Insomnia Radio: Kill Your FM

The Best Music You’ve Never Heard: V6

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:40:57 +0000

From the Archives, enjoy the sixth volume of Scott Tinetti’s legendary The Best Music You’ve Never Heard, originally released to a select few members of the IR Forum back in 2006.

As always, if you like what you hear, buy a song, buy an album, send the musicians some love.

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Insomnia Radio #159: FU Robot

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:03:15 +0000

The year is obviously 2008, not 2005 as the evil announcer at the show header describes. Yes, as you will quickly notice, there is some sort of robotic, computer, and videogame nerdery meshed together unseamlessly in this episode, gladly supplied by this uber-geek.

Seriously, we’ve got some great tracks and a few appearances by DJ’s from last month’s New Media Expo in Las Vegas, not to mention two artists have blood and sun in their names; what are the chances, and could that be an ominous sign? Enjoy and as usual, please help support all the hard-working artists below.

TRT - 50:38
Not work safe!

Countdown
*Ugress: Decepticons (intro clip)
10) Sun Like Blood: The Fury
9) The Truegoods: Revel the Rebel
8 ) Hot Bitch Arsenal: Fade In, Fade Out
7) Still Time: Stream of Consciousness
6) Lowry: Roads
5) Dawn Chorus: I’m Cured!
4) Deastro: Michael, The Lone Archer of the North Shore
3) Lejeune: Replaced by Robots
2) Sentinel: Skylark
1) Blood Red Sun: So It Goes
0) Pro Audio: FU Robot

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Mentions
Gamesareevil.com
Dave’s Lounge
Most People Are DJ’s
Association of Music Podcasting
Soundbed: Wyatt Gurp, 8 bit bEtty
Robot Attack! image by Dan Coulter (adapted under CC license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic)

IR: The Winter Sounds - Drive to Athens

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:43:39 +0000

We recently received a message from one of our favorite bands here at Insomnia. Patrick Keenan of The Winter Sounds wanted to proudly share one of the new tracks they just recorded over at Cacophony Recorders in Austin, and rightly so. Pinebox is the name of this beautiful new track and is now being released on a 3 song EP before the band makes it way to Athens in October and November to start afresh on their next full length album.

The band would really appreciate any donations or EP purchases to help them make this goal, so they can rightly sink their heart and soul into the creation of the next full length we are all eagerly anticipating.

Purchase links and donation information is location at their website: thewintersounds.com

Tracks

Sound Forged Like Spine
Pinebox
Trophy Wife (demo)

Poetry (Winter: A Dirge by Robert Burns)

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Insomnia Radio rejoins AMP

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:14:22 +0000

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 your perusal.

What is AMP?

AMP is a group of music podcasters who wish to promote and support this great medium. All members of AMP have regular podcasts that have been judged by their peers to maintain a high standard of quality.

AMP works with music podcasters to set and maintain high standards and independent artists who provide podsafe music to the public through Creative Commons copyright licensing.

The association also supports listeners by offering a list of quality, creative podcasts and produces a digest podcast (AMPed) featuring the very best music offered by individual programs that week.

AMP Links

A Note From the creator of Insomnia Radio…

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:59:15 +0000

Well hey gang. It’s been forever. I trust you’re all still getting your dose of killer independent music as Charles, Stuart & crew are doing an amazing job here at IR. Me? I’ve started quite literally an entirely new life, new home, new careers. (yes, plural…you know me!)

The past few weeks have led to the culmination of a new network that just launched today: www.gamesareevil.com, which houses an international staff led by myself and Phil Coyne, who you may remember from Bitjobs and the original IR:UK, as well as Rob LeFebvre who handled design on the 4-issue KillYourFM Magazine. I know there are some passionate gamers in the house, and this message is for you…

I know what you’re thinking: “ANOTHER video game website?” The short answer: Yep!

The long answer goes something like this: The entire staff at GamesAreEvil HQ is on a mission to deliver honest, relevant, and fun videogame journalism. Sounds a bit cliche, right? Then let’s turn things upside down and get into the nitty gritty.

We’re tired of linkbait-ridden websites forcing unconfirmed rumors down our throats three times daily. No more noise!
We don’t plan on following the rules.
No fanboys here: We go where the quality games are.
We believe your time is valuable, and so is ours. If a game isn’t worth your time, chances are you’ll rarely see us write about it.
No ratings systems, no numbers, no stars. In our warped and geeky minds, a game is either worth renting, worth buying, or not worth your time, and we’ll give you our informed decision without bias.
We believe that gaming, AND gaming journalism, is ALL about community. There are no one-sided conversations here. Tell us what’s on your mind, and you’ll see us spring into action.
For now and into the near future, whatever titles we cover, you can bet we’ve plunked down hard earned cash for them. This is a passionate bunch, and we’re here to stay.
We like the independents of the gaming world, too…

So head over, subscribe to the RSS Feed, and pat yourself on the back for being there.

