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What was happening during Franz Ferdinand's five year hiatus that preceded the release of their brand new LP Always Ascending? The most important…

Alela Diane is one of those American folk authors who was slowly and non-intrusively building her spot in the music world. She self-released her debut…

  Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. This could be said about Foy Vance, an Irish author who was supporting act for many superstars (Elton…

Authors of the songs used in TV shows are often less known than those songs are. When we connect the artist with the song, it happens that we don’t…

The first moment you encounter the music of Coti K.,“The Man From Managra”, a Greek guy form the Island of Tinos, you would be hard pressed to say…

What should be more fit to be given an Americana treatment (with quite a twist, though) than America itself? Paul Messinger who hails from North…

Ok, so the girl (Zoe) is from Montreal and the boy (Nicola) is from Venice, where should they meet and what will the music they make sound like? Th…

I certainly don’t know the answer to the question from the title, but I’ m not even bound to try. Doesn’t sound too appetizing. But what I did try out…

For some generations that are “somewhat” older, holding a physical object containing music is still an essential element of the…

There is a standard tendency with rock critics, old and new - bring them up and then slam them down. I guess they take that critic word in…

It seems the Australians and New Zealanders have a special knack for good, healthy, melodious rock, or power pop, or whatever you want to call it. As…

As an artist, Mark Kozelek is in that phase of his creativity in which he is capable of saying anything that's on his mind without caring what…

Surprise! This is another Americana folk review, as it seems that music within this genre makes love and gives birth to new babies every day. Julie…

Disparate musical styles souped up together can only produce two types of music - one that squarely falls on its face or one that is thoroughly…

One of the solid releases from January this year came from Canadian duo Japandroids. In 2012, they dropped Celebration Rock and generated a…

It's been a long time since the bass sounded this good in the music of The Killers. They give the best of themselves in the first seconds of dense…

Seth Swirsky I said. Seth who? A composer sonngrwiter, movie director... Never heard? How about a guy who wrote Love Is A Beautiful Thing that was a…

It’s been three years since the last album by Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers. In this period, the members either focused on their…

The Dears, or shall we say, Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak and whoever’s in Montreal at the time, have been around for a while, actually, as…

Saying that Prarie Cat’s new album Is Cary Pratt is actually light as a feather can really go two ways - that it is so light that it will slip by…

   Chase McBride seems to be the much-needed breath of fresh air in these topsy-turvy times. Even though McBride's third studio…

When you get caught into a music style (or quite a few of them) when you’re younger, they seem to stay with you forever. Psychedelic pop,…

Don’t call it plagiarism, call it a promiscious idea. Just because someone sounds like someone else, it doesn’t mean that they…

Although most of us know David Duchovny as Molder from Dossier X, not a lot of us know that this multifaceted actor is also a singer who recently…

Australian singer/songwriter has just released his highly anticipated new music video Lucretia's Eyelandt off of his new album Revisited. Check it…

In case you haven’t heard already, Palace are the next big thing. Friends who met at school, they are Rupert Turner, Will Rhodes, Leo…