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FROOT
This Froot Has Gone Off
570 five stars, out of 630 ratings, on the UK iTunes store tends to suggest that an album is going to be a great listen, right? Well after listening…
Violence
Editors Need Editing
After flirting with orchestral and electronic sound which relied on Smith's internal content on their previous album In Dreams, Editors…
2014 Forest Hills Drive
Review: J Cole's '2014 Forest Hills Drive'
J Cole has crafted a slew of good albums, but he has yet to craft a great one. While each of his three major label releases contain scattered moments…
The Wolves
The Sound Of Lethargy
Melbourne bases band Brighter Later is another evidence how Australia is a tough competitor on the world’s music scene. The project of Jaye…
Entranced Earth
The Myrrors - Entranced Earth
The renowned Arizona psychedelic rock band Myrrors came out with their latest new album ''Entranced Earth'' a short while ago. The…
Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Difficulty: Normal
Just a year after Juggernaut got out, Periphery bring us another piece of their vision of math metal combined with djent, and…
Panorama
Check out country's newcomer Ryan Hurd Panorama EP
Country newcomer Ryan Hurd’s distinctive sound has been coming through radio speakers across America since he signed with Universal Music…
Apocalypse Again
Apocalypse Now! Again!
Events from 2002 seem like a far away past, especially in the music world where trends come and go at the speed of light. Those who were born around…
FutureSex/LoveSounds
Futuresex\Lovesounds was Timberlake's Zenith
Only few singers who were once members of boy bands have succeeded in developing even stronger solo career. If I had to pick two of them, one of them…
Vengase I
The Rawayana surprise us with a trailer for Trippy Caribbean
It is an incredible emotion felt by all the faithful listeners Rawayana to learn that less and less needed for the release of her third album Trippy…
Electra Heart
Electra Heart
Marina Diamondis, aka Marina and the Diamonds, doesn't make things easy for herself. For her follow-up to 2010's excellent debut The Family…
Beauty Behind The Madness
Boring Weeknd
There is no beauty nor madness here. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye aka The Weeknd has impressed the charts with his second album Beauty Behind The Madness but…
1995
SHT 1995
Genre-defying artists have rarely been acknowledged in their own time. It is a known fact that one generation's avant-garde is the next generation…
So Proud
#tbt - Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
In a mature phase or their lives, many artists return to what inspired them when they were young. Bob Dylan would turn to the 30s and 40s of the past…
Bloodlust
Body Count
The seventh album from Ice-T’s heavy metal band sounds like a TED Talk set to a bracing thrashcore/groove metal soundtrack. It takes a…
hopeless fountain kingdom
Hopeless Fountain Kingdom
The rising pop star's sophomore album goes for experimental radio hits that are full of anhedonic drama. It's ambitious and nuanced, though…
Momentary Masters
JULIAN CASABLANCAS WHO?
In my opinion, Albert Hammond Jr is the only true Stroke when there is no The Strokes around. His third album is corpus delicti for the previous…
Live At Spacefest!
BJM's Anton Newcombe Brings The Psych Goods on Pure Phase Ensemble Collaboration
Pure Phase Ensemble 6 feat. Anton Newcombe has unveiled the video for 'Balwan', the second track teasing the…
Atleta del Sonido
Bostas Brain Presents: ''Sound Athlete''
Luis Quintero, better known musically as BostasBrain , is Venezuelan composer of rap. Brain has become a leader and pioneer of the movement, flow…
Your Move Vol. 1
Mikey Young - Hot Chip On The Autobahn
Haven't you heard of Mikey Young before? Don’t worry, most of the people haven’t. There’s an underground scene anywhere, and Australia is no…
Goodnight, Sweet Betty
68Creep: David Lynch's Dreams Have Found a New Soundtrack
68Creep is shady grifter rock band for those, who are open and ready to dabble in dark timeless melancholy. This music is thoughtful and…
We All Want The Same Things
How to Identify With Craig Finn
Although he is not the biggest singer songwriter of his generation, Craig Finn is certainly the best rock storyteller whose main preoccupation are…
Bamboo Diner in the Rain
The Picture is Clear - The Waves Are Covered In Light
When I first saw the cover of the new The Wave Pictures album (and there is quite a few of them), something kept nagging at me it seemed so familiar…
Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
Tilted Axes release experimental album Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
The New York- based group Tilted Axes is an experimental rock group that pushes the boundaries with the sounds they can make come out of their guitars…
No Sometimes Yes
Luca Draccar - “No Sometimes Yes”
An Italian native by way of Berlin, DJ Luca Draccar is affected by many things in his life and art including being bipolar. There is a long tradition…
She Can't Tell
Running on High
Brooklyn natives MOTHXR not only know how to spell a universally used word to look cool but even their music has a cooling sensation that can ease any…
11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory
11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory
This is a cute folk-rock for the masses. That doesn’t need that the guys are not fun. Dropkick Murphys is a band who connects jocks, rockers,…
Angels Bend Closer
If Jane Sibbery Tells Them, The Angels WILL Bend Closer
With Robbie Robertson's Testimony already finding its way to us, the issue of Jane Siberry's album Angels Bend Closer, may make this some kind…
Phase Zero
Morgan Delt - Phase Zero
Morgan Delt is a well-known one-man psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, California. Morgan Delt has so far released 3 albums and a few EPs, but…
Positive Songs For Negative People
Positive Songs For Negative People
No one cal play with words as good as Frank Turner. His lyrical style is unexcelled. As much as I adore Frank, I will be frank and say how minus and…
AM
AM: Signature Sounds
What can be said about the already-famous Arctic Monkeys album AM that hasn't been said already? It's modern. It's uncensored. It's…
Cold Water
Chase McBride's Third Studio Album Cold Water
Chase McBride seems to be the much-needed breath of fresh air in these topsy-turvy times. Even though McBride's third studio…
Everything This Way
Indie Rock for the 21st Century
Irish band Walking on Cars is the band I have been waiting for. First of all, the music talent runs through their veins. Without any pretentious…
Attila
The Men and The Art of Brutal Attack on The Listener
The Men, a four-member band from Brooklyn lead by Mark Perr (vocal/guitar/piano), have dropped their debut Immaculada back in 2010. It was a self-…
Jomsviking
Viking Metal
It seems that even after ten albums, Amon Amarth do not know how to neither surprise nor disappoint. If someone said to their super fans that they are…
Times Infinity Volume Two
The Dears - To infinity and back
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…
Blackstar
Goodbye, gender bending king!
If anyone was a true chameleon in music animal world, it was certainly David Bowie. So many personas and masks that he had change since the beginning…
Child Support
Back to the raunchiness
About 20 years ago, H-Town was hot, apparently. At that time, I’d only heard of them, but with the exception of catching a video on MTV once…
Unseen
Time To See The Unseen
If there was a band in recent times that could easily pick up the title of American Gothic, then it is the Handsome Family. Even more fitting is the…
Every Country's Sun
Every Country's Sun
With David Fridmann producing, the latest Mogwai album contains the same bratty conviction that defined their greatest records, like there’s something…
The Sympathy Sigh
Problems reading? Well, Sing then!
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…
Country Grammar
Country Grammar
El debut de Nelly en el 2000 trajo la vida y el sonido de San Luis al mundo. Es un laberinto sintáctico de la cultura local que funciona como un…
99 Cents
Cheap Underground
99 Cents is the third studio album by Santi White, aka Santigold. The title and the cover of the album suggest a store with cheap Chinese stuff,…
More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me
more Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me Is Encouraging
If you are sick of studio albums of Bruce Springsteen, and you are looking for something similar but more powerful, The Smith Street Band have been…
Caracal
Why So Many Duets?
