Victory Kicks: I Got Drunk (I Called You Up)
London based lo-fi indie rock group VICTORY KICKS have announced that a new record is on the way – The Young Flood EP, arriving this November 17th on the group’s own label Unmanned Aerial Vinyl. It’s preceded by an excellent new single called I Got Drunk (I Called you Up) that comes with an exclusive […]
2m Nov 08, 2014
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Between The Rain: Shivers
Formed in 2006, Between The Rain is a hard rock trio out of the Bronx, NY. Tim Donlon, the spark and fuse of the band is a rock musician from the Detroit area who traveled to New York City to find the perfect members to complete the band’s lineup. After years of searching, he found […]
4m Nov 07, 2014
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Cambridge Park: First Light
Ed Jefferson is a self-taught 25 year old multi-instrumentalist from Bristol, U.K who creates music under the moniker CAMBRIDGE PARK. He just recently issued a new EP entitled Bricks, three excellent songs that are currently available under a pay-what-you-will model over at his BandCamp link below. Ed impressiely writes, plays and records all parts of […]
3m Nov 06, 2014
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Jason Maek and Zaena: Maek It
Today’s Dose, by Chicago based Jason Maek and Zaena is from their ‘Visual Album’ Maek Pandamonium, which is not your normal album. It is their debut, and is 17 music videos (totalling over an hour long) weaved together into one abstract storyline. it is embedded below for you. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | […]
4m Nov 05, 2014
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Moving Parts: The Free People
Moving Parts is an indie beach rock band based in Minneapolis, MN, who came together three years ago, releasing two EP’s along the way. Today’s feature comes from “Music From the Monastery”, a five song EP (one of the two) released in early 2014. The band is also currently working on a 3rd EP to […]
5m Nov 04, 2014
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Glamour Assassins: Phantom of the Disco
Today’s Dose is the first single from the forthcoming debut album Ain’t So Young from New Haven, CT band Glamour Assassins, expected to be released in early 2015. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
3m Nov 03, 2014
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Una Lux: Black Carbon
NYC-based foursome Una Lux is back with the release of the band’s new single Black Carbon, the second from their EP released in August. Una Lux are: Matteo Liberatore, Chris Connors, Kelso Norris & Jake St. John. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | SoundCloud A still from the set of the latest Una Lux […]
4m Nov 02, 2014
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City and the Sea: Trouble
Hamilton, Ontario band CITY AND THE SEA recently released the newest and second singles from their latest effort, issued as a Double A side. The first single “Venture” was released in July followed by today’s feature, “Trouble” it’s flip-side, just released in October. The song was reportedly written based on one of the band member’s […]
3m Nov 01, 2014
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Copper Lungs: Cloud Nine
Dundee Scotland pop-rock four-piece COPPER LUNGS have just released their free download single Cloud Nine, out officially this past 27th October 2014 via Thin Hippo Records. This follows the release of their self-titled EP in April with support from BBC Introducing, STV, Rock Sound Magazine, Bring the Noise and Artrocker, as well as a very […]
4m Oct 30, 2014
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Moonlight Towers: Out Of The Gray
The new album Heartbeat Overdrive by Austin TX based Moonlight Towers arrives on November 11th from Chicken Ranch Records. The album’s first single Out Of The Gray is today’s Dose. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
3m Oct 29, 2014
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Sylvan Esso: H.S.K.T.
