IR Canada Show #78: New Gear, New Tunes!

Download IR: Canada #74 Subscribe   https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada74.mp3   Thanks for tuning in. This is your last call to get in track for show 75, which my hope is to have a listener favorites...

The Fretless is the Canadian fiddle foursome playing an essential part in the emerging movement mainstreaming traditional Irish folk music. Holton Alan Moore’s is from their album ‘Live From The Artfarm’...

Today’s excellent feature “Life and Death of a Star” comes from Canada’s SIGHTLINES, a Pop-punk/power-pop group from Vancouver. This past year they released their most recent LP on Alarum/Big Smoke,...

  Welcome back!   Today I have 8 tracks for you from coast to coast in Canada! Download IR: Canada #68 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada68.mp3     Ninja Spy...

Post Death Soundtrack is a Canadian inter-city music collective consisting of Kenneth Buck, Steve Moore and Jon Ireson. Founded in Calgary in 2007 by Buck and Moore, the band now operates out of Vancouver, Calgary and...

Vancouver Canada based band THE RUNAWAY CLUB has just released the B Side from The Runaway Club album Apollo, a free download called King Sized Bed. The full ten track album can be found at the Bandcamp link below for...

Vancouver, BC progressive rock band We Are the City released this new year flavored track back in March 2011 via their six-track EP, High School. Six videos were also created by Amazing Factory Productions Inc. for this...

Today we are featuring an exciting song from the brand new mixed compilation via Forward Music Group out of Nova Scotia, namely the second track off the organization’s excellent 2015 sampler. The band name here comes...

Vancouver based Young Bombs just dropped their latest remix – a really cool, tropical re-work of Radical Something‘s “Paradise In You.” Check out the links below for more remixes by Young Bombs,...

Today’s feature comes from Vancouver band HERMETIC, via their April 2012 release, ‘Civilized City’. This is a really solid release which we happened to run into while doing our Twitter music search duties,...

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...

[Reposting as the MP3 enclosure didn’t get through first time] Download IR: Canada #22 Subscribe Subscribe in iTunes https://insomniaradio.net/audio/IRCanada22.mp3 Band: The Little Black Dress From: Toronto...

  As promised a lack of submissions had me reviewing shows 11 through 20.  So a few old review tunes, 4 new artists and 8 new tracks.   Download IR: Canada #21 Subscribe Subscribe in...

On April 23, 2013, File Under: Music will release the sophomore album, Mary Magdalene, from the critically-acclaimed Vancouver band, The Crackling. The ballad features backing vocals from Vancouver’s Children’s...

The second double digit show. And what a great show this week. Great tunes from all over the Country. East coast to West coast. Hitting lots of the provinces, and many different genre's.

Zen Mystery Fogg are two transplants of the scenic Vancouver Island wilderness living in New Orleans. Chase Franson and Thomas Molander make sunny, breezy, garage rock that treads the line between pop and lo-fi. Their...

Running around in a panic stocking your bunker with that last box of Hostess fruit pies for the apocalypse? Need a breather? Put down that Chocodile my friend and take a listen to a holiday compilation of Vancouver’s...

After their 2010 debut, Vancouver five piece, 41ST AND HOME returned last July with a seven song EP, Raised by Wolves. Today’s featured track is the first single, Gorbachev, of which they’ve also made a great...

Pigeon Park is a rock band based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. Formed in 2008, the band released their debut record The Sun in 2010. In April they released Lovelight, as a single and video (check it out below). They...

Bear Mountain is an electro/dance band from Vancouver, B.C that began as the bedroom project of Ian Bevis. After the break-up of an old band, Ian began releasing early demos and remixes on the Internet, and started exploring...

No Can Do is the Vancouver based group Ladyhawk’s third studio album, available on CD/LP/Digital via Triple Crown this coming October. Per the band, No Can Do has no relation to Hall & Oates, Chromeo or Kiwi...

After working on new material throughout 2011, Vancouver based duo Japandroids released their second LP, Celebration Rock, internationally on June 5 through Polyvinyl Records, prefaced by the single “The House That Heaven...

Here is another excellent release coming from Canada. Matt Paxton is selling his album How the Land Lies for the price you want. [audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-mattpaxton-tillthesky.mp3] Download Till...

From Tiger Trap, to the Softies, and now Brave Irene – out of Canada… One of our favorite vocalists, Rose Melberg returns to us again from Vancouver to put her stamp on another round of eight tracks from the...

Yukon Blonde is a Canadian indie rock band originally from Kelowna, British Columbia although based in Vancouver since 2009. Today’s track comes from the band’s newest 4 song EP release on Nevado Records...

Over the past year or two we've featured Vancouver band, Said the Whale here on the Daily Dose and finally ran across their newer track 'Camilo', which was included in their October 2009 album entitled...

Cutting through the romantic sap straight to the more explicit underpinnings of Valentines Day, we present to you the newest single by Vancouver’s Apollo Ghosts, recently offered up for free on their Facebook page. ...

David Vertesi is best known as part of the Vancouver indie pop group, Hey Ocean!, although has branched out a bit and recently completed his debut solo album, Cardiography. Set to be released on October 26th through File...

With Nice, Nice, Very Nice, Vancouver’s Dan Mangan seems to be unwilling to pitch his musical flag in any single section of the record store. He dabbles and teases genre all the way from the indie-rock roar of this...

From their just-released third album Wilderness Heart on Outside Music Black Mountain are from Vancouver, BC and comprise Stephen McBean – Guitar/Vocals Amber Webber – Vocals Matt Camirand – Bass Jeremy...

From the album Moths Seven years ago The Salteens started Boompa Records to put out their sophomore album, Let Go Of Your Bad Days. Since then Boompa has released a lot of other albums while the Salteens have remained...