Yes, I know it has been a long absence, and I’m sure you thought I was gone for good but I’m not! I plan to start releasing some content again, most likely in smaller doses so that I produce them more frequently, so stay tuned for more local content soon…

That being said, I have a special presentation for this episode of Insomnia Radio Orlando. This is your opportunity to hear a brand new album from one of my favorite podcasters, George Hrab. George is an independent musician based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and he’ll be performing in Orlando on July 17 at Nerdapalooza, so there IS a local tie-in here.

George combines his considerable intelligence and humor with his abilities as a musician, singer, and songwriter on his sixth album, “Trebuchet.” George has generously offered up the entire album to his fellow podcasters for a listening party. If you like it, please support him by purchasing a copy. You can get your very own digital copy on iTunes or at CD Baby, or better yet, if you buy an actual physical CD, you’ll also get the 20-page booklet AND a chance at being the lucky recipient of The Golden Ticket, which entitles you to a live personal performance from Geo himself.

George is also a skeptic and atheist, and if you’d like to hear more from him, check out his Geologic Podcast – it’s one of my favorites. He has also made recent appearances on a couple of my other favorite podcasts, Skepticality and as a Guest Rogue on an upcoming episode of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe.

You can also get his book, Non-Coloring Book here, or find out more about his music at Geologic Records.

If you have never heard George’s music before, this is a great chance to check out the album, then show your support by purchasing it. My own copy is on the way.

George Hrab “Trebuchet”
featuring Phil Plait, Peter Gregson, Slau, and The Skeptical Shoe Horns.
Tracks:
1. God is Not Great
2. Everything Alive Will Die Someday
3. Ms.Information
4. Fifty Stories
5. FAR
6. Remora
7. Sviatoslav Lobster
8. When I Was Your Age
9. Trebuchet
10. Atlanta
11. Death From The Skies
12. Never Knew
13. Hai Yookito ‘Ya
14. Where Have You Been?
15. One Hypnopompic Jerk
16. Small Comfort
17. Happy Birthday Baby

available at cdbaby.com/hrab6 and iTunes

all songs © 2010 Geologic Records / You Call That Music

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It’s almost Halloween, and that means it’s time for Insomnia Radio Horrorlando! This year’s installment is a mixtape of some favorites from the last three years’ worth of Halloween episodes. Enjoy!

1. Peach Stealing Monkeys “Monster”
2. The Threshold People “Radio Zombi”
3. Jonathan Coulton “Re: Your Brains”
4. Get Three Coffins Ready “The Cemetery”
5. Last Call Brawlers “Los Muertos Rock”
6. The Green Goblyn Project “Devilskin Suitcase”
7. Derek Lyn Plastic “Walk the Dead”
8. Hex Tremors “Jezabel”
9. Rocket 88 “Mission Control”
10. The Obscene “Ultraviolent”
11. Johnny O & the Jerks “Zombie Love Affair”
12. The Young Werewolves “Black Cat”
13. Koko Taylor “Voodoo Woman”
14. Voodoo Hodown “Voodoo Dance”
15. Lords of Altamont “Gods and Monsters”
16. Black Furies “Murder City Shakedown”
17. Calabrese “Zombie I”
18. The Coffinshakers “Halloween (remix)”
19. The Gremmies “That Voodoo Moon”
20. The Memphis Murder Men “In the Dead of Night”
21. Lugosi’s Morphine “Graves”

Some of the music for this show was provided  by Mevio’s Music Alley.

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This episode will give you a taste of the Orange You Glad music festival, which will be hitting Orlando from May 14 – 17. The festival will feature lots of local bands, along with some terrific not-so-local bands. There are five venues: Will’s Pub, Stardust, Redlight Redlight, Peacock Room, and Uncle Lou’s (and several in-store performances at Park Avenue CDs).

