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It Doesn't Have to Make Sense
Album Review: Ingrid Michaelson's - It Doesn't Have to Make Sense
It’s not all fun and games - though it does have a good dose of that as well! I’d like to summarize “It Doesn’t have to Make Sense” with those words,…
Hard Love
Strand Of Oaks And The Effects Touring Can Have On Music
On his previous record Heal, Tim Showalter faced his biggest fears, all of his losses and sadness, and sublimed them into songs. It all lead to…
Porgy
Great entrance: 'Porgy' by Labyrinth Lounge a Stunning Debut
Labyrinth Lounge is a high energy and quite a lot closer to jazz with a terrific funk and hyper-Gershwin Broadway vibe laced throughout it. Vocalist…
Bamboo Diner in the Rain
The Picture is Clear - The Waves Are Covered In Light
When I first saw the cover of the new The Wave Pictures album (and there is quite a few of them), something kept nagging at me it seemed so familiar…
Ashes Of The Wake
Turn It Up
As an angsty teenager I fit the mould of being really pissed off for no good reason and Lamb of God were the first band that I really connected with…
...Of the Dark Light
....Of The Dark Light
Long Island death metal stalwarts bring considerable technical aptitude to an album that works within the framework of their long-established sound.…
Goose Snow Cone
Coping Mechanisms
The clinical frankness of the title of indie veteran Aimee Mann’s latest album Mental Illness (2016) is actually meant as a jab…
Displaced Sleepers
Nothing Displaced Around Here
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,…
Guidance
A Battle Between Darkness And Light
New release from Post-rock/metal assemble Russian Circles, dubbed Guidance, is unmistakably recognized as a work made by seasoned musicians which…
Little Seeds
Plot Twist: Americana of Shovels and Rope
One of the best things about music albums are failed predictions. You are anticipating to hear one thing, and you end up enjoying something completely…
Music For Listening To Music To
La Sera As December's Vitamin D
Music for Listening Music To is a fourth studio album by a Californian band La Sera and its lead singer Katy Goodman, ex bass guitarist of Vivian…
Refugium
Well-blended mixture of Styles
Anomalie is a one man piece hailing from Austria, its only member Marrok has worked with Harakiri for The Sky, and Refugium is his latest album,…
Thinkin Out Loud
Thinking Out Loud First Impressions
This girl never stops impressing, that`s for sure. Young, but only by numbers, this smashing sunshine of vocal enchantress, Ms.…
Ashes
Burning 'Ashes'
Released on February 15, 2016 the young prodigy from Denver had his album entitled “Ashes.” It was composed, engineered, produced…
Weathered Meat
Nearly Dead - Weathered Meat
Nearly Dead is a Canadian noise-rock band from British Columbia, and they have so far released a handful of fine noise rock albums. The latest of…
Honest Life
Folk Heroine of Generation Z
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…
I Forget Where We Were
Forget Where We Were - a Live Masterpiece
In June of 2015, I had the great privilege of hearing Ben Howard peform live at the Grand Arena in Cape Town. I have not stopped talking about it…
History of Violence
Ransom`s History Of Violence
The lyric God of raw, gangsta Rap returns with another album win. HOV aka History Of Violence is another great work from this super…
Ash & Ice
The Kills - 'Ash & Ice'
Since the release of their first album Keep on Your Mean Side, The Kills has become a cult band being compared with other duos as The White Stripes…
Murmur (Deluxe)
What's the album that clears your head?
As I’ve probably said before (and will most certainly say again), there’s nothing like music to bring you back to a specific time and place. Look at…
Make Way For Love
Kiwi That Makes The Room War
Despite of his classical music education gained at the University of Canterbury, the eclectic music influences Marlon Williams was exposed to from his…
No Estás Solo
Rodrigo is not alone.
Rodrigo Gonsalves, Viniloversus vocalist decided to take a break and make your own solo album You are not alone that failed to show to the public in…
Hearts on Fire
FMLYBND: Hearts On Fire EP
In a scene dominated by button-pushing DJs encouraging fans to “put their hands up,” the energy of a live electronica …
Holding Hands With Jamie
Girl Band: Holding Hands with Jamie
Bailing out of the blocks like surf-rock attack dogs chasing down an intruder, Girl Band simply go for your throat with a full on scorched electric…
Surrender (Deluxe)
Being Consistent Hurts
With their debut album Happiness, British synth pop duo The Hurts have been come darlings of both the critics and the public. Theo Hutchraft and Adam…
1995
SHT 1995
Genre-defying artists have rarely been acknowledged in their own time. It is a known fact that one generation's avant-garde is the next generation…
WOPTOBER
Mane Music
Prison can change anyone. Enough time isolated from the world, treated as subhuman and discarded like garbage is soul-breaking and creatively stifling…
MultiViral
Calle 13: El Residente Presidente?
Until 2009, Calle 13, a Puerto Rican band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez (lead singer, songwriter) and Eduardo José…
MY WOMAN
Ethereal Woman
Angel Olsen caught our attention with her 2014 second studio album Burn Your Fire for No Witness. This 29 year old girl from St.Louis played with…
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
#tbt The Byrds // The Notorious Byrd Brothers
This week's throwback was the first great album of 1968, a revolutionary year in both world politics and music. As such, it has an interesting…
Wonderland
Magic Shoppe - Wonderland
Magic Shoppe are a fascinating psychedelic rock/neo-psych band from Portland, Oregon. While having released the Interstellar Car Crash EP earlier this…
Au crépuscule de l'espérance
Akitsa - Au crepuscule de l'esperance
Akitsa are a renowned Canadian black metal band, who tend to mix black metal, noise rock and punk influences, and who could also be put under the…
Life...The Best Game In Town
Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game In Town
Harvey Milk are a legendary American sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Georgia. They have released an array of great albums that pack some of the…
The High
Behind a modeling eyes of a tomboy: The High rise of Candice Pillay
Sitting here in such an excitement and, at the same time, slight bump on my mind, trying to figure out the reason why are many of such an autstanding…
House in the Tall Grass
Kikagaku Moyo - House in the Tall Grass
Kikagaku Moyo are a well-known Japanese psychedelic rock band, who essentially mix psychedelic rock, space rock, psychedelic folk and acid folk…
Out of Time
Out Of Time Indeed
Out Of Time es otro álbum fantástico del artista electrónico y altamente ecléctico Hugo Kant. Este álbum de larga duraci&#…
A/B
A Band From Holland Resembles The Black Keys. Too Much?
There is a really great new song by The Black Keys titled No Good. An explosive combo of drums and guitars is cute like a Pokémon (yes,…
Shadow Theater
Shadow Theater by Tigran Hamasyan - A musical wedding of traditions
“Shadow Theater” is the latest release by Tigran Hamasyan, one of the leading figures on the Armenian jazz scene and one of the…
Spiral Horns, Black Onions, Et Al.
Ulaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, Et Al
Ulaan Markhor is an American psychedelic noise rock band and one of the many projects of the highly prolific Steven R. Smith. Just like his other…
Don't Hesitate
Don't Hesitate Will Blow Your Mind! by Raul Midon
The incredibly talented and skilled New Mexican musician Raul Midon is the real deal, my friends! I discovered this amazing musician when I just like…
I Got Your Medicine
Shinyribs Has Your Medicine
When he was 14 year old teenager, living in Beaumont, Texas, Kevin Russell found a sewing machine, guitar and box full of comics underneath his father…
The World Within
Jewel of the south
Gyros, sea, islands, enormous national debt, financial crisis, orthodoxy, birthplace of Democracy, Tsipras & Syriza are just some of the…
Blezard
Cavalier Song: Blezard
Cavalier Song are a Liverpool band consisting of Daniel Melia, Luke Mawdsley, Jason Dugdale, Mark Greenwood, Matt Ward and…
The Great Unknown
Album Review: Rob Thomas, 'The Great Unknown'
For 20 years, Rob Thomas has found lasting success as the front man of Matchbox 20, a solo performer and a songwriter for everyone from Santana to…
Evolve
Imagine Dragons returns with Evolve
If we talk about new music releases, no doubt Imagine Dragons stands out among many, since the American group originally from Las Vegas, has been…
Music Complete
New Order \ Old Order
They were the sh**. They were the natural continuation of Joy Division. They were pioneers of electronic and dance music combined with post punk. They…
Painting Of A Panic Attack (Deluxe)
Painting of A Panick Attack
Frightened Rabbit is a band from Scotland formed in 2003. Initially, it was a solo project of Scott Hutchison until it turned to band comprising of…
2gether
Too much electro-pop and jazz
I was having one of those humdrum weekends, where I do nothing but lie in my bed, binge-watch movies and TV series, eat, sleep, browse Facebook and…
Vengase I
The Rawayana surprise us with a trailer for Trippy Caribbean
It is an incredible emotion felt by all the faithful listeners Rawayana to learn that less and less needed for the release of her third album Trippy…
Science Fiction
A perfect and brutal goodbye from one of the best bands of the Millennium
You could be forgiven for falling away from your Brand New obsession in the years since Daisy. As the length between albums goes Brand New even beat…
Currency Of Man
Melody Gardot Is A Current Woman
Jazz lovers, fasten your seatbelts! One of the most beautiful female jazz vocals of modern era belongs to Melody Gardot. Her voice is not the only…
Big Love
Simply Meh
I am sure everyone in this whole wide world had listened to Simple Red’s single Stars when it came out. Guys from Simply Red had a nice…
Impossible Dream
Haley Bonar Is In Seventh Heaven
With seven albums in the discography, including the latest Impossible Dream, Haley Bonar has made enough to be considered as a fertile…
Hang
Foxygen Kept It Foxy
There is something I call music depression. It is an episode that lasts for several months during which the ‘’the patient’’ is unable to find new…
The Hooten Hallers
Toot For The Hooten Hallers
To capture the magic of city Lupus, located on the coast of powerful Missouri, and its famous Chilli Fest, it is enough you play the newest album by…
A Little Death
My Jerusalem: Post-Punkers Have Finally Made A Hit Rock Album
My Jerusalem is a band who caught music world’s attention instantly. Founder Jeff Klein had played with The Twilight Singers and The Gutter Twins…
Regina
Regina - Becca's Ethereal Masterpiece
Becca Stevens is one of the leading Americana musicians of today and her fourth album ‘Regina’ is a culmination of her solo career so far. Her last…
New Bermuda
New Bermuda by Deafheaven: Blackaze’s finest
Neige, French mastermind responsible for the rise of Blackaze, Post-Black metal, Hipster black metal or whatever name you want to call this metal…
Ray Sings, Basie Swings
Ray Sings while Basie Swings, both from Heaven
Ray Sings Basie Swings - this surely sounds like a 50’s record, maybe a 60’s one. I’m sure Ray and Count would have had a wonderful time playing and…
Ritual Land, Uncommon Ground
How To Be Cunning and Gentle At The Same Time
Anybody remember a Britpop luminary going by the name George Nigel Hoyle? No? Well, he was a member of the Britpop second-tier band Gay Dad, but who…
Coco Hames
Ex Leader of The Ettes Goes On A Solo Ride
Sometimes, it would be good to start from the beginning, to leave old crew and the baggage of the past behind and move in a completely different…
The Great Plains
Thomas Dybdahl - Great Plains With An Accent On Great
Mention Thomas Dybdahl’s name in his native Norway and everybody’ will know who you’re talking about. After all, his first solo album from about…
Hot Fuss (Deluxe Version)
Music and The Beautiful Life it Has
There are different tastes for everything in this world; whether it be cars, wine, food, we all have different preferences. That’s why I…
Welcome oblivion
Post-Industrial Ups And Downs
Trent Reznor, an icon, a genius, or just one big egomaniac? I mean, NIN was always his band, with a plethora of artists coming and going, each one of…
Silver Eye
Silver Eye sounds golden
It’s not all that often that I let a famous artist direct my attention to the music they like, but when you have deadlines to meet, very little time,…
Ritual Spirit
A Fistful of maddeningly good melodies
Massive Attack are back, and while the new EP titled Ritual Spirit contains only four songs it is just long enough to show us that they are…
Music From Before The Storm
Daughter's Soundtrack For A Video Game is A Well Done Task
Working on a soundtrack is a double-edge sword for an artist. He needs to remain loyal to his signature sound, while simultaneously making sure that…
Monster Heart
Clones of Clones: Monster Heart
Nothing is completely original...I’m not sure things have been original for awhile. I envision a clone to be a less perfect version of its…
Blackstar
Goodbye, gender bending king!
If anyone was a true chameleon in music animal world, it was certainly David Bowie. So many personas and masks that he had change since the beginning…
Weightless
Giving “Weightless” Some Weight
Solo piano albums are dime-a-dozen these days, and when “Unravel” opens Alex Kozobolis’ new (second?) album “Weightless”, you might think - oh, no not…
Hoops
Hoops They Did It Again
Blues is a sound of a man who is still trying to find out who he is. Blues rock is omnipresent on today’s music scene. Many artists…
I Tell A Fly
Refreshing As A Fly, Benjaming Clementine
Ever since Rufus Wainwright, we didn't have an author who is a triple-threat pundit, capable of having superpowers in singing, composing and…
Flying Microtonal Banana
Flying Microtonal Banana Is Lunatic's Manifesto
Australian geniuses King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have returned with the new album, and by the end of the year, there will be…
Heaven Upside Down
Voldemort Of Metal Wins Again
Sometime during the summer before my sixth grade, I was gluing posters from teenage music magazines on my wall. It was the era of exchanging posters…
The Divine Feminine
Divine Music
Wow. This is what I have to say about Mac Miller's brand new album The Divine Feminine. I really really really liked this album for a number of…
Minimum - Maximum
Pioneers Of Electronic Music
Of all places in post-war Europe, Germany was probably the most depressive ambient to grow up. Artists born after Hitler’s suicide in 1945 were facing…
Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
75 Dollar Bill - Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
75 Dollar Bill are a pretty interesting instrumental psychedelic rock/drone/hypnotic psych band from Brooklyn, New York. While there are quite many…
Sound the Alarm
Less Than Jake Sound More Than Alarming
Ska punk boys from Florida known as Less Than Jake have once again skillfuly intersected downtempo ska rhythyms, midtempo punk=rock and…
Bohren For Beginners
Turning Doom Metal Into Film Noir Jazz
How do you cross from doom metal to film noir jazz? Easy, if you ask German purveyors of, as the say it themselves, doom ridden jazz music, Bohren and…
Anthology 3
The Last Lennon/McCartney Song?
In January 1994 Yoko Ono gave Paul McCartney two cassettes of John Lennon's home recordings, which included a number of incomplete and previously…
Life Love Flesh Blood
The Revolution of Imelda May
Up to this point, Imelda May based her work on retro-rockabilly style and she has been doing it with grit, quality and confidence, starting from the…
Rhythm Nation 1814
The National Anthem We All Need
I always like to describe the best music as being timeless, all-consuming, and inspiring. Janet Jackson’s 1989 album, Rhythm Nation 1814,&…
Book Of Changes
Entrance - Into Poppy Territory
This might be the week of shapeshifters. Entrance or a guy that goes by the name of Guy Blakeslee can certainly fall into that category. Do…
Mirage
Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation - Mirage
Josefin Öhrn & The Liberation is a Swedish psychedelic rock/space rock/neo-psych group, who recently released their new album ''…
Pariah
Pariah
Twenty years into her career, after a hiatus of more than a decade, the Chicago footwork producer finally releases her debut album, taking apart her…
OK Computer
Ok Computer is officially 20 years old
How do you sum up the cultural impact of an album like Ok Computer? In the 20 years since its release Radiohead's third album has become a go-to…
Jomsviking
Long Ships Arrive Again
Yeah, the new album from everyone’s favorite Vikings, Amon Amarth, is here. Dubbed Jomsviking, it is their first concept album, telling the…
Okovi
Fifth Coming Of Zola Jesus
On the cover of her fifth album, Zola Jesus' face is covered with mask made of mud and ink. Underneath, Zola's eyes peek through and they look…
Love Ran Red
Chris Tomlin's Love Ran Red
Chris Tomlin is one of the most respected contemporary Christian artists. When listening to his music, one may find themselves immediately humbled…
New Eyes (Special Edition)
BBC Philharmonic and BBC Radio 1 present… Clean Bandit
Classical music and electronic music are certainly not one and the same. Music that can be made on a computer and music that is played in a concert…
Nobody But Me (Deluxe Version)
Recommendation For Your Winter Holidays Nobody but Michael Bublé
If there is only one real gentleman among the male singers on this planet, that would be Michael Bublé for one hundred percent. The…
Superunknown
The Top Five Albums of the 90's
The nineties saw the comeback of distorted guitars hanging on the knees, long-haired bands, hard rock riffs and pessimistic lyrics. It was called…
Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
Leave It To Jess
Jess Glynne may be a name (you've heard) that has been uttered through radio or television. As a former X Factor contestant, who appeared on the…
Tomorrow Is My Turn
Rhiannon > Rihanna
Spoiler alert: Rhiannon has nothing to do with Rihanna. Ok, they both like to sing r’n’b but that is where all similarities…
You and I
Buckley and You
Rock n roll is bigger than life, and death does not omit the artist from releasing his records. Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac and Johnny Cash have…
Here Ends the Lesson
Darrell Kelley Draws The Line
Sometimes a man just has to make a stand and draw the line. That’s exactly what Darrell Kelley does on his newest album, “Here Ends the Lesson”. This…
Silver Eye
Goldfrapp Continues To Experiment
Here is a band born with tendency to experiment with various genres and subgenres. In the wake of their tenacity to swim upstream instead of following…
Purpose (Deluxe)
Justin Bieber Finds His Voice with 'Purpose'
At the two-minute-thirty mark on Travi$ Scott’s atmospheric album cut “Maria I’m Drunk,” the magic begins. An…
Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Japanese Breakfast is Food For Your Shoegaze Soul
What would you like to listen for breakfast? If you have nothing on your mind, I suggest you digest Japanese Breakfast. Behind the name Japanese…
Cost of Living
Aggressively Political Downtown Boys
When was the last time you read my review of the album that upheaves political status quo? For a while, it seemed like all the albums that dropped…
Damogen Furies
Welcome to the party, we've been waiting for you - Squarepusher - Damogen Furies
Well now. Here we are. It's taken a while, but we feel somehow like we've come full circle without ever having started walking.&…
There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)
After four years - Four Tet, again
Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet is obviously a busy man. He has been involved, and probably is at this very moment - in a myriad of projects. Whether it…
When On Fire
When Christine Owman Is On Fire
Ever since she moved to Glitterhouse Records, the career of Christine Owman got on its velocity and diversity. Until 2013, she was releasing records…
Vagabundo
Dos Décadas del Influyente Vagabundo Creado Por Robi Draco Rosa
Hace 20 años se gestó una de los diamantes musicales más importante de la era del rock alternativo en españ…
Platinum Hits
The Platinum Guy
Time really has flown by when you see an artist release his first greatest hits collection, but you feel like he's just started out. However, fact…
Synthwaves
Quaeschning & Schnauss Unveil New Album Synthwaves
Thorsten Quaeschning and Ulrich Schnauss have teamed up to create a record of pure Berlin-school bliss which pays…
Whatever It Takes
Imagine Dragons returns with Whatever It Takes
Imagine Drangons is one of those groups that take the time necessary to make new music, and is that when the muse arrives, they certainly stand out…
Death Song
70s are Back In The Sound Of Black Angels
Good morning, America! Mornings were definitely better when Obama was a president, and many musicians seem to be aware of this. It seems like there is…
Buried Goods
Gypsy Treasures - Buried Goods
Gypsy Treasures is a psychedelic rock/psych-folk/drone band from California, whose album ''Buried Goods'' was released a few years ago…
Trippy Caribbean
Interview with the good guys from Rawayana.
