Antique Pony are a band from Glasgow (Scotland, UK) who have released their new album Pony earlier in December. It is offered on a ‘name your price’ basis at the BandCamp link below, or as a zip file of the 11...

Olive Grove Records out of Scotland recently released a free sampler of music at the end of October featuring about fourteen independent artists they’ve had the pleasure to issue releases from – like Woodenbox,...

Scottish four piece, This Silent Forest, have a new single, Root To The Seed, taken from their debut album Indivision via Never Make Friends Records. While Indivision is the band’s debut album, it follows the...

During the last few years Glasgow’s North Atlantic Oscillation have been steadily building both their fanbase and their reputation. Now Sam Healy, NAO’s frontman and songwriter, returns with Sand, a new solo...

Lush multilayered synth arrangements, thick bass lines, and catchy guitars run Top Less through the gamut of electro, dance and glam pop. Hooky vocals elevate their songs to anthemic heights. The lyrics, often ironic and...

Glasgow, Scotland’s CAMPFIRES IN WINTER is releasing a new three song EP “Picture of Health” in late September, but we wanted to first start off here by featuring an introductory piece from their demos...

Hailing from Elgin in the north east of Scotland, His Name Is Codeine are releasing their album The Only Truth Is Music on 30th May. “Starting as a trio of Lyn Ralph (vocals, bass, drum looper), Marc Roy (guitar,...

The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse is an alternative indie folk artist from the Scottish Highlands. While primarily a solo artist, he also performs with a backing band called The Wat Wat Kings. Previous to becoming The...

Pinact are my new favorite gratuitously-noisy and mind-spinningly fast two-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland; basically high school friends [Corrie Gillie and Lewis Reynolds] putting together some really great...

Glaswegian four-piece Verse Metrics bring you the free download single ‘Aches’. In August 2012 the band recorded 5 new tracks with engineer Jamie Savage at Chem19 studios. These tracks will make up Verse...

What’s this unexpected package you may ask? Today brings the 181st full length episode of Insomnia Radio, with a tribute to the promotional wonders of Boston’s MJ Epstein Memorial Library as our representative...

Scotland’s Tango in the Attic have released the free download track Paw Prints, taken from their second album Sellotape that released on the 23rd of April. Sellotape is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2010...

The Moth & The Mirror have been proclaimed as a Scottish supergroup, comprising of members taken from an array of Scottish talent including: Stacey Sievwright from The Reindeer Section and Arab Strap (vocals/guitar),...

I must admit that Scotland has been topping my personal list of favorite music scenes over the course of the last few years, not to mention Sweden and San Francisco, with nods to dozens of others. Perth Scotland really...

From Glasgow,Scotland, the band you are listening today is called Galleries. They play epic and beautiful electronic guitar based pop songs. Their second single Young Wounds has now been released as a free download at the...

Vessels & Veins is the second EP from Scottish post-rock monsters Penguins Kill Polar Bears. Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut EP Dawn in June 2010, the band have been busy building their profile...

Today we take a look at a new acoustic release by Kilsyth, Scotland’s ‘The Twilight Sad’. The band actually got their start playing a few gigs in Glasgow, creating half hour pieces of music that...

Admiral Fallow is a stunning new group, formerly known as Brother Louis Collective, born in 2007 and gathered round the precocious talent of the young foot-stamping, faintly maniacal singer/song-writer Louis Abbott. Citing...

From their album All Creatures Will Make Merry on Song, by Toad Records All Creatures Will Make Merry is the second full length release by Edinburgh’s Meursault, who formed a few years ago when Neil Pennycook started...

The title track from their album We featured Best Foot on the Ground by Edinburgh’s Callel back in November on the Daily Dose, and Insomnia Radio: UK. To mark the official release of the album, they have made...

Scottish band THERE WILL BE FIREWORKS are currently putting the finishing touches to their second album (due for release in 2010). Last month the band spent a day at Stonehaven’s Old Mill Studios to cut “In Excelsis...

For a long while here at Insomnia Radio we’ve been missing a forum for properly presenting the live tracks that we come across, and those few acoustic tracks that fall by the wayside and don’t get the promotion...

From their album Body Discovery on Aardvark Records Some infectious Scottish Indie Pop from Edinburgh’s Callel. Why do we keep returning to Scotland for the Daily Dose? Just listen to find out.   Callel...

Night Noise Team’s first single ‘MENOLICK’ will be released on 30th November. It will be available on download only from iTunes and www.permwhale.com The band consists of Sean Ormsby from Belfast on...

AMPed: Show #199 This week’s host: Dave from The Bugcast Show: The Bugcast Song: Get On The Bus (Q*Ball) Show: Insomnia Radio Song: Black Wax (Dananananaykroyd) Show: Ourobouros Podcast Song: House Of Frauds (Dead...

From Glasgow in Scotland. From The Eisenhowers latest album ‘Film your own atrocities’, we thought that this would be a good song to mark the 40th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon....

Today’s episode warms us up a bit with a healthy dose of rock from UK, Canada, New York, Mexico City (and beyond) before our founder, Jason Evangelho takes over the controls for IR #165. The name of this episode has...

Formed in Scotland in 2006, the fight pop six piece, Dananananaykroyd just released their Black Wax single on March 22 and previous to that – the Pink Sabbath single which we’ve featured here today. NPR has been...

Causing widespread panic and dancing since the turn of the century, Bombskare are Scotland’s heaviest export Known for their high energy live shows, they take their influences from Rage Against The Machine to Ennio...

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...

From Glasgow in Scotland. The Eisenhowers latest album ‘Film your own atrocities’ is now available. Anyone who buys the album through the band website (www.eisenhowers.co.uk) will get a free mini-album called...

From Scottish band The Twilight Sad, Cold Days From the Birdhouse opens with a reoccurring piano ping, steadfastly continuing throughout a majority of the song up until it ultimately tapers off in the end. We know its...