Two brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence were always surrounded with music. They parents were professional musicians, they have studied classical music…
A Wonderful Seed
Mysterious Ms. Sandoval Reappears, Again
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…
The Great Plains
Thomas Dybdahl - Great Plains With An Accent On Great
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…
I Tell A Fly
Refreshing As A Fly, Benjaming Clementine
Ever since Rufus Wainwright, we didn't have an author who is a triple-threat pundit, capable of having superpowers in singing, composing and…
Emotions - EP
From cloning and covering to being original
There are many times that I (have to) multitask and I usually end up wishing I could split myself into more than one individual, but there’s…
Horizontal Lines
Sunkissed Baroque Pop from the Summer of 2015
Twin Within is the collaboration of Canadian duo Steve McKay and Alex Samaras. Mckay (the percussive force behind the experimental folk of Bruce…
Big Band Holidays
Bring your Christmas magic in your home with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Happy winter holidays and New Year to all of you Kurrent Music blog readers! I hope you are having a great festive time. In addition I would like to…
Dark Night of The Soul
Throwback Thursday: Death Behind Danger Mouse's Dark Night Of The Soul
There are not many albums with the history of making long as Dark Night Of The Soul has. From the start of the project to the final release of the…
Prisoner
How Ryan Adams Experiences Breakup
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…
Chapter One
The Saturdays V-Day : Chapter One
This Universe spread female vocal is opening her first solo segment of music and the title Chapter One seems more than just a right…
Circular Time
Ramleh - Circular Time
The legendary British psychedelic noise rock/power-electronics/noise band Ramleh has very recently come out with a new album after a long time. The…
The Golden Age
Uniquely Golden
One of the great things about reviewing music is the opportunity it gives me to indulge in my favourite albums whilst giving them my full attention.…
Concrete and Gold
Foo Fighters and Justin Timberlake? Not everything is what it seems to be.
Although in promo video he glorified all of his collaborators and announced something huge coming up, the spiritus movens of Foo Fighters, David Grohl…
Sea of Noise
The Bones are doing fine, thank you
Watching the ever popular BBC show Later... with Jool Holland, of course, late at nigh, can make you doze off. Paricularly if artist playing at that…
Interiors
Quicksand Join The Stream of Big Comebacks
Some of the year's best albums came from bands who made big comebacks after a two decade gap in their discography. I am primarily thinking of…
On My One
Bob Dylan Lost His Successor
Jake Bugg was entitled as “the next Bob Dylan”. After his third album, the title does not apply anymore. It is…
Revival
Revival
Pop fandom is all about characters and storylines, so it makes sense that Disney and Nickelodeon alums do well. Not only do they enter the…
Amber Galactic
The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic [Album Review]
When you find out the names behind The Night Flight Orchestra you’ll think the band is another supergroup promising the world a revolution. But the…
Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
Let The Dancers Inherit The Party. Yes-yes!
For fifteen year, six-membered group from Brighton has been flying over British rock sky. In that time, they have released six studio releases with…
Liquid Swords (Explicit Version)
GZA's 20 Year Journey to Platinum Status
The Wu-Tang Clan is one of the most influential groups in hip hop history. The group consists of some of the most gifted lyricists in the game, and…
Alice Glass
Ex Crystal Castles Member Strives Solo
There are some bands that mark certain era and that is crystally clear to all of us on kurrentmusic. Back in the day, when I was in between high…
Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams (Deluxe Edition)
Cameron Avery - Garage Crooner?
It must be something in the water. Australian drinking water. Otherwise, how would acclaimed psych, garage, blues, alternative singers like Nick Cave,…
Jungle
JUNGLE - JUNGLE
I'll admit, I was late to the Jungle bus. In my defence, as soon as they entered my radar, I was positively hooked. it seems to me that…
The Tourist
Clap Your Hands Say Nah
If we are looking for bands who used internet to their advantage, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah would be at the top of the list of those who utilized web…
Wilder Mind
Different, Still Rockin.
The band Mumford and Sons are known for their acoustic madness as I like to call it. The band has realesed three albums; Sigh No More, Babel, and…
Whiteout Conditions
Confident Return of The New Pornographers
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…
Īstenībā
Mona De Bo - īstenībā
The relatively obscure, but renowned Latvian instrumental drone/psychedelic rock band Mona De Bo came out with a new album in the end of last year.…
Precious Art
Rozwell Kid - Grown Up
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…
As Light As Light
EP Battle: Inc.No World Vs Frabin
INC. NO WORLD With their new EP, brother duo from California, Andrew and Daniel Aged confirmed that they are top-notch neo-soul act of the modern days…
A Head Full Of Dreams
Coldplay's Head Full of Dreams
Coldplay’s latest offering, Adventure of a Lifetime, is so far from living up to its title that I nearly giggled. Perhaps I would’…
In the Kingdom of Dreams
Ian Felice - Are memories just dreams?
When poets get to singing… For some it is a problem, for others, it is a blessing, Dylan, Cohen, Simon, Oberst and yes, based on his first…
Mockroot
Revolutionary Jazz
I am coming from the future to tell you Tigran Hamasyan is going to be one of the most important composers. Why am I claiming this? Well, his songs,…
Cracked Actor (Live, Los Angeles '74)
Cracked Actor
This live album is culled from a show late in David’s Bowie’s 1974 tour. It’s heavy on material from Diamond Dogs and …
Villains
Queens of the Stone Age renews glam and unites it with progressive in 'Villians'
Queens Of The Stone Age 'Villains' After four years, which have become a bit long for fans of Queens Of The Stone Age , the band…
Prick of the Litter
A Great P(r)ick
Don’t blame me for the title. Blame Delbert McClinton, he named his new album “Prick of the Litter”. While you may blame him for that (and you shouldn…
The Notorious Byrd Brothers
#tbt The Byrds // The Notorious Byrd Brothers
This week's throwback was the first great album of 1968, a revolutionary year in both world politics and music. As such, it has an interesting…
÷ (Deluxe)
Ed Sheeran breaks records with Divide
No doubt Ed Sheeran is ravaging all records with its new album Divide with only 15 days after it is released each holder has captured the music press…
Thinkin Bout You
Frank Ocean comes more Blonde.
After more than 8 times to postpone the release of their second studio album called Blonde singer of R & B, Frank Ocean, decided to publish…
To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First
Ashtray Navigations - To Make A Fool Ask, And You Are The First
Ashtray Navigations is an English psychedelic rock/experimental rock/avant-garde/drone band that has been active ever since the early 1990s. They have…
The Getaway
Red hot Chili Peppers returns with everything.