H.S.K.T. is a new song from the debut 2014 album by Durham, North Carolina’s SYLVAN ESSO, a duo comprised of vocalist Amelia Meath and electronic artist Nick Sanborn who you may recognize from their other projects Megafaun (Sanborn) and Mountain Man (Meath). The group’s official debut was the earlier double A-side 12” Hey Mami / […]
4m Oct 28, 2014
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The Safes: Hopes Up, Guard Down
The Safes are from Chicago, and are three brothers, Patrick, Frankie & Michael O’Malley. Today’s Dose is from their album Record Heat. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter
2m Oct 27, 2014
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Such Sights: Crooked Houses
Sheffield based five piece Such Sights recently released their debut EP ‘Where Hell Begins’, which you will love if you are into alternative rock, pop punk and metal and influencing bands such as Taking Back Sunday, The Bled and Comeback Kid. We’ve also been informed you can also stream the latest single, ‘Seeing Is Believing’ […]
4m Oct 25, 2014
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Dumb Angel: Salvation
Salvation is the latest single from Dumb Angel, from Gillingham, Kent in the UK. They are made up of four sisters: Shelley Lynch (vocals), Sheena Lynch (bass), Sian Lynch (rhythm guitar) and Sharon Lynch (lead guitar) with their friend Brandon Lane (drums). Facebook | SoundCloud
5m Oct 24, 2014
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Meet the Blue: Take Your Shot
Toronto Canada duo Meet the Blue were originally based in Limerick Ireland where they built a small loyal following while self releasing their first demos. They issued the debut EP “Flux” in 2012 with engineer Darius Szczepaniak (Sum41,Barenaked Ladies, Black Crowes) at the helm and eventually moved forward in 2013 recording a track with Rob […]
2m Oct 23, 2014
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Killing Off Characters: The Facts That Lead Me Back
Today’s Dose is the title track from Toronto based Killing Off Characters 2013 album. “Killing Off Characters began as a project to excite one’s self away from the sadness of other projects dying, and quickly became amongst the best things in our lives. Strict music roles play no part here. A musical collective of three […]
3m Oct 22, 2014
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(the) How Much: Löffel
Santiago, Chile’s (the) How Much recently released the first single from their upcoming self-titled release and its a doozy. The vocals and instrumentals remind me a bit of Alice and Chains and Jane’s Addiction, driving toward a crazy instrumental attack at the very end. This was definitely a nice surprise to start off the week. […]
5m Oct 21, 2014
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Feed The Infection: Demons Inside Me
Feed The Infection is a project of the Toronto based artist known as N3rgul. Today’s Dose is from the album Destroy Rock n’ Roll. Check out the BandCamp link below, where there are four albums available for free download. “N3rgul” is a glitch/Dubstep/DnB/TripHop and basically electronica projekt by Nickk Dropkick” [bio] BandCamp | Facebook | […]
5m Oct 20, 2014
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Gustave Tiger: Covet To Die
Today’s Dose comes from Budapest in Hungary, by Gustave Tiger, an art punk band, formed in 2013, who released their second album At The Idyll’s End via BandCamp on a Name Your price basis (no minimum). Their debut, Mitanni Mares was released in 2013 and is also on BandCamp. “Starting off as a power trio […]
3m Oct 19, 2014
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The Ocean Party: Head Down
The excellent new single Head Down is taken from The Ocean Party’s forthcoming 4th album “Soft Focus,” out October 31 in Australia & New Zealand via Spunk, and November 4 in the US via Jigsaw.  While it appears the group is currently based out of Melbourne, it looks like they initially started in Wagga Wagga, […]
3m Oct 18, 2014
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Gambardellas: Ashes
Gambardellas was formed in Italy in 2011 by drummer Mauro Gambardella. The band now consists of Mauro Gambardella: Lead voice, drummer Glenda Frassi: Guitar, backing vocals Grethel Frassi Keys, backing vocals. Their Ashes EP, which this is the title track from, was produced in September 2013. Be sure to check out the video for the […]
3m Oct 17, 2014
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Glass Oaks: Screens
After recently stumbling headlong into the new single ‘Screens’ from the Lynchburg, Virginia indie folk-rock four piece, Glass Oaks, I found they based their inspired band name from “the creative expression of the human experience, which is both permanent like an oak and fragile like glass.” The Soundcloud issued single looks to be officially dropping […]
3m Oct 16, 2014
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Fatally Yours: Exit Sign
Today’s Dose is a little heavier than usual, but there is nothing wrong with that. It comes to you from Baltimore MD based band Fatally Yours and is from their EP Every Moment available from the iTunes link below. Check out some of their other tracks on their SoundCloud page, also linked to below. Of […]
5m Oct 15, 2014
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Jungle Doctors: The Sea and the Rain
We lucked out on a recent dive into the vast musical mash of Soundcloud, running into a handful of excellent tracks from London indie pop-rock group JUNGLE DOCTORS. Apparently in a little less than a month’s time the band has amassed over 75,000 plays of their recent single, “The Sea and the Rain”, not to […]
