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

Let me get one thing straight – these guys are not from Barcelona, they are from Scandinavia. How could something so cheerful come from a…

To make a four year hiatus proved to be a smart move for London trio. There was enough time for contemplation about the next step and the change in…

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…

  ‘ZABA’ is one of the best debut albums released in the past decade. When I put the record on for the first time, I had no idea who Glass…

Garage punk quartet from Sydney Bed Wettin Bad Boys started off as a side project of Nic Warmock (founder of R.I.P. Society Label) and Joe Sukit,…

Even though they had success with their debut album, The View never managed to capitalize it in a right way. They are always somewhere near but they…

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…

Only year and a half  after self-released V, and a little bit more since split-album No Life For Me, a collaboration with Cloud Nothings,…

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…

The name of the band sometimes tells  what we can expect from it. Joanna Gruesome is an ironic reference to folk singer Joanna Newsom but…

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…

The coolest sisters are back! And I couldn’t be more thrilled! Haim are manifestation of Californian spirit, that old school cool one, not Katy Perry…

Don’t call it plagiarism, call it a promiscious idea. Just because someone sounds like someone else, it doesn’t mean that they…

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

What would you like to listen for breakfast? If you have nothing on your mind, I suggest you digest Japanese Breakfast. Behind the name Japanese…

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

Mark Olson, one of the original co-founders of The Jayhawks is back with a new album, and although he is credited as “the head of the bill”,…

Anything that has something to do with the New Zealand masters The Clean will always get my attention. So when the name of Clean’s drummer Hamish…

For some generations that are “somewhat” older, holding a physical object containing music is still an essential element of the…

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…

Female authors with guitars are becoming a frequent thing. And it’s good that this is the case. Every day, I discover a new name, no matter what the…

Into her fifth album since 2009, Samantha Crain still hasn’t achieved the recognition she deserves. All the positive reviews by the critics …

It seems to me that I am beginning almost every second review with the observation that many singers and bands are creating records bursting from…

  Shannon Wright dropped her 10th  album this year titled Division. This author from Atlanta creates forcefully and consistently,…

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

After falling head over heels in love with Merival’s Soda Island collaboration with Izzard, I scoured the internet to find more of Merival’s honeyish…