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…

Jake Bugg was entitled as  “the next Bob Dylan”. After his third album, the title does not apply anymore.  It is…

After ambitious art phases, run by gut and fueled by and emotion, artistic process usually comes to the point of homeostasis. It is not a bad phase…

Ok, so you’re born in Russia, raised in Israel, you become sensitive to all that is burdening this world and want to express it through music. Where…

Annie Clark's fifth album could be the most critical one in her career. It was enough to follow fan comments on her Facebook page to confirm my…

Music magazines often use the term Wooden music when they want to describe the type of music that I am about to review. It stands for the following:…

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…

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…

In two years, The National are going to celebrate two decades of their existence and judging by their tempo of releasing albums, we might get another…

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…

Trying to describe Lomelda's second album Thx, by the title gracing songs by Willie Nelson and Canned Heat is quite fitting as far as its…

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…

When Bon Iver first appeared, he scored a nickname ‘dark version of Ray Lamontagne’.  Meanwhile, Ray Lamontagne, the…

Danish author Agnes Obel rewarded us with her third album in 2016. The title Citizen Of Glass refers to the concept of glaserner burger, or the…

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,…

If we take a look at the history of music, we can chronologically determine how the geographical focus of pop-rock industry was shifting. In the 50s,…

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…

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…

Musically speaking, Sweden was always Mecca for great bands. There are many reasons for it, with one of the most important one being that anyone who…

Making albums about every continent of the world? Sounds a bit too ambitious and pretentious, doesn't it? Actually, it depends on who does it and…

Do you remember The Horrors? They looked like they came from horror movies: obscure appereance, messy hairdos, pale faces and strong makeup. Nomen est…

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”,…

Making good music is not about putting notes together by simple, generic instructions like it is some kind of kinder egg toy. Boys from Oxford are…

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…

Ok, so I never heard of Tim Meskers before. So, a know all music site tells me that he might be known to discerning music fans from a band called…

Minimalistic indie folk is the future of the alternative scene. Berlin based group Susie Asado (named by Gertrude Stein’s song) is one of…

Louise Burns is one of the names of Canadian indie scene. She has been active for a long time, and she is only thirty. Her debut Mellow Drama was…