Summer arrives early in the evening here in the US amongst floods, heatwaves, and spiralling oil prices. What better way to ring it all in then with Los Angeles indie psychrock band “Darker My Love” and their...

Per listener request, today’s selection comes from the Los Angeles based solo project “The Orphan Factory” off the “Sketches, Demoes and Skeletons” collection. ‘Chinese Water Torture [For...

After Stuart’s 45 minute in-flight entertainment programming, our plane touches down in the Far East… well… far enough east – New Jersey. We begin our journey diving fist first into the action with...

From their 2007 Corporate Records release comes a somewhat progressive stylized rock epic from Hollywood based four-piece, Canon. Don’t Trust the Teachers, seemingly loosely based on the 70s slogan of questioning...

Lurking in our latest Southern California musical carousel comes Pic Vicious, a sinister local duo backed by the synth beats of Devcon Industries, and whom have roots in the local hip-hop scene. We definitely have a few...

I’m sorry FM… but I don’t want to get back together!! I gave up on us a long ago after a lifetime of unannounced program changes and undelivered phone-in requests. You need to stop hounding me with your...

Channeling the creative spirit and often times legendary vocal delivery of Jim Morrison, Romanian born and Los Angeles based artist Andrei Tutunaru of Talons of Spring has just finished putting the final touches on his...

Hark! Three incredible groups are coming to one epic local LA venue, this Tuesday evening (5/13), starting at 9pm sharp. Friend and classy wordsmith of “The Black Watch”, John, told me that his band will be...

Today we focus our show spotlight on a well deserving independent band from the Little Armenia area of Los Angeles, Moss Bluff! Bandmembers Travis Knight and Hugh Price came together in 2004 in Florida, then eventually...

File this under irregular my friends. Today’s session is basically one continuous experimental half-hour long electronica track, crafted by someone not from the region, and with material apparently taken from the Los...

The Dreaming’s frontman Christopher Hall formed The Dreaming in 2002 following the breakup of his previous band, Stabbing Westward, which had some success in the mid- to late-‘90s and recorded one of my essential...

After a two month turbulent voyage, we believe we’ve located a safespot to service the battle-scarred Insomnia Submariner, and have surfaced to bring you some chanteys from the musicians we’ve collected along our...

Opening up my first Daily Dose segment, we naturally start in my home county of Los Angeles with some dark melodic rock. This group of five, Lo Mass Republic, was one of the contestants in an ongoing worldwide battle of the...

(Cue best Casey Kasem voice) The local punk-rock continues streaming in this week, raising in intensity to some degree, with some audio flashbacks to the 80s placed primarily so you’ll remember the featured band name...

Clearing the palette after a complex musical odyssey in Texas, I figured what would be better than heading to a punk show down on the edge of Newport Beach in order to cleanse some of the cloying pretentious hipster residue...

If any of you haven’t noticed all my excessive posts on Twitter yammering on about all the bands playing this year at the South by SouthWest Music Festival in Austin, TX… well… this posting is to confirm it...

Opening up our newest mixed shot comes LA’s Horrorpops, whom are Denmark reared and currently gearing up to blaze a trail across the United States with their third release, “Kiss Kiss Kill Kill”. ...

It’s time once again to celebrate the modern psychedelic. Some say the psychedelic aesthetic was born here in the SF Bay Area. Others will argue it started in Orange County with the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, while...

LISTEN NOW: [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/irflorida19.mp3] Download This Episode | Subscribe To Future Shows This first episode of 2008 is a bit of a departure from the norm. I’m playing a few different...

Now, this episode has little to do with the Lord, aside from the fact he brought you the tunes today. Kidding. As far as the wacky intro, it was personally mixed using samples from serious folk with vivid imaginations. ...

Fellow Insomniacs, In Mid-November we brought you a review of a great new band that put in their first public performance at the Roxy Theater on the Sunset Strip here in Los Angeles on 11/15/07. Well, in December I had the...

Since we enjoyed doing our previous double shot so much last week, we figured another was in order, this time with two high adrenaline pulsing local rock groups from Los Angeles as well as Murietta. The first group is a...

Todays mixtape celebrates the first year of the SoCal Sessions launching, which occurred this week, one year ago today, on the San Diego feed. Previous to the launch was a SoCal episode which Jason Evangelho, the main show...

We wanted to direct your attention to ‘The Dragons’ BFI album notes as presented over at IODA Promonet. Alternatively you can read a fantastic article over at the LA Weekly which delves a bit deeper into the...

Step right up folks and witness the degentrification of Southern California one sweet track at a time. Yes, in less than an hours time, you too can enter our musical blackhole and witness the fiery future of...

IR kicks back into rock mode with new music from Automatic 7, Beth Thornley, Lorenzo’s Music, and more. This episode also features a rare rant explaining why you are NOT hearing a certain band on this...

IR kicks back into rock mode with new music from Automatic 7, Beth Thornley, Lorenzo’s Music, and more. This episode also features a rare rant explaining why you are NOT hearing a certain band on this...

Welcome to a special edition of Insomnia SoCal. Today’s piece brings us a small sampling of performers auditioning at the Bodog Battle of the Bands coming here to the Southland over the next two weeks, with first...

INSOMNIA RADIO: ORLANDO 22 Release date:10/24/2007 It’s that time of year again… time for Insomnia Radio HORRORLANDO 2! This time we have an enormous crop of scary music – from Orlando to as far away as New...

Download | Subscribe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir142.mp3] Welcome to a decidedly rocking episode of Insomnia Radio. Inside is brand new music from Leslie, The Thieves, Pensive, Automatic 7, and Mr...

Download | Subscribe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir142.m4a] Artist Track Album Buy Link The Thieves Tell Me Something Where The Bright Lights Bloom Unreleased Leslie Su Car Car Demo Unreleased Mr. Bella...

This session has a French title although it was probably butchered by the Babel Fish free translator to mean something completely offensive. In a perfect world it should roughly translate to ‘Female Musicians of...