When we talk about legendary bands, bands that those 80's years that the sun still sound today and that give those hard rock instruments to…
HDYNATION RADIO
Flosstradamus HDYNATION RADIO Album Review
The Chicago natives J2K and Autobot better known by their stagename Flosstradamus, released a new album this week entitled . This power duo are some&…
Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Pivot of PERIPHERY
Only short time after the release of the double-masterpiece Juggernaut, Periphery decide to return. According to them, everything was going smoothly,…
Science Fiction
A perfect and brutal goodbye from one of the best bands of the Millennium
You could be forgiven for falling away from your Brand New obsession in the years since Daisy. As the length between albums goes Brand New even beat…
Under the Red Cloud
It's Amorphis Time
Nomen est omen. The times when the term amorphis (insignificant) perfectly described this band from Finland are far behind us. From relatively brutal…
Hozier: Deluxe Edition
On Why You Should Listen to Hozier Right Now
Es una tarea de enormes proporciones para revisar liberación homónimo de 2014 Hozier. A pesar del hecho de que es una obra prolífica,…
The Elements
The Elements
The Elements is an album by American saxophonist Joe Henderson, released in 1973 on Milestone. 1970 began a decade of discovery for Joe Henderson, a…
Intergalactic Dada & Space Trombones
Radar Men From The Moon - Intergalactic Dada & Space Trombones
Radar Men From The Moon are a great Dutch instrumental psychedelic rock/stoner rock band from the Netherlands. They have released quite many good…
Little Lies
Hilary Duff is turning a new page
Hilary Duff has recently released an EDM cover of Fleetwood Mac's Little Lies. Big mistake. Just when I thought she was really on to something…
Creepy from the Hood
Foyone and Merkules - Creepy from tha hood
Representatives of Rap-core Merkules and Foyone, this time in collaboration presented its new discogrpafico material and latest album in EP format.…
If On A Winter's Night
Do you love Baroque Music? Then you must be fan of Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner Sting
Even we are in the 21st century; there are still a lot of sound fields and undiscovered magical moments left in the music by our ancestors. Sting has…
Cut Your Teeth
This Cambridge Girl Will Cut Your Teeth
It is not neccesary to be educated in order to create good music. In the case of Kyla La Grange, it seems like her educational experience in…
All of Me (Originally Performed By John Legend)
Chester See's All of Me
When All of Me by John Legend came out, I and many others loved it so much that it was bound to be a “replay track” in your audio…
Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
Substitute for Tame Impala
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is an Australian band formed in 2010. They already have a bunch of materials behind themselves (this is their…
Lions
Crowes and Lions
The Black Crowes were among the first artists in the nineties to embrace the retro sound and looks without hesitation. They simply looked like, let’s…
HAIZ
Hailee Steinfeld Headphones and Haiz
Where others struggle a lifetime to get a music career going, Hailee Steinfeld seems to have stumbled upon it by accident. Appearing as an actress…
Christine And The Queens
Is The Hype Around Christine and The Queens Legitimate?
Heloise Letissier, known as Christine and the Queens, is a French musician who shook up the music scene this year. Her debut was released…
Simplicity
Exuberant Punk-Rock
This New Jersey band is like a group of sport guys. You love them, they motivate you, you do tattoos with their faces. They make you laugh, you make…
Sprite Fountain
The Ruby Suns - McPhun Is Still Having Fun
The Ruby Suns can either be a shifting conglomerate or just Ryan McPhun, a guy around whom the whole band and its musical idea revolve around. That…
Grand Romantic
Romantic Pop
There are no single people, only autonomous romantics. I must admit that I didn’t recognize the name Nate Rus until I have listened to Grand…
57TH & 9TH
Sting Stings Again
One of the favorite advices artists like to give is: Do not stay in your comfort zone. Be a risk taker and investigate the unknown. So,Sting…
Fake Sugar
Thank God Beth Ditto Didn't Dissapear
You will agree that there is an ever-occurring phenomenon called a disappearing artist. I am not adverting to artistic people who were kidnapped or…
Wallflower (The Complete Sessions)
Of the Shades and Colors February Left Behind!
Sometimes endings transcend the entrails of human mind to make a permanent milestone for a new beginning. Even when ends are connected with losing the…
No Cities To Love
Punk is Better Than Feminism
One of my favorite punk bands from the 90s have decided to release another album after 10 years hiatus and upgrade their discography with another…
Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres
Electric Six Could Really Use Some Fresh Blood
It seemed like Bitch, Don’t Let Me Die is the last album by Electric Six, but it’s not. New autumn and new album. Fresh Blood For Tired Vampires is…
Future Present Past
The Strokes Are Losing Time
It’s been three years since The Strokes dropped their full-length album. I took this intermezzo between releases to forget that the album…
A Portrait Of Noise
STABBED!
When a guy decides to surround himself with people in order to create better music than he does when he is alone, one child sees a shooting…
ZABA
Zaba - Glass Animals - A Landscape for Sonic Exploration
This year’s debut Album release, Zaba, from Glass Animals was a toe curling, shivering mix of jungle sounds and psychedelic dreams. The…
Crack-Up
Decent Comeback of Fleet Foxes
Singer and main author of Fleet Foxes, Robin Pecknold, needed six years to write and shape the material for band's third studio album titled Crack…
Exitoca
Cristobal And The Sea - Everything's souped up
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…
The Album Paranoia
Ulrika Spacek? Who is Ulrika Spacek?
In this age of information glut, whether it is the number of music titles available or the method by which you can reach them, it is so easy for quite…
Fast Food
Check Your Pulse When She Sings
What you get when you combine Anna Calvi and PJ Harvey? You don’t know? Well, get to know by knowing her majesty – Nadine Shah,…
New Skin
Another Member of The Strokes Goes Solo
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…
Bressa Creeting Cake (Deluxe Edition)
Bressa Creeting Cake - A Rediscovered Golden Nugget
The importance of the New Zealand’s Flying Nun label has been quite fairly recorded, particularly through the works of such seminal bands as…
I Can't Go Home
I can't go home
The East New York rapper’s complicated relationship with wealth, poverty, and his neighborhood fuels his debut, an album about what happens when you…
Trouble
The Dead C - Trouble
The New Zealand lo-fi avant-garde noise-rock/garage rock greats The Dead C came out with a new album this year via Ba Da Bing Records. As was perhaps…
Karma
Recommended: ''Karma'', Norick's new album
Braulio Norick Gamarra Norick is an MC and producer from Surquillo, Lima - Peru, a member of the group Rapper School. It has been released on the…
Testify Love
Ava Cherry Coming Back With “Testify Love”
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the next witness to take the stand and provide testimony is Ava Cherry, with “Testify Love”.…
A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Southern Rock
STURGILL SIMPSON One of the unwritten rock rules regarding the introduction to the album is: start strongly and then just roll however you want it,…
Cobalt Chapel
Cobalt Chapel - Where Wicker Man Resides
Remember “The Wicker Man” movie? No not the 2006 remake, but the 1973 English mystery horror classic based on the 1967 novel “The Ritual”, involving…
Clean Your Clock (Live In Munich 2015)
Rest in Peace, Motorhead
For Ian Frasier Lemmy Klimster, some would say that considering how wild he lived, he had lived a long life. No matter how far he had come,…
E·mo·tion
Carly Rae Jepsen, “E-MO-TION,” and The Uncrapifying Power Of Pop
So, I have this really crummy day, right? I’m talking wake up too early and can’t fall back to sleep, headache all morning,…
No Estás Solo
Rodrigo is not alone.
Rodrigo Gonsalves, Viniloversus vocalist decided to take a break and make your own solo album You are not alone that failed to show to the public in…
Murmur (Deluxe)
What's the album that clears your head?
As I’ve probably said before (and will most certainly say again), there’s nothing like music to bring you back to a specific time and place. Look at…
Just Like Fire (From the Original Motion Picture "Alice Through The Looking Glass")
P!nk is quite the firestarter
Earlier this year, it was announced that P!NK would be recording for Disney´s Alice Through The Looking Glass movie. Along with the…
Past and Future
Tisiphone
Tisiphone is a band from Lyon with the fresh debut album titled Tisiphone 1t LP. They have been dropping singles over the past three years before they…
Victorious
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll
“But I like it. Well, I like most of it. To be honest, there are some songs that I like. Now, where did I put that colossal self-titled…
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Making Room to Feel with Brand New
In my previous article I talked about the capacity that music has to make an emotional impact. While my review of Pharrell Williams’ G I R L…
Mowing
Nau is Now?