If something is known Caracas band is for good talent, since in recent years have given much to talk about; first they surprised us with License to…
Madonna
Madonna
The driving force of Madonna’s debut remains its palpable physicality, born out of New York dance clubs, a new pop mandate to move your body in ways…
The West Against the People
Featherlight Heaviness
Ok, so you’re born in Russia, raised in Israel, you become sensitive to all that is burdening this world and want to express it through music. Where…
The Hunted
Watch 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Trailer feat. The Hunted by Snow Ghosts
'The Hunted' is out now, accompanied by a new re-worked version and a remix by Malcolm Axel. Tracklisting: 1. The Hunted (Apocalypse Version)2…
Winter Lives
Wintery Songs For Wintery Times
First things first: if you were wandering whether that PA im Matt Podn PA stands for Pennsylvania, the answer is yes. That is because Matt Pond, the…
Anthologia
Dr John Cooper Clarke Returns After 25 Years With The Help of Hugh Cornwell
Cult figure of punk’s golden age, dr.John Cooper Clarke, recently refreshed his discography with a little bit of help from Hugh Cornwell from The…
Saint Molly
Studying At The Academy Can Make You A Saint
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…
Blush
Fake Garage Band
Night School is a band from Oakland formed by three girls – Alexandra Morta, Baylie Jiminez snd Cheyanne Avant. They have been…
Post-Frenz Container Buzz
Oliver Wilde - Post-Frenz or Post-Everything?
Bedroom, or shall we be more precise and say home recording musicians seem to be a very common instance these days. Most of them rarely catch the eye…
Mystère
Hypnotic and mysterious (if that album title wasn't clear enough!)
From the very first seconds of Sphynx, the opening song from the second album of this French band two things are clear. On one hand, this is an…
Young Mopes
High Hopes for ''Young Mopes'' by Louise Burns
Louise Burns is one of the names of Canadian indie scene. She has been active for a long time, and she is only thirty. Her debut Mellow Drama was…
Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Pivot of PERIPHERY
Only short time after the release of the double-masterpiece Juggernaut, Periphery decide to return. According to them, everything was going smoothly,…
Momentary Masters
JULIAN CASABLANCAS WHO?
In my opinion, Albert Hammond Jr is the only true Stroke when there is no The Strokes around. His third album is corpus delicti for the previous…
20 #1's Worship
Going for Number 1
I have a confession to make. Sometimes, I could be stuck in just listening to 3-4 songs in an album simply because they are the ones that strike the…
My Love Devine Degree
Cody ChesnuTT - Divine Blessings
Sometime after the turn of the century, Cody ChesnuTT suddenly appeared with a slice of everything soul called The Headphone Masterpiece (2002). And…
White Light
The Corrs - As Fresh As Ever!
The super sibling quartet from Ireland are back after a decade long hiatus, just about to remind us how much we had been missing them all these years.…
Little Lies
Hilary Duff is turning a new page
Hilary Duff has recently released an EDM cover of Fleetwood Mac's Little Lies. Big mistake. Just when I thought she was really on to something…
Harmonies
Harmonies Aplenty
Whoever thinks that it is easy making good sounding sampled music couldn’t be more wrong. First, you have to have a bottomless knowledge of music…
Cigarettes After Sex
Cigarettes After Sex are Like a Cigarette After Sex - Pleasurable
Cigarettes After Sex have become a YouTube sensation with the single Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby. As it goes, the views were rising, and the song…
La Ira
Hamlet's undisputed wrath
If there was an album that drew attention in the Spanish metal was Wrath of Hamlet band. A job that was well received by the media and the public,…
Kilt 3
Few lines on a Kilt 3
Simply Su, but certainly not simple in his creations, this real Rap game cat finally released his second studio album KIlt 3&…
Before the World Was Big
Girlpool - Before the World Was Big
Girlpool’s June 2015 release, Before the World Was Big, will sound familiar to many young listeners. The album gives a sensation of…
Heartworms
James Mercer proves that he was alway the force behind The Shins
It's been five years since the las Shins album, Port of Morrow, a middling release that had many fans wondering if the band had lost that…
Scalping the Guru
El Jesus De Magico - Scalping The Guru
El Jesus De Mágico son un noise-rock banda estadounidense de rock / psicodélico de Columbus, Ohio. Se han publicado un buen número de…
Blood of the Saints
#tbt: Powerwolf - Blood Of The Saints
Key years in career of Powerwolf occur in two year intervals, and everything started in 2003. Two years later, Return inBloodred came out, and then…
7
Seal and his lucky number 7?
On Twitter, Seal announced it as his seventh studio album. Though that could be open for discussion, 7' is his first original album in years. His…
Champ
#tbt: Tokyo Police Club: Champ
If we take a look at the history of music, we can chronologically determine how the geographical focus of pop-rock industry was shifting. In the 50s,…
Beauty Behind The Madness
Boring Weeknd
There is no beauty nor madness here. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye aka The Weeknd has impressed the charts with his second album Beauty Behind The Madness but…
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz and Symphony Fantastique
Berlioz is one of the best composers of the romantic period, using fabulously sized orchestral forces to put together his magnificent opus “…
11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory
11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory
This is a cute folk-rock for the masses. That doesn’t need that the guys are not fun. Dropkick Murphys is a band who connects jocks, rockers,…
Stoney
Malone`s Stoney Post!
Texas singer/rapper/guitarist/songwriter and record producer Austin Richard Post aka Post Malone came up with his…
Royal Blood
Royal Blood will return in 2017, does anyone still care?
English rock band Royal Blood have announced their return on Twitter with a video showing them hard at work in the studio. With their self-titled…
I.
I. - A Beautiful Haze
I often find myself drawn to certain songs because of the mood that they create. Cigarettes After Sex is such a prime example of this in each of their…
Blak And Blu
#tbt Clark - Body Riddle
Third album of a talented electronic musician Chris Clark who performs under simple name Clark was warm supersonic hug of cordial welcoming into the…
Bad Posture
On The Back Porch
Sometimes it is hard to portray your music on its album cover. For John Andrews & The Yawns, that seems to be no problem on “Bad Posture”.…
The Book Of Souls
The Book of Souls by Iron Maiden: Back in The Saddle!
Iron Maiden was the first metal band that I have heard, and from that moment on I was enchanted. Enchanted by metal, by the vast divergence of its…
América Supersónica
Okills will return home with a concert.
After a long time abroad promoting his new album titled America Supersonic, which was a resounding success in the Venezuelan radio and many abroad.…
The Chick Corea Elektric Band
ELEKTRIC!
The Shape of Jazz to Come is an album by Ornette Coleman from the end of the fifties, but there are several releases in jazz history that could bear…
Two Years
Two Years of Great Sound
Missing those Galaxie 500 albums? Low got too loud? Cowboy Junkies and Kristine Hersh nowhere to be found? Or, whatever happened to Kramer, the guy…
Abyss
If You Stare Into The Abyss, Wolfe Looks Back
The worst thing about depression is that you have to pretend you are fine in front of the people who don’t even give a shit about you. But…
Blurred Harmony
The Parson Red Heads - The Right Heads
So you’re missing the shimmering guitars and harmonies of Kingsbury Manx? Or, maybe, you’re quite disappointed with the new Shins album (rightfully so…
Girls On T.V.