3m Oct 14, 2014
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V Y D: Tank Tops
V Y D are a NuDisco/Rock group from Southern California, now in Brooklyn. The band is Justin Howard (Singer/Songwriter) and Nick Wisse (Guitarist/Beatmaker). They say that they like mixing electronic beats with regular instruments. Web Site | SoundCloud | Facebook
4m Oct 13, 2014
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Little Lapin: Magnet Eyes
Little Lapin is an unsigned pop-folk artist originally from Devon and is now based in Bristol (UK) who writes honest music straight from the heart. We’ve seen other recent indications she was recently based in Christchurch, New Zealand, and just recently wrapped up a successful post-show for the Austin City Limits Music Festival in the […]
4m Oct 12, 2014
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Bride & Groom: On the Run
Another run through the audio channels at Soundcloud brings us a rare and new find from Canada, Bride & Groom, an Indie Folk duo based out of Montréal, Quebec. The duo is guitarist/songwriter Jesse Daniel Smith and cellist Kaitlyn Raitz, who apparently started collaborating in 2014. After a successful IndieGoGo campaign the couple were able […]
4m Oct 11, 2014
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Trivial Shields: Precipice
We featured Trivial Shields (the project of Christian Carpenter) twice before, now he’s released his EP Vassal States. He says of the EP: “After much protracted preparation, hesitation and self-vexation, Vassal States, the EP I wrote and recorded while living and teaching English in Istanbul, is finally available for your listening enjoyment. Vassal States, is […]
3m Oct 10, 2014
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Thalassocracy: Shimensoka
We recently had the pleasure of running into today’s featured track over at soundcloud after diving through multiple releases, getting stopped in our tracks with Shimensoka. The name of the song looks to translate to something along the lines of being surrounded by adversaries and thus isolated in a hostile situation. The group that released […]
3m Oct 09, 2014
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The Seshen: The Fall
Bay Area band The Seshen just released their new EP Unravel. Today’s Dose is the first single from it, they released another single Shapes yesterday too. The Seshen are: Vocals: Akasha Orr + Lalin St. Juste Bass: Aki Ehara Drums: Chris Thalmann Keyboards: Mahesh Rao Percussion: Mirza Kopelman Sampler/Synchronizer: Kumar Butler Web Site | Facebook […]
4m Oct 08, 2014
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Dave McPherson: Nothing is Enough
Following his previous two albums, The Hardship Diaries and Dreamoirs, UK artist Dave McPherson returns with his third album Journal Of A Journey Buoy, which arrives in a little under a month. The single Nothing is Enough is a stirring and exemplary slice of indie folk, that will no doubt send a lot of people […]
3m Oct 07, 2014
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Kiravell: Delta
Today’s Dose is a single from the Vaudevellia collection by San Diego based Meniyka Kiravell, and is due to be released Oct 15, 2014. “Soaking up influences from around the world, Kiravell poured out 9 individual musical pieces of art into an eclectic collection entitled Vaudevellia. These are all released under the name, Kiravell. The […]
3m Oct 06, 2014
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Hollow People: Surf
Hollow People formed in January 2014. They are five 17 yr olds from Birmingham, England. Surf was recorded in June 2014, and was Engineered and mastered by Jack Davis. More songs are being written. Gigs are being planned. Hollow People Line up: George Stanhope: vocals/synth Joe Callaghan: guitar Adam Plummer: guitar Will Cooke: bass Harry […]
3m Oct 05, 2014
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Circle: One
Monday Records just recently posted the newest outstanding synth-pop flavored single from the Enmore Australia based group, CIRCLE, who you may remember from our brief yet excellent feature here earlier this Summer for the track ‘We Can Play’. In addition we’ve embedded the video below on ‘All the People’, the 2nd single from Circle’s debut […]
4m Oct 04, 2014
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Moving Castles: Launch Party
Moving Castles from Austin TX recently released Launch Party, their latest single. Their Setting Fire EP is available as a free download from BandCamp, see the link below. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | BandCamp | SoundCloud
4m Oct 03, 2014
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Thrills: Dominic
A few months back one of the members of Philadelphia band Vacationer [Michael Mullin] released the leadoff single, Dominic from his debut LP, Thrills of Constantly Collapsing and we’re now excited to be able to showcase it here. While Vacationer is one of the bands that Michael is involved in, Thrills is apparently a recent […]
3m Oct 02, 2014
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The Air Machine: My Girl
“The Air Machine – Songs about life, loss, and rebirth with a connection to music in its purest form. The Air Machine is Zak Schell and Nick Terry from the Milwaukee, WI area. Together, with their past musical experience in the genres of rock, punk, metal, and classical, performs songs that have musical truth as […]
3m Oct 01, 2014
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Banana Beach: A/E