The current indie scene is so diversified and abundant with knew, or completely unknown names that it can be mind boggling, so you have to opt for one…
Walk Between Worlds
Simple Minds Do Not Complicate It
Simple Minds have released their 18th studio album, and just when no one except for hardcore fans did not expect anything besides formulaic music,…
Bash the Bishop
Boycott The Baptist - Bash The Bishop (A Smashing Good time)
I was contacted around December 2016 by the vocalist and guitarist of this power duo. Now, I check out a page called Underground Music Coalition and…
Nothing But... Drum
Nuclear Weapons
So this is the third volume with crazy drum and bass weapons. When i hear the first compilation from Nothing But... from DNB weapons i was…
Sign of the Times
Harry Styles returns with Two Ghosts
Apparently the unofficial separation of the One Direction, has come very well in their professional careers, especially when it comes to Harry Style,…
Pretty. Odd.
#tbt: Panic At The Disco: Pretty.Odd.
Spoiler alert: following throwback might appear more ambivalent than it really is. Emo is probably the only genre that not even those who place…
Perfecto
Music For Pizza Restaurants
To make a perfect mainstream pop album is an extreme sport. There are too many parameters to satisfy, too many target audiences and music critics…
Rune Husk
Rune Husk?
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…
Worlds (Remixed)
Porter Robinson Takes Us Into Another Dimension With His Album 'Worlds Remixed'
As electronic music’s popularity has increased over the last few years I’ve felt an overwhelming disconnect to it. A lot of the…
Youth
Fronteers' Finest Moment?
Fronteers are a Hullensian four piece making big waves in the UK's indie scene at the moment. Don't let their baby-faced appearance fool you,…
Ease My Mind
Another Swedish Indie Pop Pearl
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…
Stitch Puppy
Acoustic Symbolism
Here is a manifestation of multi tasking: you are leading a punk-rock band Lagwagon while participating in million other music projects and you find…
Call by Night
Call By Night - More Chamber Than Pop
Usually I perk up my ears for anything that comes out on the, what some people consider out there label, Sacred Bones. Wymond Miles has…
Out Here
Killer EP Out Here!
Recently I discovered this amazingly talented female vocal, an immediate motivation blast, that blew every of my sense and threw my doubts in deep…
Plans
Death Cab For Cutie: Plans
On my 18th birthday, a boy gifted Death Cab for Cutie's Plans to me along with a letter confessing his true feelings for me. Irrelevant as this…
Microverse
Lossy & Strangers Are People Too - Microverse
Microverse is the third release fr composer and producer Lossy on his label Boot Cycle Audio. Having previously released with Tru Thoughts,…
Spades and Roses
Americana Girl
After she won American Songwriter competition, Caroline Spence released her first album Somehow back in 2015. This year, her debut got its successor…
Telluric
New Kind Of Psychedelic
After several critically acclaimed EPs, Matt Corby made a decision to dedicate his time to soul, gospel, jazz and psychedelic and create a…
America 2.0
Paul Messinger - America under review
What should be more fit to be given an Americana treatment (with quite a twist, though) than America itself? Paul Messinger who hails from North…
Leave Out All The Rest
Chester Bennington: A Tribute
When you picture Chester Bennington what do you see? I think I could guess: the singer bent double, pulsing with adrenaline, and freeing his ferocious…
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
A Meditation on Loneliness
Running for over 8 minutes, These Streets Will Never Look the Same is one of the longest tracks on Chromatics' critically acclaimed fourth album,&…
Stay
Mac`s Drake Type Of Sandwalk !
It`s Mac Attack with goofy dance time! American rapper Mac Miller bounces off the music industry with brand new forth studio album&…
Something In The Way
Concentrated Attraction
Nirvana came into existence and seemingly destroyed hair metal in the blink of an eye. Parents who where in thier early 20s at the time would save…
Warm On A Cold Night
Keepin' Us Warm
The electronic/smooth duo HONNE have found a way to keep their audience warm on a cold, cold night. When we say smooth, we are talking about that…
Glow Like Dat
Rich Chigga and the Age-Old Appreciation vs Appropriation Question
Like Iggy Azalea in 2014, Rich Chigga (Chinese-Indonesian teenager Brian Imanuel) has earned himself a Forbes profile that charts his trajectory as…
Swimming Through Dreams
Legendary producer John Fryer releases Black Needle Noise single with Mimi Page
Legendary producer John Fryer, one of the most innovative sonic architects on the music scene, is releasing new music under his new…
Would You Rather
Phoebe Bridgers' “Would You Rather” Traces a Silver Lining Around a Dark Childhood
Los Angeles singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers has been receiving widespread acclaim for her debut album Stranger in the Alps (Sep 2017): a collection…
Lush Life
Zara Larsson uncovers her lush life
When you hear the song “Lush Life”, you can’t deny you’re thinking you’re listening to a new Rihanna…
Itchycoo Park
Itchycoo Park
1967 was the year when the hippie subculture and the psychedelic era reached their peak. Although the heavy use of psychedelic drugs was in the center…
Sweet Disposition
Sweet Nostaglia
Whether it be a film, tv show or a sudden appearance of a long forgotten memory while shopping at the grocery store...The Temper Trap's…
Symphony No. 4 in G Major: I. Bedachtig, nicht eilen (Live)
Mahler’s Back With Symphony No. 4
Much of the first movement of Mahler’s Symphony Number 4 is highly whimsical and colorful with many frenetic things happening in the strings and…
We Come Running
Fight The Good Fight
Nothing like a bright pop song to illuminate your day and Youngblood Hawke's (an indie band from LA) We Come Running does this genre of…
Need a Little Time
Courtney Barnett's “Need a Little Time: Revelatory Simplicity
“Need a Little Time follows Nameless, Faceless as yet another promising glimpse of Aussie indie singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett's upcoming…
Toxic
An Enchanted Gothic Cover
Toxic was made famous by none other than Britney Spears. Famous for the song and music video. However in true originality, Yael Naim crafted a…
New Phone (Who Dis)
Raging Lust
My first introduction to New Jersey rapper Cakes da Killa (Rashard Bradshaw) - and to the emerging 'aesthetic' of queer rap - took…
Decode
About a movie soundtrack
A film should not only tell a story that achieves capture attention, generate empathy and have a deal that connect with an audience. There is…
You Don't Know Love
Never knew Olly Murs like this
Olly Murs first caught my attention with his retro sound. Many of his songs will always remind me of something else. For instance, Heart Skips A Beat…
Love My Life
That Friends And Family Life With Koache!
LA Rapper Jarromie Latie Wilkins aka Koache, is one of the many underground underrated cats with great mind vision and…
Can't Help Falling In Love - Recorded Live at Daytrotter
Can't Help Falling in Love with This and Other Things
It is an unavoidable fact that each established songwriter honed his or her craft by studying and rearranging the work of others. Most local pubs are…
Finally (feat. SWV)
BBD and SWV finally get it right
We are just a little over a week into the new year and already it is giving us some surprises, especially for r&b fans. The upcoming mini-…
Don't Matter Now
George Ezra is happy to be back
George Ezra is best known to me by his major hit “Budapest”, which had a long reign on the charts since 2014 (and lasted throughout…
Did You Really Say No
Did I really like this track?