Dreamy Delusions
In Hollywood (2003), Madonna (in a somewhat hypocritical fashion) examined the empty promises and delusions that the California dream factory implants…
Pretty Girl
Queer Ear Candy
'Pretty Girl' is one of my favorite songs on my new EP, Citrine. It's an acknowledgement of all those beautiful women…
Lost Boy
If You Were Ever A Lost Boy
Face it Ruth B. without a doubt written the only song that could ever reflect how someobe feels about the story Peter Pan. After spending weeks of…
Bug In The System
Zoocrates shares new track Bug In The System
Zoocrates was created in 2014 by the Argentinian songwriter Daiana Bolini, now based in Montreal. Her music combines alternative and electronic rock…
When I Get Home
Twisted Language
Post Animal follow in the steps of psychedelic rhythms and mind bending instrumental loops consisting in their track 'When I Get Home'. From…
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Who did not face an impossible love to forget? That person you're trying to discard, but does not work and try more remains embedded in your…
Say You Won't Let Go
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I’ll be frank; I’ve never heard of James Arthur before, however, the other day my colleagues were singing this song called “Say You Won’t Let Go”. It…
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Adiós
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Medicine Chant
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As Halloween approaches, leaves are falling and a mist seems to be rolling in from the mountains Anilah seemed like the perfect musician to…
Black Tornado
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Kiss You The Same
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Makeba
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American Pie
The Music Hasn't Died Yet
In 1971 a musician named Don McLean released one of the enigmatic songs in the history of music. In notes that accompany the sale of his original…
Leaving LA
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Five years ago, when Joshua Tillman had just ‘buried’ his music catalog under the J. Tillman moniker to start performing as Father…
Disorder - 2007 Remastered Version
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Angels (feat. Saba)
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High By The Beach
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Agree
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When Samantha Cameron was “outed” as a fan of Minneapolis synth-pop band POLIÇA in 2015, British tabloid newspaper The…
My Funny Valentine - Live
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Young And Menace
Fall Out Boy Traces New Ground And Break Promises With Young And Menace
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Cruel Ways
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Starving
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Love's Gonna Do That
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CRZY
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Playground
Otherworldly Electro
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Sorry Is Gone
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La cantante country de Ohio, Jessica Lea Mayfield, estrenó recientemente la pista titular de su cuarto álbum de estudio (el 29 de…
Endless Beauty
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Soviet Soviet has been around for some time, recently releasing a new track titled Endless Beauty. First off anytime a band that has stayed together…
Gracious Tempest - Live
When they speak in a song
Who does not remember the intro of Never will mourn or I'll Never Break Your Heart by The backstreetboys, or in certain rap songs like I&…
Lift
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New Synthpop cover from ELYXR
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Wasteland
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Green Light
A Dramatic Confession for the Dancefloor
Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this…
The Magician
What the Wallflower Sees
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Mariana Vega premieres her single in “Cámara Lenta”
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Boyfriend
Introverted Jubilation
Six years after releasing their debut EP regret love guilt dreams (2011), fans of San Francisco bedroom pop trio The Bilinda…
Hotline Bling
Hotline Bling Was So Fire, It Started Some of Its Own.
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Without You
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Oceans (Where Feet My Fail) - Live/Acoustic Version
Jack (Juanito) The Giant and the Beanstalk
Imagine that one day you about a person providing the answers to your problems, but you have to give everything you have, get rid of what you think…
Shadow - Radio Edit
A Lynchian Atmosphere
Dear Tommy, Chromatics' highly anticipated fifth album, is still nowhere in sight despite all the recent musical activity from Johnny…
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From the Dining Table
From the Dining Table Is An Open/Private Conversation With Harry Styles
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Swing Your Body (feat. Aaeidi)
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Let It Ride
Let It Ride
A collaboration between two leading artists on the American music scene, this song from Robert Glasper’s sixth studio album “Black Radio 2” is a real…
Body Lights the Way
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Belong
Melancholic Escapism
Roosevelt makes dance music for people who don't dance because they're too depressed. It's commercial but it cuts deep, like New Order in…
Fruit
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The Boxer
A Unique Highlight From Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration
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Fantasy
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Underdog
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Lonely Boy
The best minimalist and low-budget music videos ever
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Still Breathing
Still Kicking...
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Cigarettes After Sex Drives A Hopeful Melancholy
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Aire
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Someone as smooth as the breeze. A person who comes and goes, you can not touch or you can have. When you know that you can not grasp the air, music…
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A Hidden Gem
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All Day
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Real Deal
Is Jessie J's return the real deal
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Inside Out
Shimmering Splendor
It seems excessive to produce two music videos for a single, but when the song is as excellent as Inside Out and you're a '…
Breakin' Point
Gaining Perspective
Swedish indie pop/rock trio Peter Bjorn and John (Peter Morén, Björn Yttling and John Eriksson) are best known for their 2016…
#WHERESTHELOVE
Where is the love?
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Mark My Words
Justin Bieber surprises singing DESPACITO!
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Stressed Out
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Best Fake Smile
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Stilted Adolescence
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Liberty or Death (Remastered)
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Dear Wormwood
Literary Lyrics & True Folk Sounds
Texas sibling duo the Oh Hello’s has achieved a sound similar to that of Sufjan Stephens. In October of 2016, The Oh Hello’s…
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Hazy Introspection
San Francisco's lo-fi duo Acid Ghost (lead vocalist and guitarist Ace Barcelon and drummer Mikey Mendoza) share an unexpected similarity with pop…
Boys
Charli XCX and the Female 'Gaze'
They’re basically doing all the sexy things that girls usually do in videos [...] I've turned it around! [...] I started…
Mama Said
Lukas Graham's Hard-Knock Life
Have you ever seen the musical or movie Annie? Do you remember that scene where the kids are scrubbing the floors and singing a song? Now, keep that…
Flower of the Universe - From Disney's
Sade Embodies Cosmic Maternalism on Flower of the Universe
Disney’s 100 million dollar adaptation of American author Madeleine L’Engle's 1962 Newberry Award-winning young-adult…
Chemical Solution
Lunar Alchemy
Since its inception in 2015, The Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture's side project Summer Moon has undergone a lineup change (Au Revoir…
Dear Life
Beck's Psychedelic Existentialism
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Roar
Katy Perry reappears with New Music
After a long break Katy brings us a new item entitled Rise and is the official theme of the Olympic Games Rio 2016, which used the NBC for the…
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Love of Excess
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Body Say
Demi Lovato strips naked in nets
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18
On 18, an Epic 88Rising Multi-Collab, Joji Grounds Kris Wu, Rich Brian and Trippie Redd Grandiosity With Introspective Melancholy
Indie music label/creative agency 88rising have steadily forged their way into the mainstream by jet-fuelling the careers of Rich Brian (previously…
The Judge
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Columbus, Ohio natives Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun make up the duo known as twenty one pilots (and no, they don’t capitalize their name).…
Pep Rally
Party music perfection
I wandered into my office on Monday morning feeling pretty tired. Basically, the only thing that got me in the office was that I knew about a few…
Better Than Me
Whispery Duet
[Carly Rae Jepsen] sings on “Better Than Me” on the album. That song is not really about [Black Lives Matter]. That song is about…
Strange Or Be Forgotten
Interrogating Individuality
We're continually inundated with pressure in modern life to have to make something of ourselves and leave behind a legacy in this world. '…
Alarm
Anne-Marie Channels Romeo + Juliet With Alarm
If you are or have been a fan of Baz Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet 1996 film, Alarm by Anne-Marie will be an automatic favorite. Anne-Marie installed…
Adicta
Maite Perroni shows herself “Adicta” in her New Video
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Twentytwo
Sunflower Bean's “Twentytwo”: Perseverance Against a Pessimistic View of Adulthood
Why is it about turning 22 that seems to inspire so many musicians? The alliteration? The one-year anniversary of turning into an adult?…
Hospital Beds
REVIEW: Florence & the Machine's 'Hospital Beds'
Florence & the Machine’s version of Hospital Beds is not just a song. It is a euphoric eulogy to times gone by, a…
Starving
All Guesses Point To You
Either you know Hailee Steinfeld as an actress or a Pop singer. Both ways you've heard of Hailee Steinfeld and in this case with Steinfeld's…
Agatha Chang
All About Agatha Chang
How I came across Eels' 'Agatha Chang' was from a friend who said this was one of the easiest songs to learn. That friend forgot to…
Enter Sandman
Heavy Metal with Classroom Instruments? Jimmy Fallon Did It First!
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Nevermind the End
Bedroom Siren
Like Basically, Nevermind the End showcases Brooklyn-via-Argentina singer-songwriter Tei Shi's fluid vocals and insightful…
Lay It All On Me (feat. Ed Sheeran)
EDM feat. ________ Art or just Money?
