I garantee: you are not ready to listen to this. London to Tokyo were formed in 2008, in Los Angeles. While they don’t release the best rock n’ roll album, so says Rolling Stone magazine, you will find the free...

Santa Barbara based band The Little Heroes were named after the sculpture figures drummer Adam Caldwell created for his art school thesis. The four-piece comprised of east coast natives got their start traveling round-trip...

The title track from L.A. band Wake Up Lucid’s new EP to be released Feb 15th. L.A.’s Wake Up Lucid started as a vision of singer/guitarist Ryan Baca’s father, who had passed years earlier. In the dream,...

LA’s Superhumanoids are offering up their debut EP “Urgency” for free on multiple sites, and we highly urge that you go and check-out the official website link below for all the goods.  The official...

LA’s White Lights appeared in 2009 with their debut EP ‘Oroborus’, now available for free download at BandCamp. They are now working on their second ‘Meridian’ EP due out in 2011. I ran into...

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...

The metal has been slowly building in my system for the last few years, to where something drastic had to be done, fortunately right in time for Halloween this year. In this episode I detoxify using questionable methods,...

Pigeon John returns with his first new album in 4 years. “Dragon Slayer” represents a shift for PJ as he takes on full production duties and hand crafts his most personal album to date. Pigeon John’s second...

Not everyone who sings about our little regional bubble is from the Southern California area, so I decided to place a few tracks at the head of the show today that offer a alternative viewpoint – maybe not pleasing to...

The Superbees are back with the long awaited follow-up to “High Volume”. Reunited once again with the original line-up, The Superbees deliver “Top Of The Rocks”, a knockout six-song EP that picks up...

IR’s SoCal Sessions return after close to a years absence, bringing quality tracks from San Diego, Temecula, Long Beach, and basically all over the LA and OC regions. Please listen and help support these artists’...

LA-based songwriter Lelia Broussard, originally from the bayous of South Louisiana, is set to unleash her third full-length release, ‘MASQUERADE’ (November 2nd, Self-Release). With masterful production by Dan Romer...

Voxhaul Broadcast are currently on the East Coast leg of their national tour and anointed NYC with a blistering set on Wednesday evening at Fontana’s in the Lower East Side. Voxhaul Broadcast has pretty much taken...

From their self-titled album. Shadow Shadow Shade is a Los Angeles based septet that occupies a psychedelic space somewhere between a mass spectacle, marching band and Wagnerian opera. Shadow Shadow Shade is an ambitious...

From the Album Supra / Infra released 26th August Los Angeles’ Radars to the Sky have just released their first full length album and Mirror is the first single from it. Radars to the Sky are Rob Danson –...

On September 28th, Vagrant Records will release the latest studio album from Pete Yorn. Produced by Frank Black (The Pixies), this visceral 11-song collection follows Yorn’s two 2009 releases. Yorn’s forthcoming album, a...

From the Astral Turf five track EP LA’s indie-driven rock band Downtown/ Union formed in 2006 as a two-piece pop outfit by its principle songwriters Bo Bory and Jeff Electric. Known for their stripped down songs with...

Somewhere in between breaks during Alkaline Trio’s relentless touring schedule, Matt Skiba found time to demo and record a whole slew of new songs. It’s been more than ten years since his last solo album (a split...

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...

Cerulean is the auspicious debut of L.A.’s Baths. Evolving out of Will Wiesenfeld’s varied [Post-Foetus] project, and inspired by the energy of the city’s burgeoning beat scene (Daedelus introduced Anticon to...

On July 13, 2010 the innovative, quirky, multi-talented and very passionate Andy Kelly, an artist doing business as Andy Clockwise, is set to release his 3rd EP, “Are You Well?” In 2003, Andy Kelly was homeless and...

Yours Til Death began as the brainchild of songwriter/singer/guitarist Adam Ross. Having just finished touring the world as guitarist for multi-platinum artist Rihanna, Ross assembled Yours Til Death to record their debut...

A backwards British Invasion…. After graduating from art school in Ohio, Elliot moved across the Atlantic to London, England with hopes of starting a band. Heavily influenced by British music, and determined to follow...

In their much-anticipated second album, New Medium, Faded Paper Figures return with a richer, fuller sound, even as they maintain all of Dynamo’s indie-tronica charm. Fans of the band will be happy to hear all of the...

The recently released single from Los Angeles based The Active Set. Matthew Stolarz was dissatisfied. A Los Angeles native, he had helped form and was playing bass in L.A. punk rock band the Briggs, but it just...

Walking Sleep originally formed in 2007 under the name The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra. The six-piece band came together as a natural extension of lead singer Hunter Curra’s exploratory songwriting, in which he combined...

You may know LA musician Beth Thornley from seasonal efforts such as the Bowen Beer Bottle Band, whose viral beer-bottle music session rang up close to a million YouTube views to date, after first launch during the winter...

Today’s Daily Dose is from LA group Atlantic Line, and is from their debut album Exit To Intro. The band were nice enough to contact us directly, and boasts one member from a group that we have featured here before,...

Experimental dream-pop group SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS announces the July 13th release of their new album Disconnect from Desire, on Vagrant/Ghostly International and Full Time Hobby in Europe. The album, produced by band...

Some retro sounding 70s influenced Rock on the Daily Dose today. Best of all, the album The NotreMonde Demos by Los Angeles’ Echoes de Luxe is available as a free download from Bandcamp For those who miss the era...

You know we like our genre-bleeders here at Insomnia Radio. Here’s one that just graced our inbox from Southern California: Open Hand is your typical modern alt/rock band with stony guitars and a heavy beat. But you...

The title track from their just-released debut 5 track EP, on Buddyhead Records Formed in Los Angeles in 2007, Seaspin was conceived of 3 years ago, while Seaspin guitarist/vocalist Ronnie Washburn and Seaspin...