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So, I have a new roommate, he’s from Ireland and seems like a really cool dude. He’s also a musician, and the main reason for his…

It must have something to do with all those geysers in Iceland. I don’t know what else it could be that makes the modern music coming from that island…

  LVL UP have released their third full length album under Sub Pop label, which just proves how remarkable these boys are. American indie…

In theory, some musicians should have all the predispositions to make it - a good voice, songwriting skills, musicianship, good backup, come up with…

If the name The Molochs gives you a ring towards Velvet Underground, don’t worry, you’re completely right. The Los Angeles duo is rightfully paying…

No big mystery or innuendo in the title above. Just the fact that Tara Jane O’Neil has decided to go the self-titled route only for her eighth&…

If you are sick of studio albums of Bruce Springsteen, and you are looking for something similar but more powerful, The Smith Street Band have been…

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…

Female authors with guitars are becoming a frequent thing. And it’s good that this is the case. Every day, I discover a new name, no matter what the…

Usually I perk up my ears for anything that comes out on the, what some people consider out there label, Sacred Bones.  Wymond Miles has…

If John Prine and Mitch Hedberg had a baby…” goes the bio blurb on John Craigie’s website. Sure, you cite those favorable comments that suit you, and…

Listening to tons of music it is usually two groups of artists that draw your attention - those that sound incredibly good and those that sound so…

Some knowledgeable reviewers thought that this combination between R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner could be “strange”. Falkner is a much more known…

Making albums about every continent of the world? Sounds a bit too ambitious and pretentious, doesn't it? Actually, it depends on who does it and…

Anybody who is a fan of harmony-filled pop rock the late sixties or early Seventies, s well as any current variations of this musical theme has surely…

The name of the band sometimes tells  what we can expect from it. Joanna Gruesome is an ironic reference to folk singer Joanna Newsom but…

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…

The importance of the New Zealand’s Flying Nun label has been quite fairly recorded, particularly through the works of such seminal bands as…

This one came practically out of nowhere when last year was closing. Actually, it originally came from Glasgow, passing through Yorkshire. Whatever,…

British singer/songwriter James Page who goes under the name of Sivu has been diagnosed with Meniere disease, which causes disorder of one’s inner ear…

  If someone asked me who is the most brilliant female singer in the world right now, few names would pop in my mind. The following review…

  Fierce Mercy is the 13th album by an Australian musician Colin Hay. Wow, that sounds like a really prolific artist, doesn’t it? Still, it…

Feist’s Metals is one of my favourite albums. Let me tell you why. The first few bars of the opening song, The Bad in Each Other, set the album apart…

Listening to Gareth Dickson’s album “Orwell Court” one of the thoughts passing your mind is, that hopefully, it's not the court of George…

  In a long and impressive history of rock n roll, we have heard almost every combination of genre. Big talents have mixed the unmixable,…

The moment the opening track, “Riverview Fog” starts, you get the feeling that you’ve heard all this before, but that the cards have been reshuffled…

Todd Gautreau’s last name might associate you with a guy from France and not Dallas, Texas. But then, wrong presumptions will not take us anywhere,…

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…

Anything that has something to do with the New Zealand masters The Clean will always get my attention. So when the name of Clean’s drummer Hamish…

Tango With Lions, an Anglophone Greek collective of “day-dreamers, hard-workers and music-lovers” gained worldwide recognition…

I’m old enough to remember the times before any Internet (yeah, that old) with what would be now considered scant information about any new and…

Over the past twenty years, Detroit hasn’t necessarily been a hub for folk and alt-country. Those genres have scratched the surface, but techno and…

In an interview with the band, lead singer Elena Tonra detailed that she sings about those things which she finds difficult to talk about. I remember…

Some people can’t sleep because they are thinking about their dreams. Some people dream when they are awake. Some bands are like dreams.…

In times before the Internet, it was so easy to miss a good band. You simply could not have heard of them, particularly if they went the independent…

I'm tired of thinking of you, baby, harshly lashed out Glen Hansard on a conveniently titled track Movin' On. Ummm, the only problem is that…

Making good music is not about putting notes together by simple, generic instructions like it is some kind of kinder egg toy. Boys from Oxford are…

Let me get one thing straight – these guys are not from Barcelona, they are from Scandinavia. How could something so cheerful come from a…