Sólo tienes que rellenar el espacio en blanco ... El número de grandes nombres de la casa en la industria musical colaborando con artistas…
Snow
Folksy Synergy
Fans of Sydney indie-folk brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone who were concerned that the duo might be too engrossed in their…
DRIVE YOUR CAR
Drive You Car With L.A. Witch
Once this L.A. noir-grunge psychedelic rock coutner culture took over in full force, it would only be a matter of time before picking favorites. With…
Sexy Boy
A Sultry Transgression
Air's Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel burst onto the international music scene with the release of their space-pop debut Moon…
Windowlicker
Windowlicker: A spectrogram to the digital soul
Literaly nothing could have prepaired me for the first time I saw the epic music video for Windowlicker, which honestly deserves as much attention as…
Se Busca
holy week
During the celebration of Easter in Venezuela, not only advantage bridge -fines of largos- weeks to enjoy a few days off family, on the beach or…
No Worries
Remaking Someone Like You
Since the success of Alice, music producer, remix master and plunderphonics expert Pogo (Nick Bertke) has been highly popular with animation studios.…
All Night
Bringing back the original boyband
If you thought that old fashioned R&B boybands were a dying breed, than you are wrong. Recently, I already introduced you to UK’s Mic Lowry,…
Blowin' Smoke
Jeremy Dion Weaves A Tall Tale in His Newest Single Blowin' Smoke
Jeremy Dion has connected with music since he was a toddler. He started with the piano at age seven, and began writing songs when he first picked up a…
Gold Lion
Songs that started it all: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gold Lion
Usually getting into a band is a conscious choice for me. If I come across great reviews of singles, shows, and albums, like anybody, it would get my…
Try
Live through 2.0
When you like the music of an artist plays all your songs and albums, you want to know more about his life, looking and still in their social…
Te Recuerdo Dulcemente
Juanga and Calamaro locked themselves in the study
I think it sounds crazy but when you analyze it makes sense. The Mexican Juan Gabriel, a legend of music, is joined with Argentine Andres Calamaro,…
Incapable
Keyshia's very capable
There’s something about when current day R&B singers take on an old retro soul sound in their ballads. I have always had a major weak for…
Skyline
Epic Lushness
Canadian indie music collective Broken Social Scene recently released Skyline, the third single from their upcoming LP …
Ain't Nothing Changed
Listen to the Change
'Ain't Nothing Changed' by Loyle Carner happens to be a highly under-rated artist. Keeping that in mind, Loyle Carner twists and glues his…
D.O.A. (Dead Or Alive)
SONG REVIEW: HIGH4's Not spring love or cherry blossom
The intro begins with IU singing. Her voice is sweet and airy. She is accompanied by a guitar. The strums of the guitar stop everytime she sings a…
Live In The Moment
Portugal. The Man's “Live in the Moment” Delivers Anthemic Vagueness
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No Drama Queen
Grouplove's Gesture Towards Drama Queens
No Drama Queen certainly adds a bite to the long list unexpected song titles. Yet, if you've ever seen Paper Towns crafted from the mind of John…
Yellow
Coldplay a band that describes emotions
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Hard to Find
Strong Asian Mothers' Hard to Find Elevates 'A Night Out' With Cosmic Urgency
If you parse through the unusual band name and their dynamic blend of hip-hop, electronic music and pop, you will find that London trio Strong Asian…
Venus Fly
grimes feat Janelle Monáe: venus fly
It always astounds me just how long a great album can stay relevant for. Grimes fantastic album, Art Angels, blew away all comers at the end of 2015…
Love Me
Booze, Girls, Lots of Dancing, Selfie and a Snog with Harry Styles
Nope. That’s not the title of a young adult romance fiction novel. That’s how I would summarize The 1975’s “…
Hungry (feat. Rick Ross)
Fergie Drops Hungry Video!
The Dutchess comes back Trappin` style! After droping the first Double Dutchess studio album…
Carry Us
Singer-Songwriter With An Uplifting Advantage
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Revival
Song in honor of the victims of Orlando.
This news gave around the world and already nearly a month slaughter that claimed the lives of nearly 50 people. It is impossible to forget and many…
Ghost - Radio Edit
Dreamy Languor
After achieving an international presence last year with I Love You Baby, I Love You Doll last year, Kolkata-based dream pop duo…
La Vida Se Goza
Mata Rica tells us that Life is enjoyed with this video celebrating 20 years of musical career.
The Venezuelan group of Ska and Reggae Mata Rica as part of its celebration of 20 years of musical career, after two years of launching its fourth…
In The End
Cosmic Freedom
Portland indie rock band STRFKR ('Starfucker', basically an ironic name choice to signal their 'anti-pop' distance from the music…
Miracle Aligner
Go and Get ‘em Tiger
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Drag Me Down
One Direction: “Nobody” Can Drag Me Down
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Adventure Of A Lifetime
Coldplay's video is a lot of monkey business
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Don't You Need Somebody (feat. Enrique Iglesias, R. City, Serayah & Shaggy)
RedOne's all star line-up
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Be Good
Lumi and Dave slamin` badly in Be Good
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Vacaciones
HOLIDAYS the new musical theme of Wisin
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Dangerous Woman
Dangerous Women in all its Versions
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SONG REVIEW: 2ne1's Missing You
2ne1's Missing You: A Masterpiece Personally I like songs that are depressing and lonely so I was so happy when I learned that 2ne1 would be…
Respect
COVERLAND Vol.20: Respect
“Respect” had a lot of covers since Aretha Franklin released the song as a single in 1967. Franklin's cover became a sort of a…
Messin' Around
Pitbull premieres song with Enrique Iglesias
Pitbull has joined once again with Enrique Iglesias and not to play, the duo apparently chemistry abundance because it is not the first time together…
Good as Gone
Therapeutic Fuzz
BOYO is the latest stage moniker for 20-year old LA-based singer-songwriter Robert Tilden, who founded DIY acts Bobby T. and the Slackers when he was…
Make My Love Go
Banger Hit
After selling over 18 million singlessince 2009, and his storied departure from Cash Money last year, Jay Sean is back on his home soil with…
Christmas Party
Christmas Party! By Tara Lett
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Sugar for the Pill
Bittersweet
Having released their first album in more than 20 years, Slowdive does not disappoint with this melancholic love track Sugar for the Pill. The low,…
When I'm thinking in your mind
Montreal Duo Finer/Haggart Shares Debut Single “When I’m thinking in your mind”.
While Dustin Finer and Patrick Haggart make no claims regarding powers of interstellar awakening, they do boast a visionary take on saxophone and…
Hard Times
Paramore return as the great pop band they always should have been.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been tearing my hair out in frustration at Linkin Park’s neutered pop direction, mainly because of its severe…
Switch Up
Sobae is Here to Switch Up Future R&B
The relatively narrow space that Asian and Asian American artists have carved out for themselves in the Anglophone American music market has been, for…
The Right Song
For who is this the right song?
For me, this week seems to carry a theme and the theme is: dance videos. From writing about Elton John, for Kurrent Music, to writing about the new…
When the Bassline Drops
For the Ravers With The Bassline Drops
Have you heard about the latest comeback? It’s not about the Super Bowl 2016, nor the NBA All Star in Toronto, nor even couples getting back…
Secret Love Song
The Secret Behind the Love Song
It's amusing how one song could mean differently for different people. I guess the way we interpret songs really depends on our mood, feelings,…
Dust in the Wind
humanity soundtrack
Throughout history, art has reflected and questioned everything that surrounds the human being, in turn allows humanity to show themselves and their…
Try Again
Trying the Chef'Special
Dutch pop-rock band “Chef’Special” have just released a new single called “Try Again”. It’s been a while since I’ve heard from them. The last song I’…
Shadow
Shadow of Hate
“Why is your hate so addicting?” begins the first track of the album Nocturne by Wild Nothing, consisting of Jack Tatum. The…
Together, Locked Safely
Electronic Melancholy
Canberra electro-pop trio SAFIA (lead vocalist Ben Woolner, drummer Michael Bell and guitarist/synth master Harry Sayers) have been stalwarts…
Used To Love You
Heartbroken Gwen
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Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy)
Britney's Back (but so what?)
The music video for Make Me..., the lead single for Britney Spears' upcoming 9th album Glory (2016) has just been released. The…
Caravan - 2001 Remastered Version
JAZZ STANDARDS Vol.12 - Caravan
Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters introduced “Caravan” on the Variety label in December 1936. The recording entered the pop charts…
Freak
A Freak For Lana Del Rey
Once a photograph of Father John Misty and Lana Del Rey was released, showing that the two would be starring in the music video together for '…
Wedding
Heavily Political
As promised, Minneapolis-based synthpop band Poliça's third album United Crushers (2016) delivers music…
What's Up
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Pop Rock Band with Horns Releases Spotify Single Wicked Bones by Slow Lights
Have you heard of this band Slow Lights? They are an awesome 4 piece band out of the Baltimore area that’s making quite a racket…
Todd Grebe
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Alaska-native, Todd Grebe, knows about Cold Country — not just the weather, but his band. After years playing music more influenced by…
Daniel Wylie
Daniel Wylie & The Cosmic Rough Riders - The Scottish California dream(ing) continues
There seems to be an ongoing California dream and love of harmony infused pop rock among Scottish musicians. Maybe it has to do something with the…
Bebe Rexha
Bebe Rexha with G-Eazy for the second time
After the success that included the song Me, Myself and I singer Bebe Rexha rejoins with rapper G-Eazy to create a new song called FFF (Fuck Fake…
Desiigner
Desiigner cleared of charges after his arrest in New York
The young revelation of rap Desiigner, known by his real name Sidney Selby, was arrested in early September for a meeting reckless driving, which led…
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Foo Fighters release EP Saint Cecilia Free to celebrate life and music.
