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FLAME
Light it up, Rachel Foxx!
I was sent a link to preview Rachel Foxx's third EP, before it’s release. This was a while ago, but I only got to it ater this EP got its…
My One And Only Thrill
Oh, what a Melody!
This is one of the most beautiful albums recorded in the past decade or so. My One and Only Thrill has all the elements of a good record:…
Hubris
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
Oren Ambarchi is an Australian musician and multi-instrumentalist, who has released a vast number of albums through the years. His albums have had…
The Centre Cannot Hold
Is Ben Frost a Poser?
If you are composer and producer from Australia, but you create your music in Island, I guess you are bound to presenting outstanding art. Ben Frost…
A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Southern Rock
STURGILL SIMPSON One of the unwritten rock rules regarding the introduction to the album is: start strongly and then just roll however you want it,…
Why Make Sense?
Hot Chip Want You To Stop Rationalizing
UK’s finest electro band Hot Chip continues to walk the road of contagious indietronic and dance electropop with a plausible confidence.…
Are You Ready For Me
Are You Ready For Pretty Vicious?
Pretty Vicious are one of the most hyped bands in British music at the moment. Four teenagers from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, they are Elliot…
Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars
Sitting Pretty on the Fence
James Yorkston has been around for a while, and it seems he always excels, whether solo or through quite a number of collaboration he was in,…
The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
Unique artist with a distinctive expression - Fiona Apple
What I absolutely love and appreciate for any artist is being a songwriter, not just a performer. One of my favourite alternative rock, jazz, art pop…
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
Hampshire & Foat - Galaxies Unfold
Way back in the Seventies jazz pianist Lonnie ‘Liston’ Smith pushed the space/spiritual jazz in a very relaxed, soulful direction, with traces of…
Jei Beibi
Café Tacvba consecrates its experience in Jei Beibi
They are already 28 years of musical career and Café Tacvuba manages to show the best musical document of the moment in which they are living. A…
Awesome Rock on Piano
Interview with Dmytro Morykit about his album 'Awesome Rock on Piano'
I interviewed Dmytro Morykit, about his recent album of classic rock covers Awesome Rock on Piano and include below some of his thoughts on the…
Los Tres MTV Unplugged
20 Years of MTV Unplugged by Los Tres
And suddenly it was two decades since the Three afford to do an Unplugged for MTV Latin America was given. Your best! That show, which never came out…
Endless Summer
Soley's Brighter Side
Soley revealed her light and sunny side on her third studio album. The title Endless Summer suggests it, and it proves that fairy vocal of the singer…
Volume 1
BNQT Proves Supergroups Have Superpowers
Some people have superpowers, and some people have supergroups. I love me some supergroups. All of my music expectations have a form of a supergroup.…
Bloodroot
Bloodroot Shouldn't Be Scary
At one point, French composer and pianist Eric Satie was considered too obscure and it was thought he would remain so. These days he seems to be one…
Smoke Beach
Kill West - Smoke Beach
Kill West are a relatively new Argentinian stoner/psychedelic/garage rock band, who have stormed into the psych rock scene with their great new album…
At the End of Summer
Majutsu No Niwa - At The End Of Summer
Majutsu No Niwa are a renowned Japanese psychedelic noise rock/garage rock band, who have released a number of pretty good albums within their…
Beloved Antichrist
Symphonic Metal Opera in Therion's Trilogy
Swedish symphonic metal artillery Therion enriched their discography with not one but three CDs under the name Beloved Antichrist. Ancient traditions,…
Sarah Eat Neon
Cut-Up and Glitch-Guru VHS Head is back!
Following the album successes of Trademark Ribbons of Gold (Skam 2010) and Persistence of Vision (Skam 2014) and EPs Video Club (Skam 2009) and…
Music Complete
New Order \ Old Order
They were the sh**. They were the natural continuation of Joy Division. They were pioneers of electronic and dance music combined with post punk. They…
Take Her Up To Monto
Mama Ro
The ex lead singer of legendary band Moloko released her third studio album last year, titled Hairless Toys. The album was experimental, as everyone…
Anthology 3
The Last Lennon/McCartney Song?
In January 1994 Yoko Ono gave Paul McCartney two cassettes of John Lennon's home recordings, which included a number of incomplete and previously…
Ti Amo
Phoenix Sound Like Italian Summer
Can you hear the sound of the summer? If not, you will hear it now. French synth-pop collective Phoenix decided to be a herald of the upcoming summer…
Why Make Sense?
Everything You Rationalize Will Be Used Against You
UK’s finest electro band Hot Chip continues to walk the road of contagious indietronic and dance electropop with a plausible confidence.…
The Buffet (Deluxe Version)
What R. Kelly serves
It takes years to build a good reputation. It takes just a second to lose it. And while a reputation gets build on verifications, sometimes, all it…
Merkabah / SunInYourHead
Shaddah Tuum ooze menace on EP
Shaddah Tuum weave dark and ambient soundscapes that ripple with edgy industrial menace. Their shamanic incantations insinuate themselves into the…
Amplifier
Amplifier turn it up to eleven
Four-piece progressive rock band from Manchester, Amplifier produce expansive, reverb-washed alt-rock designed for better living. Think Soundgarden&…
What About
A Tasty Piece Of Fusion Cake
Zaa is a band from Serbia and is one of the most original bands coming from my country. On the first two albums their music was a classic mix of…
After Laughter
Paramore go full pop on After Laughter and it's brilliant
Paramore never should have gotten this far. Since their debut album, All We Know is Falling, the band has went through so much turmoil:…
Ennanga Vision
Ennanga Vision
Electronic beats and dub effects put a heady, psychedelic spin on traditional Ugandan Royal Court music. In the early 1980s, the meeting of African…
The Great Plains
Thomas Dybdahl - Great Plains With An Accent On Great
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…
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Dark Side of the Moon with a video
If there is any album that would rightfully go by the title “best” in the history of rock music and beyond, it is “The…
So Long Suckers
Reverend Bizarre - III - So Long Suckers
Reverend Bizarre are a legendary Finnish doom metal band, who have released a number of great doom metal albums through the years. They are not active…
Bang My Head (feat. Sia & Fetty Wap)
Bang on collabo!
Out of all the dance tracks that I had on my list to listen to this week, this one is my favorite. Eva Simons “Bludfire&rdquo…
The High
Behind a modeling eyes of a tomboy: The High rise of Candice Pillay
Sitting here in such an excitement and, at the same time, slight bump on my mind, trying to figure out the reason why are many of such an autstanding…
One More Light
What Happened To Linkin Park?
Oh man, how many strong opinions were created when the new album by Linkin Park saw the light of the day! First of all, it is an indicator that the…
Within and Without
#tbt Washed Out: Within and Without
The year was 2009 and I was just starting my university. I moved to a big city and started exploring subcultures and listening to the subgenres that…
Here Ends the Lesson
Darrell Kelley Draws The Line
Sometimes a man just has to make a stand and draw the line. That’s exactly what Darrell Kelley does on his newest album, “Here Ends the Lesson”. This…
My Darkest Hour
Noir Heroine
Jemma Nicole is potential new heroine of Gothic Americana scene. She was born in Perth, Australia and she currently resides in Melbourne, which makes…
channel ORANGE
Three Years Later: Channel Orange
At the forefront of R&B’s shift to moody, provocative, narrative-driven soundscapes stands Frank Ocean, one of contemporary music&…
Eldorado
ELO, Eldo... Eldorado
Beatlesque pop, classical arrangements, and futuristic iconography were the trademarks of the English band Electric Light Orchestra. Their fourth…
The Wilderness
Emotional Explosions
Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be an emotional ride to the other side. The Wilderness is the fifth album by one of my favorite post-…
Momentary Masters
JULIAN CASABLANCAS WHO?
In my opinion, Albert Hammond Jr is the only true Stroke when there is no The Strokes around. His third album is corpus delicti for the previous…
Other People's Lives
Other People's Lives
First proper solo album from the Kinks legend finds him flirting with confessional singer-songwriter material and tapping into the sounds of the…
Harmony of Difference
Yasss, Kamasi!
This is going to sound ridiculous, but I will write it anyway. I was conflicted whether I want to do a review of KAmasi Washington's new…
Big Walnuts Yonder
SuperGroup With A Superpower
Big Walnuts Yonder is a supergroup. I don’t like using this hackneyed term anymore, but it is what it is. So, the supergroup is comprised of members…
Earthtones
Bahamas' Earthtones Pursues Low-Key Self-Realization by the Lakeside
If you, like me (and many others), are disappointed that the singles from Justin Timberlake’s forthcoming Man of the Woods album did nothing…
Oferta
Electro Disgusting Spanish Girls
I never expected that my new favorite band would be from Spain. They are singing in Spanish, and I am not that fluent, but that still did not stop…
16:11
Tross - 16:11
Tross is one of the more interesting Swedish psychedelic rock bands, whose latest album titled 16:11 was released by the great Swedish label H&…
Post Pop Depression
PostPopDepression
It is so refreshing to see a long-standing artist who is not relying on his old fame. There are only a few of them who are perpetually pushing the…
Inspirations
Dwight Trible - ‘Everyday’ music becomes spiritual jazz
Singer Dwight Trible is slowly becoming a known name on the jazz scene, but also, his name is starting to crop up elsewhere in the music world. His…
A Latino Christmas
Celebrating a Latino Christmas
Fifteen songs will make you smile and feel satisfied for choosing to listen to Latino Christmas. That's true for me, of course. But honestly,…
Clean Your Clock (Live In Munich 2015)
Rest in Peace, Motorhead
For Ian Frasier Lemmy Klimster, some would say that considering how wild he lived, he had lived a long life. No matter how far he had come,…
Chasing an Illusion
Larkin Grimm Finds Truth In Illusion
On his fourth album titled Chasing The Illusion, Larkin Grimm confronts his inner demons from the past by transforming pain into a possitive message…
More Rain
Come Back, M Ward
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…
Buried Goods
Gypsy Treasures - Buried Goods
Gypsy Treasures is a psychedelic rock/psych-folk/drone band from California, whose album ''Buried Goods'' was released a few years ago…
Beautiful Lies
Birdy Is All Grown Up
Still in her sensitive years, British pop sensation Birdy released her third album this spring, turning out to be her most mature effort yet. It is…
Heart Blanche
Why, CeeLo, Why?
