You may remember Los Angeles indie pop outfit Gertie Fox, and if so, you may also recognize some similarities shared with the new Bethlehem, Pennsylvania indie five-piece ‘New Madrid Faults’.  Apparently Matt...

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead New Album The Century Of Self, extensive tour, check myspace.com/trailofdead for...

Our newest episode opens with a farcical movie trailer we found, something about airplane flaps malfunctioning leading into a ridiculous crash in the mountains and subsequent survivalist breakdancing. It has nothing to do...

Amongst four blazing nights between Xmas 2006 and the year of 2007, A Classic Education recorded 3 songs in the middle of the mountains of centre-north Italy. Jonathan Clancy, Paul Pieretto & Luca Mazzieri played a...

From his 2008 EP Please Believe Me Darrin Kohavi was raised in a musical family. He started playing classical piano at the age of eight. By the age of 17, he had mastered jazz, rock and R&B, and added guitar, bass...

Every year the fine folk at over at IODA Promonet host a nice party over at the South by SouthWest Music Festival in Austin. Repeating the fine lineup from last year, IODA has once again put together a great cross section...

Balmorhea, pronounced Bal-moor-ay, has always been Rob Lowe and Michael Muller from Austin, Texas, but have recently added four more players to the lineup, on violin, upright bass, cello, and drums respectively. Drifting...

From Toronto, Canada the three-piece rock band Magneta Lane consists of Lexi Valentine, Nadia King, and French. They formed in 2003 in New York, and have since released two well received full length albums entitled...

The Single from their 2008 Album The Steps Born under the influence of classic rock in the Live Music Capital of the World [Austin, TX], The Steps chisel through modern rock with 60’s...

Due in late March, the new album from Venice is Sinking, AZAR, finds the band widening its palette and deepening its focus, tackling the idea of location’s ability to influence our lives. Growing musically since the...

From his just released album Live Wires Originally from Lincoln Nebraska and now based in Brooklyn, New York, Aaron says he has spent the last two years writing and recording Live Wires with collaborator Christian...

The most infectious blast of pop perfection you will hear all year, a tidy distillation of all the great noise-pop precedents – early MBV, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship – but with that incredible...

Amongst the broadening horizons of the European music scene you will find the Beangrowers. Hailing from the Mediterranean island of Malta, this female-fronted three-piece has become known for their unique style and...

PRS are from Salzburg in Austria, and this is from their recently released Promotional Album produced by Scott Matthews. Pirate Radio Station Are: Sebastian Aigmuller: Lead Vocals / Guitar Paul Konarski : Guitar /...

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...

Ketch Harbour Wolves hail from across Ontario while fostering a deep connection to Nova Scotia where in 2003 the band’s predecessor, The Flying Buttresses, was forged in the small coastal town of Ketch Harbour. After...

Signal Hill is an instrumental band from Los Angeles, CA. With influences such as The Mercury Program, Tristeza, My Bloody Valentine, Cinematic Orchestra and others, they play melodic, mid tempo, vocal-less ditties. Signal...

One from the Archive.  Originally posted by Jason on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 and recently rediscovered. We don’t have a playlist for this, so if anyone knows any of the bands/tracks please add to the comments. [update 15...

From their album The Red Rhythm – released 10 Feb. From Atlanta, Georgia, Winston Audio are Daniel Dewitt, Dan Gleason, Zach Brown and Michael Adkins. WINSTON AUDIO was formed in 2003, but the music they create...

If you happen to be in Austin this March for SXSW, I’d highly recommend you check out the firing soul, funk, and r&b combo – T Bird & The Breaks. High School for the lead singer Tim Crane, A.K.A. T Bird,...

Playfully drawing their name from that of a simple Nashville bank teller, Darla Farmer is an eccentric 7-piece carnival-rock band that manages to gracefully shatter genre borders in ways that even the most critical of...

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...

With a sound that derives itself from composers and songwriters across the board, Emanuel & the Fear is an extraordinary 11-piece orchestra-rock band that focuses on intertwining the modern day pop song with extravagant...

Already having achieved some major feats including a YouTube featured video with nearly 300,000 views, Said The Whale is one of those bands that only continues to build off its previous successes. One-part Brian Wilson,...

Over the course of several nights, this IR coffee-fiend powered through multiple cups of caffeine in order to bring you the following local tracks on our Daily Dose feed, amongst scores of others great tracks from outside...

Taking their name from a lyric in the U2 song “New Years Day”, San Diego indie rock trio Arms Entwined is on the verge of releasing their debut EP, “Tell Them I Sent You”, in early 2009. This is the...

From Thessaloniki, Greece I believe they are the first Greek band to be featured on Insomnia Radio, Dark Souls Day are: Nikos: bass, guitar, vocals, drums, piano, lyrics, recording (everything) Pepi: lyrics,...

From Odense, Denmark, A Sunday Honeymoon is: MIKAEL (voice) ANDERS (guitar) ESBEN (guitar/harmonica) RASMUS (bass) ANDERS (drums) JEPPE (guitar/synth) Currently taking over the charts at Garageband after consistently being...

Los Angeles based band-to-watch, Pedestrian recently released their fourth endeavor entitled “Sidegeist”, a follow up to their two EPs in 2003 and first full length in 2006 called “Ghostly Life”. The...

Released under a Creative Commons License, San Franciso’s Bloomsday Rising is back with their 2008 release “Unlocked” a five song EP, issued completely free, under the “pay what you want”, guilt...

Hollywood based group, SexTapes™ is self-described as sounding like a modern mixture of Jane’s Addiction, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, consisting of co-writer/founding member Kelly Wheeler on guitars, Marko Fox on bass,...

Jay & Jawnee birthed That Noise in the heart of Los Angeles in 2007.  Originally Jay had started composing original songs under the name Appogee, which soon came to be known as Unconscious Ruckus. Kanpai Records soon...