The debut album from The Rest, Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour, is a collection of songs written by the band over the course of their first years playing music together. Recorded by Dan Achen at Catherine North Studio in...

Throw Television is a young indie-pop-rock group from Brussels, Belgium. Influenced by various artists by the likes of Foals, Death Cab For Cutie and Two Door Cinema Club, Throw Television create a sound that can be both...

Since their Formation in the winter of 2007, the members of Ontario, California’s The Motel Life have continued to make a name for themselves in their short existence. With an ear pleasing blend of rock, 90s...

The Radio Dept. is an indie pop band from Lund, Sweden signed to Labrador Records. The band was conceived in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a...

Two Door Cinema Club are an Electropop/Indie Rock band from Bangor and Donaghadee, Northern Ireland formed in 2007. They are signed to French record label Kitsuné Music, through which they released their debut album...

Over the course of three albums in nearly a decade’s time, the Books have grown to become one of modern music’s most genuine innovators. Creatively complex and truly unclassifiable, The Way Out continues the...

From their album The Sound of Meat on Pink Hedgehog Records Schnauser play a mixture of psychedelic pop and instrumentals and have been influenced by a wide range of 60’s bands including Soft Machine, Egg, Blossom...

From their free EP sampler of their Album “Debut” Boston rock-refugee Karl von Kries teams up with savant drummer Wyatt Lund and CNC Wizard Adrian Ott in an on-going attempt to be way too busy on stage: three...

Quintessentially midwestern (well, they are from Lawrence, KS, and list Paul Westerberg as an inspiration), the songs THE BELLES have put together are honest and charming. And captivating. With renewed interest in the...

Labrador released the single “The Kiss” by Sweden’s most blissed-out duo, Pallers, on May 26. A track said to be influenced by a DJ-set by Tobi Neumann in Ibiza which offers an unrivaled blend of...

Duranta D. Cook (born December 31 1980 in Vallejo, California, USA), is an indie singer-songwriter that goes by his artist name Vital. Prior to starting his solo career Vital wanted to be behind the music scene, writing...

Athens, GA native Madeline Adams has been writing and performing her own songs since the age of 15, self-releasing her first album, “Kissing & Dancing,” in 2002 — just two years into her career. A few...

In their much-anticipated second album, New Medium, Faded Paper Figures return with a richer, fuller sound, even as they maintain all of Dynamo’s indie-tronica charm. Fans of the band will be happy to hear all of the...

Engine Room Recs recently sent over what has quickly become one of my favorite releases so far this year, a top-to-bottom solid debut album of high caliber piano rock from New Yorker, Luke Wesley. This is what they had to...

It had been several years since I had first seen the Damon Castillo Band live, performing against the sun-drenched backdrop of the Pacific Ocean up in Avila Beach at the annual SLO Vintners Festival (held each November). ...

Chief Set to Release Modern Rituals (Domino Records) August 17th Select U.S. Tour Dates Begin May 28th Chief, a 4-piece from Santa Monica who formed while studying at New York University, returned to their home state...

New York’s Freak Owls was created from the amalgamation of ideas, restlessness, and frustrations of Josh Ricchio. After spending the past 12 years playing and touring in a wide variety of collaborative rock bands (most...

We recently received a press release this past week from St. Paul musician SARAH WINTERS and were quickly mesmerized by one of her public videos accessed through the musical paradise known as blip.fm.  Sarah’s...

Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon/offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a...

You may know LA musician Beth Thornley from seasonal efforts such as the Bowen Beer Bottle Band, whose viral beer-bottle music session rang up close to a million YouTube views to date, after first launch during the winter...

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...

Since Austin, Texas band The Sour Notes first formed in 2007, they’ve gone through several line-up changes before settling on their current 6-person line-up that consists of some of the town’s most talented...

Pop Cycle was recorded during the two most miserable winter months of the year in Stockholm with legendary Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen (Ed Harcourt, Camera Obscura, The Concretes). The ultimate result is a musically...

Toronto’s THE HIDDEN CAMERAS are the brainchild of singer/songwriter/guitarist Joel Gibb.  “In The NA” was the first single taken from The Hidden Cameras latest symphonic pop masterpiece ‘Origin:...

The scatterbrained, deconstructionist folk-rock created by Ohtis is a study in contrasts. Crisp, serene strings and soothing vocal melodies flank intense layers of instrumentation and harmony, like a more deliberate and...

Real Estate is a band from New Jersey, now based in Brooklyn, N.Y. The band has roots in the Garden State and they’re led by singer/guitarist Martin Courtney and feature guitarist Matthew Mondanile (the latter known to...

A little more than a week away from his second album release on April 20th – Chapel Hill based bartender by night and songwriter by day, WESLEY WOLFE has apparently been writing great songs you’ve never heard.....

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...

Hailing from Groningen (The Netherlands), The Black Atlantic is an acoustic pop quartet, formed around singer-songwriter and former Shai Hulud frontman, Geert van der Velde. With an ambient feel that tickles the nerves...

Two short years back in Copenhagen Denmark we would have loved to have been in-house when Danish indie 5-piece EFTERKLANG (translation: ‘reverberation’ or ‘remembrance’) tackled an ambitious live...

Episode number 82 of Insomnia Radio UK. A special Episode featuring ANTIQCOOL Recording Date: Friday 05 March 2010 TRT: 32:16 Rating: Work Safe Note: All tracks in this episode are available as free downloads, see the...

Growing up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, CA , twin brothers Jesse & Matt Kivel and childhood friend Ben Usen started playing together as a group in the late 90’s, but officially formed Princeton during a year...