Today’s featured single is from last summer’s release by Oakland’s TRAILS AND WAYS. A note about the track from the band: “The song is about a rock climbing trip our singer KBB took last fall with...

Steel Cranes is an Oakland based rock duo with Amanda Schukle on drums and Tracy Shapiro on vocals and guitar. Formed in January 2012, their first full length album Ouroboros is scheduled for release on September 24th,...

Trivial Shields release their second single Enough, in anticipation of their forthcoming EP Invisible Winter. The song was recorded to tape at esteemed SF studio Tiny Telephone by Bay Area luminary Robert Shelton (DRMS);...

Merry Christmas to all from the IR family! You caught us just as we are unwrapping our final gift from California Bay area dreampop band SENTINEL. After getting in the holiday spirit close to October, the band put the...

Foxtails Brigade just dropped a new single called “The Unloved”, the first from their new album Time Is Passed, which was released this week. The song is an Eleanor-Rigby-esque look at the lonely and forsaken,...

While Oakland’s Chris Sullivan has been working on a full length release called Sweet Rebel Three he quietly put out what looks to be a collaboration from the piece this last year, feat. Tanya Donelly. I happily ran...

Complimenting the coming of Fall tomorrow, we see the arrival of Sentinel’s new single, Somewhere Else, a nice representation of the changing of the seasons that seemingly synchs up perfectly with the brand new video...

As a follow up to our Post in April, here is Nunca, the second single by Oakland based “Bossa Nova Dream Pop” band Trails And Ways. There is a great video of this one too, check it out below, and they promise...

Tereza is the first single from their upcoming LP, Trilingual, by Oakland based band Trails and Ways. Formed in May 2011 they have released two EPs and two singles (including Tereza), Trilingual will be their first full...

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...

We sometimes describe often featured bands as “Network Favourites”, but to use that term for Oakland’s Sentinel is an understatement. Sentinel could justifiably be described as an Insomnia Radio House...

With lots of hapiness, we bring you today Model Son, from the new e.p. Oui Camera Oui by the Oakland based The Heavenly States. The latest release from Oakland’s The Heavenly States, Oui Camera Oui is a dose of punk...

Network favorites SENTINEL are back with their newest single JET BLACK, a beautiful dream-pop driven work of art written and inspired at the edges of the San Francisco Bay, in the Summer of 2010. What you get from Sentinel...

From their just-released album Animals In Bloom on Reapandsow Inc Big Light is a rock band from San Francisco. Formed in 2007 as a vehicle for singer/guitarist Fred Torphy to get his songs into the world, the band...

Tonight I’ve been feeling like a fat kid in a candy store, drooling against the display case perusing so many stand-out tracks on the new release by Oakland, CA based SENTINEL. Their new EP “For Days Deep”...

From their new album ‘When the Chorus Walks’, which is the follow-up to 2005’s ‘Transitive Verses’ BROOKHAVEN began in 2000 as the home recording project of Sonny James, a certain hybrid of...

Tarabud, lead singer of Oakland dream-pop band SENTINEL sent us another great recreation of a 50’s Christmas classic recently – properly helping get us in the mood for tomorrow’s holiday. This is their...

From their upcoming album “Because I Am Not Myself, You See” Goodbye Gadget is an alt-rock/indie/punk band which has been gaining notoriety in the relative confines of the San Francisco’s music scene since...

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 Bird...

Oakland dream-pop favorites Sentinel recently sent us a cover of Let it Snow, just in time for the holidays. Originally released in 1945 as “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”, it hit number one on the...

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...

Sentinel, a dream-pop four piece from Oakland has returned with another very solid effort on their May 2008 release, “Kites Without Strings”. Avalanche is the second track off their new CD, a beautiful and...

From Oakland, CA comes a three piece indie rock group aptly titled Songs for Mom, comprised of Molly / Allana (guitar / bass / vox), and Carey (drums). This last year they finished up a nationwide tour, having the chance to...

Hark! Three incredible groups are coming to one epic local LA venue, this Tuesday evening (5/13), starting at 9pm sharp. Friend and classy wordsmith of “The Black Watch”, John, told me that his band will be...

Welcome to Day 4 (not Day 5 as I say in the show…I was told there would be no math…) of the 2006 recap on Insomnia Radio. *THIS EPISODE IS NOT WORK SAFE. Not Remotely. APRIL 2006 RETROSPECTIVE 1) New End...