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…

Bands come and go, but their members keep on moving, especially If their music addiction is impossible to cure. There is no panacea for loving music.…

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…

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

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

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…

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…

Every music genre is beautiful. I am the type of guy who can listen to classic music and turbo-folk music. On the other hand, every music genre is…

Last year I touted on these pages (it is a site, but you still have to flip the pages one way or the other) Michael Nau’s album Mowing (like the…

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…

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

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…

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…

Ok, sometimes you have to eat your own words. Its a hard thing to do, but if has to, it has to. Reviewing the Curse of Lono EP last week, I was quite…

Irish band Walking on Cars is the band I have been waiting for. First of all, the music talent runs through their veins. Without any pretentious…

There seems a particular penchant for good pop oriented rock, soul, anything, in the US Midwest. Think Rockford Illinois’ Cheap Trick, or any of the…

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…

Upbeat. Soulful. Creative. These are the three words that came to mind as I listened to the new Moon Taxi album entitled . These Nashville native…

Show me on this beaver where Canada touched you. Jokes aside, Canada has a lot of great bands, especially on indie rock scene. One of them is, for…

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…

There must be someone who deserves the same hype as Frank Ocean. There must be and here he is. Twenty year old author and multi instrumentalist Alex…

You would have to search deep into the Seventies memorabilia to find the cover of the album that inspired the cover art Nashville’s The Paperhead used…

There are certain things that always come up to mind when you mention New Zealand and music - the first is Kiwi Rock, as a specific genre, the second…

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…

Londoner Daniel O’Sullivan seems to pop in and out of the scene in recent years. He made a studio and a live album in 2011 and a few other…

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…

I thought these guys were missing in action, Haven’t heard from them in a while. Almost forgot what they sounded like. But then, no matter how much…