The brand new single, A/E from Stockholm Sweden’s Banana Beach has just arrived by way of a post by Birds Will Sing For You, a perfect song to reminiscence on those long summer days as we plunge headlong into Fall. Take a listen below and make sure to check out their track Mobile Homes, an […]
4m Sep 30, 2014
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Dann Morr: Jaded
Chicago-based Dann Morr (with his band The Dashing Bastard Sideshow) just released his first album Shouting Into the Wind on Squirrel Trap Records. Since the 1990s Dann Morr has been a singer and multi-instrumentalist in the folk-rock group Wells-next-the-Sea and indie-rock/power pop outfits Analog Radio and High Energy Physics, as well as bassist and backing […]
3m Sep 29, 2014
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Setec: Water or Concrete
Water or Concrete is the new single from Sydney solo artist Setec (aka Joshua Gibbs), a taste of his upcoming full-length debut album Brittle As Bones, which released in August and is recommended for fans of Jonti, Baths and Bon Iver. On this full-length debut, Setec utilises found-sound percussion alongside looped acoustic instruments, fading samples […]
3m Sep 28, 2014
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The Staffords: Poor Folks Live
‘Poor Folks Live’ is the second single from Melbourne Australia rock band, The Staffords’ soon to be released debut album ‘It Kills Me’. Todays spotlight is a follow-up to their last single, ‘Passing Ships in the Night’, and reportedly combines a socially aware and cynical lyric with an upbeat pop sensibility. We’ve also embedded their […]
2m Sep 27, 2014
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The March Divide: I Told You So
I Told You So is the first single from Billions, The March Divide’s upcoming sophomore full-length scheduled for release on October 21st, 2014. We’ve played the band who are from San Antonio, TX, several times before, and its great to hear new material from them. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | BandCamp
3m Sep 26, 2014
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Einar Stray Orchestra: Politricks (radio edit)
Following on the heels of 2011’s well received release “Chiasroscuro,” Norwegian band Einar Stray Orchestra is issuing their second album entitled “Politricks” this month (Sep 2014) on German label Sinnbus. The new effort is produced by Hasse Rosbach (Team Me/Moddi) and mixed by Nick Terry (Libertines/Klaxons/Serena Maneesh). Release dates are as follows: Nordic Countries: 22.08.2014 […]
4m Sep 25, 2014
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Daddy Lion: Perpetual Flower
“Perpetual Calendar EP is the first output for Daddy Lion since morphing from a solo home-recording project to a four-piece band. Recorded one afternoon in a friend’s living room studio in Columbia, South Carolina, the EP’s three songs are a distinct and cohesive meditation on mortality set to music that deftly combines edgy post-punk and […]
4m Sep 24, 2014
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Letting Up Despite Great Faults: Wrapped
Just a short month ago in mid-August, former LA based indie electro-pop band Letting Up Despite Great Faults (now based in Austin, TX) released their newest exceptional thirteen track release, Neon. They’ve also put up about four tracks on their Soundcloud page from the album which are currently free to download and send to all […]
4m Sep 23, 2014
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Anabot: Candy-Eyed
Anabot is Analise Nelson. Resulting from a combination of “analog” and “robot”, Anabot is the product of a dualism, of sorts. Crafted by Nelson, she calls her experiment a “pop time machine with a rock engine”. This is from her Kiss Like A Knife EP. Web Site | Facebook | Twitter | SoundCloud
3m Sep 22, 2014
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Memory In Plant: Shame On Me
We have played Tel Aviv band Memory In Plant a few times before, so now they have released their EP An Epic Triumph we’re bringing you another song. Shame On Me was previously released as a single, and is also on the EP, is today’s Daily Dose. The EP is available from BandCamp on a […]
2m Sep 21, 2014
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Dive Index: A Person to Hide With
Lost In The Pressure is the latest album from Dive Index, an electro-acoustic collaborative project spearheaded by producer Will Thomas. Written and recorded in New York City and Los Angeles, the album features vocals by Isaiah Gage and Simone White. The arrangements incorporate piano, cello, guitars, found sounds and a blend of live and electronic […]
4m Sep 20, 2014
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Devereaux: Rendezvous
Devereaux is set to release Pineapple Flex, the full-length follow up to his 2012 album Cacti Pace, next week. Devereaux is the project of Heyward Sims. Currently based in New York and Los Angeles, his Facebook page has his location as Milton Keynes in the UK. Also, check out the video of the title track […]
3m Sep 19, 2014
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Clockwork Radio: Sitting Bull
Manchester band Clockwork Radio are back with yet another highly recommended feature here at Insomnia Radio. The band just released their debut, “No Man is and Island” on September 8th, after first self-releasing four EPs running the gamut from rock, funk to afro-beat including an all acoustic EP, “Sketch”. All releases have been put out […]
4m Sep 18, 2014
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