There must be someone who deserves the same hype as Frank Ocean. There must be and here he is. Twenty year old author and multi instrumentalist Alex…

We are soon going to enter the winter period, and before that happens, I have a perfect album for you to conclude the autumn behind us. Widowspeak was…

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

  It’s been three years since the talented group from England dropped their debut Sun Structures, an album that still stands as the gritty…

The moment the opening track, “Riverview Fog” starts, you get the feeling that you’ve heard all this before, but that the cards have been reshuffled…

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

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

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

Tango With Lions, an Anglophone Greek collective of “day-dreamers, hard-workers and music-lovers” gained worldwide recognition…

There is something I call music depression. It is an episode that lasts for several months during which the ‘’the patient’’ is unable to find new…

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…

I simply cannot stand anymore when any new or relatively new band that has a punk pop tendency is compared to Green Day as if those guys invented…

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…

When King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard announced that they will issue five albums this year, even their fans (myself included), who were…

It was 2006 when unfortunate and tired Jason Lytle decided to impede the work of the group called Grandaddy. Over the following period, he charged his…

When you start asking yourself what has happened to a certain band, missing their music, you can be certain that they have come up with something…

There are two types of Weezer albums: those that have name and then those that don't have a name so we have to recognize them by their color. All…

Working on a soundtrack is a double-edge sword for an artist. He needs to remain loyal to his signature sound, while simultaneously making sure that…

Sometimes some band blasts you from the past, and you have no choice but to investigate their discography. Few weeks ago, that happened to me when I…

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…

Modern bands fascinated by all things psychedelic do not only listen to the ‘old masters’ but probably also what each other is doing. And that is a…

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

When back in the Sixties droves of musicians, rock or jazz went to the Middle East and further down towards the Indian Ocean, they brought back much…