Aquí es un cumplido que se le puede dar a un artista: un gran cantante puede cantar una agenda y hacer que suene extraordinario. Por desgracia,…
That's Your Lot
Blaenavon Are The Smiths For Masses
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…
Harmonies
Harmonies Aplenty
Whoever thinks that it is easy making good sounding sampled music couldn’t be more wrong. First, you have to have a bottomless knowledge of music…
Attila
The Men and The Art of Brutal Attack on The Listener
The Men, a four-member band from Brooklyn lead by Mark Perr (vocal/guitar/piano), have dropped their debut Immaculada back in 2010. It was a self-…
Villains
What Do QOTSA Stand For Now?
After proving himself in Kyuss, John Homme was walking through several projects and bands, profiling himself into a rock icon that does seem like an…
All I Need (Deluxe Version)
100% Worth The Wait
You know that feeling of déjà vu where you could swear that you've seen or heard or been somewhere before but you haven'…
Deep End
Doc Robinson - Midwest Loves Its Pop
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…
The Altar
Repetitive Banks
Couple of years ago, Banks represented one of those artists who were an inspiration to the younger hipster generation. Her alternative pop…
BEYONCÉ
Lemonade the relief of Bey
Of course since we are all aware that Lemonade is the new album Queen of R & B Beyonce Knowles, we also know that it was something totally…
The Covers Record
The Covers Record
There's something about the rich melancholy of Chen Marshall's voice that gets me hooked every damn time. Although the simple combination of…
Goths (Deluxe Version)
The Mountain... Goths?
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…
What Dreams Are Made Of
Caribbean Hip Hop Recipe Finally Penned Down: Welcome R.City Empire
Dear most dedicated Hip Hop fans, our holy brothers, hugely mistakenly downsided, finally…
Tell My Sister
Sisters That Brought Optimism Back To Folk
In American folk-rock music, 1975 was a year of powerful, dark and confessional albums. Just take a look at this series: Bob Dylan – Blood On The…
New Skin
Another Member of The Strokes Goes Solo
Nick Valensi plays in The Strokes and corroborates musically almost anyone who contacts him. Now is the time for him to start his own thing, a project…
Come tomorrow - Songs of Townes Van Zandt
Norway Americana Does Texas Chill
Americana is really big in Scandinavia. Maybe it has something to do with guys like Lee Hazelwood spending time there, or longing for a more…
Phenotype
Dissonantly Extravagant
If we compare Phenotype, the album reviewed here, with recent Select Difficulty from Periphery it’s obvious Textures selected the highest…
Lose Control
Glass Animals & Joey Bada$$ Lose Control
This week, experimental indie rockers Glass Animals meet New York rapper Joey Badass and create a surprisingly good collaboration track. As somebody…
Saint Molly
Studying At The Academy Can Make You A Saint
I’m old enough to remember the times before any Internet (yeah, that old) with what would be now considered scant information about any new and…
Human Race
On The Wane Presents Palate of Dark Goodness on 'Human Race'
Oscillating between dream gaze and power gaze fusion, Ukraine’s On The Wane brings us their new full album ,…
Ocean by Ocean
Authentic Indie Vocal
One of the bands who is strongly influenced by the 90s British rock (Radiohead and Oasis in particular) is most The Boxer Rebellion. What&…
In Rainbows
Albums that turn 10 in 2017 Radiohead: In Rainbows
If Moon Shaped Pool ends up being Radiohead’s final album (there are rumours) then it’s possible to split the bands career into three distinct acts.…
Inti
Machine Mass Deliver Jazz Fusion Covers of Jimi Hendrix
Although the name sounds more metal than Megadeth, Machine Mass is actually Belgian-British-American jazz fusion band formed by guitarist Michel…
Salutations
Oberst's Salutations To Ruminations
Conor Orbest came out of the phase in which indie-folk audience perceived him as the best author of the younger generation and entered the new era in…
Are You Alone?
Majical Cloudz Are You Alone? Album Review
The electronic-pop duo Majical Cloudz released their 6th full length on October, 16th, 2015 titled . The album features 12 original songs all written…
Instruction for Destruction
Thrash With Balls
Boys from Comaniac were formed in 2010 in Switzerland and their first name was Company Of Maniacs. You see the parallel here. After several…
Primal Sphere
Robedoor - Primal Sphere
Robedoor are a relatively well-known American psychedelic rock/drone/experimental music band. They have released a lot of albums through the years,…
Born To Play Guitar
Born To Play Guitar
After B.B. King has passed this year, Buddy Guy is left alone as inviolable king of blues (all due respects to legendary protagonist of golden age of…
Ashes
Burning 'Ashes'
Released on February 15, 2016 the young prodigy from Denver had his album entitled “Ashes.” It was composed, engineered, produced…
Automatic For The People
#TBT R.E.M.'s Best Of
When I can not overcome my inner demons, I just come over to my friend’s place and we listen to some evergreens. Try it out, it is more…
Scrambles, Anthems and Odysseys
Sofa Surfers
Sofa Surfers have proved as a group that brings eclecticism to the table. Founded in 1997, they have released eight albums ever since and Scrables,…
My Girl
A love declaration from the Carnival Man
It was hard to imagine this - back in the days when The Fugees were the best thing that ever happened to hip hop - but the life and career of Wyclef…
A Man Alive
The Indie-est Project Ever
This is the most independent project ever! Ergo, whether you are too cool for mainstream or crazy enthusiast or you love magnificent alt guitars, then…
Ray Sings, Basie Swings
Ray Sings while Basie Swings, both from Heaven
Ray Sings Basie Swings - this surely sounds like a 50’s record, maybe a 60’s one. I’m sure Ray and Count would have had a wonderful time playing and…
Sketches Of Brunswick East
Sketches of Brunswick East Confirm King Gizzard's Status
Just when you think that King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard got stuck on psychedelic rock and progressive hard rock, using recursive motives, the most…
Purpose (Deluxe)
Justin Bieber with 8 Guinness records.
As it is no longer surprising, the young star Justin Bieber made headlines these days for good reason, and that was awarded with eight Guinness…
Greatest Hits
Tracing Tracy Chapman's Musical Journey
Nearly three decades ago, this singer-songwriter stepped into the wider world stage after years of performing in smaller, more intimate platforms. Her…
What If
The Jerry Douglas Band - What if, indeed!
Writing a music review should be easy, right? Sure, most of the time. All you have to do first is decide which category the album belongs to… Again,…
Amber Galactic
The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic [Album Review]
When you find out the names behind The Night Flight Orchestra you’ll think the band is another supergroup promising the world a revolution. But the…
Love Train
Trailing With Asiahn!
Extraordinary artist Asia Bryant, going by the new alias Asiahn, has finally put out her own piece of music craft…
Elephunk
Nostalgia for Elephunk
If we’re honest with ourselves, we never really got over the masterpiece that is The Black Eyed Peas’ Elephunk. The 2013 release…
Music For People In Trouble
Susanne Sundfor - Music to get you out of trouble
Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfor has been around for some ten years now, but she gained more international prominence only after her 2015 album Ten…
VINYL: Music From The HBO® Original Series - Vol. 1
VINYL: The Golden Age of Music
A television show that I have been waiting for and that I think deserves a spot here on Kurrent, Vinyl premiers February 14, 2016 on HBO. The era is…
Ritual
Fire! Orchestra - Ritual
Fire! Orchestra is a renowned Norwegian avant-garde psychedelic rock/free jazz band that is made up of Fire! and other artists they collaborate with.…
New Bermuda
New Bermuda by Deafheaven: Blackaze’s finest
Neige, French mastermind responsible for the rise of Blackaze, Post-Black metal, Hipster black metal or whatever name you want to call this metal…
The World Within
Jewel of the south
Gyros, sea, islands, enormous national debt, financial crisis, orthodoxy, birthplace of Democracy, Tsipras & Syriza are just some of the…
Anarchytecture
Anarchytecture
I love when musicians scream political messages into our passive-aggressive minds. During the 90s, Skunk Anansie have surprised the scene with an…
Sketches Of Brunswick East
King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard - Psych jazz this time around
When King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard announced that they will issue five albums this year, even their fans (myself included), who were…
Cool Ruler Come Again
Cool Ruler Come Again
The only thing I could do here is simply to repeat the title of this just issued Gregory Isaacs album - “Cool Ruler Come Again”. It has been more than…
Pure Comedy
Pure Comedy
Father John Misty is a consummate entertainer. On Pure Comedy, he questions the value of entertainment, capitalism, and everything…
Circular Time
Ramleh - Circular Time
The legendary British psychedelic noise rock/power-electronics/noise band Ramleh has very recently come out with a new album after a long time. The…
Seremonia
Seremonia - Seremonia
Seremonia are a great Finnish psychedelic rock/occult rock/doom band, who have released a number of great albums to date. The best of these albums…
Back to the Woods
ALBUM RECOMMENDATION: Angel Haze-Back To The Woods
Ok we all know where all eyes are constantly turned to all the time... This girl... Wow, how can you describe exquisite art in words... You can`t.…
Emperor's New Clothes
Death Of A Bachelor Or The Rise Of An LA Devotee?
