Headed by vocalist Tim Crabtree, Paper Beat Scissors is best described as a musical monstrosity deposited in Halifax, Nova Scotia after the first years in Burnley, England. While the eponymous debut album was concerned with...

[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...

  As promised a lack of submissions had me reviewing shows 11 through 20.  So a few old review tunes, 4 new artists and 8 new tracks.   Download IR: Canada #21 Subscribe Subscribe in...

The second double digit show. And what a great show this week. Great tunes from all over the Country. East coast to West coast. Hitting lots of the provinces, and many different genre's.

After getting started in 1992 with their debut EP Peppermint, and having been signed to Geffen early in their careers, Canadian favorites Sloan have continued to release quality music over the last two decades, with their...

Febuary’s thirteen track show starts off in a comedic rock vein with some strong local tracks inspired by Tenacious D and even containing their rock-god DNA stamped all over them. From here we take you into a stretch...

Wintersleep’s fourth album, New Inheritors was born on the road. Since the 2007 release of The Juno Award winning Welcome to the Night Sky, Wintersleep has been performing endlessly all over North America, Europe and...

Since the release of their acclaimed debut LP, Pop-Up Book, Halifax’s THE SUPERFANTASTICS have toured Eastern Canada steadily with bands such as Julie Doiron and Shotgun Jimmie, opened for Joel Plaskett and Two Hours...

Following the release of their debut album, Night Group, Halifax, NS band DOG DAY spent two years touring from Norway to Texas to Northern Alberta. An isolated unit of four astrologically inclined musicians, they routinely...

I think in many ways our staff here at Insomnia Radio can relate to the name of our featured band as well as track name today. I basically had stumbled across this new track by Canada’s SLEEPLESS NIGHTS when I was...

From Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada Neil Dobson was a regular on the Toronto club circuit for years with various original bands. “I go back a ways in Toronto, we played Larry’s Hideaway a lot -such a...

In-Flight Safety soars to great heights with their latest, we are an empire, my dear. Last winter, the Halifax based four-piece took to the proverbial woods and recorded in Fox River, Nova Scotia with producer Laurence...

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 with...

Indie darlings Wintersleep are wasting no time making 2009 another memorable year. This week the band climbs to #26 on CMJ’s Top 200 chart with their critically acclaimed third album Welcome To The Night Sky. This...