No, we didn’t win the mustard yellow belt this past year, but we accumulated so many tracks last year and through the first few weeks of 2009, we’ve felt over-gorged on music and wanted to start sharing some...

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...

As a member of the indie-rock sensation Hello Stranger, Juliette Commagere has toured the world and shared the stage with the likes of Foo Fighters and Kings of Leon. Now she has stepped out on her own with her debut solo...

An overdue Insomnia-laden journey has left us saddle-sore as we have traveled long and far these last few months in order to document a motley assortment of musicians.  We uncovered them amongst the wild trappers of...

Over the course of several nights, this IR coffee-fiend powered through multiple cups of caffeine in order to bring you the following local tracks on our Daily Dose feed, amongst scores of others great tracks from outside...

Baltimore & Silverlake based collaboration Esquimaux is back with their second EP “Wolf” within the animal named EP set of Tiger and Wolf; the track “In the Night” placed on this upcoming...

From the soon to be released album Attracted To Disaster. Long term Insomnia Radio favorites Letters Burning from Los Angeles are releasing their 6 track (+ 2 bonus tracks) album Attracted To Disaster in February, and...

Los Angeles based band-to-watch, Pedestrian recently released their fourth endeavor entitled “Sidegeist”, a follow up to their two EPs in 2003 and first full length in 2006 called “Ghostly...

This is Charles from The SoCal Sessions here at Insomnia Radio. I recently had the opportunity to share one of our regional acoustic artists on Graham Holland’s music show out of the UK, It’s a Frog’s...

Hollywood based group, SexTapes™ is self-described as sounding like a modern mixture of Jane’s Addiction, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, consisting of co-writer/founding member Kelly Wheeler on guitars, Marko Fox on...

Jay & Jawnee birthed That Noise in the heart of Los Angeles in 2007.  Originally Jay had started composing original songs under the name Appogee, which soon came to be known as Unconscious Ruckus. Kanpai Records soon...

The New Year has arrived and what better inspiration moving forward then to hear four brand new releases by three old local friends to the network: Chance, Nico Stai, and The Black Watch; as well as one new courtesy of...

After a notable period over which he issued three EP sized collections of singles, Los Angeles based musician Chance has just released his newest long awaited pièce de résistance, “”Famous Words &...

Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Sarah Hethcoat has released her new EP “Nobody Likes a Bully” on October 27, 2008, produced by famed producer Dave Cobb (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chris Cornell). The...

Here at The Socal Sessions, we have several containers full of musical goodness passed down from the Daily Dose feed that we will be slowly releasing into this stream over the next few months. Once new tracks are released...

About a year ago, I was talking to Leo Cain at the TLP Show about occasionally featuring bands from other areas who were writing songs about the area that we live in. Its definitely refreshing to see others views on the...

Los Angeles based musician Nico Stai recently played to a packed house at Ghettogloss, an art gallery in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles and the venue for the recent CD release of his sophomore EP, The Victory of...

Join iProng Magazine at the Brewery in Los Angeles for the release party for our “Los Angeles issue” on Tuesday, November 11th, starting at 7pm. Come hang out with our special guests: – Dan Klass of the...

Praised by several notable rock luminaries who came after them, the prolific Melvins are back with a new album, Nude With Boots, released in July 2008. The Melvins were originally formed as a hardcore punk band in the...

AMPED: Show #147 This week’s host: Rowland from The DarkCompass Podcast Show: Indie Music Sampler Song: Brazillian Nights (Jack Jezzro ) Show: PC Podcast with Pete Cogle Song: Just Say Who (Almamegretta) Show: The...

The long awaited sophomore album by LA based Secret Dakota Ring will thankfully be here in late October. It apparently has a title, Cantarell, with artwork designed by Jacob Berendes, who also designed the cover of the...

The year is obviously 2008, not 2005 as the evil announcer at the show header describes. Yes, as you will quickly notice, there is some sort of robotic, computer, and videogame nerdery meshed together unseamlessly in this...

This is the story of The Pacific, a three piece indie group of some Japanese heritage, whom have been pouring their hearts into the many storied high-energy performances in the Los Angeles rock underground. For years The...

Thanks for checking out the 24th full length edition of The SoCal Sessions here at Insomnia Radio. Today we’ve gathered up fourteen excellent tracks from fourteen talented artists, breaking out in Long Beach via a...

Beyond their years musically, Los Angeles based Drive A has just completed their full length record with Grammy Award winning Producer Julian Raymond and are on the verge of capping off their Warped Tour experience in late...

  About SO3 SO3 was formed in Southern California in early 2007 by purveyors of guitar-driven, blues-infused rock, drawn together by a shared appreciation for ripping guitar solos, deep throbbing bass, melodic...

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...

WARNING: attempting to wear earplugs at any of The Foundation‘s live shows is futile…The Foundation will melt them into your skull. Nothing can prepare you for the top-fuel injected rawk & roll of The...

From Los Angeles, CA – Nico Stai has just released his newest four song EP, Dead Pony, a precursor to his second full length album coming to us all in the near future, undoubtably after this quality new teaser runs...

Based in Los Angeles and formed in 2002, Summer Darling began as a three piece indie pop band with an interest in songwriting and melody. Comprised of vocalist / songwriter Ben Heywood, drummer / guitarist Dan Rossiter...

Following up on the first all hip-hop episode here at Insomnia Radio back at the end of 2006 (#103 – He’s Playing WHAT???), we eagerly bring you sixteen high quality tracks from a wide selection of regional...

From their 2008 EP Race To the Bottom of the Sea A polychromatic vision filled with synthesizers and echoey guitar, this EP combines electro-dream rock with post-punk angularity and an indie sensibility, complete with...