Thanks for continuing to enjoy Insomnia Radio!

Game on;

Jason Evangelho

The Best Music You’ve Never Heard: V5

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:00:55 +0000

Enjoy the fifth volume of Scott Tinetti’s The Best Music You’ve Never Heard.

As always, if you like what you hear, buy a song, buy an album, send the musicians some love.

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Mixtape: Shoreline Sirens [Side B]

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:00:28 +0000

So you are done with Side A, no? If not, you’ve stumbled across the second side of our mixtape set tipping a hat toward the Siren Music Festival presented annually at Coney Island, NY by the Village Voice.

The image here was provided by NY photographer Josh Kuckens and is of the successful Toronto band on the Arts & Crafts label, Broken Social Scene. For a full size version of this image and for more pictures of the event, please go here.

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SHORELINE SIRENS MIXTAPE [SIDE B]
11) Broken Social Scene - Swimmers
12) The Dodos - The Ball
13) Ra Ra Riot - Each Year
14) Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies
15) These are Powers - Chipping Ice
16) Film School - Like You Know
17) Annuals - Nice Day
18) The Helio Sequence - Can’t Say No
19) Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Cold Son
20) Lo-Fi Encore: Times New Viking - Drop-Out

Mixtape: Shoreline Sirens [Side A]

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:50 +0000

On July 19, 2008 an incredible selection of musical talent assembled under the shadow of the famed eighty-one year old Cyclone rollercoaster at the storied community of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.

This mixtape is a salute to the Siren Music Festival put on by the Village Voice, a free all day/all ages music celebration that got its start in 2001 as a way to help revitalize this historic community and celebrate the Voice’s coverage of local & national music.

We’ve graciously had one of the photographers at the event, Josh Kuckens, offer up a few images to be posted here, this specific image being “Film School”, an artist from both San Francisco & Los Angeles.

Make sure to check out the rest of his photos, including a full sized version of this one, here. Also you can check out side B of this mixtape over in our festival comp. section.

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SHORELINE SIRENS MIXTAPE [SIDE A]
1) Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Baltimore
2) The Dodos - Fools
3) Islands - Rough Gem
4) Beach House - Master of None
5) Film School - Activate
6) Jaguar Love - Bats Over the Pacific Ocean
7) Parts & Labor - Endless Air Show
8 ) Dragons of Zynth - Who Rize Above
9) The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
10) Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye’d Boy
11) Ra Ra Riot - Dying is Fine

Insomnia Radio #158: The Coffee Break

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:02:49 +0000

Today we bring you what they call in your country, ‘The Coffee Break’. Its a nice assortment of different sound selections starting off a heavier note and gradually ending at a light-hearted party somewhere in Spain, straight out of something that belongs on the 80’s Something Wild Soundtrack.

As usual we are all over the regional board although mostly in the US this time around. We take you from Texas (Austin, Dallas), California (Half Moon Bay, San Francisco, Long Beach, Irvine), Washington (Seattle), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Minnesota (Minneapolis), and of course Spain (Valencia).

Enjoy, and don’t forget to grab an extra cup on your way through!

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ARTISTS

Basic: Favorite Movie
Moving Atlas: Travel On | itunes | mp3
The Dust: Pretty and Confused | snocap
Joshua Lanes: Theft on the Floor | itunes | cdbaby
Stuporhero: Superball | emusic | free album
Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer: Plays Pretty for Baby (feat. Anthony Green) | emusic | mp3
Sick of Sarah: Common Mistake | emusic | mp3
Bag of Toys: Rollin’ | itunes | emusic | cdbaby
Faded Paper Figures: B Film | cdbaby | mp3
Cof Cof: Carribean Boy | mp3

SPECIAL THANKS
MLC PR
IODA Promonet
Flickr Image Credit: chispita_666
It Came From the Liquor Cabinet
Soundbed: Isles (Great Electronica/Trip-Hop out of Iowa!)
Daily Dose Extras: Joshua Lanes, Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer, Sick of Sarah, Bag of Toys

Insomnia Radio #157: Rappers Ball

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:15:06 +0000

Following up on the first all hip-hop episode here at Insomnia Radio back at the end of 2006 (#103 - He’s Playing WHAT???), we eagerly bring you sixteen high quality tracks from a wide selection of regional artists, including repeat performances from NYC’s Metermaids & Atlanta’s Psyche Origami.

We are also honored by a special guest appearance at the head of the show by The Iceberg himself, straight out of Inglewood, CA.