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male chauvinist?
In recent days there has been a great controversy in social networks, after Yolanda Dominguez, activist and blogger for The Huffington Post, pointed…
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Spotify premieres documentary about Marc Anthony and his father.
Marc Anthony released the documentary short film The family in Spotify. The film is starring salsa star and his father Felipe Muniz, responsible for…
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Posthumous tribute to George Michael led by Madonna and Elton John
Madonna and Elton John lead the tributes paid Sunday in the world by British pop singer George Michael, who died at age 53 at his home in London.…
Wolf Alice
Why Aren't You Listening to Wolf Alice?
Wolf Alice are Theo Ellis, Joff Oddie, Ellie Roswell and Joel Amey. Their debut album My Love is Cool recently peaked at number 2 in the charts (held…
The Beatles
The Touch Of Imagination
In the bed, in the room, in the house, in the street, in the hood, in the city, in the district, in the country, in the universe…you are…
Cher
SundaySpotlight: My Favorite Roles of Musicians
WILL SMITH in Ali From Bad Boys, Men In Black and Wild West to the movies Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness that brought him Academy Award nominations…
Lynn Anderson
Crossing Bridges: The Beauty, Legacy and Forever Glow of Lynn Anderson
I didn’t know I would feel such sadness and stirring emotion but then again I didn’t know that we were going to get news that Lynn…
Beck
Beck returns to the fray with Colors
When Beck released his long-running Morning Phase (2014), the artist was already brewing what would be his next musical bet. The musician is now…
Jim Lauderdale
Jim Lauderdale On How He Got To Memphis – Interview
Sometimes a walk in the park can clear the mind and is good for the soul. And when you live in Nashville, you never know who you’re going to…
Mater Suspiria Vision
Drug Machine
So here it is – my extraordinary comeback in 2016. The head is full of darken and horrible thoughts. Memories and fears seem to be all…
Pan Arcadia
Pan Arcadia Kick Out the Jams with Video + Single for “In Vain”
Pan Arcadia has just launched their vibrant garage-laced new video and single for In Vain this past Friday.Hailing from New York City, Eamon Rush (…
Natalia Lafourcade
Natalia Lafourcade has 5 Latin Grammy nominations.
In the XVI Annual Latin Grammy, singer and Mexican composer Natalia Lafourcade 31 will not go unnoticed, by having the 5 nominations for which will…
Natalia Jiménez
Natalia Jimenez is already a mom!
The Spanish Natalia Jimenez, has become a new mother, after announcing she was pregnant a few months ago, we shared through social networks the…
The Lonely Island
Funny presentation of The Lonely Island on The Tonight Show
While we know the follies of this group of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, joined occurrences of Jimmy Fallon and The Roots talent,…
Juicy J
Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa turn a boring office into an amazing party
On October 26, rappers Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa, took the music video for his song Bossed Up. This song belongs to number 9 of the last album released…
Fifth Harmony
Fifth without a member
The Cuban-born singer Camila Cabello left the popular musical group Fifth Harmony, while the remaining four members announced their intention to go…
Beck
Beck announces the release of his new album
After winning the 2015 Grammy for best album of the year for his album Morning Phase, the Californian Beck has left all music lovers very attentive…
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran withdraws from social networks and prepares his third album
The young British composer who has had enough notoriety in 2015 has decided to separate for a time of social networks, once you finish your Tour…
Klaxons
Klaxons
Magick Love Frequency From atom to atom. From heart to heart. There is no reason for wrong. There is no any stupid reason to make that stupidest…
Ozuna
Ozuna releases remix of Tell him that you love me
Ozuna decided to close this year with a flourish. With the remix of Say you love me which has the support of Yandel, being the first to publish the…
Nadia Ali
Electronic Heartache
Nadia Ali is somewhat like the unicorn of the EDM scene: she's female, of Pakistani descent, a prominent vocalist in a DJ-dominated…
System of a Down
System of a Down prepares new album
The beginning of the twentieth century came with a heavy load of Metal and Hard Rock from the United States. System of a Down was one of those bands…
Patti Page
Patti Page Sings Country Memories – Album Review
Although she began in the field of traditional pop, Patti Page is oft ignored for her vital contributions to the world of country music. She was…
Dusty Wright
Dusty Wright Brings Caterwauling Towards the Light
Currently sharing his new album, Caterwauling Towards the Light, Dusty Wright is creating music on his own terms. The heaven-laced record is…
Desiigner
100 songs you must download
We've all heard of it. We met great artists for publication. Here we can find songs or albums that are recommended internationally. Is the…
Juanes
Juanes honored the band Eagles
Juanes performed at the tribute of the band from Californa, Eagles as part of the annual Kennedy Center whose purpose is to celebrate the career of…
Rojay
DeAnté will give rare 2017 performance
Once upon a time, around the start of the millennium, something rather unique was happening (for that time). R&B was booming, but Dutch R&…
Paul Hindemith
On Paul Hindemith's Six Chansons
OVERVIEW The six chansons of Paul Hindemith are definitely striking gems of the twentieth century. What is interesting about these works…
Franco De Vita
Between tears and nostalgia, Franco de Vita releases a new album and announces a tour in 2017.
About 60 journalists summoned by the record label Sony Music witnessed the premiere in Mexico Free, the new studio album by Franco De Vita, activity…
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain. More than an idol - a person that worth sympathy.
“I’m not like them But I can pretend” Using the terminology of anthropological works by Carlos Castaneda, these words…
Françoise Hardy
Wes Anderson Creates Magic With Music
Wes Anderson is known for the meticulous detail that goes into each scene of his notoriously artistic films. All of these details come together to…
Bruno Mars
Everybody Loves Bruno Mars
Todo el mundo quiere un poco de música agradable y lento, pero también un poco de locura. Bruno Mars puede darle a ambos. Es un artista muy…
MUSCLE BEACH
Working It Out with Muscle Beach
Muscle Beach is a glorious band that has been on our radar for the past few weeks. Their ambitious collection of songs comes in the form of CHARMS…
Eric Frisch
Eric Frisch spreads good vibes with new music video The Light Ahead
The feel good song for the holidays is already among us. Eric Frisch has released the most light-hearted and fun music video that we can watch over…
Lil Supa
The Vision Brothers
People of YoyoDojo still dropping bombs and audiovisual liricales. Last week we could enjoy the first single Alcohall Of Fame, the new EP of Willie…
Reik
The Cómplices festival will feature three great artists
In a very short time the fans of Ha * Ash, Reik and Malú will be able to enjoy a great recital that promises. On July 1st these artists will…
Amy Winehouse
The documentary showing Amy's appearances
Behind the imposing security and transmitting Amy Winehouse, there was a very vulnerable, weak to their environment from youth woman. It is the…
Julieta Venegas
Julieta Venegas premiered new music video
On Monday June 27, the Mexican singer Julieta Venegas released its final cut of his latest album Something happens. In the audiovisual piece for the…
DJ Snake
They premiere video for the collaboration of Justin Bieber with Dj Snake, “Let Me Love You”
Let Me Love You, collaboration between Dj Snake, and pop singer Justin Bieber has been one of the issues most danced in recent months, and it seems…
Miguel Bosé
Anti-Trump Musicians
No easy he has seen the Republican candidate for president of the United States, Donald Trump. For several months, protests by musicians to keep…
Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett release the first single from their joint album
Over Everything is the name of the first single from the joint album of two of today's most representative indie rock artists, Courtney…
Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen's European tour kicks off in Spain.
Bruce Springsteen will start their European tour in Spain, where it will offer three concerts in May, said today the developer. The start of The…
Rawayana
Rawayana's third album is coming.
The Venezuelan band of trippy pop Rawayana premiered two new songs from their third album. Come along I and Come along II, which were also presented…
Eagles Of Death Metal
Vive la musique, vive la liberté, vive la France, and vive EODM!
Eagles of Death Metal has issued a statement on Twitter offering US and French authorities thanks for the support they received and extending…
Coldplay
The Superbowl Halftime Show 2016
From afar, the Levi Stadium was a spectacle of pastel fantasy madness with three of the most anticipated artists of this time. When I saw the line-up…
E-40
E-40 slamin` in Slappin jam!
