From their excellent new, debut album – “Loomings” Amid the much publicized downfall of Lookout! Records, indie-poppers Troubled Hubble took a cue from their then label and officially ended their...

One half of the Swedish duo formerly known as The Lovekevins, now The LK, singer-songwriter Fredrik Hultin is branching out on a solo endeavor to win the hearts of kittens and people alike. His debut album, titled The...

Indie darlings Wintersleep are wasting no time making 2009 another memorable year. This week the band climbs to #26 on CMJ’s Top 200 chart with their critically acclaimed third album Welcome To The Night Sky. This...

An overdue Insomnia-laden journey has left us saddle-sore as we have traveled long and far these last few months in order to document a motley assortment of musicians.  We uncovered them amongst the wild trappers of...

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with extravagant...

Over the course of several nights, this IR coffee-fiend powered through multiple cups of caffeine in order to bring you the following local tracks on our Daily Dose feed, amongst scores of others great tracks from outside...

Taking their name from a lyric in the U2 song “New Years Day”, San Diego indie rock trio Arms Entwined is on the verge of releasing their debut EP, “Tell Them I Sent You”, in early 2009. This is the...

Baltimore & Silverlake based collaboration Esquimaux is back with their second EP “Wolf” within the animal named EP set of Tiger and Wolf; the track “In the Night” placed on this upcoming project,...

From Odense, Denmark, A Sunday Honeymoon is: MIKAEL (voice) ANDERS (guitar) ESBEN (guitar/harmonica) RASMUS (bass) ANDERS (drums) JEPPE (guitar/synth) Currently taking over the charts at Garageband after consistently being...

Los Angeles based band-to-watch, Pedestrian recently released their fourth endeavor entitled “Sidegeist”, a follow up to their two EPs in 2003 and first full length in 2006 called “Ghostly Life”. The...

If you are ever in Omaha Nebraska and find yourself hitching, perhaps you will be picked up by lead singer, Kacynna Tompsett of indie pop six-piece Thunder Power, and just maybe you will be driven to a fantasy locale such as...

Hippocampus is the moniker of Sioux Falls, SD native Tom Weismantel.  The hippocampus is also part of the forebrain, and plays major roles in short term memory and spatial navigation.  Interesting, no? The former version...

Released under a Creative Commons License, San Franciso’s Bloomsday Rising is back with their 2008 release “Unlocked” a five song EP, issued completely free, under the “pay what you want”, guilt...

The New Year has arrived and what better inspiration moving forward then to hear four brand new releases by three old local friends to the network: Chance, Nico Stai, and The Black Watch; as well as one new courtesy of TMC...

The New Year was formed in the summer of 1999, has released three albums on Touch and Go Records – Newness Ends, in February 2001, The End is Near, in May 2004, and the just-released self-titled album The New Year in...

They said, “Don’t go. Nothing in Bakersfield” From Savannah, Georgia – we welcome artist Dare Dukes back to the storied country & rock byways (Merle Haggard, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead) of the...

Here at The Socal Sessions, we have several containers full of musical goodness passed down from the Daily Dose feed that we will be slowly releasing into this stream over the next few months. Once new tracks are released on...

From Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands, this is from their album Post-Apocalyptic Love, available to pre-order or free download from their Website theverysexuals.com or myspace.com/theverysexuals The Very...

XO Publicity, a small PR firm established in 2003, recently put out a free Holiday Sampler entitled “XO for the Holidays”, featuring a wealth of holiday themed songs from artists such as The Service Group, Paris...

After the unexpected deaths of his sister and father, Geographer founder Michael Deni left his hometown in New Jersey for San Francisco. He spent the next several months with his guitar and a synthesizer he found on the...

For five years Point Juncture, WA has been a collaboration between four Portland, OR. songwriters, instrumentalists, recording engineers, and friends: Amanda Spring (vocals, drums) Victor Nash (keyboards, vocals) Skyler...

From the small working class community of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Peasant is the pseudonym for Damien DeRose, a talented singer-songwriter specializing in his own beautifully haunting yet minimalistic style of indie...

While combing for music through the do-it-yourself online DJ website, Blip.FM I came across a great artist recommended by sudaca70, a fellow site user who is from Argentina. Several tracks were blipped (or streamed) that...

Named after a Konami cheat code used on retro gaming platforms, New Jersey’s Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start recently called it quits. Luckily before they disbanded, they left us with the fantastic 2007...

New Zealand group Surf City first came in to existence when bored friends Davin Stoddard and Josh Kennedy met at a party in Mt Roskill in 2004. Tired of the heavy avant-garde music that was prolific at the time Stoddard and...

Los Angeles based musician Nico Stai recently played to a packed house at Ghettogloss, an art gallery in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles and the venue for the recent CD release of his sophomore EP, The Victory of...

Josh Steinmetz performs under a number of names and with several groups including Proteus, Morgana, and Origin of Species. The album “9” marks the first time all the pseudonyms were dropped and the crutches of a...

Like many bands before them, School of Seven Bells were born as the result of a late-night revelation. Benjamin Curtis connected with sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza in 2004 while their bands—Secret Machines and...

Zykos, an upbeat indie five-piece from Austin Texas, put forth this new EP in the last year, a follow up to two full length LPs released since their inception in 2003. The Keep it Light EP was produced by Mike McCarthy...

From St. Louis but with some Portuguese roots, The Pragmatic fuse their love of analog synthesizers into a electro-blitz of new wave that really needs to be seen in their live show to be fully appreciated (see attached...

More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide is the new release from the Stockholm Sweden band headed by vocalist Annika Norlin. Hello Saferide has put forth several releases in the past few years since 2004, each one...

From Regina Saskatchewan, this is the second appearance on the Insomnia Radio Network for Canadian group, Geronimo. Geronimo formed from the ashes of Despistado who were on the Jade Tree label, and later released a six song...