On The Beach are a four-piece indie rock band from Durham and Chapel Hill NC in the hallowed vein of post-hardcore band Fugazi. Nagendra and John were in a band called Strunken White from 1996-2001 while John, Rachel and...

Pony Up is an indie pop band from Montreal, Canada. They formed on New Year’s Eve 2002 and, upon developing a relationship with singer Ben Lee, released their debut, self-titled EP in 2005 on his Ten Fingers label. Make...

Boston indie-pop quintet The Hush Now have made an impression on music critics and fans by wedding the “lush sugar-spun melodies of shoegaze’s dreamy heyday” to “the hooky muscle of bands like Guided by Voices and...

Look out Paramore!

Pour yourself a drink. Place those expensive headphones gently over your ears. Turn the lights down. Light a few candles and a stick of Nag Champa. Kick back in that comfy chair you inherited from your Grandpa. Close your...

What if Jane’s Addiction had been more inspired by Ride and late 80’s U2? What if Perry Ferrell would have been a little less neurotic and a touch more intense? What if a band said “You know, shoegaze could...

Hey gang! I can’t accurately express the myriad of feelings (including anxiety & excitement) I experienced leading up to this episode, nor the overwhelming sense of completion and contentedness when it was...

When Randolph Chabot first began recording his own albums at age 12, he discovered a means of living out his fantasies. Using whatever instrument he could find, Chabot began constructing hyper-emotional dream...

Drew Danburry is a musician who has toured independently and released records independently for approximately five years or so. He can’t remember all the specifics of his wack life, otherwise we’d know all the...

Copenhagen artist Peter Broderick is like the Swiss Army Knife of musicians; compact, elegant, multipurpose. What sets him apart is his restraint. With an arsenal of talents at his disposal, he prefers to reveal only one or...

We last featured The Bloodsugars on Insomnia Radio #112, waaayyy back in a time known as January 2006. We were floored by the organic, infectious hooks of “Bloody Mary” and the gang definitely have not abandoned...

While exploring some online documentation about the Mexico City based group Simplifires, I ran across another great independent three-piece from the city, surprisingly with another English name – Hello Seahorse! As...

Today’s episode warms us up a bit with a healthy dose of rock from UK, Canada, New York, Mexico City (and beyond) before our founder, Jason Evangelho takes over the controls for IR #165. The name of this episode has...

Today is obviously Mother’s Day in most parts and as a reminder-tribute, we are cuing up an oligatory track by Seattle’s “Say Hi (To Your Mom)”, titled something along the lines of “Oh” x...

I have no idea what to say about these guys. What can be gathered from their decidedly minimalistic website are these decidedly vague facts: The list of people who haven’t helped them is much longer than the list of...

Deadbeat Darling is a band living in New York City founded by singer/guitarist Joseph King, who after 7 years as a respected songwriter and frontman in the Austin music scene, moved to NYC in October of 2005 to begin work in...

Just in time for Cinco De Mayo, up pops the Mexico City based four-piece indie rock band ‘Simplifires’;  oddly enough one part Irish, and three parts Mexican – a pretty interesting but oddly workable...

When not playing in his full-time gig with Wilco, New Jersey native-via-Chicagoan-via-Brooklynite Mikael Jorgensen crafts pitch-perfect pop songs under the moniker of Pronto. The full story begins all the way back in 1995,...

LA indie pop group Great Northern just released their newest opus and you can quickly tell they have poured their souls into it. What we’ve been hearing at Insomnia Radio the last few days is quite...

Fresh back from a trip to Hangzhou China and beyond, Chicago musician David B Henson has sent us a handful of tracks from his upcoming debut 12-song LP slated to be untethered in May.  The spaceman adorned album is dubbed,...

Yes, folks, another band from Montreal deserves your attention. (checks notes…damn, the whole “great musicianship is in the water” thing has been done to death…) Formed in 2005 with a strong DIY...

Grrr… is the third full length album by Brooklyn, New York indie rock group Bishop Allen. It was just released last month on March 10th and is a follow-up to their 2007 album, The Broken String. Bishop Allen formed...

AMPED: Show #175 . This week’s host: George Smyth from Eclectic Mix Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: Freaks up Front (His Mischief) Show: Audio Gumshoe Song: If I Were You (Aaron Zimmer) Show: Suffolk And Cool Song:...

"Like Everclear on anti-depressants"

Originally born to a musical family in California, Katie has also called Colorado as well as Nashville home. From her early beginnings on backup vocals and drums in the band “Newcomers Home”, Herzig initially...

Today’s episode starts off with a little CB chatter from a cat in New Jersey talking to his homeboy Juice in Northern California – then launches into a standout intro track by the funk and soul powerhouse, T Bird...

Being based out of Miami, FL has not stopped Modernage from accomplishing anything they have wanted to. Modernage has released three records: the Debut EP ‘Receiver,’ single ‘Strangers/This Song,’ and their new EP...

Today marks the first anniversary of the restructuring of the Daily Dose music blog here at IR, helmed by Stuart Morrison (UK) and Charles Stepczyk (US) – 365 tracks in a row hand picked from submissions and from...

Crystal Stilts is a Brooklyn, N.Y., quartet. Its sound — equally droll, moody and buoyant — has roots in early ’80s Manchester pop as well as in minimalist garage-rock acts. The band has drawn comparisons to Interpol,...

Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned is an indie-folk band and large part of Albany’s B3nson Recording Collective. The band has been in existence for a little more than 3 years and written and recorded over 100 songs and...

Formed in Scotland in 2006, the fight pop six piece, Dananananaykroyd just released their Black Wax single on March 22 and previous to that – the Pink Sabbath single which we’ve featured here today. NPR has been...

I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING IT was born in the early months of 2007 in Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Booker and drummer James Hepler both come from over a decade of experience in the local scene( Hepler from the Saddle...