Panic! At The Disco has proven to us that change isn’t always a bad thing. The band has recently shown us that they transitioned from emo/…
Gymnopedies & Gnossiennes
Jacques Loussier and the beautiful world of Erik Satie
When I first heard the music of Erik Satie I thought – well there is something I could listen to for weeks. And I did. But, when I heard…
Migration
The King of DownTempo Cements His Reign
Downtempo subgenre of electronic music has been experiencing a lot of success over the past years, as it develops and progresses. Besides…
Tautou
Smooth Like Marble
Even with names like Zita Swoon being tossed around among music critics, the current Belgian music scene seems to be somewhat an unknown quantity to…
theyesandeye
Lamb Gone Folk
Music duo Lamb has been influencing electronic scene with their trip-hop and chill-out discography. As half of Lamb, Lou Rhodes took a completely…
Solo
The New of Los Mesoneros already has a name and date
Caracas band, currently impeached in Mexico, has been doing an exceptional job in creating new musical material. For several months, Innkeepers have…
Siberia
Siberia
The Swedish electronic artist Vanbot and two collaborators made this new album while journeying along the Trans-…
Secret Youth
Finland’s Winter
Callisto, one of the many, many post-metal bands that used to suffer from the main post-metal syndrome “you sound like dozens of other post…
The Snow Burial
Oddo Bam: The Snow Burial
I am constantly amazed by the hidden gems of South African music. Although increasingly less hidden and deservedly so, Oddo Bam’s first EP,…
Vacation Freeze
The Greatness Of the Lesser Men
Adult disoriented rock is a phrase that The Lesser Men use to describe the genre of music they are playing. As time goes by, that is exactly how I…
Shadow Theater
Shadow Theater by Tigran Hamasyan - A musical wedding of traditions
“Shadow Theater” is the latest release by Tigran Hamasyan, one of the leading figures on the Armenian jazz scene and one of the…
Folklore
Jason Haywood - Making Folklore Modern
It seems the trees have deep roots over in Canada. Deep roots like in roots music. Every so often a great roots/Americana artists crop up from there,…
Prisoner
The Zenith Of Ryan Adams
From the first notes of Ryan Adam’s new album, you will hear more than you have ever heard before in the career of this gifted author. What I am…
Heroes
One of Our Heroes
Heroes immediately departs from the attitude of Low's melancholia with The Beauty and the Beast, and this was a sign of hope for fans…
Best Of
#tbt: Best Summer Album Ever
There are many albums that are made for chilling nearby big waters. Some are obvious, like those records by The Beach Boys, Tame Impala, Buena Vista…
Old Friends Live On Stage
Simon and Garfunkel Rock With Another Fantastic Reunion Album
There is one concert that is an undeniable one that I can’t stop listening to. It is the Old Friends Live concert from Simon and Garfunkel that was…
The Getaway
They did it again
First, one confession. The Getaway is the first album from RHCP I listened to in full. Never have been a fan, always considered them as too mainstream…
Earl Grey
Girl Ray - How To Properly Brew Earl Grey
Earl Grey is a popular but finicky tea to make. If you don’t let it stand long enough, it has a bland taste: if you let it stand too long, it becomes…
The First Days Of Spring
Album or Film? Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
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…
II
Leather Slave - II
Leather Slave are an interesting American raw noise-rock band, whose latest album ''II'' came out back in 2015. Leather Slave are…
We All Want The Same Things
How to Identify With Craig Finn
Although he is not the biggest singer songwriter of his generation, Craig Finn is certainly the best rock storyteller whose main preoccupation are…
Thrown by This Eastern Wind EP
Newfoundman is Vulnerable, Poetic on Thrown By This Eastern Wind EP
Navigating the ever-expanding troves of online music communities such as Bandcamp can be a daunting task for those with even an inkling of an…
Blood
Lianne La Havas's Vibe Is Unstoppable In Her Second Studio Album Blood
Lianne La Havas's Vibe is Unstoppable in her Second Album The girl who captured everybody's attention since her debut album Is Your Love Big…
Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzmann
Black Bombaim - Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzmann
One of the most renowned Portuguese psychedelic rock bands Black Bombaim and the equally renowened German free jazz saxophonist Peter Br&…
Magma
Taking It Cool
After pretty unexciting L'Enfant Sauvage, Gojira are back with their newest offering called Magma. The first notable thing you’ll notice…
ATGCLVLSSCAP
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
The renowned Norwegian avant-garde/experimental/psychedelic rock band Ulver came out with a new album in the end of January. Now Ulver is a band that…
The Sympathy Sigh
Problems reading? Well, Sing then!
It seems that Jamie Lockhart, the brain behind the Mi Mye monicker has problems reading because he has dyslexia. He was only able to read fully his…
Deep Purple
Come Taste the Band
Originally released in 1975, “Come Taste the Band” heralded the arrival of new guitarist Tommy Bolin. The former James Gang…
LNZNDRF
The National Beirut
After the collaboration of the members of The National and Menomena (aka Pfarmers), the time has come for The National and Beirut to work on their…
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Yaassss, MetalCore!
Following Architects sporadically, due to oversaturated genre, what happened is that Ruin and Daybreaker brought me more pleasure than Lost…
Machine Gun: Live at The Fillmore East 12/31/1969 (First Show)
Hendrix Had a Machine Gun
When Jimi Hendrix Experience split up in 1969, Jimi Hendrix did not procrastinate for too long. He played with Billy Cox for a while, and…
Over the Edge
Over the edge
Oakland “stoner violence” trio Connoisseur’s entire debut LP is about the pleasures and politics of smoking weed.&…
Paper Gods
Fear Of Dancing With Lindsay Lohan
Million dollar question: on whose album did John Frusciante play short before he announced he is retiring from his active music career? The answer…
Dusk
Ultimate Painting - Dusk shines brightly
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…
Heart Is Full
Miike Snow Heart Is Full
Miike Snow is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Christian Karlsson (who is half of the EDM duo Galantis),…
Ash & Ice
Who Killed The Kills?
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have a profuse chemistry, and it has been a constant of all of The Kills albums, starting from Keep On Your Mean Side…
E·mo·tion
Carly Rae Jepsen, “E-MO-TION,” and The Uncrapifying Power Of Pop
So, I have this really crummy day, right? I’m talking wake up too early and can’t fall back to sleep, headache all morning,…
Heart Crash Boom Bang
Ewian=Radiohead?
Let's be real - it's difficult for people to get out of their comfort zones an change their routine. The best evidence for this was Ewian when…
Blezard
Cavalier Song: Blezard
Cavalier Song are a Liverpool band consisting of Daniel Melia, Luke Mawdsley, Jason Dugdale, Mark Greenwood, Matt Ward and…
For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Slow, Deep and Hard
The title of Type O Negative’s first album is a perfect describer of Subrosa’s new record, For This We Fought the Battle of Ages.…
Perfect Symmetry
geographic sound
When a song manages to get your attention for its pleasant sound, and can identify with letter, simply he did, at the time that you come to listen,…
Look at the River
We Do Not Look
On an acapella note, Ayla Nereo uses the opportunity to emulate a chorus of vocals. Using only the voice given to Nereo, we are only the recipients of…
Gangsta
Will Jay's Gangsta Presents a Counter-Cultural Vision of Masculinity
The growing body of work by up-and-coming 21-year old singer-songwriter and ex-IM5 boy band member Will Jay has mostly revolved around the…
Million Reasons
Lady Gaga Gives Us A Million Reasons
Who doesn't know of Lady Gaga? Whether you are a fan or not, one has to admit that Lady Gaga has the stones to write and sing about…
Lover's Spit
The Longing in Lover's Spit
Since its release on Canadian indie rock music collective Broken Social Scene's critically acclaimed second album You Forgot It in People …
New York
An Emotional Vital Connection to New York Comes From St. Vincent
St. Vincent released the latest song New York while also announcing the Fear the Future Tour which starts this November. New York is incredibly…
Smile
Lily Allen Still Brings On A Smile
Describing Lily Allen is hard to do. That may be a fact itself however, Allen has proved nothing is quite sacred on a comical note. Also the year 2006…
No Drama Queen
Grouplove's Gesture Towards Drama Queens
No Drama Queen certainly adds a bite to the long list unexpected song titles. Yet, if you've ever seen Paper Towns crafted from the mind of John…
Orion
Rodrigo Y Gabriela Spark Planetary Existence
Rodrigo Y Gabriela has been a duo for nearly two decades. No matter how one interrupts their career, Rodrigo Y Gabriela contributes a success of fully…
Cranes in the Sky
Tranquil Ennui
When Solange's critically-acclaimed A Seat at the Table (2016) was released last year, I paid more attention to the explicit…
Like a Rolling Stone
COVERLAND Vol.22: Like a Rolling Stone
“Like a Rolling Stone” is one of the most influential songs in rock history. It’s the tune that transformed Bob Dylan…
Wall Of Glass
Our Kid goes solo with mixed results
Any song that features one of the Gallagher brothers is guaranteed to have at least one thing: swagger. Swagger, bravado, and sheer bloody-mindedness…
Same Old Love
It's hard to let it go
Selena Gomez seems to have been born for a life in entertainment. As a matter a fact, she hardly knows anything else. Her career actually began at the…
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
COVERLAND Vol.13: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Here is another song by Bob Dylan in the Coverland series, although this one is not that legendary as “All Along the Watchtower.”…
Take Me
A Song for Mending Hearts
South Korean singer-songwriter MISO's debut single Take Me is the promising result of her artistic incubation with the Red Bull Music…
Ghost
“Ghost” by Ella Henderson
Henderson's powerful voice, personal lyrics, and stylish look inspired by the vintage fashion with which she had been enchanted since childhood,…
Swim
DAN CROLL - SWIM / ONE OF US
I recently stumbled upon Dan Croll’s newly released single, Swim, and I was suitably impressed. Croll has managed to create something that…
Decide
Experimental Decisions
'Decide' curated by Junior Empire attributes an avant-garde techinque. As a band this track sounds like a track full of repeated loops, layers…
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Gloomy Clarity
Four years after the release of their debut album Ministry of Love(2013), Los Angeles duo IO Echo is back with an airy…
You Look Good
You look good
On a boat, on a beachIn the water, in the sand, in the back of a barCold beer in your hand Breaking hearts, breaking necksWhen we rolling down the…
Saturn
A Song for the Soul
In May of 2015, I moved to Ohio, and in December of 2015, it became unbearably frigid (in my opinion, of course). While my husband is perfectly…
Change the Paradigm
Austra's Change the Paradigm is an Operatic Antidote to Political Fatalism
The list of grievances that a protest song could address in 2017 has only diversified and grown as the months progressed: income inequality, sexism,…
I Scare Myself
COVERLAND Vol.6: I Scare Myself
The 80s were a decade filled with hits. But did you know that many of them were reworks of songs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s? One of those tunes that I…
Mad World
Revisiting Tears for Fears
This song reminds me of every day when you run through your motions and everything is the same and everything is dissatisfying and disappointing and…
China Girl - alt mix
COVERLAND Vol. 7: China Girl
David Bowie and Iggy Pop wrote “China Girl” together in 1977 for Iggy’s album “The Idiot.” It didn&…
Aire
The Unexpected Made Song
Someone as smooth as the breeze. A person who comes and goes, you can not touch or you can have. When you know that you can not grasp the air, music…
Te Recuerdo Dulcemente
Juanga and Calamaro locked themselves in the study
I think it sounds crazy but when you analyze it makes sense. The Mexican Juan Gabriel, a legend of music, is joined with Argentine Andres Calamaro,…
Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind
Time Travelling
“Think of what’s going on now. Where am I going to get my inspiration? I couldn’t think of a thing today…
Amor en el Aire (De
Children's songs? Part II
Children's songs or the first songs they hear the children are those bands that esucha one from tiny, and are the favorite of parents.…
Ten Miles High
Ungrounded
Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy appears to be taking her craft to idiosyncratically stratospheric hights with the…
Paint It, Black
Ciara's dark side sounds good
Now that I’ve written a few blogs for Kurrent Music, you must have notice that I’m a pretty positive person. I look at Ciara as…
Cold
The Surreal Aptness of Seeing Rich Brian as an Olympic Figure Skater in the Cold MV
As a certain calculative pop star once sang, it's all in the timing. Rich Brian's cinematic turn as an Olympic figure skater - while seemingly…
Misery
Gwen brings us a new video
The new song is called Misery, and is the third single from his latest album This Is What the Truth Feels Like is inspired by the situation that has…
Matters
Making Amends
Omaha group Twinsmith, consisting of Jordan Smith (vocals/guitar), Matt Regner (guitar/keys), Bill Sharp (bass) and Oliver Morgan (drums),…
Hearts in Motion
Noise Pop Finds A Solid Foundation
Give the 90's one thing, whether you where a fan or not...Noise Pop became a true visionary substance. And Yuck from Georgia have the courage to…
Humble And Kind
Tim McGraw: Humble and Kind Review
When we were all kids, we were always taught to appreciate the simpler things in life. We were raised to be humble and kind among others. …
Hello
Learning from the Success of Adele’s “Hello”: Insights from MusicPromoToday
In case you have been living in a bubble, Google “Hello” by Adele and read the results. Besides the numerous links of fans sharing…
Toothbrush
How Does The Lyricvideo Power The Music Video?
