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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,…

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…

Back to vinyl, back to analog seems to be all the rage these days. Most of it is some sort of retro posturing, and as far as the music itself is…

This is the most independent project ever! Ergo, whether you are too cool for mainstream or crazy enthusiast or you love magnificent alt guitars, then…

Combining acoustic music with electronics can be a tricky thing - it either turns out great or falls flat on its behind. That may be the reason the…

No matter how successful you are, life is full of ups and downs. To maintain equanimity and to persevere despite life's severe challenges is…

Alex Southey’s new My Nights On the Island EP offers a six song revision of a break up that breaks the mould of what one would traditionally ascribe…

When their debut album The Black Room was released in 2005, it represented a true revolution of post-punk. Editors became a band everyone was taking…

Give man a beard and  a guitar and he can rule your emotional world. After only first few notes, I have realized that this is a magnificent…

Soley revealed her light and sunny side on her third studio album. The title Endless Summer suggests it, and it proves that fairy vocal of the singer…

As I’ve said before, it is the longevity of an album that shows its true worth. It is for this reason (and quite a few others) that I would…

Martin Craft is a composer and a producer who currently resides at Berlin, London and Joshua Tree. He is performing under a stage name M. Craft and,…

Conor Orbest came out of the phase in which indie-folk audience perceived him as the best author of the younger generation and entered the new era in…

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…

Spoiler alert: following throwback might appear more ambivalent than it really is. Emo is probably the only genre that not even those who place…

The ex member of The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones, has built up his confidence when it comes to swimming in the solo waters, and his latest album is the…

It has been a while since I heard so many musical things going on in around 20 minutes. So around from Minneapolis comes Pat Keen with Albatross, his…

Ra Ra Riot are born on American indie rock scene in 2006. They formed on a campus of Syracuse colleage in New York and recorded their first demo in…

You couldn’t say that Mark Mulachy, the brain behind Miracle Legion is one of the luckier men in music. Didn’t look that way back in the mid-Eighties…

  Everything you bury becomes a seed. Some artists have buried so many emotions inside of themselves that eventually became a fertile ground…

Ok, so I never heard of Tim Meskers before. So, a know all music site tells me that he might be known to discerning music fans from a band called…

When you have sixteen albums in your discography, three Grammys and records that shaped a generation of listeners, no one expects you to deliver…

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…

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…

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

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

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

If we are looking for bands who used internet to their advantage, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah would be at the top of the list of those who utilized web…

Melancholic dudes from Texas had recorded their fourth studio album when their chief and creative director Tim Smith had a breakdown and decided to…

  The story of Swedish duo Flora Cash begun with the meeting on Soundcloud, continued on Skype and it is still on. Shpresa Lleshaj and Cole…

Do you remember The Horrors? They looked like they came from horror movies: obscure appereance, messy hairdos, pale faces and strong makeup. Nomen est…

When the term Americana crops up in a conversation among music fans, usually the first things that come up to mind are any country music variations,…

  It’s been three years since the talented group from England dropped their debut Sun Structures, an album that still stands as the gritty…