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MV + EE or for the uninitiated, Matt Valentine and Erika Elders keep on making their tasty jam rolls. Like this song from their new album Root/Void, &…

It’s been three years since The Strokes dropped their full-length album. I took this intermezzo between releases to forget that the album…

So, Hope Sandoval and her mystery are back with us again. It has been 26 years since she first appeared along with former Rain Parade co-leader David…

  Everything you bury becomes a seed. Some artists have buried so many emotions inside of themselves that eventually became a fertile ground…

 Sometimes, good things are buried deep down in the entropy of the world and you find them by accident. This is especially the case with the…

William Merriman has been behind the quietly sophisticated Dublin band The Harvest Ministers for some thirty years now. Even though it doesn’t seem…

If you tried to count the number of gifted young musicians with a thousand song ideas in their head, playing and recording them in a number of bands,…

Alex Southey’s new My Nights On the Island EP offers a six song revision of a break up that breaks the mould of what one would traditionally ascribe…

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

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…

My dream is to listen to dreampop all day and all night long. Luckily, the internet has allowed me to have access to infinite number of musicians who…

As I’ve said before, it is the longevity of an album that shows its true worth. It is for this reason (and quite a few others) that I would…

A lot has happened in the career of Katie Crutchfield in the past five years, the girl who is performing under the name Waxahatchee (she got the…

One of the solid releases from January this year came from Canadian duo Japandroids. In 2012, they dropped Celebration Rock and generated a…

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…

Eleanor Friedberger is known as a vocalist of the band The Fiery Furnaces. The band released eight albums that were pretty successful in American…

Over the past twenty years, Detroit hasn’t necessarily been a hub for folk and alt-country. Those genres have scratched the surface, but techno and…

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…

Feist’s Metals is one of my favourite albums. Let me tell you why. The first few bars of the opening song, The Bad in Each Other, set the album apart…

Authors of the songs used in TV shows are often less known than those songs are. When we connect the artist with the song, it happens that we don’t…

It’s finally time to talk about what has been described as Sufjan Stevens’ most personal album to date. The mysterious, melancholy man behind the…

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

Eccentric world of indie pop duchess is something you can take a sneak peak in just by looking at the cover of her album I Never Learn. Behind an…

Four guys from Liverpool sound more confident, mature and powerful on their second full-length album, just as the frontman Keiran Shudall wanted and…

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…

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

Take a dreamy trip through electronic daze known as BØRNS. Garrett Borns better known by his stage name BØRNS, released his…

Combining acoustic music with electronics can be a tricky thing - it either turns out great or falls flat on its behind. That may be the reason the…

We haven't heard of Neil Hannon for quite a few years now. Five to be exact, and it is always great to have him back. Even from the early Nineties…

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…

Is there a bigger cliche in the world of music than an indie band from New York? Not many things come to mind and everytime something new and original…

Another day, another Seattle band that has been around since the first part of the Eighties. And again, more of a cult, particularly among the music…

PledgeMusic has been a resource many a musician has been using recently to make sure that their work sees the light of day and then promoted further.…

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…

Fasten your seatbelts, dear readers, because what you’re going to encounter might be very intense. I am pretty convinced that you never had a chance…

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…

It is funny how some band generate hype instantly, while other have to fight for their legacy for many years, even decades. Sometimes it's about…