Orange You Glad poster

1.) Modern Skirts (Athens, GA) | “Soft Pedals” | BUY
2.) Slow Claw (Cincinnati, OH) | “Miss Lady Lately” | BUY
3.) Bombadil (Durham, North Carolina) | “Honeymoon” | BUY (previous album–new one comes out 7/09)
4.) Keith Michaud (Lake Worth, FL) | “Wildflowers” | article
5.) Matt Butcher (Orlando, FL) | “A Famous Country Singer” | BUY (iTunes)
6.) The Dark Romantics (Lakeland, FL) | “Hush Your Mouth” | BUY (Rhapsody)
7.) XOXO (Orlando, FL) | “Done and Done” | BUY
8.) Moor hound (Orlando, FL) | “Mule Songs”
9.) Thomas Wynn and the Believers (Orlando, FL) | “Long White Dress” | BUY (iTunes) | article
10.) Lauris Vidal (Deland, FL) | “Freed (Wonderland Theme)” | BUY
11.) Hannah and the Halfway House (Orlando, FL) | “You’re a Mess in a Dress”
12.) Kingsbury (Orlando, FL) | “Back in the Orange Grove” | DOWNLOAD
13.) The Belltowers (Orlando, FL) | “Tomorrow Will Remain”
14.) Only Thieves (Tallahassee, FL) | “Hammered for the Holidays” | BUY

The schedule at the time of our posting is as follows, but please check the festival’s website and/or the artists’ websites or MySpace pages for the most up-to-date information:

THURSDAY, MAY 14
(KICK-OFF PARTY)
VENUE: Will’s Pub (18+) @ 8 PM
MODERN SKIRTS | The Pauses | Viernes | DJ Adam S

FRIDAY, MAY 15

VENUE: Stardust (All Ages) @ 9 PM
ANDY MATCHETT | Jason Choi | Joshua Nye | Hannah & The Halfway House | James Dreffen

VENUE: Redlight Redlight (18+) @ 9 PM
THE DARK ROMANTICS | The New Lows | The Still Voice

VENUE: Will’s Pub (18+) @ 9 PM
BOMBADIL | An Intro To Sunshine | Rachel Goodrich | Lauris Vidal | Roberto Aguilar

VENUE: Peacock Room (21+) @ 9 PM
POST RECORDS: Watch Me Disappear | Liquid Limbs | Happy Valley | Kingsbury

Uncle Lou’s (18+) @ 9 PM
SPIRIT BOMB | Only Thieves | Lighthouse Music | Reptile Theater

SATURDAY, MAY 16

VENUE: Stardust (All Ages) @ 4 PM
MR. TRANSYLVANIA | Dark Sea of Awareness | Tele V. Cheeseburger | Pandora’s Talk Box

VENUE: Uncle Lou’s (All Ages) @ 8 PM
THE NEW THREAT | Big City Bombers | Murdock | MachineGunHaircut | BTH

VENUE: Redlight Redlight (18+) @ 9 PM
HISTORY | Hurrah | Northvia | DJ Adam S

VENUE: Will’s Pub (18+) @ 9 PM
TIM EASTON | Great Deceivers | Thomas & Olivia Wynn | Matt Butcher

VENUE: Peacock Room (21+) @ 9 PM
SLOW CLAW | XOXO | Dangerous Animals

SUNDAY, MAY 17

VENUE: Redlight Redlight (18+) @ 4 PM
RICHARD SHERFEY |Mike Dunn | Keith Michaud | Damion Suomi | TJ Young (Comedian)

VENUE: Stardust (All Ages) @ 4 PM
THE DEFILERS | Ariel Bui | Emma Jean Branch | Fireflies | Moor Hound

VENUE: Peacock Room (21+) @ 9 PM
STRANGERS FAMILY BAND | The Belltowers | The Empyres

VENUE: Uncle Lou’s (18+) @ 9 PM
KHANN | Overdale | Time To Die

VENUE: Will’s Pub (18+) @ 9 PM
ASTRONAUTALIS | Bleubird | Cracker Jackson

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Trick or treat? It’s time once again for our annual Halloween show!

