Everyone once in a while it’s nice to have an artist come along to cleanse all the bad music out of the system that’s been lodged in the ol’ memory banks. Fawn Spots, a three-piece from York was recently...

Jakarta Club have released last December a free self-titled e.p. where they feature 5 songs with clear melodies with a bit of 80’s music influence. The lucky people who have been at their concerts talk about a hell of...

Bluesy post-punk rock band The Glorious Veins over the last few years have toured across the US, playing at SXSW and The Vans Warped Tour, and hitting 25 states. Last year they used Kickstarter to raise funds for their...

The Heroes of Switzerland are about to release their new EP, No Easy Way Of Being on 21st January 2013 on Music To Bleed To (MBTB003) via all good digital music stores. Head to their web site for more information. No Easy...

Picking up where their acclaimed debut single left off, AS ELEPHANTS ARE return with “Youth Blood”/”Lucifer”, another blistering slice of epic, widescreen indie which will be available on March 8th...

Rich Man is the December 10th single release from London, UK band Shout Timber. Playing on two sides of an ever-existent and more than ever culturally relevant conundrum: rich and poor, happiness and unhappiness –...

From probably the most controversial and explicit Christmas album ever released, Christmas Greatest Tits. 14 tracks of crimbo chaos, filth and anarchy by the UK’s grammy nominated indie posters – The Pocket...

After the first two Skint & Demoralised albums, Love And Other Catastrophes and This Morning Life, the Wakefield UK band has returned with When Saturday Comes, the first single from the forthcoming third S&D album. ...

Bear Cavalry, a rapidly emerging 4 piece from the sleepy town of Gosport on the south coast, are no strangers to making waves (…) it looks like a trend set to continue. (press release) We’re listening to Puryss,...

London five piece Zulu Winter recently released their album ‘Language’ via Toronto label Arts & Crafts. The group had originally signed to to Play It Again Sam in the UK, a part of PIAS Entertainment Group....

“Breaking out onto the music scene with a style that’s completely their own, Sheffield [UK] born and bred quartet Inherit The Stars are an explosion of sound that should not be missed. With all four members...

Our feature today are a duo from Exeter, Devon, UK – Kieran and Neil, also known as Iko. They are one of the unknown bands chosen to feature a song on the new Twilight Soundtrack, and are celebrating by releasing the...

Episode number 103 of Insomnia Radio: UK Back after quite a long break with a ten track show Recording Date: Saturday 17 November 2012 TRT: 48:37 Rating: Work Safe [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/iruk103.mp3] Download...

Rhinosaur Records is a new Irish creative commons netlabel that appears to have been started by the guys/gal in the band, I Am Not Lefthanded. Their first three song sampler release came out in late September along with...

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...

Emerging from Bristol’s ever-fertile music scene (perhaps most famous for legends like Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky, but also widely considered “Britain’s most musical city”), Stumbleine has...

If you think that listening to music is something you are thankfull for, Keston Cobblers’ Club will be one of the reasons you are happy for, and certainly will help you to believe that Music is trully a gift. One, For...

Rayne are from Sunderland in the North East of the UK. They are four times Battle of the bands winners, and runners up at the 02 Live & Unsigned final. This is from their new release New...

Lux Lisbon met in Nottingham as an accountant, a barrister, and a banker before recording their debut album ‘Your Heart Is A Weapon The Size Of Your Fist’ and subsequently moving to London. In the past few years...

Laetitia Sadier is a founding member of seminal UK/French Post Rock outfit Stereolab. She continues their Musical and Political tradition in her solo work. This is from her second album Silencio....

Instrumental Thursday has jumped a day and hits on a Friday via London based musician Matt Stevens. Today’s feature is the lead-off track from his new album Relic that released late 2011. Matt basically uses an...

The dancefloor heroes Sensual Harassment got their hands on Strangers and turned the anthem Shine On You into a a unforgettable song. Two things unusual today for your Daily Dose: 1st we’re featuring a version of a...

Start off your week with a loud Dose of Punky Rock n Roll from Royals. Based in Exeter in the UK, they have an EP out, recorded with producer Jag Jago (The Maccabees,The Xcerts) in Brighton, available from...

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...

Evans the Death released their self-titled debut album in April 2012 via Fortuna POP! in the UK / Europe and Slumberland Records in the US. The songs were recorded late Summer 2011 with producer Ex-Test Icicle and current...

My Pet Monster are a four piece Noise Pop band from Cardiff, UK, and have just released their new EP titled Trudy Superstar on their label Video Noise. School II is the lead track from their EP, which is available from...

Episode number 102 of Insomnia Radio UK. Another short show, featuring three songs each by two UK bands. The bands are tenuously linked by both their names being simple sentences, and that I heard them recently on UK based...

We have featured UK band Clockwork Radio a few times before on the Network, and they have just released their Ubuntu EP. This is the single from it. The EP is available for purchase from the links below, or free download if...

Worried about the possible end of BBC 6, Hamfatter, Cambridge, U.K, recorded this ode to that station. It will remind you of Billy Idol, that’s a fact. But also it is a fact that Hamfatter are a great band, and even if...

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),...

Never Joy is the slightly dark and very promising debut from 18 year old Brighton indie folk musician Ed Tullett. You’ll definitely hear some of the his influences here, specifically Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Iron &...