If John Prine and Mitch Hedberg had a baby…” goes the bio blurb on John Craigie’s website. Sure, you cite those favorable comments that suit you, and…

In theory, some musicians should have all the predispositions to make it - a good voice, songwriting skills, musicianship, good backup, come up with…

Critics’ new favorite band Tame Impala are becoming one of the most successful alternative acts of our time. They also have one album that I…

In this age of information glut, whether it is the number of music titles available or the method by which you can reach them, it is so easy for quite…

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

Beatrice Martin is a classically trained pianist who graced us with her debut album under the moniker, Coeur de Pirate, in 2008. Martin's&nbsp…

I would like to introduce if you haven’t heard yet of course, one of my favorite psychedelic and indie rock band named “Noah and…

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…

Autumn and spring are moderate seasons. Both are some sort of foreplay for winter/summer, which means they are not extreme. On the other hands, our…

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…

  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…

Grief can be an exceedingly strong motivator and can produce some deeply sad, bad at the same time, life-affirming music. Remember, for example, Neil…

When you believe in people, the whole world is a church. And when your family believes in you, your life is easy like indie song. Music runs in the…

The Ghost Who Walks from 2010 was made under the mentorship of Jack White, the guy who was Karen Elson’s husband at the moment. It was Karen’s first…

  Richard Hawley’s Lady’s Bridge was one of my favorite albums back in 2007. Refreshing love poetry the singer delivered on this record found…

If you, like me (and many others), are disappointed that the singles from Justin Timberlake’s forthcoming Man of the Woods album did nothing…

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…

Bedroom, or shall we be more precise and say home recording musicians seem to be a very common instance these days. Most of them rarely catch the eye…

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

An oldie, but a goodie, I was re-acquainted with this album whilst noshing on pizza and sipping white wine at a restaurant last night. Although the…

Por lo general, tengo un problema con EP. Son ese territorio término medio, que no es ni (preferiblemente un golpe) sola, ni un disco de mú…

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…

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…

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…

Some knowledgeable reviewers thought that this combination between R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner could be “strange”. Falkner is a much more known…

Un oyente desinteresado reacciona a las preocupaciones por Joseph Kyle Debo admitir, que no / no tengo una opinión sobre el / la controversia…

Ever since Josh Tillman took a sarcastic alias Father John Misty, two great albums emerged from his psyche with love pains as major theme. On his…

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…

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…

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…

If you are sick of studio albums of Bruce Springsteen, and you are looking for something similar but more powerful, The Smith Street Band have been…

The first moment you encounter the music of Coti K.,“The Man From Managra”, a Greek guy form the Island of Tinos, you would be hard pressed to say…

Listening to the fifth album of Beirut, it made me wonder what the hell has happened with the band that always crafted good stuff and gave us four…

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…

As each year gets close to its end, I start scavenging other people’s “best of” lists to find something I’ve not heard before, something to have for…

Some people can’t sleep because they are thinking about their dreams. Some people dream when they are awake. Some bands are like dreams.…