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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…

  Dashing bearded guy with the suggestive falsetto and a guitar. This would be a perfect title for the movie about The Leading Guy, my new…

“Death is real, someone’s there, and then they’re not”, echoes the beginning of Mount Eerie’s latest and long awaited album since his wife’s passing…

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…

  My brain has a special grey area. It is an area where I feel peculiar empathy for all of those great artists who suddenly start losing…

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

 Sometimes, good things are buried deep down in the entropy of the world and you find them by accident. This is especially the case with the…

  The Coral is a band by two guys who are into retro music. They are also into adapting it to the modern, indie music. This time, they have…

“The song is a sci-fi narrative about a woman who falls in love with a robot. In the video she hallucinates on rocket fuel and tears apart…

Melbourne bases band Brighter Later is another evidence how Australia is a tough competitor on the world’s music scene. The project of Jaye…

Through the 5+1 solo albums he has made so far, Greg Ashley has shown that if you are to fit into the shoes of guys like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou…

February is the month when cats make love (while sounding like crying babies), and I start to think that this is why all the great albums drop around…

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…

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…

When poets get to singing… For some it is a problem, for others, it is a blessing, Dylan, Cohen, Simon, Oberst and yes, based on his first…

After ambitious art phases, run by gut and fueled by and emotion, artistic process usually comes to the point of homeostasis. It is not a bad phase…

Wooden Wand has been around for a while and has come up with a batch of great albums with equally great music and even some greater lyrics. A great…

William Merriman has been behind the quietly sophisticated Dublin band The Harvest Ministers for some thirty years now. Even though it doesn’t seem…

When King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard announced that they will issue five albums this year, even their fans (myself included), who were…

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…

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

The hype sisters who make the band Haim got in 2013 was not seen in a long time. Fortunately, they did not failed anyone expectations with the release…

Sometimes something good arises from the ocean of new bands. Some of them deserve your full attention, some of them partial attention and some should…

Ariel Pink (Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) decided to dedicate his eleventh studio album to unfortunate pop musician Bobby Jameson, which can be concluded…

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…

The name of the band is Kikagaku Moyo, or for those who do not know Japanese, like me, Geometric Patterns. Luckily, judging by this, their third album…

The coolest sisters are back! And I couldn’t be more thrilled! Haim are manifestation of Californian spirit, that old school cool one, not Katy Perry…

Chicago based band Whitney dropped their debut Light Upon The Lake last year. The debut, released under eponymous Secretly Canadian label, secured…

Favorite Americana players, known for their dreamy sounds, are finally back. Seven years after releasing the Snowlake Midnight and Strange Attractor,…

Nothing is ever what it seems to be and we might as well find comfort in that, Happyness is a London trio who reminds me more of American than British…

So easy for an album to be overlooked these days. Even if you are just an ordinary fan, you have piles of CD’s (still?), vinyl records or files on any…

Many bands and singer/songwriters these days are following the path taken by Jeff Tweedy, solo or with Wilco. While most of them are quite enjoyable…

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…

  After several critically acclaimed EPs, Matt Corby made a decision to dedicate his time to soul, gospel, jazz and psychedelic and create a…

After falling head over heels in love with Merival’s Soda Island collaboration with Izzard, I scoured the internet to find more of Merival’s honeyish…

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…

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…

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,…

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…