Relocated from Lawrence, Kansas, Tree Machines built a safe room in Los Angeles. Not for security of the conventional kind, but for a place to unleash, and make the kind of music that is at once vulnerable and strong,...

Mark Christopher band is Mark Christopher on guitar and vocals Phillip Friedland on bass and vocals, Steve Roybal on drums and percussion. They are a Los Angeles based band who perform blues rock and jazz with power and...

The upcoming self-titled debut EP from The Yorks is a sweeping mixture of indie rock beats and acid-induced grooves wrapped together with a charming psychedelic bow. The EP, recorded by Chris Lynch and Adam Rasmussen...

Fresh from acclaimed performances at SXSW this year, LA’s Gonzalla drops his latest alt.pop gem ‘T.M.V.’ Cody Randall (AKA Gonzalla) wrote the song soon after moving back to the US from London, where he had spent a...

Do You Really is one of two new singles released recently by the Los Angeles based band Strangely Attractive. The other is Extraordinary which can be heard at the SoundCloud link below. “Wanting is the overall theme...

Bird Concerns is a band of four friends (Travis Meador, Marcus Buser, Cooper Wolken, Jake Sucher) who make eclectic pop music. After meeting in college, while studying jazz and classical music together, the quartet...

The Black Watch, led by John Andrew Fredrick, are releasing a new album ‘The Gospel According To John’. Arriving April 21st, 2017, it is the band’s 15th in 30 years of music-making (leaving out EPs, singles,...

The new Auditorium album is called THE FIRST MUSIC, and it was released at the end of January. Today’s Dose (which is a repost from May 2016) is the first single from it, and it is accompanied by a video, embedded...

“Our name was also the title of a Fonda song,” explains David Klotz, one half of People and Stars, the Los Angeles-based duo comprised of the former Fonda front man and vocalist Amanda Tate. Long a favorite in the...

The new Auditorium album is called THE FIRST MUSIC, and it will be released this summer. Today’s Dose is the first single from it, and it is accompanied by a video, embedded below. We’ve featured Auditorium...

Matt Bennett is best-known as a comedic actor who co-starred on the Nickelodeon series “Victorious,” which aired on the network for four years and continues in re-runs. Bennett is also a musician and songwriter whose...

L.A. duo Leitbur have released the second single release from their upcoming LP, Antique Travelers, out May 6th, and it is today’s Dose. Leitbur is an unsigned synthpop boy/girl duo Jaron Widman and Samantha...

Dia is the project of composer and performer, Danielle Birrittella. Her debut EP, Tiny Ocean, will be released Spring 2016 and features songs produced by producer/drummer Joey Waronker (Beck, REM, Atoms for Peace), Tim...

Send Medicine‘s arrestingly vibey music translates exquisitely from furniture music to a fully absorbed headphone experience. Julian Hacquebard’s brain-child, the band began in Toronto, where Julian built these...

Los Angeles based band c.o.o.p. have released their Everything Is Stolen EP, today’s Dose is from that. They say of the EP: “We set out to make a punk rock record that we would’ve listened to as...

“John Andrew Fredrick, a prolific songwriter and author – he has published three comic-literary novels and is about to release a book on the early films of Wes Anderson – announced that his long-time,...

“This is an exciting time for us as people and as artists,” explains Douglas Wooldridge of Tree Machines referring to the duo’s decision to relocate from its hometown of Lawrence, Kansas to Los Angeles this past...

Cape Snow is a cross-continental collaboration between Los Angeles-based singer Bree Scanlon and members of the long- running New England based band Tiger Saw. This is from their album released July 31st, on Burst &...

“Chainflower is a fiery alt-rock unit featuring guitarist/producer Kelly Wheeler (Jane’s Addiction/PsiCom, SexTapes, Ultraject) and singer Erika Renee (A.H.M.A.D.), whose debut EP is engineered & mixed by...

LA indie folk artist, Diego Davidenko, will be releasing his album, It Isn’t Home on August 28. The debut album reflects his search for a place called home after moving from Argentina to America at the age of nine. ...

Los Angeles area band The Vast Alps have followed up their debut EP Auto Pilot with The 1/1 Project (One By One) for which they are releasing one new track every week for a year. Beginning with the release of Fiction, The...

Sympathetic Frequencies are a Los Angeles based indie rock band who released their new single and video Wasteland in December. It is the first tune from their next EP which will be coming out in the first half of...

Mirror Talk, a 4-piece synthesizer ensemble from LA who perform New Wave and R&B influenced pop music have just released a new single 1997. They tell us that they’ve just released the vinyl for their 1st EP via...

Based in Los Angeles, The Controversy are an independent alt pop duo originally from Copenhagen and Barcelona. Their new album (their second release) Don’t Count On Me was released on June 25th. Members Laura Vall...

And We Are Them are a Rock / Alternative / Post-Hardcore band from Los Angeles. “Present Tense” is from their second EP, the four track “Align”. The band are Christopher Matalone – Lead Vocals |...

Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Kristy Hanson made a splash in 2012 when she won West Hollywood’s songwriting contest with her theme song for the city, “Welcome Me Home”. Now Kristy follows that single with...

Old Fears is a track from the upcoming EP by Satchmode, a new dream pop duo based in Los Angeles. Main Site | Facebook | Twitter [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-satchmode-oldfears.mp3] Download Old Fears...

In July, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros released their latest (self-titled) album, their third, and now Canadian producer Teen Daze has remixed Life is Hard, from that album. The remixed version is very different from...

Back in August we featured Meg from the latest (of many) album by The Black Watch, called The End of When. Now that they have released the second single, and a video of Meg, we thought we should share them with you as...

Midnight Faces is the L.A.-based (recently relocated from D.C.) duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Matthew Warn née Matthew Doty. The pair makes an epic noise on the title track from their debut album, out now. We did...

Los Angeles quartet Holy Folk is a collaboration between songwriters Keith Waggoner, Josh Caldwell, Ryan George and Jonathan Hylander (Les Blanks, Amateurs, The Voyeurs, Honey Loving Cells). What began as a studio venture,...

Los Angeles band Cobalt Cranes just released their debut LP, Head In The Clouds, via their own Anticc Records. “Led by Kate Betuel and Tim Foley, Cobalt Cranes blend elements of garage, psychedelic and shoegaze...