1. Electromagnetic Impulses | Werewolves
2. Black Furies | Murder City Shakedown
3. Calabrese | Zombie I
4. Johnny O & The Jerks | Zombie Love Affair
5. Get Three Coffins Ready | The Gallows
6. Koko Taylor | Voodoo Woman (on Alligator Records)
7. Lords of Altamont | Gods and Monsters
8. Peach Stealing Monkeys | Monster
9. Red Eye Revival | Blues for a Dead Age
10. Blase DeBris | Jersey Devil
11. The Coffinshakers | Halloween (Remix)
12. The Gremmies | That Voodoo Moon
13. The Memphis Murder Men | In the Dead of Night
14. The Quintessentials | Bloodlust
15. The Young Werewolves | Black Cat
16. The Volume Brothers | There Are Zombies on My Lawn (Again)
17. Tom Smith | Zombie Pirates in Love

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Hey everybody, it’s been way too long… I apologize that the show has not even been quarterly, let alone monthly this year. It’s been a very busy time, but I hope you will hang in there with me, and be as pleased as I am to hear some of this fantastic music coming out of the Orlando scene and beyond. I intend to keep bringing you best music I can get my hands on, and I hope you will stick with me for more shows in the future. Having said that, this is a landmark episode: #25! Let’s celebrate in the best fashion I can think of – by listening to great music by great artists.

The Lonely Heroes. Photo by Jordan Smith

1. The Lonely Heroes | Not Caring | BUY
2. The Stone Circles | Pick It Up
3. The Sugar Oaks | Girl on Girl | BUY
4. Moss Bluff | Elegant | BUY
5. Food Will Win the War | Take You | BUY (search “food will win the war”)
6. Timothy Simpson | Love Song | BUY
7. Jason Choi and the Sea | Leave the Night Behind | BUY
8. Strangers Family Band | High Low
9. Marion Crane | Illegitimate
10. Union Made | Good Brew Flowin’ (free download)

Shout outs:
Stuart at IR:UK
Charles at IR:So Cal

The Sugar Oaks

Union Made with that good brew flowin

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After a fairly long absence, IR Orlando is back! This episode will give you a taste of some great bands who will be playing in the upcoming Florida Music Festival next weekend (May 15, 16, and 17). Please check the festival website for dates, times, and location information for the many music showcases, and get out and support your local scene!

FLORIDA MUSIC FESTIVAL

1. Dish | Cold Is | BUY (debut EP)

2. The Queues | And I Never Knew Her

3. Trés Bien | Easy to Love Me | STORE

4. Pop Suicide | I’m So Indie

5. Ambertone | My Disaster

6. Empyrean | Gods & Idols

7. Clock Hands Strangle | The Soul of the Universe | BUY (new album)

8. The Oaks | Masood | BUY

9. Lonely Heroes | Perfect Day

10. Mike Dunn & the Kings of New England | The Queen | MySpace | BUY | iTunes

11. Derek Stroker | Lose Control | MySpace | iTunes

12. Fairweather Friend | See This Through | BUY

13. Strangers | Hey Hey Spacemen

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Hey gang, we’re back for the final episode of 2007. I hope you’ve enjoyed the great music coming out of Florida in the past year, and I hope you’re as excited as I am about more great music in 2008. Happy holidays!

1. Timothy Simpson | Oceans (Lakeland, FL)
2. Timothy Simpson | The New Year
This is a new song from IR Orlando favorite Timothy Simpson. He has a bunch of new Snocap tracks on his MySpace page, available for purchase! Some exciting developments in the works for Timothy: he’s been told by his management company that 3 labels are negotiating to sign him. He also recently mentioned in a MySpace bulletin that he will be “playing a music festival in Austin, Texas in a few months” so keep an eye out for more details on that!
For more info about Timothy Simpson, check out this recent article.

3. Signo Nata | Levantate (Orlando, FL)
Signo Nata on MySpace
Their band name was derived from Latin and means “Birth Sign.” Their sound is a melting pot of musical characteristics from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s mixed with a dash of alternative rock in Spanish. Although they are bilingual (English/Spanish), most of their songs are in Spanish as a tribute to their cultural upbringing.