The video merge in the Karaoque 2.0, show us more of a story made song, voice and melody that makes up part of the band of your life. Surely when…
One Call Away
Charlie Puth
Charlie Puth is a 25 year old American singer songwriter whose 2015 song SEE YOU AGAIN , was co-written and produced with Wiz Khalifa, hitting #1 on…
Oceans
Emotions Unsteady
Seafret accompany a character of emotions with their single 'Oceans'. Dipped in emotional depth and creative peril, Seafret do not back away…
New York
New York = Love's Graveyard
Milk and Bone is a Montreal electro-pop duo (i.e. Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin) who earned critical acclaim with their debut album…
Get My Bang
On Eros and Thanatos
“It became apparent that that guitar almost became the character within the songs, that phallic character, the all-conquering…
Hard Times
Paramore's New Song Will Get You Through the Hard Times
After their 4-year hiatus, everyone was stoked to hear that Paramore was coming back. Certainly, their rest has not made them lose their sound but…
Kit Kat
Hi-Five’s Kit Kat break
I know, I know, a lot of my blogs recently are about all these R&B acts returning and yes, there’s another one. Actually, it’s one I wasn’t…
The Queen Is Dead - 2011 Remastered Version
Songs that started it all: The Smiths The Queen is Dead
Never underestimated how impressionable a teenager discovering indie music is, a least the ones who only just started buying NME. That was the case…
So Young
An Apocalyptic Lull
Portland-via-Alaska indie rock band Portugal. The Man's upcoming eighth full-length album Woodstock is scheduled for…
Starboy
Testing out The Weeknd
Last week, The Weeknd released his new single, Starboy. If that alone didn't excite you, the fact that it's a collaboration with Daft Punk…
Sweet Disposition
Sweet Nostaglia
Whether it be a film, tv show or a sudden appearance of a long forgotten memory while shopping at the grocery store...The Temper Trap's…
Clementine
Her Name isn't Clementine?
I had no inkling of who Sarah Jaffe was when I clicked on a link to ‘Clementine’ (it was a recommended video on my Youtube account…
Miss You
James Hersey's Miss You
I'll admit, what drew me to this track on Apple Music was definitely the cover art. I'm a sucker for cool packaging, and I'm pretty sure I…
Breaking Down
The Sound of Neurosis
Sometimes its the more low-key tracks that grab your attention. Florence + the Machine has risen to worldwide prominence with Florence Welsh's…
Dusk Till Dawn - Radio Edit
Zayn and Sia Join Forces on a Formulaic Stadium Pop Number
The prestige crime drama-inspired music video for Zayn and Sia’s power pop ballad “Dusk Till Dawn” may be mostly…
Treat You Better
Shawn Mendes premieres Treat You Better
Who can forget the young Canadian guy who Diola around the world with its theme Stitches, that no one was removed from the head, that subject with…
Tourner dans le vide
Afloat
Turning in the empty or tourner dans le vide, is in the terms of this song sung by Indila is treading water / staying afloat. Learning to live with a…
With A Little Help From My Friends - Remastered
COVERLAND Vol.26: With a Litle Help from My Friends
When I was starting to listen and collect rock LP’s as a teenager, the triple vinyl from Woodstock ‘69 came to me before a Beatles…
Coffee
COFFEE
True, it’s a dance we know the moves The bow, the dip, the woo Though the words are true, The state is old news I would like to talk about…
Holy War
Keep yourself open
I apologize for a short blog, but many things have been said about the events of today already. I don’t know about you, but my timelines on every…
Watermelon Man
JAZZ STANDARDS Vol.14 - Watermelon Man
The sixties were an era when younger musicians started to write extensively, with many of the then-new compositions becoming standards in the decades…
Wild Thoughts
Wild copy or wild creation?
There’s something bugging me about DJ Khaled’s “Wild Thoughts”. The song has been causing a stir from the moment the video was dropped with Rihanna in…
Alone Together - From the musical production
JAZZ STANDARDS Vol.16 - Alone Together
“Alone Together” is a song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz, introduced for the first time in Jean Sargent&…
Endless Beauty
Back Again and Here To Stay
Soviet Soviet has been around for some time, recently releasing a new track titled Endless Beauty. First off anytime a band that has stayed together…
Good Girls
Californian Romancing
It’s not hard to see why LA-via-Nashville trio LANY (pronounced as Lay-Nee) have amassed a large and dedicated online following of…
Mi primer millon
American Dream, Latin Dream and Venezuelan Dream
When the eyes are closed, not only rest, but you dream, it is a time when the unconscious is released, and everything comes to light, and only you…
Sucker
Sucker for The Big Moon
The Big Moon has a song playfully titled Sucker that...also has a seductive attraction that easily draws in any one within hearing distance. London…
Close
Nick Jonas Teams Up With Tove Lo On His New Single “Close”
The little boy who used to sing with his brothers Jonas Brothers, has just released the first single called Close in collaboration with Tove Lo. This…
Shine A Light
A Grand, Soulful Empowerment Anthem
Initially known as Raines, Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Mike Nelson changed his stage name to BANNERS with the release of Shine the Light - a…
Fool's Gold
What's Eating the Wallflower
Music listeners who stumble upon Jack River’s “Fool’s Gold” music video will probably find themselves drawing some comparisons to alt-pop chanteuse…
Try Everything - From
Shakira premieres the theme song for the Disney movie Zootopia
Shakira surprised us once again, the Colombian artist is now part of one of the most recent Disney film deliveries, Zootopia is expected to hit…
Gold
Invasion of Pop
High Tyde entrust the holy grail of guitar with their single 'Gold'. At first when 'Gold' started playing two distinctive thoughts…
Agree
POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e's Agree is a Plaintive Ode to the Persistent Need for Intimacy
When Samantha Cameron was “outed” as a fan of Minneapolis synth-pop band POLIÇA in 2015, British tabloid newspaper The…
Love Letter To Japan
Electro-Exotica Ear Candy
LA-based indie pop group The Bird and the Bee consist of Greg Kurstin and Inara George, who mainly rely on a winsome formula that Pitchfork&#…
Semaphore
Too Far Gone for the Semaphore
In most areas of my life, I struggle to express myself in a way that feels authentic and genuine. Music is a respite from that — it's…
You're a Germ
Wolf Alice Throws Ill At Ease Chaos With You're A Germ
At one point no one had heard of Wolf Alice and within a two-year span, everyone was sharing a song or two from the acclaimed English band. …
Deja Vu
Leaving a Recurring Romance
A love song swirl seem to be the flavor you get with Jessica Lowndes song “Deja Vu”. It’s the situation of being in a…
Nothing Compares 2 U
COVERLAND Vol.3: Nothing Compares 2 U
“Nothing Compares 2 U” is another one of those songs whose cover outshined the original. Everyone knows the version by Sinead O&#…
Alibi
Empara Mi's Alibi Presents Dramatic Self-Purging
“Alibi” is the latest addition to a growing body of work by Empara Mi, a singer-songwriter who has positioned herself within the…
Big Boy Games
TEROUZ DROPS INFECTIOUS NEW TRACK BIG BOY GAMES
Egyptian Canadian concept artist TEROUZ found his sound by curating original songs with his taste for ‘90s nostalgia and ‘70s &…
I Love You Baby, I Love You Doll
'Indian' Indie
Kolkata-based dream pop duo Parekh & Singh's (instrumentalist/vocalist Nischay Parekh and…
Off and On
SALES Flesh Out Exquisite Yearning with Off and On
Florida-based indie duo SALES (guitarist/producer Jordan Shih and vocalist/guitarist Lauren Morgan) recently released Off and On,…
What About Us
About P!nk's return
P!nk is back. Those three words have made my week. :) Her new song, “What About Us”, picks up where we left off. There…
The Other Side of Hollywood (feat. Cheyenne Jackson)
Interview with Songwriting and Music Production Duo Doug Rockwell and Tova Litvin
Today we are speaking with the Emmy nominated songwriting and music production team, Doug Rockwell and Tova Litvin. This talented duo…
We Are All On Drugs
A Bunch Of Happy Kids
Even though Weezer are not kids or teenagers anymore 'We Are All On Drugs' acts as a right of passage. In that complete coming-of-age…
Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart
Twin Peaks is back in May, so here's some Julee Cruise
Twin Peaks is one of my favourite shows of all time, and it's soundtrack is a big reason for this. It only takes a couple of bars of Falling, the…
Lust for Life (with The Weeknd)
Newfound Optimism
Fans have never had to look to hard to find the melancholy, fatalism and nihilism in Lana Del Rey’s many, many songs about doomed love (with…
All My Life
Lasting Just Like Love
Because this month couldn't end without me being thankful to have celebrated one more year of wedded bliss, I am taking time to commend one of the…
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Intimate Agony
As a society I feel that we perceive softness and vulnerability as traits that are ‘weak,' and people emotionally disconnect themselves…
Sax
A modern twist on James Brown
I could’ve never predicted the trend. When Jason Derulo released “Trumpets” in 2013, he unleashed a sound that…
What Goes Around.../...Comes Around Interlude
From Groups To Soloists And Other Types Of Separations
There are many artists who started with famous groups (and still have relevance) and later solo passage opened. If any of them no longer and wrote a…
Perfect Illusion
Gaga perfection!
