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Three years after the fantastic album They Want My Soul, Texas fantastic four has dropped Hot Thoughts, the record witnessing their return to their…

I certainly don’t know the answer to the question from the title, but I’ m not even bound to try. Doesn’t sound too appetizing. But what I did try out…

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

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…

Last year I touted on these pages (it is a site, but you still have to flip the pages one way or the other) Michael Nau’s album Mowing (like the…

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

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…

Saint Raymond is a 20 year old dude from Nottingham. This summer, he released his debut album called Young Blood. As many young authors, Saint Raymond…

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.…

I often find myself drawn to certain songs because of the mood that they create. Cigarettes After Sex is such a prime example of this in each of their…

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…

These days it ahem there is a proliferation of singer/songwriters inspired by a similar generation from the Seventies. Like then, today’s batch can be…

When I first saw Diane Birch in 2010, my first impression was that she is a hybrid of Pattie Smith and Diane Keaton who tries to play the piano as…

Through the 5+1 solo albums he has made so far, Greg Ashley has shown that if you are to fit into the shoes of guys like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It seems the Australians and New Zealanders have a special knack for good, healthy, melodious rock, or power pop, or whatever you want to call it. As…

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

  If someone asked me who is the most brilliant female singer in the world right now, few names would pop in my mind. The following review…

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,…

Nothing is ever what it seems to be and we might as well find comfort in that, Happyness is a London trio who reminds me more of American than British…

Labels are for brands, not for bands. Show me on this review how much do you agree with the previous statement. Even though they present themselves as…

The Dears, or shall we say, Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak and whoever’s in Montreal at the time, have been around for a while, actually, as…

While discovering new music is always an exciting event for me, there is something really special about finding musicians in my area that make music…

If the name The Molochs gives you a ring towards Velvet Underground, don’t worry, you’re completely right. The Los Angeles duo is rightfully paying…

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…

When their debut album The Black Room was released in 2005, it represented a true revolution of post-punk. Editors became a band everyone was taking…

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

With the release of his first single Council, you immediately get the sense that Jeffrey Trainor's sophomore album is a move…

The best export product from Canada, at least when it comes to indie music, is no doubt Broken Social Scene (sorry Arcade Fire, you lost your title…

Radlands by Mystery Jets is, in my opinion, one of the best albums that any British indie rock band released in the last couple of years. Curve of the…

We often have this story when an artist changes the style and then we don't like it me because that's not the same artist anymore. On the…

A little bit of Libertines, a little bit of Babyshambles, a little bit of solo work. That is how the life flows for Pete Doherty. After 2009 debut…

Let's talk about eclecticism without aroma. Five years and three albums are just enough for Alt-J to make his new release highly anticipated. A…