From their 4th album Empros, available Everywhere October 25, 2011. Chicago’s Russian Circles return with their fourth and heaviest album to date. Empros is Russian Circles‘ first full-length to be released...
65daysofstatic: Buri...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Something a bit different from UK network favourites 65DOS, this is a teaser from the upcoming soundtrack album Silent Running. Released on 14th November on Vinyl, Download and a Bonus EP. The beautiful artwork for the...
And So I Watch You F...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their soon to be released second album, Gangs, which will be available in North America on LP, CD and Download via Sargent House/Richter Collective on November 8th, 2011. This instrumental band are from Belfast in...
Noxious Foxes: Doth ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brooklyn, NY frenetic power-duo Noxious Foxes announce the release of their sophomore album, Légs. Noxious Foxes began in 2009 in Thump Studios, a Brooklyn recording studio owned by Levengood. Songs were written in live and...
Botany: Waterparker
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Botany‘s debut EP Feeling Today. Botany is Spencer Stephenson, from Weatherford, TX. His Feeling Today EP has just been released on Western Vinyl, and a full length album is expected later this...
Thousands: Braille T...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Its a new week and we’ve got more rock from Boston to follow up from last Tuesday, this time from three piece instrumental math-rock group Thousands who just sent us word of their debut two track self-titled EP that...
Hella: Headless
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Tripper, their newly completed fifth album, due out August 30th, 2011 on Sargent House. After a four year hiatus, the duo featuring drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim has returned. Stripped back down to the...
The Polar Dream: The...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Polar Dream are an instrumental-ambient ensemble from Guadalajara Mexico that recently released their debut full length, Follow Me to the Forest. This followed their self-titled debut EP release in 2007. ...
Maybeshewill: Co-Con...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Maybeshewill are an instrumental band from Leicester, UK formed by guitarists Robin Southby and John Helps while the pair were studying together at university in 2005. Apparently the band have a new album that just released...
Empty Space Orchestr...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Empty Space Orchestra certainly knows how to fill a room. The Bend, OR quintet of impeccable musicians crafts a symphonic, melodic sound that seamlessly weaves together elements of space rock, prog-metal, noir jazz,...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s primarily Los Angeles based show slowly crept upward from 6 tracks, doubling in size as we gradually realized that we had an oversharing problem. While this can swifly turn to embarrassment in social...
Estel: Running With ...
posted by Sarah Morrison
From their depressingly (yet delightfully tongue-in-cheek)-titled album My dreams are like rabbits, they built a tunnel, fell onto the pavement and died, this is Estel with ‘Running With Scissors’. Dark,...
This Will Destroy Yo...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Part one of a two track single just released called Moving on the Edges of Things 2 brand new, vinyl exclusive tracks from Texas’ THIS WILL DESTROY YOU give a dark bend on their very own brand of instrumental...
Odyssey: Planetary I...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their album Objects In Space Odyssey has exploded onto the Metal scene with their epic instrumental opuses and jaw dropping technical musical prowess. Hailing from Spokane, WA, the band quickly developed a loyal club...
Red Sparowes: Giving...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From the album The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer Thunderheads storming across the prairie, outraged students taking to the streets, migratory herds stampeding along the tundra–any number of images...
Edu Ardanuy: Mad Dog
posted by Stuart Morrison
Some Instrumental Rock on the Daily Dose today, from Brazilian guitar virtuoso Edu Ardanuy Electric Nightmare the first solo release from Brazilian rock guitar virtuoso Edu Ardanuy who also handles guitar chores for the...
My Education: Oars
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their album Sunrise, released 27 April on Strange Attractors For the past ten years, Austin, TX instrumentalists My Education have splashed their cinematic sound all over the great silver screen that is the Central...
Like Bells: Yeti
posted by Jason Evangelho
I just stumbled across these guys on The Sixty One, and while it takes patience to enjoy lengthy 7+ minute ambient post-rock instrumentals, this unique trio from Oberlin, Ohio makes it worth the wait. They have a new record...
Brookhaven: Out on t...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their new album ‘When the Chorus Walks’, which is the follow-up to 2005’s ‘Transitive Verses’ BROOKHAVEN began in 2000 as the home recording project of Sonny James, a certain hybrid of...
This Will Destroy Yo...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
This Will Destroy You are an instrumental quartet from the great state of Texas who play a cascading brand of cinematic rock music. The band is made up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bass player Donovan Jones...
The Littlest Viking:...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their debut full length album Labor & Lust From San Pedro, California, The Littlest Viking are: Christopher Patrick Gregory- Drum solos/What? Ruben Jesse Cortez- Guitar/delusions of grandeur We...
Signal Hill: Stunnin...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Los Angeles instrumental outfit Signal Hill is back with a new album as of June 11th, twelve songs and 61 minutes of universally understood tracks without the vocal interjection that occasionally takes away from the artistry...
Signal Hill: This Ne...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Signal Hill is an instrumental band from Los Angeles, CA. With influences such as The Mercury Program, Tristeza, My Bloody Valentine, Cinematic Orchestra and others, they play melodic, mid tempo, vocal-less ditties. Signal...
El Ten Eleven: I Lik...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
We’ve decoded a recent El Ten Eleven instrumental transmission here in Los Angeles and it seems to be ushering in a new album release: “El Ten Eleven’s third album, “These Promises Are Being...
Insomnia Radio #156:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After Stuart’s 45 minute in-flight entertainment programming, our plane touches down in the Far East… well… far enough east – New Jersey. We begin our journey diving fist first into the action with...
Insomnia Radio #154:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After a two month turbulent voyage, we believe we’ve located a safespot to service the battle-scarred Insomnia Submariner, and have surfaced to bring you some chanteys from the musicians we’ve collected along our...
Insomnia Radio #152:...
posted by Jason Evangelho
[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir152.mp3] This episode of IR strips out the vocals and commences with the talented musicianship of 7 bands who know how to rock your socks off without the use of vocal chords. Read the...