Brooklyn, NY based group Lowry just released their debut album Love is Dead on Engine Room Recordings, and its a devastatingly romantic glimpse inside the world of this indie folk quintet. Today’s feature, One Thing,...
Insomnia Radio #159:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Hot Bitch Arsenal: F...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hot Bitch Arsenal has one tight package. Seriously, Kim & Christina went to some lengths to mail out some great swag baskets containing HBA t-shirts and much more over a year ago to which we are eternally grateful. I...
Bell Hollow: Copper ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
New York four-piece Bell Hollow has crafted a dark, lush, and somewhat wistful ten song masterpiece in their newest release ‘Foxgloves’. The song we are featuring today, ‘Copper Crayon’, immediately...
Blood Red Sun: All a...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Since we’re not getting enough of the constant Sugar flowing from Bob Mould’s Minneapolis & now Washington based cookie jar, we’ve decided to forage further to the east and break the lock off the...
Mouthblocks: Put ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
From Yonkers, New York we would like to introduce you to Mouthblocks, one of our favorite new hip-hop artists who just released his debut EP, Sing for Your Supper on fledgling Baby Grey Records. Mouthblock adeptly presents...
Mixtape: Shoreline S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
So you are done with Side A, no? If not, you’ve stumbled across the second side of our mixtape set tipping a hat toward the Siren Music Festival presented annually at Coney Island, NY by the Village Voice. The image...
Mixtape: Shoreline S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
On July 19, 2008 an incredible selection of musical talent assembled under the shadow of the famed eighty-one year old Cyclone rollercoaster at the storied community of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. This mixtape is a...
The Crash Moderns: W...
posted by Stuart Morrison
(VOTE us to play WARPED TOUR!) “A mix of Pop/New Wave rock and modern sound, Goodnight Glamour Good Morning Disaster, the debut release from NYC’s The Crash Moderns is full of catchy songs that will remain in...
Mike Doughty: Lookin...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
You may be familiar with Brooklyn NY based singer-songwriter Mike Doughty through his work in the 90’s with the group Soul Coughing. In 2000 he broke up that band and toured the country selling 20,000 copies of his...
Insomnia Radio #156:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Run West: The Hard W...
posted by Stuart Morrison
In late 2007 AD, vocalist Nick DiCarlo, guitarist Pete Couto, and drummer Ryan Wegner began writing music for what is now Run West. While playing together in successful bands through college at Columbia...
The Rollo Treadway: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
“Where are the children of table 34?” The Rollo Treadway are five people right now but they used to be only two when Blake and David did some demos a bunch of years ago and then they were four people for...
Cassettes won’...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Small-Time Machine Cassettes Won’t Listen is the brainchild of New York-based,multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason Drake and is the latest in a heap of musical monikers he has realized over the years....
This is Ivy League: ...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From Brooklyn, New York “The Brooklyn-based duo fit neatly between recent cozy-pop faves the Whitest Boy Alive and Peter, Bjorn & John, working the same seam of homely beauty and prematurely autumnal...
Monareta: Matanza Fu...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! ¡Esto es Monareta! Born in Colombia South America, Monareta‘s medley has been active since the year 2000, when composer and producer Andres Martnez started playing break beats and hip hop flows...
The Raveonettes: Dea...
posted by Stuart Morrison
This Danish duo [based in New York] have re-emerged with an album that perfectly distills the band’s 60s noir-pop songcraft and fuzz-guitar clamor into a melodic, sensuous voyage through the layers of desire....
Insomnia Radio #154:...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
Mink: Untouchable
posted by Jason Evangelho
[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/untouchable.mp3] Our first band to be featured from SXSW Music/Media/Interactive Festival hails from NY, NY errr, I mean Australia, umm, OH! It’s both!Lead singer Neal Carlson is...
IR Orlando #22: Horr...
posted by Marci Brinker
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...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
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,...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hey everyone! Today I’m giving away five CD’s from a great Santa Barbara band called The Coral Sea, so make sure you check this one out sometime during the week in order to have a chance to win. We’ve also...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
After last week’s session we do a quick 180 and bring in New Years with an all-electronica celebration. In honor of all the DJ driven events that occur every year-end all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, we...
Insomnia Radio #110:...
posted by Jason Evangelho
Running Time: 57 minutes | Worksafe | Ideal for Headphones & Darkness On Insomnia Radio 103, I took a chance and featured all hip-hop. It went over surprisingly well. With that in mind, I dedicate this entire episode...
Insomnia Radio #100:...
posted by Jason Evangelho
Episode 100 brings the entire IR Family together, with each host recording a special segment for our first Triple Digit show! No frills, no segments, no hype, just the hosts and the music. Enjoy this, and if you like what...
Soft: You Make Me Wa...
posted by dailydose
Soft Website Soft @ MySpace Soft @ Facebook Storefront: itunes [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-soft-youmakemewannadie.mp3] Download | Subscribe | Subscribe in...