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

I certainly don’t know the answer to the question from the title, but I’ m not even bound to try. Doesn’t sound too appetizing. But what I did try out…

For fifteen year, six-membered group from Brighton has been flying over British rock sky. In that time, they have released six studio releases with…

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…

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…

The Ruby Suns can either be a shifting conglomerate or just Ryan McPhun, a guy around whom the whole band and its musical idea revolve around. That…

I am so happy that I am alive in the time when so much good music is produced. I don’t know how would I obvercome my struggles If it wasn’t for this…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

Minimalistic indie folk is the future of the alternative scene. Berlin based group Susie Asado (named by Gertrude Stein’s song) is one of…

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…

Back in the day, Sia Kate Isobelle Furler was the name that didn't mean a lot to vast majority of people on our crazy little planet. Yet, she was…

Making albums about every continent of the world? Sounds a bit too ambitious and pretentious, doesn't it? Actually, it depends on who does it and…

The Dears, or shall we say, Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak and whoever’s in Montreal at the time, have been around for a while, actually, as…

One of the bands who is strongly influenced by the 90s British rock (Radiohead and Oasis in particular) is most The Boxer Rebellion.  What&…

Chuck Prophet has been around since the times Green On Red roamed the wide fields of roots rock in the Eighties. Those were the heady days, with The…

The moment you realize that somebody who’s from Athens Georgia has recorded all his three solo albums for a German specialist label, you begin to…

Glen Hansard is a cute Irish man who conquered the world by singing the Academy award winning song Falling Slowly. The movie Once has become a classic…

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

For some reason, there has been an ongoing debate about M.C. Taylor, and his Hiss Golden Messenger project. Nine years and six albums on, he has…

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…

  Fierce Mercy is the 13th album by an Australian musician Colin Hay. Wow, that sounds like a really prolific artist, doesn’t it? Still, it…

Modern music often resembles the old saying “history repeats itself.” As decades pass, more and more artists regress into a dark cloud of past sounds.…

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