Four guys from Liverpool sound more confident, mature and powerful on their second full-length album, just as the frontman Keiran Shudall wanted and…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

Rosewood Almanac is the sixth studio album by Will Stratton, musician currently residing in New York. Will studied philosophy for a short while before…

Somebody listening for the first time to Duke Garwood would probably react by saying that he sounds a lot like Mark Lanegan. Very late night Mark…

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…

It's been a long time since the bass sounded this good in the music of The Killers. They give the best of themselves in the first seconds of dense…

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

Disparate musical styles souped up together can only produce two types of music - one that squarely falls on its face or one that is thoroughly…

Austin is a city well known for its folk and country. Support for such a notion came from Curnet Marie Andrews who released a magnificent album last…

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

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…

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’m old enough to remember the times before any Internet (yeah, that old) with what would be now considered scant information about any new and…

Take a dreamy trip through electronic daze known as BØRNS. Garrett Borns better known by his stage name BØRNS, released his…

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…

Looking at the cover of Pro Swimming Hour’s debut album Penrose Winoa (whatever that is) you have an impression that it was drawn by a very advanced…

What was happening during Franz Ferdinand's five year hiatus that preceded the release of their brand new LP Always Ascending? The most important…

It seems that Jamie Lockhart, the brain behind the Mi Mye monicker has problems reading because he has dyslexia. He was only able to read fully his…

Ever since Josh Tillman took a sarcastic alias Father John Misty, two great albums emerged from his psyche with love pains as major theme. On his…

Grief can be an exceedingly strong motivator and can produce some deeply sad, bad at the same time, life-affirming music. Remember, for example, Neil…

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

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…

Many bands and singer/songwriters these days are following the path taken by Jeff Tweedy, solo or with Wilco. While most of them are quite enjoyable…

It would be hard to say that Daniel Roman has returned. The guy simply has not left. Saying that this guy is a musical shape-shifter would e an…

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…

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…

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.…

Anybody who is a fan of harmony-filled pop rock the late sixties or early Seventies, s well as any current variations of this musical theme has surely…