Vanessa Paradis is one of those names that has popped up many times over, well, decades. I remember her as a teenager singing “Joe Le Taxi”, which was…
I Found
Atmospheric Appeal
I Found is Nottingham-based quartet Amber Run's best known single from their debut album 5 am (2015). The song opens with a…
De Pies A Cabeza
Maná and Nicky Jam together in the studio
It seems almost incredible that this famous Mexican group has decided to combine his talent with reguetonero Nicky Jam, I mean, they served in genres…
Woodstock
COVERLAND Vol.17: Woodstock
This is an unusual situation when talking about covers. “Woodstock” is a song which is hard to determine which is the original…
Love So Soft
Loving soft, coming back hard
“Love So Soft” has brought Kelly Clarkson back to the mainstream. The singer recently signed with Atlantic and announced that a new album would follow…
Pipe Dream
Kyle Duke Releases Debut Single Pipe Dream
Kyle Duke has just released the debut single and music video, “Pipe Dream,” from his album coming out May 4th, Snack Time. The…
Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart
Twin Peaks is back in May, so here's some Julee Cruise
Twin Peaks is one of my favourite shows of all time, and it's soundtrack is a big reason for this. It only takes a couple of bars of Falling, the…
Dear Wormwood
Literary Lyrics & True Folk Sounds
Texas sibling duo the Oh Hello’s has achieved a sound similar to that of Sufjan Stephens. In October of 2016, The Oh Hello’s…
Ain't Nothing Changed
Listen to the Change
'Ain't Nothing Changed' by Loyle Carner happens to be a highly under-rated artist. Keeping that in mind, Loyle Carner twists and glues his…
Hold Back Your Love
Uplifting Melancholic Synth Rock
London post-punk band White Lies's fourth album Friends (2016) examines the dynamics that shape the friendships of individuals…
Thief
Ansel Elgort Tackles A Thief
Full of Pop hooks, 1980's sonic rhythm and a need for sexual speed? Yes, Ansel Elgort known mainly for his acting ability than his new musical…
Mourning Sound
Enigmatic Rhapsody
Critically acclaimed Brooklyn/LA indie rock quartet Grizzly Bear's new music video for “Mourning Sound” - “a playful…
Move
Urgent Locomotion
Move, the first track from LA indie pop quartet Saint Motel's (lead vocalist, guitarist and piano player A/J Jackson, lead guitarist Aaron Sharp,…
Planet
Irene Skylakaki's Planet: Sunlit Existential Introspection
After releasing two well-received albums (Wrong Direction in 2013, Before Dawn in 2014) in Greece and supporting live performances by Macy Gray,…
Mood Rider
Jesus and Mary Chain: Mood Rider
The first thing I noticed about the video for Mood Rider is how well Jim Reid has aged out of the public eye. How very un-Scottish of him, especially…
Underdog
BANKS’ “Underdog”: An Intimate Empowerment Anthem
On “Fuck With Myself”, the lead single from Californian singer-songwriter BANKS’ (Jillian Rose Banks) critically acclaimed…
Sativa
Jhené Aiko and Rae Sremmurd's Sativa Evokes a Beguiling Weed Trip
‘I'll keep it simple, baby’. On “Sativa”, her standout duet with Mississippi hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd,…
Acting Out
Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens together after 11 years
Actresses Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale gathered for an emotional duet. After his followers asked him to invite someone special to his Music…
Say Something Loving
Pushing Boundaries
“Our comfort zone is a very small place.” Romy Madley Croft, While fans might appreciate…
Stella By Starlight
Jazz Standards Vol.9 - Stella by Starlight
‘Stella by Starlight’ is a song from the 1944 Paramount film “The Uninvited,” a ghost story starring Ray…
Sympathy for the Devil
Blood, Sweat and Tears - Sympathy for the Devil
Here is an oldie. It’s a cover of “Sympathy for the Devil”, legendary song, one of the hymns of rock music, written by…
Makeba
Techno-Tribal World Pop
“I like to be spontaneous when I make music. I begin with beats or drums, because that’s what moves me and if I find a sound that…
Just Call Me Nige
Future Music
If anyone can bear the title of future music, that would probably be the work of artists like Jojo Mayer, Bred Mehldau, Mark Guiliana, among others.…
Roxanne
Understanding The Meaning Of Rock
The Rock is conceived through its history as a sound of protest, to do things differently irreverent, boldly, with weight, strength, able to move to…
Despacito - Versión Pop
Despacito is on top of the world
After Daddy Yankee and Luis Fonsi published Despacito have not stopped growing even more in the music industry and the fandula. This urban duet has…
What Do You Mean? - Acoustic
Am I a Belieber?!
First things first. I am NOT a Belieber. I never was... but after listening to the acoustic version of this song, I cannot say I never will. I did say…
All Along the Watchtower
COVERLAND Vol.12: All Along the Watchtower
Jimi’s version was the first I heard in my life. Quite sometime passed until I heard the original version by Bob Dylan. And I liked it also very much,…
Protection
A Knock At The Door
Call Emma Ruth Rundle a deity that could open up the gates of heaven and the pits of hell with one song. 'Protection' comes of off Emma Ruth…
Hair
Why do musicians make music videos?
Throughout its history, the video gained momentum with television, especially in the beginning with the MTV channel, giving the music a closer image…
Kiss You The Same
Alain Clark sounding not the same
Alain Clark is a well-known name in the Netherlands and has been so for several years. Coming from a musical family – his dad played in his…
Move On
Vapor Trails
Move On is Tel-Aviv based electronic indie pop trio Garden City Movement's (Roi Avital on vocals, keyboards and guitar; Joe Saar on guitar,…
Locked Out Of Heaven
A Song for Two
The music not only enjoyed in solitude, listening and connecting with the letter and go with the pace. Music is something that connects us with…
Sería Feliz
Latin Thought
The sound attracts you, the melody becomes sticky, and gradually you convince yourself that the story behind that song, it has happened to you.…
First
Beat of the Drum
A good drum beat is the essential back bone to any song. No...every song that has ever existed on and off of the internet. If someone tells you…
Better
Blazar’s New Spotify Single “Better” is your 2020 House Summer Jam
Are you looking for that next big house and EDM summer jam that’s gonna get you hyped all summer long? Look no further: Blazar’s new Spotify single “…
You Look Good
It's all good to me
Have you ever seen one of those signs in the waiting room of a doctor’s office or at the dentist that says that great care takes time. It thanks you…
The Hills
The Hills - Eminem & Nicki remixes
Somebody said that Can't feel my face is played even on Mars. Everybody knows it and everybody loves it, no doubt about it.…
Youth in Decay
Troves' Elegy for Lost Youth
You've probably never heard of Troves, and that's because they're brand new. Formed in Brighton, England, in early 2014, the band…
Live And Let Die
COVERLAND Vol.8: Live and Let Die
A great song can chart several times just like “Live and Let Die” did, the first time with the original version by “…
Friendship (Is A Small Boat In A Storm)
Enjoy Chicano Batman's Friendship (Is A Small Boat In A Storm) ahead of March release of Freedom is Free
Chicano Batman came out of L.A.; four young men in vintage formalwear, playing songs that blended Brazilian Tropicalía…
Panda
What is the future of authenticity
Desiigner's Panda became the first New York rap song to top the Billboard Hot 100 since Jay Z's Empire State of…
Pork Soda
Kooky Dysfunction
I heard a homeless man talking to someone once and say ‘pineapples are in my head.’ In retrospect, I’m pretty sure it…
When I'm thinking in your mind
Montreal Duo Finer/Haggart Shares Debut Single “When I’m thinking in your mind”.