Finally! Lady Gaga has released new music. The much anticipated new single, “Perfect Illusion”, was released today and even though…
You Are the Right One
Ironic Summer Cruisin’
Oklahoma dream pop trio Sports (Cale Chronister, Jacob Theriot and Christian Theriot) traffic in a kind of ironic coolness that rarely found in indie…
Adicta
Maite Perroni shows herself “Adicta” in her New Video
Maite Perroni is a Mexican singer and actress who on Friday launched the world's new music single Addicted, this issue is still part of his…
Perfect Illusion
Lady Gaga tells us how she lived a Perfect Illusion
Perfect Illusion is the title that brings the new issue of extravagant Lady Gaga, who until recently we had confused making us ask where they had…
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
Christmas time is nearing!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! The breeze, Christmas shopping, food and gift wrappings— we can say that Holidays is near. This one…
Boyfriend
American Pastoral
American singer-songwriter Lissie's latest track “Boyfriend operates in the same thematic territory as her critically acclaimed third…
Indian Summer
A Sit Down With Shakambo
We had the chance to sit down with Shakambo, an artist & producer putting his own twist on the Lofi sound. Learn more about the inspiration…
Like I Do
Trevor braved us up with Like I Do
After willingly fallin so deep in eclipse of Trevor`s spectacular album project In My Feelings, I instantly…
Your Best American Girl
The Unhinged Catharsis of Not Fitting In
2016 may prove to be the turning point for Asian American representation in popular culture, with the proliferation of social media campaigns…
Hard Times
Paramore return as the great pop band they always should have been.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been tearing my hair out in frustration at Linkin Park’s neutered pop direction, mainly because of its severe…
Nausea
Watching My Time Wrinkle Alone
Nausea is the title track of Craft Spells' (the stage name of California's Justin Paul Vallesteros) second studio album - a title…
Closer
Come 'Closer' With Chainsmokers!
When we talk about EDM, there are so many artists on the list to mention, there’s Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Avicii, Ellie Goulding. But…
Sandman
Trudy and the Romance blast out ramshackled new single ‘Sandman’
Fresh from their tour with The Big Moon, Trudy and the Romance unleash new cut Sandman, a rampaging track which sees the Liverpool trio further…
Porgy and Bess: Act 1: Scene 1: Summertime
Jazz Standards Vol.7 - Summertime
‘Summertime’ is probably the best-known standard outside the jazz circless. This song is an aria from the 1935 opera ‘…
Love Me Better
Redemptive Pop
I had a big hit. And then I had 12 years of aggression towards it. It was a strange experience. [These are] quite harsh words to hear at the top of a…
The Body Is a Blade
The Hazy Catharsis of Japanese Breakfast's The Body is a Blade
After the otherworldly escapades in the music videos for Machinist and Road Head, Japanese Breakfast (Oregon singer-songwriter and guitarist Michelle…
Opposite House
When It Rains Inside
Like the surrealist accompanying Jonny Look-directed music video, folk-rock crooner Cass McCombs' Opposite House is…
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) - DJ Escape & Tony Coluccio Remix - Club Version
The powerful message that Sorry de Beyonce carries
The new Beyonce album Lemonade is full of powerful lyrics to all his songs, and this is especially impressive, Sorry it is the theme that the artist…
Back in Black
Brian Johnson's entry
Leather, black color, sweat and strident sounds are some of the symbols of the heavy rock culture that allow a way to understand the life of a…
Crave You
Dripping in Gold, Craving You
First off Crave You featuring Giselle by Flight Facilities...literally plays in my head every other weekend. A catchy intimate dance number that…
Gracious Tempest - Live
When they speak in a song
Who does not remember the intro of Never will mourn or I'll Never Break Your Heart by The backstreetboys, or in certain rap songs like I&…
Lover Boy
Phum Viphurit's Lover Boy Evokes a Funky and Idyllic Romance
Bangkok-based singer-songwriter Phum Viphurit excels at capturing the push-pull dynamic that underscores the beginning of so many…
Boys
Charli XCX and the Female 'Gaze'
They’re basically doing all the sexy things that girls usually do in videos [...] I've turned it around! [...] I started…
Skyline
Epic Lushness
Canadian indie music collective Broken Social Scene recently released Skyline, the third single from their upcoming LP …
The Girl Is Mine featuring Destiny's Child & Brandy
Cut And Paste Some Hit Potential
Ladies and gentlemen, we have so arrived in a new era of sampling. Where we used to just sample music, we now sample full vocals and mix them up with…
Painting (Masterpiece)
A Technicolor Masterpiece
After gaining indie success and a record label with Columbia via the success of their first single Loud(y) in early 2015 (were reached No. 1…
I Love My Friends
Foster The People Don't Conform, They Invent
Foster The People's newest album Sacred Hearts Club is light-hearted compared to the band's previous albums. With that being said, the band…
Girls On T.V.
Dreamy Delusions
In Hollywood (2003), Madonna (in a somewhat hypocritical fashion) examined the empty promises and delusions that the California dream factory implants…
Young And Menace
Fall Out Boy Traces New Ground And Break Promises With Young And Menace
Who knew Fall Out Boy would last this long in the Indie game? By starting out as a Pop Punk band throwing caution to the wind and starting a semi-…
The Trip
Wistful Wanderlust
Like Porches' Car, Still Corners' The Trip explores the promise of travel and the desire to escape. The Trip is more one-…
Praying
Kesha's personal prayer
Pretty much out of the blue, Kesha released her new single last week. One day, she announced a new video on Instagram and the next day, the video was…
Electric Love
Borns Spins Into Our Psyche
Definitely struck by electric love on this one. Borns is originally from Michigan and somehow resurrected the glam and ethereal essence of Marc Bolan&…
Last Kind Words
COVERLAND Vol.16: Last Kind Words
After almost 90 years, Rhiannon Giddens revived the song “Last Kind Words” by the obscure country-blues singer Geeshie Wiley, a blues tune which was…
Pipe Dream
Kyle Duke Releases Debut Single Pipe Dream
Kyle Duke has just released the debut single and music video, “Pipe Dream,” from his album coming out May 4th, Snack Time. The…
Player
Tinashe: Player Review
Relationships come and go, ride up and down, all around, and any what way you wanna say. They can be fun, happy, sad, crazy, or all of it at once.&…
Beggin & Pleadin
Brandy Gears up For Metamorphosis
Remember Brandy? Yes, precisely the one who use to be our R&B dope in the 90s. The latest news brewing on the Brandy front is a new…
Love Yourself
Justin Bieber-fied!
Justin Bieber's “Love Yourself” is such a cool song. I cannot believe I used Justin Bieber and the word “cool&…
ILYSB
ILYSB Means More Than You Know To LANY
ILYSB or I Love You So Bad for those of us that prefer to type out each word. LANY confuses Pop for Indie and Hip-Hop sectors for Pop references. But…
In and Out
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Honest confession: I've listened to this at least 50 times this whole week and it's currently playing on repeat as I type this review. &…
Don't Touch My Hair
Militant Serenity
What you did indeed say is, “This is why many black people are uncomfortable being in predominately white spaces,” and you still…
Love My Life
That Friends And Family Life With Koache!
