Formed in Milan, Italy, in 2007 by Pietro Guerrini (guitar & vocals), Alessandro Caputo (guitar), Robin Duncan (bass) and Jacopo Burastero (drums), Excusers released their first LP “Portrait Of Infidelity”...

Alec Grefe is a musician from Stevens Point, Wisconsin who has just released a fourth album as a solo project entitled “Then & Now”. We’ve been told its a two-part album, wherein the first half is a...

Pulling influences from dream pop, garage and shoe-gaze, Hyla is a new project from long time friends Alex Board (vocals/guitar) and Rob Stephens (bass) who have been playing and touring in Perth bands over the last 10...

We recently spotted this newish track from French indie pop duo COMETT while diving headlong into the abyss of endless music postings on Twitter (via Twitter Search). This is among the handful of sparkling songs we fished...

Heavily inspired by My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, and Sonic Youth, New Jersey’s OVERLAKE is back on the Dose with their new single, ‘Our Sky’. It arrives on the release of their new album...

Drawing inspiration from a range of influences including the Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Modest Mouse, and the Cure, NY-based – What Moon Things blends distorted guitar hooks, somber synthesizers, and the rubbed-raw...

Manchester band DOUGA are about to release their debut LP, The Silent Well on the 19th of May via Do Make Merge Records. Named after a childhood nickname given by his parents to founder, frontman, and former Plank! drummer...

Overlake was formed in Jersey City, NJ by Tom Barrett and Lysa Opfer, who found a shared love of 80’s & 90’s alternative and indie rock while performing in another band. “We would stay late after...

Stefan Noons is a 23 year old solo multi-instrumentalist working out of Edinburgh, Scotland, who fashions his own blend of psychedelic, slightly folky, shoegazey dream-pop. He’s currently got two sublime tracks up...

Dandelion Wine is the first single off of THE BAND IN HEAVEN’s full length debut album. Its an excellent song to lift you out of the mid-work week Summer doldrums in anticipation of escaping the urban jungle and...

London, England band YUCK are back with a new shoegazing single released earlier this past week, Rebirth. Its from their second LP due out this Fall with Fat Possum/Pharmacy Recordings. The album is being produced by Chris...

Now that Memorial Day has passed here in the US, Summer is officially turning up the burners as we cross into its domain in June. Not next to the ocean? Just close your eyes and let the surfgazing fuzzed-out wash of Palm...

Field Mouse is a four-piece dream pop band from Brooklyn, NY, seamlessly interweaving influences from shoegaze, indie, and power pop. The band has been recording tracks for their first full length album and are...

Now based in Austin, Letting Up Despite Great Faults is the indie electro-based sonic diary of founding member Mike Lee. Since their 2009 self-titled debut LP they’ve refined and expanded their sound, bridging the gap...

The Tel Aviv shoegaze band “Exemptions Committee” [translated] recently sent us a few singles from their forthcoming debut LP, releasing this winter. They’ve gone and filmed a video for the first that you...

Grand Resort is the project of a 20-year old native of the Dominican Republic named Andrés Pichardo, now resident in Brooklyn. Despite the gloomy title of his single Night is Dark, it is uplifting guitar-driven shoegazey...

Lilies on Mars are Lisa Masia and Marina Cristofalo, two musical collaborators who met over ten years ago in Sardinia, where other music projects lead to the formation of Lilies on Mars in August 2008. The three-piece band...

Ringo Deathstarr is a shoegaze power trio from Austin, TX. Channelling diverse influences such as MBV, Fugazi, The Cure, The Smiths and The Velvet Underground into a uniquely sonic fingerprint of their own, the band released...

Papermaps‘ self-titled debut album is coming out April 19th. This is a stand-out track from the ten track full-length. Canadian band, Papermaps is a Toronto-based rock quartet formed by producer/songwriter Dean Marino...

From the depths of North West London comes a stirring. For the past 6 months the bandits have been in hibernation; writing, recording, mostly sleeping, and are now ready to come back to the warm outdoors and hit the live...

AC Berkheimer is a Rotterdam [Netherlands] based quartet formed in mid 2005. They just released their second full-length album ‘We Tell Them Tonight’, after receiving international praise for their first album...

From another of our favourite Netlabels, today we bring you Flyafter from 23seconds.org. A first for the daily dose, a band from Indonesia. Flyafter mix acoustic styles with shoegaze tinged electonica. Their first EP is...

Beloved Rogue is a newly formed Brooklyn trio making music full of hazy imagery with hints of nostalgia and melancholy. Heavily reverbed vocals are buried under layers of delicate, melodic guitars that occasionally...

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...

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...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from all of us here at Insomnia Radio, new members and old.  Today’s pick is naturally from Ireland, and isn’t really jigworthy, unless of course you dance to the beat of your own...

Tarabud, lead singer of Oakland dream-pop band SENTINEL sent us another great recreation of a 50’s Christmas classic recently – properly helping get us in the mood for tomorrow’s holiday. This is their...

There is something to be said about dedication and hard work and The Sleepover Disaster are the embodiment of such a feat. The Fresno, California-based three piece have hit their stride with their first nationally...

Los Angeles instrumental outfit Signal Hill is back with a new album as of June 11th, twelve songs and 61 minutes of universally understood tracks without the vocal interjection that occasionally takes away from the artistry...

Experimental Aircraft was formed in October 1997 in Austin, Texas. Two years after formation, the band produced and released their self-titled debut in 1999 on sleepy bunny records (a fictitious local label). In March of...

New York four-piece Bell Hollow has crafted a dark, lush, and somewhat wistful ten song masterpiece in their newest release ‘Foxgloves’. The song we are featuring today, ‘Copper Crayon’, immediately...

A wave of sound has emerged in New York, slowly swelling and sweeping you into the beautiful dreamscape created by nu-gaze three piece Dead Leaf Echo. LG, Mike DiLalla, and Liza B have manged to mirror the epic sonic...