While Dustin Finer and Patrick Haggart make no claims regarding powers of interstellar awakening, they do boast a visionary take on saxophone and…
Summer Holiday
Jack of all Tongues, Master of None
Wild Nothing's song Summer Holiday has echoes of forbidden love. The persona sings of being in a place and time that is transient and the subject…
It Will Come Back
Hozier Howls Along To It Will Come Back
Whether it's the end of a relationship or an unrequited love, everyone goes through the motions of waiting to end it all of else. Hozier seemed…
Makeba
An explosion of joy with Jain and Makeba
If you’re in the mood for a crazy audiovisual treat (and who isn’t?) it’s time to check this video out. I was lucky enough to stumble upon Makeba…
the words
Christina Perri Sings the Mood
There’s just something about her voice that brings me to be caught within a trance-like consciousness. Her style of changing between soft…
Daily
Some daily music for you
My days usually start out with my local radio station blasting on my stereo. I always hope to catch some news, the weather and the traffic situation.…
Single (feat. Mistah Mez)
Most Promising Pacific Artist Loves Being Single!
D Lewis or Donell in full is Samoan, but South Auckland born ordinary human, until he…
Horns
Devilish Intentions
Bryce Fox buries a darker edge with his single Horns. The song sounds exactly the way one would suspect with such a track title. The explosive way the…
Sucker
Sucker for The Big Moon
The Big Moon has a song playfully titled Sucker that...also has a seductive attraction that easily draws in any one within hearing distance. London…
Your Type
Carly Rae Jepsen's Evolving Pop Persona
The verdict is out. As music critics and fellow blogger NMONDSCHEIN note, Carly Rae Jepsen has followed up on the success of her…
Open
Bitter and Sweet
Rhye has a way of showing clarity and relationship ecosystems (a mouth full, I know). Rhye is a duo and not a single singer-songwriter venture (…
Heart of Steel (feat. Bright Lights)
Raiden Pops Into The Scene With Truthful Heart of Steel
Raiden is on the fast track to becoming a world known household name. If Heart of Steel is any indication about Raiden's ability to merge synth…
Belong (feat. Kimbra)
The Long Haul
In anticipation of his upcoming sophomore album The Space Between (out June 9), London singer-songwriter and guitarist Fyfe&…
She is Lost (Edit)
The Foreign Resort - She is Lost
Danish post-punk trio The Foreign Resort released their new single 'She is Lost' in April. This is the first song from the…
Life
Color For The Human Conscious
Dream Rock Pop band Gypsy & The Cat not only bank on an odd name but their station on creative taste far expandes bands like MGMT. Full of…
Blu (feat. Damon Albarn)
Hedonic Confusion
Guernsey-born DJ, electronic music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mura Masa (21-year old Alex Crossan) is on the cusp of…
The Girl Is Mine featuring Destiny's Child & Brandy
Cut And Paste Some Hit Potential
Ladies and gentlemen, we have so arrived in a new era of sampling. Where we used to just sample music, we now sample full vocals and mix them up with…
Bored
Teenage Sensations
15-year-old LA pop singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is swiftly proving to be a precocious and promising talent in the contemporary pop…
The Cure
Lady Gaga Shares A Cure With New Track
Lady Gaga surprised everyone with new release 'The Cure'. While 'The Cure' was completely unexpected we couldn't have expected…
Adventure Of A Lifetime
Coldplay Adventure Of A Lifetime
On November 6th, 2015 Coldplay released a new single entitled “Adventure of a Lifetime”. “Adventure of a Lifetime&…
Funeral Pyre
Phantogram's Phantasmagoric Elegy
Nearly a year after its release, Phantogram’s Three (2016) offers viewers with a final music video to accompany its dark, brooding and grief…
Nameless, Faceless
Courtney Barnett's Nameless, Faceless is an Off-Handed Feminist Anthem for Our Times
With “Nameless, Faceless”, the first glimpse of her upcoming sophomore album Tell Me How You Really Feel (May 18, 2018), Grammy-nominated Australian…
Baby Boy
Baby Boy is Beyonce's Greatest Accomplishment
This is a difficult article to write for a several reasons. Beyonce is one of the world's most popular artists, one of the highest selling artists…
Lime Habit
POLIÇA 3.0: United Crushers
With the announcement that experimental synthpop band Poliça's third album United Crushers will be released…
Elevator Operator
Profound Mundanity
Melbourne singer-songwriter-guitarist Courtney Barnett's 2016 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist propelled the Australian indie darling to a…
You And I
Intense Interactions From You and I
In with the likes of Fiona Apple, Nernia Pallot and Cat Power comes a new voice Margaret Glaspy. Glaspy's song 'You and I' reads out in a…
Quiet Room
Quiet Rooms For Mother
While 'Quiet Room' is a slight distance away from Babes In Toyland's traditional tracks, 'Quiet Room' acts as the sole…
Girl
Melancholic Euphoria
Girl is the last track from Jamie xx's ( English record producer and The xx member Jamie Smith) debut studio album In Colour (…
Animal
Tremaine`s Animal Cut!
With his latest super-adictive product Tremaine, Trey Songz takes over the global music scene once again. His soft and sexy vocal…
YO! MY SAINT - Film Version
Karen O., Michael Kiwanuka and KENZO Collaborate on “YO! MY SAINT: A Cinematic and Stylish Melodrama
Two muses, one artist in love. This is the basic plot of French luxury house KENZO's 2018 Spring/Summer campaign film: a seamless blend…
Reggae Music
To protest in Spanish
The artist makes his art inspired by everything that lurches emotionally, and emotions, occur as a response to what surrounds human beings, whether…
Le Hace Falta Un Beso (feat. Mike Bahía)
A? no! there are three versions of He needs a kiss.
Colombian singer Alejandro Gonzalez, former lead singer of the group Bonka, released 3 versions of the same subject with which manages to please…
Free.k
Leave it up to Pitbull to update an old classic
In “Free.k” he uses Adina Howard’s “Freak Like Me” and gives it an up-tempo house spin. That part is…
Make Me (Cry)
Drop it like Noah Cyrus
Even without seeing the name, you can tell by the high cheekbones, the nose, the lips and the eyes that she is the sister of Miley Cyrus. Noah Cyrus,…
Take It To The Limit - Live Version
Eagles' Take It To The Limit
One of the first gold singles by the group and a very poignant one at that is “Take it To The Limit.” It was written right before…
Kill Me
Dumbfoundead's Kill Me is a Playful and Witty “Ride or Die” Anthem
Korean-American rapper Dumbfoundead (Jonathan Park) released the third song from his recently released EP Rocket Man (Dec 12, 2017) a few days ago,…
Offa My Hands
On Offa My Hands, Jessica Lea Mayfield Needs Every Single DNA Strand Gone
On Sorry is Gone, the title track and lead single from Ohio country-rocker Jessica Lea Mayfield's fourth album, was a breezy, charming,…
All In My Head (Flex)
Fifth Harmony Heats the networks with its New Video
When we thought we had seen the girls Fifth Harmony in her sexy side with his video Work from Home ft. Ty Dolla $ ign stuck in construction with some…
Siberian Nights
The Kills release new album.
British / American band, The Kills, founded by Mosshart (vocals) and Jamie Hotel Hince (Guitar), in 16 years of experience have given the public good…
Snow
Folksy Synergy
Fans of Sydney indie-folk brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone who were concerned that the duo might be too engrossed in their…
Bohemian Rhapsody - Remastered 2011
Never ending rhapsody
With the end of the year nearing, it is time for all kinds of lists. Lists of the best and the worst of 2016 have already reached my desk…
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
All Things Wonderful
It still is the most wonderful time of the year. If it weren't so, then this song first released in 1963 by Andy Williams would no longer have its…
Better Love
Brit-Pop at its finest
Despite her sophomore album being pushed back to a February release, Foxes has just released its second official single, Better Love. It&…
Mr. Hitler
We're Gonna Tear Hitler Down
In times of global tensions and a possible new rise of fascist, racist, nationalist and fundamentalist movements, it’s imperative to…
If You Were My Girl
I'll happily be your girl...
