Labels are for brands, not for bands. Show me on this review how much do you agree with the previous statement. Even though they present themselves as…

Let's talk about eclecticism without aroma. Five years and three albums are just enough for Alt-J to make his new release highly anticipated. A…

Consider this throwback a sonic kiss. I am serious – this music will hug you and kiss you in all the right places. Young girl from Sacramento managed…

Alice Jemima's self-titled debut album consists of a surprising total of twelve songs that amount to only thirty six minutes. However, the album,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

During the first half of the 90s, British collective Slowdive established as one of the most prominent shoegaze bands, leaving three classics behind…

Mark Eitzel, the man with probably most biting, sometimes even cynical, but always with a human line seeping through is back. The former…

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…

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.…

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…

Sophie Allison is obviously a very smart girl. I say, girl, since at the time Collection, her first official album is out, she’s yet to turn 20, and I…

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”.…

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…

Although most of us know David Duchovny as Molder from Dossier X, not a lot of us know that this multifaceted actor is also a singer who recently…

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…

  The ultimate idol of indie audience, Mac DeMarco, releases his new full-length album This Old Dog, almost three years after the halcyon…

Ii it was easy to transfer sadness, despair, and despondency into music, then everybody would be doing it. You really have to feel it, or you have to…

It seems the Australians and New Zealanders have a special knack for good, healthy, melodious rock, or power pop, or whatever you want to call it. As…

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…

  The clinical frankness of the title of indie veteran Aimee Mann’s latest album Mental Illness (2016) is actually meant as a jab…

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

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…

Her comes do it yourself man Doug Tuttle third time around as a solo artist and offers us his Peace Potato. Hot potato or not, right off, it is a very…

These days it ahem there is a proliferation of singer/songwriters inspired by a similar generation from the Seventies. Like then, today’s batch can be…

On October 30th, 2015 The Neighbourhood released their sophomore album entitled The Neighbourhood is a group that has historically evoked a strong…

Look Around is a compilation bringing us the very best of Beat Happening. If you haven’t heard of them before, you should know that the…

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

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