Today’s feature comes from Detroit artist Allye Gaietto, singer-songwriter of jazz-influenced pop. She’s apparently been compared to Norah Jones, and has also been called “Nick Drake on the piano”,...

The Saltpeter Wars is a 2012 collection of DIY self-released songs of resistance and defeat by Lansing Michigan based anti-folk artist, Peter J Hochstedler. Per his website, “its geography is varied but centers around...

PROCESSION are a shoegaze band from Grand Rapids, Michigan who released ‘Your Turn to Feel‘, an eight song release on May 26, 2012. Today’s feature ‘Spring Thaw‘ is a lush yet bittersweet song...

From Grand Rapids MI, The Legal Immigrants have announced the July 3rd release of Drugs to Roses and today’s Dose is the first single off the album. Facebook | Twitter |...

Ann Arbor, Michigan based singer-songwriter Vincent Colbert has just released the 2nd single, “Rose Yellow Moon” from his forthcoming sophomore EP, Stranger in My House coming out next January 20, 2015. The song...

Detroit Michigan’s BLUE MTN BELLE have released their self-titled four song indie-folk flavored EP this past March, apparently inspired by Bukowski, antique furniture, and the wild west, with production work performed...

The Appleseed Collective offers up a tasty treat with their new single, “Pumpkin Pie,” and songwriter Katie Lee’s own special recipe to serve hand in hand at the dinner table during the holidays this year....

Four of the six members of today’s featured Detroit based band have fronted other projects, but during the past few years they have united under first-time bandleader, Joe Hertler, to create sublime folk tinged with...

The members of Lightning Love would really prefer not to talk about themselves. They’d much rather talk about the important subjects in life: their hometown (Ypsilanti, Michigan) their favorite breakfast (Pop-Tarts and...

Formed in November of 2010, Michigan’s The Appleseed Collective got a jump on the scene through endless networking and connections with the underground current of house-shows, DIY Fests, and localist enthusiasts....

Kalle Mattson returns May 1st with a new five song EP – “Lives In Between”. Recorded at the end of 2011, and mastered by Gavin Gardiner (The Wooden Sky), “Lives In Between” is the first release with a new...

The Old Sister’s Home is Orpheum Bell’s most ambitious CD to date (it’s third!) with an eclectic style mixing folk, country, Eastern, and even a hard-driving song sung in Russian. “Poor...

With a little under two weeks until Christmas, I figured a holiday-centric song clocking in around two minutes would be a good fit for your stressed out red & green light schedule. If you dig this track, you can find it...

Today we have something a little more harder edged for the Daily Dose, the 2nd infectious track ‘Resting as Ruins’ from Michigan group, Undesirable People’s debut EP. UP were formed in 2010 within a...

Insomnia Radio: Detroit returns for another epic episode! This episode is recorded live from The All Around in Taylor, Michigan! Special thanks to Jason for joining me on the show! <!– wp:shortcode...

From the upcoming album Love in the Time of Poverty Any Day in June is the studio project for J. Celestino. Currently ADIJ is working on a new album due out in September. J. Celestino is an Artist and a Teacher working...

When Randolph Chabot first began recording his own albums at age 12, he discovered a means of living out his fantasies. Using whatever instrument he could find, Chabot began constructing hyper-emotional dream...

8OObeloved is a Michigan-based group formed from the writing & production of singer/songwriter, Sean Lynch. The group’s moniker, taken from a 1-800 telephone number, hints at the merger between two opposing themes...

Canopy Glow is the sophomore release and late 2008 Anticon debut from Chicago-based 7-piece art rock ensemble originally from Mt. Pleasant Michigan and now based in Chicago, Illinois. While 2006’s Floating World was a...

History has shown us that occasionally there are people born in the same time and place whose collective existence seems more than coincidental. The Silent Years as a band name explicates the dynamics of the band before they...

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...

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...

You know, I was going to write something cool, but after reading this from their SXSW bio what else could I say? [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/palebride.mp3] The Von Bondies formed in the suburbs of Detroit...

In anticipation of the Warped Tour launching through Southern California this weekend, we figured it was time to compile a straight-forward hour-long collection of tracks, with artists from Michigan, Florida, Philly,...