Phew. As soon as I hit play and Nick Merico appeared on my computer screen, I swooned. And then when he smiled after singing a couple of words, I…
Rise
olympic sound
Do you listen to songs to cheer? Do you listen to music while jogging? Do you exercise to the beat of a song? Still the pace with every step you take…
The Pretender
The Pretender: One Of The Most Brutally Honest Songs
“The Pretender” is an extremely amazing, sad, and truthful song written by Jackson Browne in 1976 for his album with the same exact name. This song is…
Venus Fly
grimes feat Janelle Monáe: venus fly
It always astounds me just how long a great album can stay relevant for. Grimes fantastic album, Art Angels, blew away all comers at the end of 2015…
Cone of Shame
Faith No More with a new video for Cone Of Shame
I’m proud to present the new video for the song Cone Of Shame by Faith No More. Why would I be proud, someone could ask? Well, it was…
Wherever You Will Go
The Oscar Awards and the Soundtrack of the Subconscious
One of the most famous awards in the world and the history of cinema, has always had a place for the Best Soundtrack for Film, a category that has…
Make Me Like You
Why You Had To Go And Make Me Like This?
When I heard about Gwen Stefani's plan to live record and broadcast her new video during the Grammy ceremonies, I have to admit…
Generation Why
A Hymn for Modernity
“Generation Why” is the third single and video from Weyes Blood’s (Natalie Mering's stage name) forthcoming album,…
Simple Song
A Simple Song Indeed
I was recently asked to perform Simple Song by The Shins as the bride at an upcoming wedding walks down the aisle. Although I am well acquainted with…
Get Low
Get Low - James Vincent McMorrow
Get Low by James Vincent McMorrow is a song that caught me completely off guard. I make a habit of listening to some of the Apple Music curated…
Dreams Tonite
Sublime Melancholy
Canadian synth-pop quartet Alvvays have followed up on In Undertow with Dreams Tonite: the second glimpse of…
Luna
What to do when you can't talk?
In the history of music, singing emerged as a form of expression of the slaves who were in America, it was his way of expressing pain, sing to nature…
Liquorice
LIQUORICE AND OTHER TREATS
While Alice Jemima’s first single off her newest work, Liquorice, was not at all what I expected, I can say with conviction, that I was pleasantly…
I Don't Wanna Dance
Jumpy Defeatism
Like Scissor Sisters' I Don't Feel Like Dancin', Nashville indie quartet COIN's (Chase Lawrence, Ryan…
Sorry
Justin Bieber: Being Sorry
Trust, respect, and honesty are essential elements of maintaining relationships. However, the relationship becomes unstable when one of the elements…
God's Gonna Cut You Down
God's Gonna Cut You Down
A short time ago I published a list of contemporary blues songs I personally like the best but I haven’t heard this version of ‘…
Certainties
Aaron Ball Band Tours Japan, Releases “Certainties” Album And Certainties Video
Aaron Ball Band, four piece Country and Alternative Rock, has released their fourth album, “Certainties” on June 5, 2018. The album is available…
You Know What I Mean
The Ultimate Love Song 'You Know What I Mean' By Cults
We are in the midst of summer. Some places are experiencing heat waves that shouldn't. But, this summer has upped the ante this early in the game.…
K.
Cigarettes After Sex Drives A Hopeful Melancholy
Besides the typical indie genre Cigarettes After Sex drift (literally) towards a more ambient soundscape. Take the latest single 'K.' for…
Like A Virgin
50 Greatest Madonna Songs According To Rolling Stone
No doubt Madonna is one of those artists that although the years pass, is still news for any event or music, and there are many pages, magazines, and…
In Common
You will be surprised to hear In Common by Alicia Keys
So Alice returns to the musical arena with a new and extremely different style, trying to make space between all the leading artists today. With a…
Angela
A Punch In The Gut Called Feelings
The Lumineers became a household name when 'Ho Hey' was released in 2012, sending all calls to the nearest radio station to play the song on…
Million Reasons
Gaga's reasons to rise above
It is never my objective to write about an artist several times over. I do try to variate in my blog topics as much as possible, but I’m…
Caught In Time, So Far Away
Nocturnal Nostalgia
Canadian dream-pop duo You'll Never Get to Heaven's (Chuck Blazevic and Alice Hansen) ghostly EP Adorn (2014) bears some…
Sister
Angel Olsen Uses the Track Sister To Bare All The Uncertainty Within Ourselves
Personality is a given with Angel Olsen. Not only can I not stop writing about Olsen, Olsen's album MY WOMAN, and how this extraordinary…
Sins Of My Father
Take the sins down to the pond
When Tom Waits met his wife for the first time, I’m sure he never expected to be musically influenced by her that much, mostly because she&…
The Boy With The Arab Strap
Longevity and Connection
I’ll be honest, I’m one of the latecomers when it comes to Belle and Sebastian. I should also confess that I discovered this song…
Talk a Lot
SALES Return With Infectious Guitar Pop Anguish
Orlando-based duo SALES (vocalist/guitarist Lauren Morgan and producer Jordan Shih) reassume their position as guitar-based indie pop poets of…
Sweet Tooth
Munk Duane Contemplates Funk & Fidelity With New Single “Sweet Tooth”
Munk Duane’s Sweet Tooth is a soulful and sexy, Alt-R&B funk banger detailing a story of “temptation” in the face of…
Nikes
Recognizing Black Genius
2009: Taylor Swift's music video for You Belong With Me beats out Beyoncé's video for Single Ladies in MTV'…
Needed Me
The Sadness of Revenge
The music video for Rihanna's third single Needed Me has been gaining a fair amount of media attention for its Tarantino-esque visual feast of…
Mythological Beauty
Big Thief Open A Cinematic View Into The Vision That is Mythological Beauty
Capacity the second album coming from Big Thief follows vocalist/guitarist Adrianne Lenker through the stories she has lived throughout her life. One…
Detox
Detox Too Good
I know I know, you're probably saying, but Aaron, you just wrote an article about Skepta last week! You'd be correct by saying this, however I…
Dreaded Days of School
Michigan Rockers - Kick Ass Rockers from The Great Lakes State Playlist on Spotify! Follow & Share!
Michigan Rockers - Kick Ass Rockers from The Great Lakes State Playlist on Spotify! Follow & Share! Click Here To Visit The Spotify Playlist!…
Victory
joey badass launches victory
The young and prolific American rapper Joey badass, member of the collective Pro was recently released his latest single, the court 'victory&…
High
Music video 'High' by Rawayana and Apache
With rapper Larry Rada aka Apache , the Venezuelan band of self - styled 'Trippy Pop' Rawayana presents its new official video for…
Femme
Francophone Chic
“Honestly, we’re no Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel or Félix Leclerc ... As artists who sing in French, I feel like…
Green Light
Lorde's is seeing green
It probably hasn’t passed you by that Lorde has made an impressive return. When it comes to the biggest stars on the planet, it’s hard to keep a…
Hungry (feat. Rick Ross)
Fergie Drops Hungry Video!