4. Rocket 88 | Supersonic Satellite (Orlando, FL)
Rocket 88 on MySpace
Catch Rocket 88 in Orlando at the Peacock Room on December 21 or at the Downtown Arts Center on December 28. If you can stand still at a Rocket 88 show, you can’t possibly have a pulse!

5. Christian Summer | Take Me Home (Deland, FL)
Christian has a solid following in the Central Florida area and recently played at the Anti-Pop Music Festival here in Orlando. You can download a bunch of his songs from his website. This one, “Take Me Home” is from his debut 2007 release “this is my music”
You can also buy his songs here for a mere 27¢ or the whole album for $3.

6. The OaKs | Masood (Orlando, FL)
The OaKs, another IR Orlando favorite, have spent the last few months in the studio, recording their 2nd album. This is the first single to emerge from those sessions. You can download it now at their MySpace page. The new album, “Songs For Waiting” will be released on March 4, 2008, but in the meantime, you can see them play on Saturday, January 5, 2008 at the Social (with S.K.I.P. and Kingsbury). They’ve also said that if you bring 3 friends to the show and introduce your friends to the band, you’ll receive a free copy of “Our Fathers and the Things They Left Behind” as a thank you from the band.
The band has also recently announced that they’ll be playing SXSW 2008, so look for them to play some tour dates on their way from Orlando to Austin.

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INSOMNIA RADIO: ORLANDO 22
Release date:10/24/2007

It’s that time of year again… time for Insomnia Radio HORRORLANDO 2! This time we have an enormous crop of scary music – from Orlando to as far away as New Zealand. We’ll also revisit a couple of favorites from last year. So sit back, turn down the lights and for God’s sake, LOCK THE DOOR!

01) The Threshold People (Massachusetts) | Radio Zombi | FREE DOWNLOAD

02) Lugosi’s Morphine (Scranton, PA) | Graves | MySpace

03) Lugosi’s Morphine | The Year Without a Halloween

04) NoCtUrNaL fReAkShOw (Auckland, NZ) | Tentacles

05) When the Dead Walk (Ft. Pierce, FL) | Blade’s Theme | FREE DOWNLOAD

06) When the Dead Walk | Blues for a Dead Age | FREE DOWNLOAD

07) HCA (Florida) | Halloween Comes Again | BUY

08) Graveyard Tramps movie trailer

09) Bloc Party (UK) | Hunting for Witches (Fury 666 remix) |
Podsafe Music Network

10) Scum of the Earth (Los Angeles, CA) | Get Your Dead On | eMusic

11) Digi Hartatak featuring J-Me (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) | Queen of the Cemetery | FREE DOWNLOAD

12) Vampire Playgirls movie trailer

13) Rocket 88 (Orlando, FL) | Mission Control | BUY

14) Mississippi Mudsharks (San Diego, CA) | Hangin’ Tree | iTunes | eMusic

15) Get Three Coffins Ready (Colorado) | The Cemetary | Podsafe Music Network

16) Koma Katz (Brighton, South, UK) | Beastman Boogie | FREE DOWNLOAD

17) The Deformities (Omaha, Nebraska) | Creature Feature Show | MySpace

18) The Deformities | Zombie Twist | Podsafe Music Network

19) The Last Call Brawlers (Arizona) | Los Muertos Rock | BUY

20) Dr. Jeckyl and Sister Hyde movie trailer

21) Jonathan Coulton (NY, NY) | Re: Your Brains | BUY

22) Stephen Lynch(NY, NY) | Halloween | eMusic | Download Punk

23) The Threshold People | KROK calling

Things to dig up:

Interview with The Threshold People

What Are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse?

