Download IR: Canada #83 Subscribe Spotify https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada83.mp3 Welcome back! What a busy summer it’s been. Shows have been coming out on a more regular schedule, and...

Spring 2018 is full of changes!  I left my job of almost 4 years, started a new job.  Started learning guitar, and finally back to recording this show after a 6 month hiatus! I'm looking for your feedback!   Music history, fun Canadian music trivia, what would you like to hear? Show 75 is just around the corner now!   Send me your favorite track from shows 1-74!  Show 75 I hope to be all listener fav's!

Aaron Powell is better known by his lo-fi singer songwriter moniker Fog Lake. Born and raised on the island province of Newfoundland, he’s lived his life in relative isolation writing and recording a total of six releases...

  Welcome back!   Today we have a mixed bag of genres but some great tunes. Download IR: Canada #67 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada67.mp3    Adrian Pain & the...

Download IR: Canada #63 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada63.mp3   Easton Ellises: Black Love – Violet & Mutant Remix From: Montreal QC Web, Facebook, Twitter Of...

    Download IR: Canada #61 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada61.mp3   Neula Charles: Crumbling Down From: Edmonton AB Facebook, Twitter, Web Sunshine & The Blue...

“Yves Lambert Trio has something special: two young traditional multi–instrumentalists of the highest caliber contributing to the veteran’s art, who at age 56 shows no sign of letting up.” – La Presse...

Fear the Dean are an alternative rock band from Montreal, QC. We featured the song New York, I Love You from their debut album last week, and now we’re featuring their Christmas song Under The Tree. BandCamp |...

Fear the Dean are an alternative rock band from Montreal, QC. “Fear the Dean was formed in 2013. Members Alex Izzo and Francois Black began writing music together at the very end of high school, and decided to get...

As another milestone New Year approaches for 2015, we thought it would be nice to feature the close-out Daily Dose feature from Montreal songwriting duo, Bride & Groom. They released a fun EP for the Holidays, ‘A...

Montreal artist Xavier Cafeine is preparing to release his next album New Love on February 17th and has just put out the first excellent holiday flavored single, “Love Disease (Christmas in New York).” While the...

Jesse Daniel Smith is one-half of the incredible Canadian songwriter duo, Bride and Groom, and has another new solo project you may not know about entitled, I Am the Sky. He issued a new single this past October, of which...

From Montreal in Canada, Good Nite Gilligan are the reformed incarnation of ’90s punk/grunge band Gilligan’s Fish. More hard rock than the original band, they are about to release their first EP since reforming,...

  Download IR: Canada #36 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes   https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada36.mp3     Track Listing & Links NJ Taylor Song: I Don’t Care From: Montreal QC Home I...

  Download IR: Canada #35 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada35.mp3   Deathpoint Song: Between The Lines From Hamilton ON Music Video – Between The...

Bands from Montreal and ontario featured in this show.

    Download IR: Canada #26 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada27.mp3   Unbeing Song: Octo8 From: Montreal QC www.Unbeingmusic.com   All Else Fails Song:...

[Reposting as the MP3 enclosure didn’t get through first time] Download IR: Canada #22 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada22.mp3 Band: The Little Black Dress From: Toronto...

Show 20 - 3 new tunes and a walk down memory lane shows 1 - 10.

  Download IR: Canada #18 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada18.mp3   Doll Song: Plastic Lies Song: Youth of Today, Hope of Tomorrow From: Ottawa...

Today we reach back a full year to the Feb 2012 album by Montreal’s Plants and Animals – The End of That. The album sees the Canadian trio bridging the gap between their 2008 debut, Parc Avenue, and 2010’s...

Born in Iowa and raised along the Mississippi River in an ‘Addams Family meets 700 Club’ home, Little Scream, aka Laurel Sprengelmeyer, emerged onto Montreal’s music scene at her own pace, appearing and...

Some things are meant to the enjoyed with a little build, and so it goes with the full version of the track from the debut album of Montreal’s “The Barr Brothers”. While the radio cutdown is nice, its...

  Welcome to show 9.  Five months in and we’re on the 9th show and about to hit our first double digit.  I’ve got some excellent tracks this week including one in french. Download IR: Canada...

Show 5 is not quite like any of the other shows so far!  11 Bands, 12 songs, and not all from Ontario! I had a lot of fun putting this show together. There is a wide variety of music from several different musical...

Rae Spoon is an indie electronic musician out of Montreal, with “I Can’t Keep All Of Our Secrets” being Rae’s sixth full-length release. A pop/electronic album about the complexity of grief, it focuses on a...

Erin Passmore has a voice that will drop kick your heart. She is perhaps best known for her work in the Regina indie-rock band Rah Rah, where she’s a multi-instrumentalist, contributing drums, keys, bass and her...

This is from the fourth album of Montreal’s Maljube, entitled La Caverne, released towards the end of 2011. “Listening to La Caverne conjures images of stepping into the cavern with them; it is primal and vast,...

From Montreal, Canada, Belgrave are one of the newest band to join Lovely Hearts Club, a music discovery project of the New York based indepenent label Paper Garden Records.  Belgrave’s debut release was in May with...

  Too Beautiful to Work is the title track from the new album by Montreal’s The Luyas, released on Dead Oceans. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-theluyas-toobeautifultowork.mp3] Download...

Folly and the Hunter arrives with their debut record Residents. Available March 5th 2011. Recorded in a shared practice space in Montreal s storied Mile End neighbourhood, Folly and the Hunter s debut album Residents is at...

This Wildlife’s album Strike Hard, Young Diamond comes at the heels of their EP of the same name. Confusing? Probably, but these twelve tracks feel like one of the most memorable finds of the entire year. Leading off with...