LA Rapper Jarromie Latie Wilkins aka Koache, is one of the many underground underrated cats with great mind vision and…
I Want U
1 step forward, 2 steps back, but never back at one
There’s no way you could not know of Brian McKnight, even if you are just a little bit into R&B music. Brian has really build a name for…
Tú Me Quemas - AtellaGali Dance Remix
Chino and Nacho Arrive in Hollywood with Ride Along 2 the Movie
The famous Chinese Venezuelan duo Nacho not stop ringing in the news, highlighted by its urban music increasingly encroaching over the US and the…
Trouble
Trouble Stays Close To The New Respects
Don't you just love when a band falls into your lap? Or happens on your television? That was the case with The New Respects elegantly racing track…
Somebody Else
Guilty Jealousy
Somebody Else is the fifth single from Manchester alt-rock quartet The 1975's (lead singer and guitarist Matt Healy, drummer…
Don't Matter Now
George Ezra is happy to be back
George Ezra is best known to me by his major hit “Budapest”, which had a long reign on the charts since 2014 (and lasted throughout…
Whipping Post - Live At The Fillmore East/1971
COVERLAND Vol.21: Whipping Post
This is one of the great anthems of rock music. The incredible riff and soul moving melody assured its place in music history. The Allman Brothers…
These Bells Will Ring
These Bells Will Ring in the holidays for you with Bitter's Kiss and the Blue Stones
Allow us to dive a little deeper to the word we have come to know as something we don't want. Vulnerable: susceptible to emotional or…
Fuego
Prince Amine “Fuego” Single
I usually prefer to dedicate my time to reviewing EPs or albums. but when a publicist I’ve been in contact with for a long time now recommended I take…
Hallelujah
More Pentatonix Christmas
What would Christmas be without Pentatonix? They may have taken over the Internet with their evolutions of who- or whatever, or their wonderful covers…
Under the Weather
The Sun Harmonic shares new album & focus track Under The Weather
Coast to Coast , el quinto álbum de estudio de The Sun Harmonic , captura la importancia de los viajes y la experiencia que los acompaña.…
Forever
KISS: Your “Romantic” Side
Hollywood movies have sold the idea of Perfect Kiss. They always talk about the blue prince who takes the princess, on a white horse to be happy…
Control
Escapist Nostalgia
I've always preferred music that’s soothing and dreamy. Hazel English, SF Weekly Oakland-based Sydney …
Blank Tapes
Organic Lament
“Blank Tapes” is a track from Everything Feels Better Now (2016), From Indian Lakes’ fourth full-…
Happy Birthday to You (Piano)
Happy Birthday, Danielle!
The music not only accompanies us during the holidays or at a concert. Not just listen to music 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week, and not 365 days a…
Rolling in the Deep
Fans, viral covers and the power of music
When an artist manages to conquer his audience with a song, some of his followers who sing or play an instrument, are encouraged to pay homage with a…
Suicide Saturday
Preyed Upon That Summertime Kind Of Way
Sometimes kids when a song hits you in the jaw, it not only hurts it stings and leaves a mark. Hippo Campus' 'Suicide Saturday' positions…
Introduction
Céline recovers after the loss of her husband
Celine Dion has had a difficult year, she lost her husband Rene Angelil and his brother only two weeks apart, have recently been reported in some…
&Run
Sir Sly Delivers Endorphin-Surging Catharsis With &Run
Los Angeles indie electronic rock trio Sir Sly recently released a music video for “&Run”, the second single from their…
Afterhours feat. Diplo & Nina Sky
NEW HOT JAM: TroyBoi-Afterhours ft. Diplo and Nina Sky
London naitive, TroyBoi, a one time versatile multi genre music producer and a part of a Dj duo SoundSnobz, is one hard working man machine. Currently…
Ghost Reindeer in the Sky
The Carolyn Sills Combo Spreads Spirit With Ghost Reindeer in the Sky
The Carolyn Sills Combo who have been literally everywhere this year, are giving fans a holiday gift! Their new song and video for Ghost Reindeer in…
Move On
Vapor Trails
Move On is Tel-Aviv based electronic indie pop trio Garden City Movement's (Roi Avital on vocals, keyboards and guitar; Joe Saar on guitar,…
Underworld
Underworld
And I Will Kiss And I will kiss you all. On and on. It will be a kiss without any kissing any touching. There is only one person I can kiss…
Famasloop
Famasloop and Viniloversus return to the stage in Caracas.
After two years without being on stage in Venezuela, the Caracas band Viniloversus has announced that soon will offer a show for all ages in the city…
Neil Young
Neil Young released new album
Neil Young is a universal benchmark in the history of music. Since 1960 he has been writing songs and their influence still much in the 90s was…
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Palestrina Takes Early Sacred Works Over the Top
Strolling down Memory Lane, we come across the gorgeous Palestrina and his great work from one great mass (Gloria, Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei) and…
Okills
Okills premiering
A few months ago, I wrote that Okills Venezuela is one of the bands that has been more successful in recent years (http://bit.ly/2emFrdc). His game…
Kudai
May that shooting star be me?
Major Lazer
Major Lazer presents its theme for Christmas “Christmas Tree”
The group of DJs led by Diplo, Major Lazer, just introduced its theme to commemorate the holidays, a sticky dub bearing the name Christmas Tree and…
Royal Blood
Royal Blood releases new song and music video
I Only Lie When I Love You is the new single from one of the UK's most recognized emerging bands, Royal Blood . The same is one of the cuts…
The Beatles
It's Getting Better All The Time
Do you ever feel as if you are floating above the clouds when listening to music? You are able to be released into your own world of beauty and…
Victor Drija
Bieber's Sorry is covered by Victor Drija
Following the success of Justin Bieber theme Sorry, Venezuelan singer Victor Drija released its own version of the single in Spanish, which is called…
Céline Dion
This song will be your anthem of life
First comes the sound, and then, the lyrics, these elements are determinant to know if a song is your favorite or not. A theme of a song, that many…
Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire releases new single and video, Signs of Life
Everything Now , the new work of studio of the Arcade Fire Canadians, has already presented / displayed the promotional cut that gives name to the…
Francy la Voz Popular de América
There's Another One In My Bed is the new thing that Francy brings
Francy, The People 's Voice of America, released his new single Hay Otro En Mi Cama with visual material. The song has already started…
Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean premiered his new song Lens
New Orleans has a child prodigy and is called Christopher Edwin Breaux, better known as Frank Ocean. The singer who revolutionized R & B in…
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath temporarily suspends its tour
When is the only time five generations can be put together and gather in the same space to jump and sing like schoolgirls, the worst news you can…
Carlos Vives
Carlos Vives closes the year with a little gift
With a year-end on a high, Carlos Vives gives to his fans a great production. The singer recently offered a historic concert at the Estadio El Campin…
Warehouse Eyes
Warehouse Eyes: Expanding Dream Pop
Being an indie fan, when I hear Dream Pop Duo and see a picture of a guy and a girl, I can't help but think of Beach House, the quintessential…
Radikal Satan
Radikal Satan
What can one say when there are no words to use? What can one do when there are so many things to breed and show this world? Yes, music is the answer.…
Metallica
Metallica and The Strokes headline Lollapalooza Chile 2017
This year's Lollapalooza festival was serving 25 years, there is no reason because in the beginning he supported groupings driven alternative…
Fur Coat
Venezuelan electronics at Coachella 2016
California is expected to forward every year to reach the last weeks of April. Much more this year because the Coachella Valley Music And Arts…
The Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones concert canceled due to Mick Jagger's Laryngitis
The Rolling Stones have canceled a concert scheduled in the enclosure T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, in the United States, due to laryngitis Mick…
Lady Gaga
Victims of abuse agreed with Lady Gaga.
The singer Lady Gaga got a tattoo that connects it to other victims of abuse and introduced the process in several videos and photos on Snapchat.…
Alejandro Sanz
Prepaid streaming concert by Alejandro Sanz.
More is more, the multitudinous concert that Alejandro Sanz will offer on 24 June at the Vicente Calderón stadium in Madrid, can be followed…
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound are a great psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, who have released a number of great albums through the years.…
Simon Kouskounis
about Simon Kouskounis
Simon Kouskounis (born 5 December 1961) is an established Greek composer , arranger , producer and musician from Athens. This year he celebrates 25…
Jennifer Lopez
Criticism of Jlo for collaboration with Dr. Luke
Strong comments, nothing good, have befallen the singer Jennifer Lopez after collaboration with producer Dr. Luke in her new single titled '&…
Charly García
Charly García returns with The Machine of Being Happy
The Machine Be Happy is the new promotional song that has taken the reading of Argentine rock Charly Garcia. It is the return of the singer, who in…
Tomates Fritos
Fried Tomatoes presents its theme I see myself without you
The portocrucenses Tomates Fritos, who arrived this year to its two decades of work, premiered this weekend the first single of which will be the…
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dimitri Shostakovich - The Jazz Album
First of all, this is not a jazz album at all! It’s a compilation of beautiful classical pieces, written by Dimitri Shostakovich, inspired…
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam to release live album on Jack White's record label
Good artists always come together. And this time was the time for Eddie Vedder and his band, Pearl Jam do it with Jack White. This is a series of…
Grim Reaper
grim of jun konagaya
Jun Konagaya Well, hello once again. Once again back is the incredible, noise animal. These holidays and this January have made a lot of mess. I want…
Randy Hall
R&B Single A New Way of Love Destined to be Randy Hall’s Greatest Hit on Spotify and YouTube
Randy Hall takes a risk (that has paid off big time!) as he incorporates R&B influences in his newest release, A New Way of Love, now…
Temples
Temples presents “Strange Or Be Forgotten”, a new single from his next album
British psychedelic rock band and glam attitude, Temples, is preparing since late last year to launch in March of his second studio album which will…
Bruce Springsteen
Songs for Christmas Eve
Greetings. Here I give you a choice of several Christmas songs tonight can enjoy while dining, drinking and sharing. Guarachando Christmas Vol . 1 -…
Bully
Who Are Bully?