Podsafe Music Network

Calling All Fiends | FREE DOWNLOAD

Movie trailer sound bytes

IR: So Cal

IR: New Zealand

IR: Baltimore

Music Bed: Ephyu Ayhole | Earth

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The forecast for episode 21 is slightly mellow for the most part with a touchy of twanginess…

1. Food Will Win The War | Amassed Complications
Their CD, “Dark Mono 3,” is available for purchase at their MySpace page.
Food Will Win the War is based in New York City but is fronted by ex-Central Floridian Rob Ward.

2. The Sugar Oaks | Los Rebeldes
MySpace
As deeply rooted in the Florida soil as their namesake, The Sugar Oaks’ 5-song EP, “Red Grapes in the City,” is available now on iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, Sony Connect, and Digstation.

3. Terri Binion | Gayleanne (from the 2002 album “Fool” on Richter Records)
Terri has been writing and performing music for many years. You can often catch Terri Binion and the Bible Belt Orphans performing in the Orlando area. She also composed the score for the recent documentary “When Pigs Fly,” which has been making a big splash on the film festival circuit. High demand for the film here in Orlando resulted in a special encore screening and it was the buzz of The Florida Film Festival last spring. More on the film here.
From her MySpace page:
“‘Gayleanne’: Featuring Lucinda Williams, this is the song about a woman I met in Nashville married to an overbearing soul and so very tied to her dream of reaching stardom in a city brimming over with everyone else’s songs.”
BUY: Amazon, iTunes.

4. Go Van Gogh | The Clay We Mold Is New
This Panama City-based solo artist states on his MySpace bio that The Smashing Pumpkins, one of my all-time favorites, made him want to play music.

5. Cinwaves | Sophia
Deerfield Beach duo Cinwaves has released their debut CD. You can purchase Snocap tracks directly from their MySpace page for only 65 cents per song.

6. Shocking Edison | Paranormal Zoo
MySpace
“Scientific Curiosity,” the debut 16 song CD from ProFound Records
Shocking Edison hails from Fort Myers, Florida, the same town that the Thomas Edison had his winter home and laboratory.

7. mini-IR Baltimore: The Thrives | Fall Right Down
Harrisburg, PA
Thanks to Tim and Don for providing this mini-episode of IR Baltimore, featuring The Thrives.

8. Mumpsy | 64 Colors
(from “3 People” on Post*Records)
Long-standing IR Orlando favorite Mumpsy was recently voted 3rd place in the “Best Rock/ Pop Act” category and voted 2nd place in the “Best Indie Rock Act” category of the Orlando Weekly!

9. Recliner NZ | Ugly
Not to be confused with the San Francisco-based band of the same name, this Recliner hails from Auckland, New Zealand. They formed in 2004 and their debut album “Rest Room” was released in New Zealand in 2006 to glowing reviews.
As a result of some very enthusiastic reviews from GarageBand.com members, “Ugly” was Track of the Day at GarageBand.com. For 24 hours on Saturday, the 1st of September, 2007 “Ugly” it was featured on GarageBand.com’s Alternative Pop front page.

SHOUTS:
IR: So Cal Sessions
IR: Chicago
IODA Promonet

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This Point Blank episode of Insomnia Radio Orlando focuses on Lakeland’s SemiSoul.

SemiSoul takes a healthy dose of funk and hip hop, mixes in a dash of reggae and blues, and seasons it with jazz and rock to produce a unique blend of organic hip hop with a funk core.

They are in the studio, working on their first full-length release, due later this year. In the meantime, they have a 3-track CD available and will soon be releasing a DVD of a couple of music videos.

SemiSoul plays The Social in Orlando this Thursday, August 23, so if you are in the Central Florida area, please go check them out and let ’em know you heard them here!

Songs:
‘Anthem’
‘Charlie’s Untitled’

Band members:
Phillip Cannoy-Drums
Shayne Campbell-Bass
Neil Wicker-Guitar
Charlie Wells-Guitar
Walt Cannoy-Trumpet
T.J. Alcock-Baritone
Marley-Vocals
Erica Ayala-Vocals
Eneix Frankenburger-Percussion

SemiSoul online:
www.semisoul.com
www.myspace.com/semisoul

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