotgun Lover recently got a pretty amazing endorsement: Paste Magazine’s Steve LaBate loves the band so much he’s decided to manage them! We’ve got a killer track from the band, some...

When fans lined up to see the sold-out Bon Iver performances at New York City’s Town Hall in late 2008, few of them went with any expectations of the opening act. But the audience that night, and on every other night of...

I had recently promised you all more Wisconsin-based rock over on my Twitter account after realizing that we were sorely lacking in showcasing the home state in which our trademark java is sent out to the masses for...

A little more than a week away from his second album release on April 20th – Chapel Hill based bartender by night and songwriter by day, WESLEY WOLFE has apparently been writing great songs you’ve never heard.....

What’s not to like in a band with a lead song on Last.FM entitled ‘Lullaby for Insomniacs’? Well anyway, it takes at least a crate full of horse tranquilizers to put us to sleep here on the network, so we...

Based out of Minneapolis, MN – THE KING AND THE THIEF brings a refreshing blend of ambient rock music to the land of 10,000 lakes. Since the release of their 2008 EP of wounds and blessings, the band (under the name...

Hailing from Groningen (The Netherlands), The Black Atlantic is an acoustic pop quartet, formed around singer-songwriter and former Shai Hulud frontman, Geert van der Velde. With an ambient feel that tickles the nerves of...

Named indirectly by James Cameron, Technoir MA apparently takes the first part of its name from a nightclub in the Terminator movie, a name the director had chosen to represent the new style of movie he felt he had made. We...

“Territory” is the follow up to the Charlottetown band’s Polaris Prize nominated and internationally acclaimed sophomore album, “Little Jabs”. Once again produced by Joel Plaskett, Territory builds on the promise...

Battle Flags, the moniker for artist Jack Budd, began as a project in stencil graffiti in an 8×10 room in Richmond, Virginia. The meticulously pieced album Color Engine is its harrowing result. Recorded in his bedroom...

Two short years back in Copenhagen Denmark we would have loved to have been in-house when Danish indie 5-piece EFTERKLANG (translation: ‘reverberation’ or ‘remembrance’) tackled an ambitious live...

Formed back in 2000 through a one-year experimental journey in a remotely located studio in the forested south, Sweden’s SURROUNDED has continued to embrace and nurture their combination of dense instrumentation,...

Long story short? Ever since my late teenage years I’ve loved Fat Wreck Chords. Several years ago the punk-heavy label embraced podcasting and it was a minor dream come true. So, when they send an advance single from...

Since we last heard from Provo, Utah based artist DREW DANBURRY, he had married his true love, Lynette (aka Lady Danburry), and followed up  touring in 2009 with an assortment of talented artists – some you have...

DOWNLOAD | iTUNES | ZUNE (1-Click) |RSS FEED [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir172.mp3] This week Insomnia Radio brings you a varied soundtrack to life, ranging from melancholy to beautiful to straight ahead rock...

Following the release of their debut album, Night Group, Halifax, NS band DOG DAY spent two years touring from Norway to Texas to Northern Alberta. An isolated unit of four astrologically inclined musicians, they routinely...

This trio from Vienna understands how to groove out, keep things mellow yet intense, and generally keep you intrigued from track to track. They’ve been called “Coldplay with balls” by www.musikreviews.de...

On Monday we presented you with a great track called Yeti, and since its Friday we thought we’d sandwich in the wintery cryptic named cousin who they might have been singing about: GREGG YETI & THE BEST...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from all of us here at Insomnia Radio, new members and old.  Today’s pick is naturally from Ireland, and isn’t really jigworthy, unless of course you dance to the beat of your own...