Bully an easy enough name to remember that also packs a punch. As a surprise, I happened to see Bully open for the Drowners a while back and instantly…
Ben Miller Band
Ben Miller Band Interview
Ben Miller Band first caught my attention at a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Oktoberfest event, where I had gone to see Bloodkin (previously featured…
Major Lazer
Major Lazer released a song in Spanish with J Balvin and Sean Paul
After winning several successes in the last years, the trio Major Lazer continues working in the creation of new subjects to put to the world to…
Bucky Covington
Bucky Covington Turned me into a Fan
I remember watching Season 5 of American Idol, and I was not really a fan of Bucky Covington. That changed when I was asked, after the season was…
Céline Dion
After a few tragic months Celine Dion returns with “Encore Un Soir”
Slowly the actress has been recovering from the difficult moments that he lived with his family after going through the physical disappearance in the…
Pablo Alborán
Alborán announces withdrawal from the stage
Pablo Alboran not removed from the music, neither two years, because in that period of time will continue to work and projects in America, as defined…
The Monteverdi Choir
Monteverdi Goes Sacred
If you are a listener of beautiful and harmonic things, may I recommend Claudio Monteverdi and his Missa In Illo Tempore? It is truly a beautiful,…
Nacho
Bati Bati Chewing Gum Makes Me Happy Happy
Ice cream Bati Bati is one of the ice cream I remember from my childhood, being not only an icon of the Venezuelan culture and tradition but also one…
Davy Knowles
Spielberg’s Ready Player One Nightclub Meets Its Match with Davy Knowles Release of VR Interactive 360 Mobile App Of His Live Concert
“Modern-day Blues Man” Davy Knowles has paired up with Florida based 360 VR company 1:9 Technology LLC to bring music and VR fans alike a new app. He…
Niall Horan
Niall Horan debuts with Slow Hands
After the group One Direction is taken a break, the members have decided to take the initiative to make individual musical material; On this occasion…
Ricardo Arjona
Remiendo Al Corazón, the new Ricardo Arjona
Ricardo Arjona is in the middle of promoting his album Circo Soledad , a completely different production in which the artist bets on new sounds and…
Mr Twin Sister
Nice to Meet You Mr. Twin Sister
Bands go through all kinds of things. But for Twin Sister the ride has been a little rougher one. I was introduced to this band quite some years back…
Michael Jackson
Many Hit´s And A Single Artist
Even called him the King of the Pop, talented from the childhood, passed many transitions; From a band of brothers to a career as a soloist, skin…
Reik
Reik wants to enjoy the present
The band Reik not interested in becoming a music legend. '' We prefer achievements and enjoy living in the present, because usually…
Rae Sremmurd
Rae Sremmurd - Now That I Know now with audiovisual
On December 19, members of Rae Sremmurd (Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi) decided to make the music video for number nine of his latest album titled…
Prurient
Prurient: Unknown Rains (2016)
Every spring is about changes. And changes are everything. Now this particular spring breathes with awesome changes for good and thrilling anxiety is…
Servando & Florentino
20 years of the first time
Today marks 20 years of the premiere in Venezuelan billboard first time, the film that recorded the euphoria generated in the nineties the Salser&#…
ZZ Top
Nothin’ Can Stop ZZ Top
This trio, to me, is one of the baddest in the music industry. You know them when you notice the fire-engine red ’33 Ford coupe fly past the…
Prince Royce
Latin Union calls for Prince Royce.
The Dominican-born New York singer Prince Royce today launched a message in favor of the union of the Latino community in the United States,…
Queen
The Ultra Brilliance of Queen
24+ years since the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen’s legacy – one of rock’s biggest and most controversial bands – is still completely inseparable&…
Kings of Leon
Kings Of Leon closed the year with a new video
Kings of Leon wanted to celebrate Christmas with the launch of a new music video. It is Find Me it gives below its previous single Waste a Moment. In…
Alicia Keys
How Do Music Reality Shows Monetize?
Shows the Realitys gave a new look to the way people watch TV. Provided such feeling of closeness, allows the public to imagine that may be the one…
Diego Torres
Diego Torres celebrates diversity with a theme
Diego Antonio Caccia Torres, known artistically as Diego Torres, is a singer and Argentine musician musically cultivated the genre Pop Latino. It is…
Katy Perry
Katy Perry releases second single from upcoming album
Katy Perry released the second single from her fifth studio album musical, which still has no name or official release date. This is called Bon…
Pixies
Lollapalooza is coming to Paris
Lollapalooza is one of the largest and most important in the world. The first was held in 1991 in the United States by Perry Farrell, lead singer of…
Drake
Drake- Summer Sixteen
Just when I thought Drake couldn’t top what he’s already put out, he drops yet another hit track. Summer Sixteen is, without a…
Avicii
Avicii says goodbye to music
Sorpresón in the world of electronic music. With only 26 years old, Tim Bergling, better known as Avicii, has decided to say goodbye to music,…
David Bowie
Ten songs to remember David Bowie
The eccentric British singer David Bowie, histrionic pop culture icon and creator of 25 studio albums left a legacy of great topics that will be…
Radiohead
RadioHead went crazy
Radiohead has been characterized by being very close to its fans. The British are always looking for ways to communicate everything new that they…
Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba premiered a new theme
Mexican rock band Cafe Tacuba started the year in style by launching a new music video. This is the song Future will be part of his new album to be…
Eyehategod
Eyehategod
Dirty South is deep inside of me. Dirty, sweaty south is where I’m from. Madness and hopelessness, magick and misery, dust and whiskey,…
Human Nature
Doo-wop comes naturally
In the middle of the 90s, they seemed to be a boyband like many, many others. The 4 Australian boys of Human Nature made their global debut with new…
Violet Delancey
Violet Delancey ‘When The Clock Strikes Midnight’ - Album Review
Southern California native Violet Delancey grew up close to the recording studios where acts like Gram Parsons made country music history in the 1970s…
Brandi Carlile
VIDEO: Brandi Carlile ‘The Things I Regret’
Brandi Carlile has been releasing great songs and entertaining fans for over a decade now, and one thing you can definitely say about her is that she&…
Delinquent Habits
The return of Delinquent habits with Sen Dog
Within the broad culture of Hip Hop there are various genres Rap, one that suurgió the mid-decades of the 90s was the 'Chicano'.…
Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara: Not Another YouTube Sensation
“I wish I could freeze the time at seventeen.” Up-and-coming R&B artist, Alessia Cara, definitely took the words out of…
Moby
Moby & the Void Pacific Choir
Something extremely good this ways comes. The new thing from Moby called “Moby & the Void Pacific Choir” is about to smash…
Rihanna
Rihanna with Mike Will Made
The queen of urban music, Rihanna, repeated one of his favorite formula: artistic collaboration. This time, the singer of Barbados, participated in a…
Jerry Goldsmith
Rudy the underdog
Rudy, the movie about an undersized and dyslexic kid whose dream was to play football at Notre Dame, holds a special place in my heart. The film&…
Andrew Gouche
LOW-END ZONE!!!
Sometimes musicians go to a special place known as “music for musicians.” Jazz, in general, has often been described as such by those who haven’t…
Silvestre Dangond
Silvestre Dangond and his successful tour
Silvestre Dangond continues to tour and does so with great success. The Colombian has visited the Pepsi Center WTC of Mexico City and the Domo Care…
Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood On ‘Storyteller’, Her Varied Career And Returning To The UK – Interview
We were lucky enough to be front and centre during the press conferences at the recent C2C Festival in London. Carrie Underwood stopped by to talk to…
Kalamashaka
7 Artists Who Helped Pioneer African Hip Hop
Hip hop has come a long way from its origins in the Bronx, New York to worldwide popularity; it has truly become a powerhouse within music and world…
Drake
Drake was the most downloaded during 2016 for Spotify
The year is coming to an end and as expected, the main houses for sale, search and playback music world begin to produce lists of the highlights and…
Memo Morales
Unforgettable songs by Memo Morales
They say the great singers die on stage. And so it happened to Memo Morales who died at dawn on January 1 when he sang at a concert New Year'…
Gabriela Montero
Committed music sounds like Gabriela Montero
It is true that since some time ago, the Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero has been doing extraordinary work: it is not only an exceptionally…
Domenico Scarlatti
Life of Scarlatti
The birth of one of the future masters of music, Domenico Scarlatti was born in bustling and vibrant city of Naples, Italy on October 26, 1685. He&…
Bunbury
Bunbury releases Unplugged album
The singer and Spanish composer Enrique Bunbury, has joined the list of recognized artists with an unplugged disc after release, this November 27,…
Shakira
Shakira offers a surprise concert in Miami
The Colombian singer Shakira offered a free mini-concert tonight to the late nightmates who waited for her in a bar in Wynwood, Miami, USA, where she…
Anielle Reid
VIDEO: Anielle Reid ‘Love Song’
Having released her videos for ‘Morality‘ and ‘Better‘ from her EP ‘Ain’t Like ‘…
Mother Love Bone
Watching The Love Bone Earth Affair
This past Friday, Stardog Records released On Earth As It Is: The Complete Works, a box set compiling all of the recorded works of Mother Love Bone, a…
Becky G
Becky G meets with Bad Bunny
Becky G , singer, songwriter and Mexican American actress, joins Bad Bunny, one of the greatest exponents of the Latin trap, for her new song titled…
Caudal
Caudal
Most of us are well aware of Aidan Baker's and Leah Buckareff's legendary dronish shoegazer metal outfit Nadja. However, Aidan Baker has many…
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias recognized as artist of the year at the Latin American Music Awards
For a consecutive year he triumphs in the awards that recognize Latin talent. The Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias won this Thursday the recognition…
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran is already preparing another album
While Ed Sheeran has already accustomed us to monopolize all the covers of music diaries thanks to the incredible work he did with his latest album…
Juan Luis Guerra
The joy of living with Juan Luis Guerra
You can substitute the name of popular Dominican singer. But he, Juan Luis Guerra, has given us the highlights: Meringue with joy and love in the…
Tomates Fritos
Fried Tomatoes is renewed
20 years new album. So Tomates Fritos celebrates two decades of experience in Venezuela. A homonymous production with a clear message: reinvent…
Roman GianArthur
Roman GianArthur, OK Lady, And The Art of Borrowing With Purpose
“Derivative” is not the kind of moniker than most artists strive for. To many, it carries with it the implication of unoriginality…
Juan Gabriel
Juan Gabriel shares a microphone again: Los Dúo 2
Marc Anthony, J Balvin, Franco de Vita, Paty Cantu, Wisin are some of the artists who will share the microphone with Mexican singer Juan Gabriel,…
The Strokes
Will The Strokes' Next Album Be Produced By Donald Trump?