A 22-studo-albums owner, super-creator E-40 keeps his swag on lock and runs down the music industry in Flash style…
Chino & Nacho
Nacho and Los Fantásticos to Venezuela in ''Valiente''
Miguel Ignacio Mendoza Venezuelan singer musically known as Nacho, the Chinese duo Nacho, presented three days ago on his official Youtube channel…
Gloria Trevi & Alejandra Guzmán
Gloria Trevi and Alejandra Guzmán: a powerful duo
Versus World Tour is the title of the tour that the Mexican singers Gloria Trevi and Alejandra Guzmán undertake by 34 localities of Mexico and…
Fergie
Got MILF?
Fergie milks her way back in! Just a day old leaked single heating the dance floor big time and haven`t even met it`s full viral pool of…
Andrew Combs
Andrew Combs On Texas Country, ‘All These Dreams’ and Moving To The Main Stage – Interview
We were lucky enough to be front and centre during the press conferences at the recent C2C Festival in London. Andrew Combs stopped by to talk about…
Beyoncé
Formation World Tour, Beyonce's new tour
After his presentation with Coldplay and Bruno Mars in the Super Bowl last Sunday, the successful Beyonce announced the start of a new tour for the…
The Strokes
The Strokes premieres music video
Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr., Fabrizio Moretti, Nick Valensi and Nikolai Fraiture play on a film set while being filmed by a camera that…
Café Tacvba
Café Tacuba will return with a new album for 2016
One of the alternative rock bands most famous Latin American, Café Tacuba, has confirmed that for the second half of next year will please its…
Camille Peruto
Camille Peruto sings Crooked Roads beautifully
Who ever in here has ever felt that they need some guidance to follow the right path in their life? The feeling that we are just drifting through our…
ZAYN
Zayn Malik never tires of creating new material
Former One Direction, Zayn Malik, has shown that his talent is not only the spotlight with his former group, because since their separation has made…
Camila Cabello
Camina Cabello premiered Havana as a true soap opera
Former Fith Harmony singer Camila Cabello premiered the video for her second single, Havana, where she paid tribute to the genre of the telenovela.…
La Vida Bohème
LVB I present the official video of its new single
The Venezuelan band based in Mexico, La Vida Bohème, introduced the first single from his latest album La Lucha, third album to be released…
Jacob Thomas Jr.
Jacob Thomas Jr. ‘Original Sin’ – Album Review
At a time when surface emotions, clichéd lyrics and over-complicated, electronically-perfected production are rife in country music and popular…
Pablo Alborán
Pablo Alborán celebrates 28 years
On this day, May 31st, the Spanish singer Pablo Alborán was born in 1989. About his birthday, we review his most recent video, published just…
Dread Mar I
That's how I found poetry in Vallenato
It is rare to find people who like the Vallenato, and yet, they like the Rock. It also happens the other way around, few people who like Rock and…
Gera MXM
Gera mxm ''I don't see I don't feel''
One of the most promising Mexican exponents, belonging to the collective Mexamafia, just publcar a new audiovisual on the YouTube channel ofiial…
Linkin Park
Linkin Park plans tribute to Chester Bennington.
Linkin Park announced Tuesday that it plans to stage a tribute to its vocalist Chester Bennington, who committed suicide a month ago orphaned this…
Tomates Fritos
Fried Tomatoes releases album
The eastern group, fried tomatoes is serving 20 years of artistic career, and to celebrate in style just released their fifth album album Tomates…
Bad Bunny
bad bunny images
If you are a fan of the bad reggeaton bunny, then let me surprise you, going to see these images of Bad Bunny you will be fascinated and you will end…
Blackhoods
Blackhoods
Blackhoods are a psychedelic rock duo from the UK, whose latest album Sunk has been released by the renowned US label Not Not Fun. Psychedelic rock in…
Coldplay
Coldplay release lyric video for their song Aliens
Brits from the Coldplay band have released their Aliens single, a new charity track because all their proceeds will be donated to an international…
Future
“Low life” already has an audiovisual
The American rapper Nayvadius Demun Wilburn, better known as Future, presented a new video clip in conjunction with the Canadian singer The Weeknd.…
Elton John
Elton John is wonderfully looking up
There’s something different about Elton John at the moment. He’s in the middle of promoting his upcoming album, “…
REDCON-1 Music Group
Mission: Music Therapy
Service members from all branches of the military are faced head-on with a variety of challenges ranging from physical injuries to psychological…
Chino & Nacho
Chino and Nacho together with a Venezuelan actor
The actor and now singer Daniel Elbittar 2017 it started yet. Through social networks they circulated photographs of the artist with Chino y Nacho in…
Elevation Worship
“You Are Holy” by Elevation Worship
When I feel like I’ve lost my way, a good song to play is “You Are Holy” by Elevation Worship. They tend to be one of the better worship groups in the…
Shakira
time does not exist
The seasons do not exist in Venezuela, for example, there is no date that marks all the seasons of the year, and even then the rain falls and the sun…
Norah Jones
White & Black Keys With A Bit Of Soul
“Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.” - Norah Jones Who knew that a…
Rich Hopkins and the Luminarios
Hop(kins) on The Highway
From all those names that popped up on the American music scene in the mid-Eighties (and delivered), Rich Hopkins is probably the one that has, to put…
Muse
Muse Unveils New Single Dig Down
For some time the British band Muse has been talking about new music and today we finally heard the first song of what will be their next record…
lostprophets
music is music; guilty is guilty
I do not know how many people still know there was a band, called Lostprophets. Since the front man - Ian Watkins was found guilty of child rape, the…
Los Pericos
Los Pericos celebrate their 30 years
The creators of Latin American reggae anthems as Stand up and see, Runway and No strings marks 30 years. Argentina's renowned band, Los…
Pau Donés
Pau Donés relapses from cancer
It is not a good time it goes across Pau Dones, lead singer of the Spanish band Jarabe de Palo. A year ago he had announced that he was cured of…
Victor Drija
Víctor Drija signs up for electronic bachata
Venezuelan Victor Drija began 2016 with the release of a new music video in which, as usual, does better displayed his talent as a composer dancer or…
El Mato A Un Policia Motorizado
He Killed a Motorized Police released a new album
He Killed a Motorized Police is one of the most important indie rock bands that has Argentina and Latin America. Its beginnings go back to 2003 in…
Metallica
Look what's new Metallica brings!
Metallica, thrash metal band, published video for the new song Moth Into Flames will be part of his next album called Hardwired ... To Self-Destruct,…
Carly Rae Jepsen
Boy Problems never sounded like so much fun
It’s been said many times. Carly Rae Jepsen was supposed to be a one hit wonder. In fact, she was set to become the ultimate one hit wonder…
The Decemberists
January. Sharing it with everyone
At the very beginning of each year, I tell myself (I almost sing to myself) to remember how I can accomplish everything that I want because sky is the…
Carlos Baute
Latino de oro award for the Venezuelan Carlos Baute.
Venezuelan Carlos Baute has received in Marbella (South) Latin Gold Award for Best Ibero-American singer in the first edition of these awards the…
The Killers
For Reasons Unknown
Listening to the Killers is an experience. Listening to the song For Reasons Unknown gives me the chills. One of the things I love most about the…
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails Release This Isn't The Place From 'Add Violence' EP
Announced only a few days ago accompanied by the theme Less Tham, next July 21 will see the new EP of Nine Inch Nails, Add Violence have decided to…
The Beatles
The 50 years of Sergeant Pimienta
Ariel Rot
Ariel Rot prepares new album
Four months. That is the time you must wait followers rocker Ariel Rot to hear the issues that comprise the next record material of this Argentine…
La Vida Bohème
La Vida Bohème will be presented in Caracas
One of the most important bands caraqueñas recent years in Venezuela's La Bohème Life and Saturday 23 April remounted in Caracas…
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham: They used to turn off my microphone
We all remember that famous group of British girls in the 90s danced to more than one with its Wannabe. Several years after the boom, former Spice…
Pyro Mids
Diving Deep with PYRO MIDS
PYRO MIDS have quickly become one of our favorite new artists this summer. Recently releasing the video for Never Gone, the group shows no sign of…
George Michael
Intimate farewell for George Michael
Three months after the passing of George Michael, he was celebrated in London a small, private ceremony with family and close friends. According to…
David Bisbal
David Bisbal: The one who has not failed is because he never set himself a great challenge
The singer, who launches his new song Todo es posible, talks about the lessons that his musical career has left him. David Bisbal claims for the…
911
Evolution of a 911 member
This week a tweet caught my eye promoting an interview with Jimmy Constable, whose name only sounded vaguely familiar, but apparently he’d been going…
Bluegrass - Various Artists
Multi-Talented Composer, Singer, Songwriter Josy Svajda Reveals the Secrets to her Success
Born in Vienna and currently residing in Los Angeles, Josy Svajda is an musician, singer, songwriter and composer who is well known across town for…
Adam Hill
Adam Hill ‘Old Paint’ – Album Review
There is one thing recording old songs decades, sometimes centuries, after they originally came into existence, and calling them mixing the old and…
ANOHNI
Anohni's Woke Pop
After releasing eight albums with the chamber pop ensemble Antony and the Johnsons over the past two decades, Antony Hegarty embraced her identity as…
Curve
Gift
Curve is one of the best bands ever, and this album is a good example of why. Gift, Polaroid, Chainmail.... great album.