(Definitely NOT work/kid safe)

Original Photo by Mikey G Ottawa

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1) Black Ice - Chevy ‘64 (feat. Feddie DeMarco & Tash) | itunes
2) People Under the Stairs - Tuxedo Rap | e-music
3) Blue Scholars - Joe Metro | e-music
4) Blockhead - Duke of Hazzard | amazon
5) Grand Analog - Around This Town | e-music
6) Psyche Origami - Directions | itunes
7) Nine:Fifteen - Spilt Milk | e-music
8 ) Metermaids - Turn it Up (feat. Camp Lo) | e-music
9) Pic Vicious - Systematik
10) Pigeon John - Growin’ Old | e-music
11) Giant Panda - Speakers Pop | e-music
12) Junk Science - Do It Easy | e-music
13) Blueprint - Boombox | e-music
14) Shane Hunter - Stack of Bibles | itunes
15) The Saturday Knights - Dog Park | itunes
16) Mr. J. Medeiros - Constance | itunes

SHOUT-OUTS
Griffen @ Unlabeled Records
Radio BSOTS
MC Jason E.
Spita (IR: Baltimore Theme Song)
Win Ice-T’s iPod Touch!
Soundbed: Kou Chou Ching, Hostyll, Hip-Hop for Kids [Vol 1/2]

Mixtape: Insomnia is Warped ‘08 [Bonus Tracks]

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:00:07 +0000

Since I had such a great time researching specific tracks of groups performing at Warped, I thought we’d throw an extra tape together highlighting another eighteen artists performing at the festival this year.

Enjoy the overkill, and most importantly, crank it up!!

(Original Image by KanepsPhoto)

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INSOMNIA IS WARPED ‘08 MIXTAPE [BONUS CUP]
35) The Pinker Tones - Love Tape (Mash Up)
36) Every Avenue - Days of the Old
37) Mayday Parade - Jamie All Over
38) The Secret Handshake - Too Young
39) Greeley Estates - Through Waiting
40) Street Dogs - Two Angry Kids
41) The Vandals - Pizza Tran
42) Chaser - Sickness
43) Protest the Hero - Heretics & Killers
44) mc chris - nrrrd grrrl
45) Story of the Year - Wake Up
46) Entice - All I Ever Needed
47) Cinematic Sunrise - The Wordless
48) Chiodos - Baby, You Wouldn’t Last a Minute on the Creek
49) Farewell - Stay Pretty
50) Brave Citizens - The Same Way
51) The Gaslight Anthem - 1930
52) Reel Big Fish - Party Down

Mixtape: Insomnia is Warped ‘08 [Side B]

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:00:56 +0000

Please enjoy the second part of our Insomnia is Warped Mixtape ‘08 series, released a day after the Warped Tour opener. Apparently the festival debuted in oppressive triple digit temperatures in Pomona, CA - but the heat couldn’t do much to keep the swarming ravenous crowds at bay.

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INSOMNIA IS WARPED ‘08 MIXTAPE [SIDE B]
18) Pennywise - Living for Today
19) All That Remains - This Calling
20) Blase Debris - Jersey Devil
21) Sick City Daggers - Zombies
22) Revolution Mother - Come On
23) Gym Class Heroes - Taxi Driver
24) Set Your Goals - Echoes (acoustic)
25) The Randies - Boys in Stereo
26) The Maine - The Way We Talk
27) A Day to Remember - A Second Glance
28) The A.K.A.s - Every Great Western
29) The Color Fred - If I Surrender
30) Dodger - Dog Soldiers
31) Mo Bigsley - Randalls Candle
32) The Lordz - Outlaw (feat. Tim Armstrong)
33) The Aggrolites - Free Time
34) Phathom - Culling Song

Mixtape: Insomnia is Warped ‘08 [Side A]

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:03:01 +0000

The 2008 Warped Tour engine fires up today in Pomona, California (US) and the musicians invited will spend the majority of the summer nomadically performing across the country, storming toward the East Coast and then making their way back to Carson, CA for a grand finale in mid-August.

I’ve done my best to filter out the most breathy angst, gutteral Middle Earth screaming drowning out skillful instrumentation, excessive voice modulation, and tearful weeping hearts.

What’s left are around fifty of the stronger tracks from a more well balanced range of music that I could locate, spread across three mixtapes - the first of which you can listen to here. You’ll find that some artists in this compilation are playing the entire tour, while a few have been chosen to play select dates.

Please enjoy and check out the rest of this series in our festival mixtape section, right on the heels of this hourlong driverless ride. Muahaha!

