Live & Acoustic – Insomnia Radio: Indie Music Network

Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon, about half of the Portland group The Ascetic Junkies will be on a ambitious Summer tour over the next month or two, starting off June 8th in California, then heading to Idaho, and Washington before heading back to some shows in Portland with the full band. While on their West Coast Tour they are open to the idea of house concerts, playing at other venues, crashing at your pad, and of course accepting support to help fill their Corolla’s gas tank. Today’s feature just released on their YouTube channel, and we’ve provided an embedded link to the video here. Its the Acoustic Duo Basement version of Windows Sell the House which you can find the studio version of on their 2008 release, One Shoe Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In other news, the group is currently working on their fourth album, which will follow This Cage Has No Bottom. Also, in March they were one of many featured artists on the free digital compilation sampler Ides of March. Make sure to grab a copy, and enjoy… WEBSITE | BANDCAMP | FACEBOOK | TWITTER [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-theasceticjunkies-windowssellthehouse.mp3] Download Windows Sell the House [Acoustic Duo Basement Version] Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic Performance under Creative Commons Attribution license.

Our musical crosshairs set themselves on Columbus, Ohio this psychedelic weekend, with an explosive set of blues flavored rock from trio Mount Carmel. The group has released a new album on Siltbreeze called Real Women, a great soundtrack as you spin donuts, jump bridges, and dodge explosions in your ’76 Trans Am. In 2010, a few months after their appearance at SXSW, and on the way out of Philly during their first East Coast tour, the band dropped by the studios of WFMU and played a twenty minute set on Brian Turner’s Show, 6/15/10. Check out and download all five track listings at the link below. They are really something else. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | SOUNDCLOUD | WFMU 2010 SHOW [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-mountcarmel-swaggs.mp3] Download Swagg’s & Elliot [live in studio] Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic Live at WFMU on Brian Turner’s Show, 6/15/10 by Mount Carmel is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Today we are featuring a new stripped down interpretation of a slightly older track from Los Angeles singer-songwriter Nico Stai, a favorite musician of mine here on our network, who has had repeat visits in the past few years. Every now and then you when you visit a live show, the bar chatter slightly drowns out a musician, not letting up as the music plays on. Often, when visiting one of Nico’s solo shows the room tends to be tamed as soon as he starts pouring his soul through the stage speakers, while his guitar-work is perfectly punctuated with his haunting yet very relatable lyrics. Here’s another one of those songs from Nico Stai, an acoustic live track called ‘Skies Over Your Head’, released a few short weeks back on October 10th. Stayed tuned for a new full length, coming in the very near future. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | BANDCAMP | TWITTER [audio:http://insomniaradio.net/audio/irl-nicostai-skiesoveryourhead.mp3] Download Skies Over Your Head [live acoustic] Subscribe to IR: Live & Acoustic