You know what’s awesome? When an old Insomnia Radio host (Tim Poggioli of IR Baltimore) connects with an old high school buddy (Dan Luperini) to discover he’s fronting a pretty sweet indie rock band –...

Los Angeles based group The Antiques’ newest album, Cicadas, was released this last year and thankfully it didn’t totally fall off my limited radar. It was produced by Scott Solter (Mountain Goats, Okkervil River,...

Growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, CA , twin brothers Jesse & Matt Kivel and childhood friend Ben Usen started playing together as a group in the late 90’s, but officially formed Princeton during a year...

Drugstore Fanatics is an ambient/industrial influenced alternative independent rock entity from LA. Their debut album ‘What’s Born in the Basement’ was written, produced and recorded at their home studio. ...

From Los Angeles, indie rock band STARS DON’T SLEEP have just released their new EP featuring the title track “In the Daylight”, which tells the story of a disoriented East Coast kid squinting cautiously at...

Live at the Echo 10/6/06 is the first live album by New York-based shoegazing band Asobi Seksu. It was recorded at The Echo in Los Angeles, California and contains mostly songs from the Citrus album, two from their...

Every day when I jump on the road to work, my commute takes me on a road down that curves down by the beach through a small corridor of refineries and waste treatment plants.  Daily, I drive past two looming painted...

We were recently sent a haunting track from local Los Angeles (Highland Park) based singer-songwriter ANNY CELSI via our friends at IODA, and we haven’t had a chance to get it up until today – the day after...

AMPed: Show #205 This week’s host: George Smyth from Eclectic Mix Show: Eclectic Mix Song: Cold_World (Rochelle House) Show: Journey Inside My Mind Podcast Song: Dodging Buses (Derek K. Miller) Show: Ourobouros...

Having recently stumbled across the following artist over at Garageband several weeks ago, I thought it would be nice to finally feature this local band to kickstart your Friday.  Enjoy! HotLites is an...

AMPed: Show #200 – Part 2 This show’s host: Alan Carr from Darkhorse Radio Show: Audio Gumshoe Song: Set the Music Free (Geoff Smith) Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: Becoming (The Brilliant Mistakes) Show: The...

On this day – October 13th, skilled troubadour Harper Simon, who adeptly utilizes the fabled vocal gift inherited from his father Paul Simon, releases his debut album to the world – 10 tracks paying tribute to the...

LA based favorites, Letting Up Despite Great Faults are set to release their debut, self-titled LP this month. It’s been a full three years since the release of Movement, an intimate collection of intricate and...

Per local musician Brian Kenney Fresno’s mission statement, the holy triumvirate of activities in the Central California city of Fresno are: car theft, methlabs and chop shops.   While you often hear the area...

Almost two decades after they formed in Simi Valley, STRUNG OUT is back with their seventh studio album, releasing later this month on Fat Wreck Chords. Strung Out’s latest album, Agents Of The Underground, is not only...

From their album Rotten Apples By harnessing a sound that reflects a range of influences from old school to Cold War Kids and Kings of Leon, Voxhaul Broadcast composes tracks with smart lyrics and undeniably catchy...

Today we are celebrating the release of the latest album on Secretly Canadian Records by LA indie band Foreign Born, who we first played as part of our SXSW showcase compilation in 2008. The first track you will be hearing,...

This is the single from the new album The Knife The Thief from this band from Los Angeles, California. For a limited time the band are giving away their album from their web site shatteredatom.com (needs Flash) From...

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros is a sizable indie folk-revival formed by Alex Ebert of Los Angeles electro-rock group ImaRobot, an endeavour that started to take shape after the musicians separated from Virgin...

Betty and the Werewolves are three girls and one boy from London who whoop and howl through the night as sweetly sung melodies collide with glitter-struck punk guitars. Taking inspiration from luminary lycanthropes Virginia...

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...

This marks the 2nd State Shirt appearance on the ‘Dose: If you dig this track, make sure to check out “Time To Go” which Charles featured on our Daily Dose feed a couple months back. State Shirt sculpts...

From their self titled 5 track Mini Album which was just released on Graveface Records Sherri West and Taylor Clark grew up in Tulsa, but melded musical forces to form the band about seven years ago in Los Angeles. With...

The Aggrolites are more than a band they are a movement unto themselves. They carry a banner – one created with their own hands. This banner reads, “Dirty Reggae,” and represents their signature fusion of...

LA indie pop group Great Northern just released their newest opus and you can quickly tell they have poured their souls into it. What we’ve been hearing at Insomnia Radio the last few days is quite...

“If I can’t be someone of consequence, I’d rather die than have to crawl.” The above quote is part of the notable lyrics to the three song EP that Los Angeles rock band Immune put out a little over a...

O+S is a new project by Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). Orenda and Scalpelist, long-time friends from their shared hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, have created a...

Lemonwilde’s 5 song EP Red Room is a triumph, in that it expresses angst without sounding pretentious, emo or boring. In fact it’s quite the opposite: simple, well crafted, beautifully executed and moody as...

You may remember Los Angeles indie pop outfit Gertie Fox, and if so, you may also recognize some similarities shared with the new Bethlehem, Pennsylvania indie five-piece ‘New Madrid Faults’.  Apparently Matt...

State Shirt sculpts fiery, intense indie rock anthems for the wondering, wandering and hopeful. Venturing wildly into the farthest corners of heavy-hearted American landscapes, State Shirt’s music displays vivid, gripping...

Our newest episode opens with a farcical movie trailer we found, something about airplane flaps malfunctioning leading into a ridiculous crash in the mountains and subsequent survivalist breakdancing. It has nothing to do...

From his 2008 EP Please Believe Me Darrin Kohavi was raised in a musical family. He started playing classical piano at the age of eight. By the age of 17, he had mastered jazz, rock and R&B, and added guitar, bass...