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INSOMNIA IS WARPED MIXTAPE ‘08 [SIDE A]
1) Four Year Strong - Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die
2) Horrorpops - Where They Wander
3) The Academy Is… - Checkmarks
4) Saint Alvia - Don’t Wanna Wait Forever
5) A Cursive Memory - Everything
6) The Human Abstract - Crossing the Rubicon
7) Edreys - No Joke
8 ) The Dollyrots - Kick Me to the Curb
9) Patent Pending - Cheer Up Emo Kid
10) GBH - Sickboy
11) Evergreen Terrace - New Friend Request
12) Love Equals Death - Pray for Me
13) Your Highness Electric - Handing Out Hairlips
14) Alamance - Waiting on You
15) Letters Burning - Kings and Queens
16) Anarbor - Beat of the Drum
17) Bouncing Souls - Lean on Sheena

Insomnia Radio #156: Blackbelt

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:43:28 +0000

After Stuart’s 45 minute in-flight entertainment programming, our plane touches down in the Far East… well… far enough east - New Jersey. We begin our journey diving fist first into the action with Union City multi-instrumentalist, Thirst for Hunger.

You’ll find that today’s episode has quite a bit of an obvious martial arts flair, and it takes us to some unrelated locations like Ireland, Canada, and throughout the States. We ultimately end up on the West Coast in Santa Barbara, CA, where we close out on a mellow meditative note with up-and-coming singer/songwriter Crosby Loggins.

We hope you enjoy the exclusives, classic Kung Fu/Ninjitsu dialogue, and a full hour long ride through a theatrically charged show featuring some of the best music being released worldwide, as well as the corniest cinematic dialogue we could get our hands on. Enjoy, and as always, please support the artists within.

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FAMILIES / CLANS / SECTS / CULTS
NXNE
MLC PR
Matisyahu / David Kahne / Sly & Robbie
Wookiefoot Charities!
Kenny Loggins (Wiki)
Cloud Cult (IR Photos ‘08)
Nico Stai (IR Photos @ Roxy 6/7/08)
Paper Thin Walls (News)

IR: 155 - Taking Flight

jason@insomniaradio.net (The Insomnia Radio Team) — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:20:35 +0000

Following on from Charles’ successful marine adventure last Episode 154 of Insomnia Radio, this time we take to the air for a short flight, the duration of which will be around 45 minutes, and during which the In Flight Entertainment will be some of The Best Music You’ve Never heard. So please make sure that your seat back is in the upright position, and your seatbelt is fastened.

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What’s in this episode

The Handcuffs - Jet Baby

Oranger - A View of the City From an Airplane

Nine Inch Nails - Lights in the Sky

Ghosts of California - Airplane Window

Shawn Harris - Don’t You Know

VIR - I Get It

Low of the Low - Stone Survivor

The Camaro Brothers - Black Camaro

Corey TuT - Everything

Music Bed: Inspired Funk - A Brand New Dub

Be sure to click on “Read the story »” for detailed show notes and links

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Song List and Links:

Chicago, IL	The Handcuffs	Jet Baby
	Album: Model for a Revolution (2008)
	Buy: thehandcuffs.com
	Links: Myspace \| thehandcuffs.com

San Francisco, CA	Oranger	A View of the City From an Airplane
	Album: The Quiet Vibrationland (2000)
	Buy: MySpace/PayPal
	Links: Myspace \| oranger.net

Los Angeles, CA	Nine Inch Nails	Lights in the Sky
	Album: The Slip (2008)
	Buy: No!
	Links: Myspace \| nin.com \| Download Album Free

San Francisco & Sacramento, CA	Ghosts of California	Airplane Window
	Album: Are You Alive (2006)
	Buy: MySpace/Google Checkout
	Links: Myspace

Apopka, Fl	Shawn Harris	Don’t You Know
	Album: Temptation (2007)
	Buy: temptationcd.com
	Links: Myspace \| temptationcd.com

San Francisco, CA	VIR	I Get It
	Album: Shadow of a Mountain (2008)
	Buy: Album out 12 June
	Links: Myspace \| thevir.com

Chicago, IL	Low of the Low	Stone Survivor
	Album: Land of Lincoln (2008)
	Buy: Album out 5 September
	Links: Myspace \| lowofthelow.com - coming soon

Detroit, Mi	The Camaro Brothers	Black Camaro
	Album: Freedomland (2007)
	Buy: CD Baby
	Links: Myspace \| camarobrothers.com - coming soon

New York, NY	Corey TuT	Everything
	Album: Everything (2008)
	Buy: iTunes
	Links: Myspace \| coreytut.com


Woking, UK	Inspired Funk	A Brand New Dub
	Album: Living in Awe (2008)
	Buy:
	Links: Myspace \| toonznstuff.com - coming soon