Great Gustav! Incomplete Neighbor, an indie rock band from San Diego has put together a batch of demos bound for their debut album coming late this Fall or possibly in the Spring. Incomplete Neighbor is also designing...

“Heart Quaking Doom-Pop, from California” “In just a few short years, War Tapes have become a staple of the local scene, with the band playing everything from Hollywood dance nights to South L.A. loft...

This is the story of The Pacific, a three piece indie group of some Japanese heritage, whom have been pouring their hearts into the many storied high-energy performances in the Los Angeles rock underground. For years The...

Out of the Woods of New Hampshire, Elks have announced that their primary sound genre is ‘face melting’, so we thought it was time to unleash this pent up beast right before your long weekend starts. Located...

Formed while its members were students at Arkansas Tech in the Midwestern hamlet of Russellville, the band has gone through several different members before settling in with its current lineup for the past two-and-a-half...

Sentinel, a dream-pop four piece from Oakland has returned with another very solid effort on their May 2008 release, “Kites Without Strings”. Avalanche is the second track off their new CD, a beautiful and...

The Wax Standard is a DC-based indie/alternative rock band; fans describe them as “atmospheric, gritty and poignant”, with “haunting melodies and bittersweet lyrics that are soulful and insightful.” Band members...

Formerly named Peggy Sue & The Pirates up until very recently, the self-annointed untraditional folk duo of Rosa ‘REX’ Slade and KatyBeth ‘KLAW’ Young from Brighton, UK, released a live version of this song in...

WINTERUN – INTO THE UNDERGROUND Below the shallows of mainstream music there lies an alternative scene running rich and deep. Having spent the last five years building a strong clan within this healthy community in...

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...

    Airstrip One are a three piece from West London. Formed in 2006 under the name ‘Fyrstikk’ and hailing from the UK, Poland & Malta, they are a blend of catchy guitar riffs, melodic vocals...

With vocals swimming into the mystic range of Van Morrison and even Vedder or Duritz, San Luis Obispo’s Still Time adeptly soaks up a variety of rock, folk, jazz and reggae influences and styles in the ever-widening...

This last week, the New Media Expo arrived for the fourth time at its new home, the Las Vegas Convention Center. For the newly named 2008 Expo, I had the pleasure of staying with fellow content producer from Detroit, Mikel...

This Town Needs Guns are Stuart Smith, Tim Collis, Chris Collis, & Jamie Cooper from Oxford in the UK [From their Myspace] We do releases through independent labels who are surviving from one release to the next....

Since we’re not getting enough of the constant Sugar flowing from Bob Mould’s Minneapolis & now Washington based cookie jar, we’ve decided to forage further to the east and break the lock off the...

Over the years, The Clintons have become a huge hit with a very small group of people. In other words, they’re not for everyone. If you have Montana roots, you’ve no doubt heard of this energetic, humor-driven...

From Yonkers, New York we would like to introduce you to Mouthblocks, one of our favorite new hip-hop artists who just released his debut EP, Sing for Your Supper on fledgling Baby Grey Records. Mouthblock adeptly presents...

From the first EP released by Australian band Drawn from Bees. Drawing on their influences of art and literature, the first EP is a tale of survival, struggle and desolation, set against a backdrop of seafaring...

There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere, Head Like A Kite’s second full-length album, and first for Mush, is an expert blend of electronic rock production and pure pop-songcraft built on a bed of pillaged found-sound from cities...

Conquest formed in late 1989 by founder Derrick Brumley, frontman and guitar player of the band. Joined by Tony Restivo, Tim Fleetwood and Adrian Vesper, Conquest played locally and made their first full length heavy metal...

From Toronto Ontario, Canadian foursome Put the Rifle Down seemingly has the incredible talent that allows them to craft non-disposable synth-pop styled masterpieces, which also happened to spark the same hibernating...

  Hot Little Hands – armed with two synthesizers and Wurlitzer – aren’t just a reflection of the 80’s revival scene. Insert 1950’s electronic-voodoo-swamp-blues, 1960’s garage disco. Enter some old soul,...

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 with a bolder, more confident...

Formed in San Francisco in the spring of 2006, The Union Trade consists of Don Joslin (guitar), Nate Munger (bass/vocals), Eric Salk (guitar /vocals), and Dan Rodkewich (drums). The Union Trade’s sound is the product of a...

We first heard from Phoenix, Arizona’s The Love Me Nots in IR: San Francisco’s lovefest around early ’07 during the period in which tLMN released their debut album Black & White, which shot up into the...

As a three-piece band with a progressive metal drummer, a post punk guitarist, and a thrash rock bassist and with song names as bizarre as Perverted Shark and Where is My Skeleton, Cactus’s self proclaimed style of...

Thanks for checking out the 24th full length edition of The SoCal Sessions here at Insomnia Radio. Today we’ve gathered up fourteen excellent tracks from fourteen talented artists, breaking out in Long Beach via a...

Beyond their years musically, Los Angeles based Drive A has just completed their full length record with Grammy Award winning Producer Julian Raymond and are on the verge of capping off their Warped Tour experience in late...

Insomnia Radio has rejoined The Association of Music Podcasting (AMP) after quite a long absence. AMP was founded close to the advent of the podcasting medium, and has a hundred plus shows in their musical pipeline for...

  When most bands tell you they’ve had to “grow up in public,” they’re talking about getting pushed into the spotlight before they’ve had a chance to find their voice. But for Whittier, California, trio...

After a long absence, Insomnia Radio Detroit is back and better than ever! Will be putting out episodes more regularly, and with more stuff than ever before! To bring it all back, I’m giving you an incredible...

Kansas City based group, The Republic Tigers, got their name from a mixture of a former band name, “Golden Republic” and a certain animal mascot from one of the band member’s alma maters – two things...