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So easy for an album to be overlooked these days. Even if you are just an ordinary fan, you have piles of CD’s (still?), vinyl records or files on any…

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…

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…

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…

“Death is real, someone’s there, and then they’re not”, echoes the beginning of Mount Eerie’s latest and long awaited album since his wife’s passing…

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…

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…

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…

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

Give man a beard and  a guitar and he can rule your emotional world. After only first few notes, I have realized that this is a magnificent…

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

Sweden and Scandinavia are known for their great music artists, especially in the indie area. Every day is a new chance for a new indie band to come…

You couldn’t say that Mark Mulachy, the brain behind Miracle Legion is one of the luckier men in music. Didn’t look that way back in the mid-Eighties…

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…

When you take a first listen to The Candles album “Matter+Spirit” you might be lead into thinking that you are hearing a Southern or a West Coast band…

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…

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…

So you don’t know what Rune Husk is? But of course, it is the new Of Montreal EP! Oh, you want to know what that means? Well, then, you will have to…

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…

When you bruise a diamond like Lost In The Dreams, it is clear that you signed up in the history of music books. Adam Granduciel may not even need…

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

What can you get when you combine one of the most intriguing musicians that appeared in the past few years on Australian independent scene and…

When I first encountered the music of Yo La Tengo, sometime in the first half of the 00s, they were already had a reputation of one of the most…

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

Some people have superpowers, and some people have supergroups. I love me some supergroups. All of my music expectations have a form of a supergroup.…

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

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…

Angel Olsen caught our attention with her 2014 second studio album Burn Your Fire for No Witness. This 29 year old girl from St.Louis played with…

February is the month when cats make love (while sounding like crying babies), and I start to think that this is why all the great albums drop around…

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

Ever since Rufus Wainwright, we didn't have an author who is a triple-threat pundit, capable of having superpowers in singing, composing and…

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…

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…

  The Coral is a band by two guys who are into retro music. They are also into adapting it to the modern, indie music. This time, they have…

Upbeat. Soulful. Creative. These are the three words that came to mind as I listened to the new Moon Taxi album entitled . These Nashville native…