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...

“It’s not a concept album or anything,” Los Angeles-based musician and painter Faris McReynolds says of The Sea, his latest album as the one-man band, One Finger Riot. “But there’s definitely a Side One and a...

LA experimental beatmaker Static Shock has recently created a cohesive sixteen minute aural suite entitled ‘Till Death’, a masterpiece of unique sample laden pieces, each one flowing into the next, all high...

Earlier this year New York band, The Dum Dum Girls released their newest album ‘Too True’, on Sub Pop Records, and are now gearing up for a tour across the US with a list of shows starting next Saturday in...

Today’s feature is from 3&O, a NH, Mass, and soon to be California based group, apparently born out of the posting of a Reddit ad seeking a vocalist. Since this fortuitous meeting of said vocalist, and after the...

25-year-old Johanna Samuels is a native New Yorker who grew up in Los Angeles, where from a young age she sang in school choirs and obsessively learned to play the songs of her musical heroes by ear. In early spring of...

The excellent new single from Stockholm based artist Cajsa Siik just released a few short days back on May 12th and the singer had a bit to say about some of the contrasting facets here in LA (vs those in Sweden) that...

Sika is a European Alternative band from Los Angeles, CA generally compared to Muse, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Depeche Mode and Queen. Their debut album, Destiny, arrived on 4/17/13. The band formed in 2002 by two...

Los Angeles-based rock trio Early Morning Rebel has a forthcoming new EP “Life Boat”, arriving via label Baby Bird Records this April 29. Vocalist Nathan Blumenfeld-James calls the EP’s newest single...

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 |...

Losing to the Dark is the first excellent single from La Sera’s third album “Hour of the Dawn”, via talented LA vocalist Katy Goodman and band helmed by guitarist Todd Wisenbaker. Goodman had the...

High Times is the third EP from Los Angeles indie group Blonde Summer. Continuing with the warm and bright slacker-pop sound, singer Chris Pope delivers stories of deadbeat burnouts, and tattered 90’s beach rats. ...

Happy Halloween from the graveyard shift ghouls and zombies here at Insomnia Radio. Today we have a special feature off the brand new 2013 Electronic Music Group Compilation, “The Last Halloween, Vol.II”. The...

To the lucky ones: LA blogger, musician, and self-professed skeptic CherryTeresa has the following excellent piece up on her website featuring some profound spoken word over what sounds like AIR inspired electronic...

Vintage Moon are a new band out of Silverlake Los Angeles and they just released Tyro, the first single off their upcoming EP which they plan to release in November/December. They say of themselves: “We play retro...

Los Angeles-based musician Kim Lenz has been cultivating her take on rockabilly since 1998, releasing three albums, including a pair for Hightone Records – one of the most influential labels in the genre – and playing...

“Forward change can be such a scary thing / For the misty-eyed,” croons Will Walden on StaG’s “Too Late Now,” the coda to Stereocure’s second label compilation. When Stereocure began in...

Childhood friends Alex and Noah honed their musical chops in Corvalis, Oregon before moving to California to study music thus ending up in LA, forming what became yOya in 2009. They self-released their debut album,...

THE WEST, a female fronted group from Los Angeles, CA have released a new single, ‘Wild Hearts’ after about five months of working on tracks with producer DJ Schwartz. Their goal is a possible new album and...

Comprised of 2 brothers from Montauk New York and their long lost cousin from Yucaipa California, The Rebel Light are an electronic-infused indie rock group based in Los Angeles. Embracing the spirit of DIY indie music,...

Forro is the latest from the new Littles Ones album, The Dawn Sang Along releasing on Branches Recording Collective this February 12th. After the Los Angeles based band started out on Astralwerks, and also having...

The songs in Ha Ha, Vwah Lah (like voilá in French?) are just what you expect from an album with this name. Besides being hard to tell who they sound like, maybe because they simply sound like themselves, The Spell are a...

  Coming from Los Angeles, California, Noah Lebenzon and Thomas Froggatt met in Kansas. And recently, probably the second best thing that could happen to them, they released Asian She EP, recorded at Noah’s home...

(…) it was at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, in his darkest hour, when his band was nearly broke, that they finally hit and Benny became the King of Swing.  What could have been the end turned out to be just...

Now based in Austin, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie electro-based sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Since their 2009 self-titled debut LP they’ve refined and expanded their sound, bridging the...

A-new. That’s how you should read it. But it means A Kind Never Understood. And you should remember them as the trio that writes and play their music, and also create their own choreography, with talent. Otherwise...

Screaming guitars, classic cars, tattoos, and cigarettes—Los Angeles-based outfit Angels Heart has taken the punk rock tradition and crafted something entirely original. Amplified by founder and frontman Bryan Joseph...

Blonde Summer is a band of Los Angeles natives, led by singer/guitarist Chris Pope. Their sophomore EP, Slow Daze, plunges to new depths, exploring the limits of indie-pop infused California surf-rock, and their warm...

Holmes can often be found buried under a mountain of vintage recording gear in his cozy Silverlake, California home studio, cooking up tracks for himself, other artists, television and film. Roy Shakked, under his moniker...

Hollywood College is Dave Lowensohn and Misha Chellam’s second and newest album. Recorded over four weeks in the shadow of the Coney Island ferris wheel, Speechwriters LLC once again teamed up with producer Adam Richman...

State Shirt is Ethan Tufts, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that writes and records all of his music in a tiny bedroom studio, filled with a myriad of worn instruments and cheap electronics. The SongFight website...

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