After spending the bulk of the past year on the road in support of last November’s excellent “Sports” LP on Slumberland Records, Weekend have also been hard at work on their followup record. Prior to their...

Burbank International is the ongoing recording project of instrumentalist/producer H.A.Eugene, formerly of electronic duo The Luxury Tax, and bassist of the band Anderson Congress. Liquor Crush is a standout track from his...

The Bay Area’s The Sea People are releasing a new EP called Ruins, and Lukka is a signature track from it. This is what they call they Bio of sorts: “With a sound that could be described as socially conscious...

1975, the song you are listening today is by The New Slave, the San Francisco, California, based band, also featured at Insomnia Radio: Daily Dose on 2009 July the 6th. Forget Progress, Return to Instinct is their new...

From their new EP Vaede Collider is a young San Francisco rock band. Named after large particle accelerators, Collider’s music revels in both the bombastic beauty of energy and more subtle moments of delicacy, like...

Within a grainy film-still between a summer sunset and the end of times lies the post-punk squall of Weekend. Weekend filter the aggression, tempo and sneer of punk through a wall of reverb, haunting melody, feedback and...

“Half-android, Ahye hides the formula for love in her still-human heart (the Oculons seek to destroy this, in order to extinguish life on earth forever!) Captain Braxton, her lost love, has been on another planet...

Tidelands is the duo of San Francisco’s Gabriel Montana Leis (Guitar, Flugelhorn, Vocals) and Mie Araki (Drums, Keyboards, Vocals). Sharp, poignant, poetic lyrics are uniquely arranged with looped guitars, Moog bass and...

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...

This is free single from San Francisco network favourites My First Earthquake, taken from their soon to be released (7th June) album...

Taking their name from a spiritual village in India, Dust of Vraj is a cultural presentation of east meets west in a musical style that’s cutting edge, incorporating classical Indian instruments, ancient Sanskrit...

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...

San Francisco’s The Dodos have a new album set for release on March 15th called ‘No Color’, and their record company Frenchkiss are yet again teasing us with another great track. Neko Case apparently...

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...

Over the course of their upcoming EP, “Why We Need Night” (Tricycle), The Union Trade follow the contours of proven terrain and map the outlines of an evolving sound. In moments throughout, the band strips away the epic...

Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded in just over two years since San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys inception with previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This newest album is also the first...

“Steve Cowgill is the lead guitarist and occasional singer of acoustic surf rock favorites Bag of Toys. Fresh from San Francisco, Bag of Toys is a four piece acoustic surf-rock band now based in Wilmington, NC. The...

DJ AmperDan returns to IR:SF for 2011, looking back at the Bay Area music that rocked his world and his eardrums.

“Billy Cruz” is the first single from the upcoming Metal Mother album, Bonfire Diaries Metal Mother is the musical project of Oakland-based singer-songwriter, Tara Tati. Her debut LP, Bonfire Diaries will be released...

Dan just delivered the third episode of the new Insomnia Radio: San Francisco, and it is dedicated to the holidays. Ten amazing holiday songs – ranging from hilarious to ironic to beautiful – for your enjoyment...

The San Francisco feed of Insomnia Radio has been dark since February 2008, but today I’m ridiculously excited to be throwing the switch once again. As we have with IR: Chicago, our San Francisco is getting a reboot of...

Fops is the new superduo featuring Thee More Shallows singer Dee Kesler and Ral Partha Vogalbacher lyricist Chadwick Donald Bidwell Taking their musical cues from the syncopated electronic figures of Krautrockers such as...

San Francisco’s RETURN TO MONO returns to our blog this morning at 6AM with breathy yet beautiful sonic perfection in their newest album Framebreaker, hitting shelves in a few short months on Nov. 10. Doomsday Device,...

From “Four Corners of a Tiny Planet” “Four Corners of a Tiny Planet” is the brand new full-length release from The Beautiful Losers. TBL are an “Indian influenced acoustic rock” act that formed in Tokyo,...

From their album Ohlone Recorded over the course of a year in San Francisco, Ohlone is the debut album from Sunol. The album’s seven songs feature a mix of West African instrumentation and percussion with new American folk...

Part of their free download offering Suicides / Eros Plane, released 01 August 2010 and available from Bandcamp Grunge-gaze guitars and cavernous psych-tinged vocals, cerebral rhythms and a healthy respect for sonic...

Antenna Farm Records has gone and released Wind Up Wooden Heart, the long-awaited debut album from San Francisco’s Social Studies. WUWH is a study in contradictions, a balance of twee-leaning danceable pop and bold,...

Inu (e-nu) is the new band featuring San Francisco based producer Count (Radiohead, DJ Shadow, New Order, Halou, Galactic, Frank Sinatra), Zoe Keating (Rasuptina, Imogen Heap, Dresden Dolls) and Tim Hingston (Nyles Lannon)....

Recorded by Jack Shirley, Magic Bullets is the 2nd full length from the San Francisco band with the same name. Losing several members of their band to Girls (girls are always breaking hearts), they are back with a new lineup...

The Stobos EP is the third official release from Collider. It was recorded over a 5 month period in the band’s studio space in the tenderloin of San Francisco. Collider is a young San Francisco rock band. Named after...

From their album Good Enough In early summer of 2004, San Francisco’s Finest Dearest began practicing in a basement bedroom, hashing out concepts and ideas. After a series of musical chairs in the lineup, the band emerged...