CNCO
CNCO and their first world tour
CNCO already announced his first world tour to the delight of their fans. After the great success of his third single Reggaeton Lento, the youth…
Toby Keith
Toby Keith ’35 MPH Town’ – Album Review
Toby Keith soared to fame in the 90’s with hits like “Should Have Been A Cowboy” and “How Do You Like Me Now?”. Since then he has put out a steady…
Jason Derulo
Jason Derulo back with Ty Dolla $ign & Nicki Minaj
Jason Derulo has been a little absent since September, when he teamed up with The Game for Baby You, but returned last February 24 with a possible…
Caudal
Caudal
Most of us are well aware of Aidan Baker's and Leah Buckareff's legendary dronish shoegazer metal outfit Nadja. However, Aidan Baker has many…
The Rolling Stones
10-second video previews new Stones album
An enigmatic video, just ten seconds, her Twitter account with the title Coming October 6 has unleashed all the speculation about the release date of…
Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven’s Eroica (Hero’s Symphony)
In another fabulous display of color, Beethoven wows us with a symphony largely in a fast 3/4 or slower 6/8 to dazzle us with whit and emotion just as…
Rush
The Hemisphere
Firm believers in rock & roll populism, Rush - Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart - have based an entire career on the…
Ben Frost
Ben Frost
The sky is grey and big these days. The rains are healing. The wind is on our side. We see strange things and go through the serious challenges…
HAIM
Haim returns with a video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Haim seemed to be everywhere in 2014. Their debut album, Days Are Gone, was a terrific, if a little top heavy, mix of any genre the band were willing…
Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Omar Rodríguez-López will release 12 new albums before the end of the year.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, better known as the guitarist of the acclaimed groups At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta, is also a prolific composer who has…
Wild Fur
Wild Fur Takes Over The Crying Wolf in Nashville
Wild Fur is quickly becoming one of the hottest bands on the East Coast. Having the thrill of experiencing the band live at The Crying Wolf in…
Claydon Connor
Claydon Connor ‘Under The Big Sky’ – Album Review
We previously featured Claydon Connor in our monthly Stray Plectrums post back in June, the spotlight shining favorably on his…
Awkwafina
Flipping Racial Stereotypes
As (2016) producer Salima Korona observes, hip hop culture and Asian Americans are generally perceived to be polar opposites: To be honest,…
Joaquin Sabina
Sabina's new album will be released early.
The twelve songs I deny everything, the new album to be published Joaquin Sabina, can be heard a day before through an itinerary that will cross all…
Foyone
Foyone Presents 'There Is No Cure'
Pedro Malaga, better known as Foyone, launches a new theme and new video mode solo under the name There is no cure. Having published less than a…
The Strokes
Will The Strokes' Next Album Be Produced By Donald Trump?
This week Nick Valensi, guitarist of The Strokes, was a guest on the program Zane Lowe Beats 1, to promote the release of the debut album CRX, his…
Hip Hatchet
Hip Hatchet ‘Hold You Like A Harness’ - Album Review
Hip Hatchet is the songwriting moniker of Philippe Bronchtein, a man who calls Portland, Oregon home and who is gearing up to release his fourth…
Carlos Angola
I settle, the new Venezuelan Carlos Angola
With a suitcase full of discs and dreams, Venezuelan Carlos Angola started during last year 2015, the city of Madrid, where he held the release of…
Roxy Music
#SundaySpotlight: Roxy Music
Roxy Music is British art-rock group formed in London in 1971 by its vocalist and occasional pianist, main composer and lyrics writer Bryan Ferry.…
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Eckhardt-Gramatté: The Sick and the Clock
Las épocas de la música clásica no son distintos. Los años que las épocas iniciaron o terminaron son aproximaciones, y las &…
Silk
Silk´s silky smooth plead to like them
I’ve been writing about many comebacks from 90s, early 2000s, R&B groups, but not many articles and blogs have triggered as much of…
Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas
A tribute to Flaco Spinetta
Following is the name of the second single from LHON (Humanity or us), the latest album by Argentine rock duo, The Valderramas Illya Kuryaki and…
Catherine Zeta-Jones
The band Zeta advocates for an independent art
Juan Chi Alvarado, Gabriel Duque, Daniel Saud and Juan Penk, members of the Venezuelan band Zeta, were interviewed by the Mexican magazine Gate,…
Zedd
Stay The Night Ft. Hayley Williams
Hayley Williams, vocalist of that roaring rock band Paramore with her ever flaming head was always a headturner not only by her looks but also because…
Ty Segall
Rock'n'Roll
In his reckless youth, which was all of three years ago, Segall was a thrasher. He wrote two-minute burners that started quick, ended quicker…
Justfaith
Just FAITH, 14 Year Old Pop Artist Opening For 80’s Icons Wang Chung
14 Year Old Pop Artist Just FAITH will be opening for them on Sunday, August 20th at Shannon’s on Pine in Long Beach, CA at 4 PM for Wang Chung and…
Nicolas Jaar
Nicolas Jaar
It sounds pretty stupid if someone says: “I’m fond of space”. In fact, I’ve never heard anyone saying such a…
Public Enemy
Public Enemy reveals a surprise new album
Nothing Is Quick In The Desert is the latest production of hip hop group Public Enemy , headed by Chuck D and Flavor Flav, which have revealed…
David Crosby
Crosby Lights the Way with Lighthouse digital release
David Crosby, singer, songwriter, activist, lights the way with his new digital release, Lighthouse. The album was recorded at Groove Masters Studio…
Lady Gaga
Only two weeks to go...
One year you’re playing sold out shows, stadiums spanning the globe full to the brim with thousands of devoted fans. Now you’re…
Majid Jordan
Majid Jordan premieres audiovisual ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR
On July 13, Canadian duo Majid Jordan released the official video of their new song One I Want produced by Jordan Ullman alongside PARTYNEXTDOOR,…
U2
Latin America on the U2 tour.
U2 will play in several Latin American cities. The Irish band announced Tuesday that it will expand the concerts of the U2 Joshua Tree Tour 2017 tour…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
W.A. Mozart Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos is Crisp
There is another concerto that is apparently for two pianos and orchestra. It is every bit as whimsical and bouncy as many of his other works. The…
John Mackey
John Mackey’s “Lightning Field”
We’re back in the concert band review field with John Mackey’s “Lightening Field.” It begins sparkling in a haunting G minor.The G tonality is the…
Kevin Blumenfeld
INTERVIEW: 'In The Vault' Composer Kevin Blumenfeld
With the season finale of composer Kevin Blumenfeld’s latest project, go90’s In the Vault, airing last week, we decided to speak with him about…
J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise
JJ Hairston Carries It Home With You Deserve It
There is another great artist who is a heavy hitter in black gospel music of the contemporary kind. His name is J.J. Hairston. I just discovered this…
MC Hammer
MC Hammer did a one-time-only gig
Somewhere in August, the strangest thing reached me. It was a promo for a concert at the Staples Center in LA, USA. Nothing too weird really, but the…
Kingtonic
No hanging on the couch for Kingtonic
I've heard it many times myself when people meet me in another capacity: You can't be the artist I see on social media. To which I reply: Oh,…
London Grammar
Big Picture
London Grammar have graced us with yet another intrepid single in the form of Big Picture. It is lyrically and musically rousing, detailed and kind of…
The Beatles
The (im)mortality of The Beatles
Remember, at the beginning of this year, when Kanye West started working with Paul McCartney and Twitter blew up? If you missed that, it now depends…
Bryan McPherson
Bryan McPherson ‘Wedgewood’ - Album Review
Some experiences can have a direct and profound impact on an artist. When folk-punk troubadour Bryan McPherson was immersed in Occupy Oakland in 2011,…
Kristin Rebecca
Kristin Rebecca Entices with Wackos and Weirdos Single
Kristin Rebecca kicks off the year in a major way with her latest single to hit the streets, Wackos and Weirdos. Making a name for herself among a…
Maluma
Yes or no the new Maluma with Anitta
Renowned reggaetonero Maluma still pushing through new frontiers, this time it does so with a neighboring country: Brazil. The Colombian scored his…
Ben Howard
Scenic Soundtrack: I Forget Where We Were
This January, I took a holiday to Iceland. It had always been a dream of mine to visit this country, quite frankly it’s beautiful and one of…
CNCO
CNCO triumphs at the Tu Mundo Awards
The youth group CNCO was today the winner of the Tu Mundo Awards, having won three awards, including Favorite Pop Artist, in the middle of a night…
Papá Humbertico
New 'How I feel' by Papa Humbertico
Dad Humbertico born Humberto Joel Cabreras Santana in 1985. He grew up on the outskirts of Havana in Guanabacoa, in the house that now serves as a…