Insomnia Radio visits New York again Recording Date: Thursday 18th June 2009 TRT: 46:40 Rating: Worksafe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/ir166.mp3] DOWNLOAD | SUBSCRIBE A regional showcase episode of Insomnia Radio,...

The combination of rock, punk, and folk never sounded so sweet as the Brooklyn duo, Hollands, have accomplished on their debut EP, Faces released last fall. Consisting of multi-instrumentalist John-Paul Norpoth (formally...

Album Review by Sarah Morrison of Miss Morrison’s Mix If New York based duo Swimming in Speakers (multi-instrumentalist Chris Clarke and lead vocalist Meadow Eliz) can do one thing, it’s defy categorisation. In...

Today’s episode warms us up a bit with a healthy dose of rock from UK, Canada, New York, Mexico City (and beyond) before our founder, Jason Evangelho takes over the controls for IR #165. The name of this episode has...

Deadbeat Darling is a band living in New York City founded by singer/guitarist Joseph King, who after 7 years as a respected songwriter and frontman in the Austin music scene, moved to NYC in October of 2005 to begin work...

Reviewed by Sarah Morrison New York based four-piece Her Vanished Grace have created a sound which is really something special with their newest album ‘Blue’. They describe themselves as dream pop (incidentally...

Grrr… is the third full length album by Brooklyn, New York indie rock group Bishop Allen. It was just released last month on March 10th and is a follow-up to their 2007 album, The Broken String. Bishop Allen formed...

From New York, and from their soon to be released EP Sweet Fist Super 400 evokes the raw, euphoric essence of Rock and Roll. Their upcoming release, Sweet Fist, truly reflects the light and dark of this new millennium;...

Today’s episode starts off with a little CB chatter from a cat in New Jersey talking to his homeboy Juice in Northern California – then launches into a standout intro track by the funk and soul powerhouse, T...

Crystal Stilts is a Brooklyn, N.Y., quartet. Its sound — equally droll, moody and buoyant — has roots in early ’80s Manchester pop as well as in minimalist garage-rock acts. The band has drawn comparisons to...

Sgt Dunbar and the Hobo Banned is an indie-folk band and large part of Albany’s B3nson Recording Collective. The band has been in existence for a little more than 3 years and written and recorded over 100 songs and...

Garage Punk from NYC The Dirty Shames formed in mid 2008 with Nathan and Lisa who were looking to start a Rock N’ Roll band influenced by 60’s garage and 70’s punk....

The Cloud Room, named after the Prohibition-era speakeasy at the top of the Chrysler Building, is a three piece band based out of Brooklyn, New York. They recently released an EP late last year named “Please...

Named after a dance that originated in Harlem in the early 80s, the band Harlem Shakes was born in Brooklyn in 2006.  Burning Birthdays, the band’s self-released debut EP, came out in 2007 to wide acclaim, earning...

From their third EP recorded in 2008, In Chains. The prolific and talented Dead Heart Bloom recorded and released three EPs of five tracks each in 2008: Fall In, Oh Mercy and In Chains.  This is the first track...

Twin sisters from California meet boy from New Jersey; based out of Brooklyn, NY. Here’s a few words on what they have to say about themselves: “As Children of the 80s, we’ve seen a thing or two. We went...

The most infectious blast of pop perfection you will hear all year, a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents – early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship – but with that incredible...

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...

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...

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with...

The New Year was formed in the summer of 1999, has released three albums on Touch and Go Records – Newness Ends, in February 2001, The End is Near, in May 2004, and the just-released self-titled album The New Year in...

From Brooklyn, New York, this is from their 2008 EP Bedrooms,which you can download for free from their web site. New York-based pop band Xylos (a variation of the founder’s last name) began as Eric Zeiler’s...

Soren Anders is from New York, and this is from his Album ‘I Know A Hundred Ways To Die’ The former frontman of critically acclaimed band Shimmerplanet now has a solo career. The new Anders songs are...

Elliot Martin, lead vocalist of the Cambridge based progressive reggae band John Brown’s Body, had some choice words about their musical direction that we’d like to share here: “I think that the strongest...

A true collaborative effort, ‘Mid/Air’, the new album from Dive Index, gathers vocal and instrumental talents from across the globe and weaves them into a melodically rich and sonically intriguing sound. Using a...

. Citizens Of Contrary Knowledge are a New York City band whose four members come from extremely varied backgrounds. But upon hearing them you get the impression they’ve known each other for a lifetime or...

From the Album “+–Prettiest Transmitter of All: Nov. 18, 2008–+” The songs that make up Dare Dukes’ new album, Prettiest Transmitter of All, are a striking combination of incisive...

Like many bands before them, School of Seven Bells were born as the result of a late-night revelation. Benjamin Curtis connected with sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza in 2004 while their bands—Secret Machines and...

This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That. New York shredder Marnie Stern has just released a new album on Kill Rock Stars as of Oct 7th and the album...

Meredith Godreau of Gregory & The Hawk is a native New Yorker skilled in both piano and violin, and has independently released a CD selling over 15,000 copies, inspiring multiple several YouTube tribute videos along...

Sirens in the Deep Sea is the first track on Longwave’s new album Secrets Are Sinister, officially releasing on Nov. 11th via Original Signal Recordings. From New York, Longwave got their start in 1999. After the...

Takka Takka has a new album out called Migration on Ernest Jenning Record Co. Instead of firing up songs from that release, we are going to first introduce you to these New York based musicians by heading back to their...