The beautifully sublime song “Easy Target” comes From the sophomore LP “As Far As Gardens Go“, by Philadelphia based indie-pop band CARROLL. The album was released November 11, 2016 and chronicles...
The Classic Brown: E...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
“Today’s feature comes from a compilation released just before Christmas, namely the “Arbor Christmas: Volume 18” annual holiday release, officially out as of December 15th. You can pick up this...
Cubbage: False Alarm
posted by Charles Stepczyk
“Here & Now” the debut late 2016 EP from Philadelphia self-produced folk & pop singer-songwriter, Anthony CUBBAGE, who uses the opportunity to express in each song on the EP the importance of capturing a...
Sea Offs: Unfound
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Unfound is the first single from Pennsylvania dream-folk band SEA OFFS new excellent 8 song release that dropped in March. The duo of Olivia and Rashmit met while attending Penn State University, bonding over a love of...
C-Doc: Side A: Face,...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
A little over five years ago in March 2012, the netlabel Blocsonic released the debut digital fortyFive release. Shortly thereafter Tha Silent Partner reinvented the format with the release of his first SIX ONNA 7 release....
Carroll: Lead Balloo...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Philly psych-pop four-piece CARROLL released today’s featured track off on their five track EP “Needs” in 2012, recorded in Minneapolis, MN and then dropping in February of 2013. You can pick up this...
Swiss Alps: Seersuck...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Today’s excellent feature comes from the 2013 EP release of Seersucker & Gingham, recorded that spring in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. The track officially came out on June 17, 2013 with the rest of the EP following...
Slingshot Dakota: Ra...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Rasta Bacca comes from the November 2012 12-track release, Dark Hearts, by Bethlehem Pennsylvania based indie pop duo, SLINGSHOT DAKOTA. We recently fell in love with this album after stumbling across it while checking out...
Cloudkicker: Let You...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Let Yourself Be Huge delves back a couple of years into the catalog of Pittsburgh musician Ben Sharp, specifically the closing track from the eight track album of the same name released in 2011. It’s a beautifully...
Hop Along: Powerful ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Powerful Man is the second single from Philadelphia band, Hop Along’s album Painted Shut out on Saddle Creek. Bandmember Frances Quinlan described today’s featured track as “about a very important day in...
Wild Shores: Sundanc...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Matthew Zedolik is Wild Shores, an Wilkes Barre Pennyslvania based musician and composer who has been putting out post-rock and shoegaze goodness for the last few years via his Bandcamp and Soundcloud pages below. The...
Cloudkicker: Digital...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Cloudkicker is the project of Pennsylvania based artist Ben Sharp who has been making music under the banner of Cloudkicker since 2007. He reportedly writes, records, mixes, and masters all of his material at his home in...
Hezekiah Jones: The ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Hezekiah Jones is the musical vehicle for Raphael Cutrufello, a Philadelphia-based musician who has been recording with his bandmates–AKA the family Jones–since 2006. Drawn to the cartography of imaginary worlds,...
Shadow of the Flag: ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Formed in early 2013 by drummer Jeff Lees and guitarist Angelo Morreale, Shadow Of The Flag set out to make music that would stand the test of time. Both come from the Pittsburgh, PA area. They started writing music online...
Vincent Colbert: Ros...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Ann Arbor, Michigan based singer-songwriter Vincent Colbert has just released the 2nd single, “Rose Yellow Moon” from his forthcoming sophomore EP, Stranger in My House coming out next January 20, 2015. The song...
I Am Love: Pillar of...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Happy Thanksgiving to all the listeners and long-time supporters of Insomnia Radio who celebrate the holiday in Canada and the States. The best way we know to give thanks is with a excellent new single from the upcoming...
The Burgeoning: Ligh...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
The Burgeoning, an indie-rock four piece out of Bensalem, Pennysylvania are on the verge of releasing their debut six-track EP, Love Alchemy, Life Algorithm this coming month. The group is made up of brothers Logan and Alex...
Mumblr: Philadelphia
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Philadelphia band Mumblr are about to take you into a dark room and smack you around with their first full-length album, Full of Snakes, out on September 16th via Fleeting Youth Records. Full of Snakes is apparently a phrase...
Edelweiss: Withering...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Pennsylvania indie band Edelweiss released their new EP Honduras on August 6, 2013. Influenced by Yourself and the Air, Foals, Bloc Party, and Arctic Monkeys, the quintet first formed while all five members were attending...
Pissed Jeans: Bathro...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Pissed Jeans are a Philadelphia based noise rock band originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania who are influenced by 80s hardcore punk and post-hardcore bands. They released their newest on Subpop this past February, which...
Daughn Gibson: The S...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Tuesday’s featured track, “The Sound of Law” comes from Daughn Gibson’s July 9th release, Me Moan, featuring guest appearances by John Baizley (of Baroness) and Jim Elkington (of...
Song Dogs: Careless
posted by Rodrigo
Formed in Philadelphia in 2009, Song Dogs has been playing around the Mid-Atlantic for the past three years. A 2011 EP, Song Dogs and the Nightjar, helped them to gain legitimacy as a band and lend the fan support to create...
Circa Survive: Suitc...
posted by Rodrigo
With 400 000 albums sold in the United States, featuring Circa Survive is not only an honour to us, it is also our obligation to let you know they have a new album. Self-released by the way. The option of self-releasing the...
Edelweiss: Icarus
posted by Rodrigo
Pardon my excitement, but as a music teacher I am very honoured to post Edelweiss for you today. The band members are under 18 years old. Yes: under 18. If the next generation of musicians are going this way, then music has...
Zsammy: Flourescent ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Zsammy is Sam McKinley, a one-man band out of Pittsburgh, PA. We’ve never seen too much information on the man himself, but have loved his music and featured it here several times on the network over the last few...
Sun Airway: Oh, Naok...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Sun Airway is a project from ex-A-Sides Patrick Marsceill and Jon Bathmus. After releasing a 4-song EP called ‘Oh, Naoko,’ they released their first full-length, ‘Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier,’ on October...
Farewell Flight: Cru...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
What’s not to like in a band with a lead song on Last.FM entitled ‘Lullaby for Insomniacs’? Well anyway, it takes at least a crate full of horse tranquilizers to put us to sleep here on the network, so we...
Akron/Family: River
posted by Charles Stepczyk
If you are familiar with Akron/Family, you will know they are a folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002, and its members currently live in New York City and Williamsport, Pennsylvania. All of the band...
Brown Recluse: Night...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Brilliant pop with tinges of soft rock, folk and lysergic jangle. From their recent EP The Soft Skin. The brown recluse spider or violin spider, Loxosceles reclusa, is a well-known member of the family Sicariidae (formerly...
Good Old War: Lookin...
posted by Stuart Morrison
Another track from their 2008 album Only Way To Be Alone (previously on the DD Coney Island) Acoustic folk trio Good old War launches yet another extensive US tour this week, this time with Brooklyn’s lauded indie...
Good Old War: Coney ...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
Good Old War, an indie folk-rock band from Pennsylvania, is made up of Keith Goodwin, Daniel Schwartz, and Tim Arnold. The band was started after Days Away (former band of Keith and Tim) went on hiatus; Schwartz previously...
Black Moth Super Rai...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From their album Eating Us Black Moth Super Rainbow come from deep within the woods of Western Pennsylvania. An actual, 5-member band not comprised of the expected laptops and sequencers, BMSR is a psyche-pop group in...