This week Nick Valensi, guitarist of The Strokes, was a guest on the program Zane Lowe Beats 1, to promote the release of the debut album CRX, his…
Mata Rica
Mata Rica announces the next video for the song Cásate Conmigo and a new reggae version for 2016.
The Venezuelan group of Reggae and Ska, Mata Rica, is preparing what will be his next promotional single, it is a version reggae of the latest issue…
Fonseca
Fonseca collaborates with Alexis and Fido
The fusion of folk rhythms and pop music production defined Colombian singer Fonseca. Now the 37-year musician dabbled in urban music, without losing…
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem announced the name of their next album
LCD Soundsystem was born great. At the turn of the century, its creators James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy were New York music lovers working as DJs…
Charles Aznavour
Aznavour finally receives his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood paid tribute to Charles Aznavour: The legendary composer and singer finally received, at age 93, his star on the prestigious Walk of Fame,…
Missy Elliott
Missy Elliott releases remix of I'm Better with Lil Kim, Eve and Trina Tome
Missy Elliott is promoting her seventh studio album, which has yet to be released so far, but according to record label Atlantic Records will be soon…
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart premiered a song from her next album
Its name means the god of the sky, lightning, thunder and rain according to Hindu mythology. Devendra Banhart, composer and musician just released…
Yo-Yo Ma
The Greatness of Yo Yo Ma
There is such beautiful music to be had in Yo Yo Ma. He is such a brilliant player skilled in the utmost expressive gestures and exquisite taste.…
Ben Frost
Ben Frost
The sky is grey and big these days. The rains are healing. The wind is on our side. We see strange things and go through the serious challenges…
Martin Garrix
Martin Garrix teams up with Trove Sivan on his new track
Cam
Cam ‘Welcome To Cam Country’ – EP Review
Cam is very quickly becoming one of my favorite artists. Her breakthrough single ‘Burning House’ is a shoo-in for one of my favorite songs of the year…
Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sanz's Sirope tour closes at the Cap Roig Festival
The audience at the Festival of Cap Roig (Palafrugell, northeast) has surrendered from the first chords to Alejandro Sanz, one year after presenting…
Auburn
Landing back with Jealous : Auburn
Been wondering about where this girl disappeared. Such a great talent and passion in her voice, the Same Girl creator, adorable&…
Marilyn Manson
The Dark World of Anna Varney Cantodea
Music gives for everything. In this sound world we come across the story of the German musician best known as Anna Varney Cantodea ( https://www.…
The Tenors
Under One Sky Hits it Out of The Park
I love the three tenor’s blend of sorts and how the different timbres blend into one all throughout the album in question. I also like how we get to…
Joni Mitchell
GREAT MUSICIANS WHO ARE ALSO AWESOME PAINTERS
Talent is a strange thing. When it comes with the “genes-package” it comes in full force, diverse, ready to develop from an…
Sona Jobarteh
The Music of Mali Vol.9 - Sona Jobarteh
In the series on Mali music, I already wrote an article that explains the Kora, one of Africa’s unique, trademark instrument. It is a 21-…
Howard Shore
Howard Shore's Film Swan Songs
Howard Shore is an awesome composer that I've never known before. I never knew he composed the music to such classics as trilogy and series.…
Brett Eldredge
Brett Eldredge ‘Illinois’ – Album Review
I got a Brett crush, hate to admit it butI got a heart rush, ain’t slowin’ downI got it real bad, want everything he singsThat song and the smooth…
Two Steps from Hell
1 step forward, 2 steps back
When Pete Waterman (Stock, Aitken & Waterman) seemed to reach the end of the reign that kept him being at the top of producing…
3T
Jackson family ties: Chapter 3T
In the list of releases this week, I’ve found a surprising release of a group, I thought, no longer were making music together: 3T. In 1993…
Pizzicato Five
SONG OF THE DAY // Pizzicato Five - CDJ (Wildjumbo Mix Feat. Melodie Sexton)
Shibuya-kei group Pizzicato Five may be long gone (unfortunately), but this remix of their jazzy house classic CDJ is still fresh years after it was…
Chino & Nacho
And no... they don't separate
We are all clear that Chino & Nacho is one of the most successful duos in Latin America, right ?. Their songs sound in all radios and their…
Tom Rosenthal
Save America, Melania!
Sometimes it takes an outsider to provide fresh insight. British comedian and songwriter Tom Rosenthal's Melania just might be the best protest…
RAIGN
RAIGN Love
The lady that had us drowning in multiple shades of feels with her artful songs like 'Don't let me go', 'Come Raise the Dead', and…
Britney Spears
News at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards
With more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, the American singer Britney Spears has become one of the most successful in the world of music, and…
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails Release This Isn't The Place From 'Add Violence' EP
Announced only a few days ago accompanied by the theme Less Tham, next July 21 will see the new EP of Nine Inch Nails, Add Violence have decided to…
Nick Jonas
Nick Jonas in Jumanji
Nick Jonas we know for participating in the Jonas Brothers group which was a revelation and then the sad separation that left us all heartbroken fans…
Foo Fighters
The genius of the Firefly Festival
emerging or already established bands are those that are meeting in the Firefly Festival, the only one in the world where the public chooses the…
Scotty McCreery
Christmas With Scotty McCreery – Review
Christmas With Scotty McCreery, Scotty’s first Christmas album, is adding to a very successful couple of years for the young North Carolina native.…
Felix Kubin
Felix Kubin
I wash my hands in a water of the toilet I wash my hands in the beauty of your tears Everything is undefined and controversial. I cannot tell…
Pablo Milanés
Andrea Imaginario offers an album full of affection
The themes that have marked the various moments of his life, either by the magic of his melodies or the depth of his lyrics, were selected by the…
Kany Garcia
Miami will close 2016 with Kany García
The young and talented Kany Garcia announced it will lay off 2016 with a big concert in Miami. The concert will take place on December 10 at the…
Disclosure
Disclosure will take a break during 2017
Despite having a short career, the Lawrence brothers have decided to take a break. The British duo that gives life to electronic grouping Disclosure,…
Nights Amore
New Nights Amore Album is on Fire!
I have written very many articles on Nights Amore in the past and I keep coming back to them and how touching their music is. They are an artist to…
Kanye West
Kanye West + 2020 = Reality
As everyone remembers, while accepting his MTV lifetime achievement award, Kanye, before walking off stage, said: &…
Lil Supa
Live: ''Little Supa'' in Chile
Already a few days ago was held in Santiago de Chile the most recent edition of the event '' God Level Fest '2016, which,…
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar wins the MTV award for best music video of the year
American rapper Kendrick Lamar won the award for best music video of the year with Humble at the MTV Video Music Awards gala held on Sunday night in…
Frank Vieira
Frank Vieira ‘Three Little Words’ – Album Review
If you’ve been reading the site for some time, you may remember that we featured Frank Vieira in our first ever Stray Plectrums post…
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan On Songwriting, Nashville & The Man In Black: The Buddy and Jim Show Recap
“We’re playing Bob Dylan covers because we can’t stop.” The words came from Jim Lauderdale who, with Buddy Miller, was co-hosting two back to back two…
Maluma
Maluma with eight nominations at the Youth Awards
Maluma be the favorite of the next edition of Premios Juventud. They are eight nominations for the awards that are given by popular vote. Colombian…
Ryley Walker
Ryley Walker: Live and The Golden Sings that Have Been Sung
Ryley Walker Live 2016-11-05 I was a little apprehensive to go to the Ryley Walker show. I was…
David Bowie
David Bowie's Progressive Anti-Racism
So much can be said about a chameleonic performer like David Bowie, whose musical career spanned five decades, twenty seven studio albums, two iconic…
Ricksha Radio
Brand New Release Hideaway from Ricksa Radio!
Ricksha Radio’s musical journey began on the night that frontrunner Bob Dimick first heard the Beatles play on live TV — from that moment on, Dimick…
ZHU
ZHU and His Excellency
The estadounidese Chinese musician ZHU, introduced a second theme of his new album debut GENERATIONWHY, which has as its launch date on 29 July. The…
Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn 2015
As an amateur violinist Hilary Hahn is one of my heroes and someone I study for her flawless technique. She plays Bach's solo sonata in G minor…
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire ‘Just Like Them Horses’ – Single Review
Reba McEntire is one of the most beloved country music veterans ever to grace the genre. With her strong, powerful voice and her equally substantial…
The National
Entering The Throne Of Castamere
The National create darkly serious and lush indie rock that reached critical mass with the group's fourth album “Boxer” in…
Justin Bieber
Bieber and Baldwin confirm it.
Now the news is confirmed, Justin Bieber girlfriend, model Hailey Baldwin, and was the singer himself who has confirmed it to post photos of both on…
N.W.A.
Straight outta Compton, no automatic solidarities
One of the best films of 2015 is Straight Outta Compton F. Gary Gray, who manages a film that goes beyond the barriers of those who call themselves…
Banks
A Poignant Finale
You might love, hate or be wholly indifferent to Lena Dunham's highly polarizing and thinkpiece-baiting HBO series Girls, but it…
Lawrence watson
Lawrence Watson Releases new album Prescriptions
Lawrence Watson releases new CD Prescriptions I have known Larry for many years, collaborating and …
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The new Red Hot Chili Peppers is out
The rock band / Californian funk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, returns to the fray with the launch of her new single Dark Necessities. The group currently…
Incubus
Incubus released their album 8
Californian band Incubus has been formed since 1991 and last April 21 released its eighth studio album titled 8 . It would be the first full length…
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen, The Cadence of Summer, The Origins of Movements & The Sounds of Lives Changed
Summer has a certain cadence. There’s a rhythm of long days, the beach beckons and the pace of office life creates the illusion that time is…
Gloria Trevi
Gloria Trevi, the diva of old shoes
A woman with loose, disorderly, rebellious, uncontrollable hair. These are the first images to emerge when one hears the name of Gloria Trevi , that…
Brett Eldredge
Brett Eldredge @ KOKO, London, UK | February 14, 2016 – Review
Brett Eldredge took to the stage in the UK for the first time on Sunday night, and I’m sure he nor his band, crew or team knew what to…