The Dutchess comes back Trappin` style! After droping the first Double Dutchess studio album…
Lover's Spit
The Longing in Lover's Spit
Since its release on Canadian indie rock music collective Broken Social Scene's critically acclaimed second album You Forgot It in People …
BURNITUP! (feat. Missy Elliott)
Missy Jackson Burnout Comeback
The two most powerful women in music industry when we speak about original taste, talent and real quality, finally get their golden era lit with the…
Bare
Bare As Skin When It Comes To Wildes
The alternative/indie scene that has grown and flourished in London never ceases to surprise me. From the singers to the instruments they are able to…
Jupiter Jax
Jupiter Jax
I’m sitting here in front of my notebook and typing these lines about magical music. Music is all around, music is everything and it&…
Claude Bolling
Baroque Jazz by Claude Bolling
Entranced by baroque forms, composer and French pianist Claude Bolling makes his music plays indefinitely with jazz and baroque style. ¿Jazz…
Death From Above 1979
Death From Above announces new album and releases Never Swing Alone
For some time now the two-piece band Death From Above , previously known as Death From Above 1979 , has been giving us some new material with the…
David Bowie
Ten songs to remember David Bowie
The eccentric British singer David Bowie, histrionic pop culture icon and creator of 25 studio albums left a legacy of great topics that will be…
Leslie Bassett
Leslie Bassett's Echoes From an Unknown World
Along side his famous clarinet pieces, Leslie Bassett shines with the greatness that is otherworldly. Implementing the twelve tone row structure to…
Kari Jobe
Kari Jobe Can Move You to be Still
While there are songs that capture your heart the very first time you hear them, there are also songs that you just grow to love over a period of time…
Colbie Caillat
Contrastingly Cool Colbie
If you have read my earlier article on Justin Young, you may find mention of Colbie Caillat. Their story is one that I love to hear about and their…
Wayne Shorter
The Herbie Hancock/Wayne Shorter Manifesto
Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter are two rare geniuses, whose careers last for more than 60 years now, and whose impact on contemporary music is…
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber leaves premiere with BloodPop
MTV RiFF RAFF
AND MTV IMPOSED THE MUSIC TO SEE
The Buggles, a British band of new wave and synth pop, happened with little glory in its brief existence in the world of the music. Today it can be…
Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky and Jazz
Igor Stravinsky is probably one of the two most important composers of the 20th century, alongside Arnold Schoenberg. While Schoenberg started…
Prisca Dávila
Guerry Weil and Prisca Dávila will be at the El Hatillo Jazz Festival
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Kingtonic
No hanging on the couch for Kingtonic
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Eddie Murphy
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Los Chikos del Maiz
Tribute to Black Mirror
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The Bacon Brothers
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Chance The Rapper
Is Chance the Rapper On His Way To Legendary Status?
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Calle 13
Resident without Calle 13
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Angela Easterling
Angela Easterling’s Carolina Honeymoon: The Buddy & Jim Show Recap
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Avicii
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Carlos Vives
Carlos Vives sings to Colombian cyclists on the eve of Tour de France
The songwriter Carlos Vives presented today The pride of my country, an authentic ode to the Colombian cyclists that arrives to few days of that…
Steve Reich
Reich Dazzles With His Four Sections for Orchestra, Voices and Organ
The first four movements or sections of the piece showcase primarily the orchestra. Layer or Section One features a dazzling section of whole tone or…
And Also The Trees
Hunter Not The Hunted... And Also The Trees
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Shakira
Shakira will soon bring us El Dorado
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Miles Davis
Lift to the Gallows
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Frank Ticheli
Frank Ticheli’s Saxophone Concerto
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The Heart & Sole of Converse
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Motörhead presents album of covers
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Travi$ Scott
Travis returns to Buenos Aires
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Jorge Drexler
Jorge Drexler premieres a new single, Telefonía
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Bersuit Vergarabat
The Bersuit and her Pink Cloud
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DNCE
DNCE unleashed the pop craze
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The Killers
The Killers premiere Run for Cover
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La Femme
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Hi. I am back again and I’m not going to stop. Holidays are crashing my feelings and my nervous system every year. If you still feel like a…
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters could release album in 2017
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PXNDX
Panda announces indefinite rest from his career
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Bruno Merz
Folk Pop Artist Bruno Merz Finds a Convert with 'Whisper Turn'
Softspoken singer-songwriter Bruno Merz has announced that he will be releasing a new single '…
City and Colour
Colour: Strangers
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The Tallest Man On Earth
'A Short Film about Dark Bird is Home' by The Tallest Man on Earth
The tallest man on Earth is Sultan Kösen with his 251 cm (8 ft 3 in). He is from Turkey and has nothing to do with music. But ‘The…
Juanes
Juanes will participate in the concert for Lennon's 75 years
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Ilan Chester
You are one in a million, a jazz standard
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Arctic Monkeys
The Monkeys in the crosshairs
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Akapellah
The nation's hip hop takes over
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The Sidemen
Rock Out With Brian McShea and The Sidemen This St Patty’s Day in DTLA
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Natalia Lafourcade
The emotional deconstruction of Natalia Lafourcade
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Miguel Bosé
Argentina prepares to receive Miguel Bosé
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Foo Fighters
The new Foo Fighters already has a name and date
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Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi comes with everything.
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MC Hammer
MC Hammer did a one-time-only gig
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Kym Simon
Kym Simon ‘Mirror’ - EP Review
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Oleg Frish
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
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Carlos Vives
Carlos Vives closes the year with a little gift
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Gustavo Elis
Shout this word to the world
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Little Mix
Everything ready for the MTV European Music Awards
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Thalía
Thalía: Mexican Love
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Tim McGraw ‘Humble and Kind’ – Single Review
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Ashley Monroe
Ashley Monroe @ Bush Hall, London, UK | March 15, 2016 – Review
I’ve been to a lot of gigs in my short lifetime. I’ve seen a lot of different artists in a lot of different venues playing a lot…
Qristina & Quinn Bachand
Qristina & Quinn Bachand ‘Little Hinges’ - Album Review
When it comes to charming and exciting Celtic roots music, it doesn’t get much better than Qristina and Quinn Bachand. The brother and sister duo (…
Ellie Goulding
A Genius Cover Artist!
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Los Amigos Invisibles
The Invisible Friends will perform a benefit concert for Venezuela
The current situation in Venezuela, has caused much of the cultural-musical movement in the country, is pronounced to stop violence in the streets.…
Bob Dylan
Blowin' In The Wind
”Yes, and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, and how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people…
Danilo Montero
The Cure for Hate
For anthropologists and / or philosophers evil is the absence of good. And the light is the absence of darkness. In that sense, one could say with…
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
Sometimes no news is expected, for example that the woman of the year is Madonna, Elton John or still making music after many years, but in the end…
Jerrod Niemann
Jerrod Niemann ‘High Noon’ – Album Review
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Gona
Something big is coming from Gona
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Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar's legacy on record
Taylor Swift won Best Album at the recent edition of Grammy awards. He made headlines, its silhouette was common in the media for having obtained the…
Lady Gaga
Oscars Highlights Gaga, Sam Smith and more
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Sin Bandera
Musical marriages and divorces
Wisin y Yandel, Chino (now Chyno) and Nacho, Visitor and Resident (Calle 13), and of course Noel and Leonel de Sin Bandera, among others, are musical…
Lady Gaga
Partynauseous is completely sick
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Rosetta
Metal for astronauts
12 years ago a couple of high school friends decided to play a gig together. They didn’t have any songs recorded before, the show was all…
Cardiel
On the tracks of Cardiel
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton @ Verizon Arena, Little Rock, AR | August 13, 2016 – Review
The first time I saw Dolly Parton in concert was 11 years ago at Dollywood. It was, in fact, my first concert ever. So when Dolly announced she was…
George Benson
guitar auction
The auction house Guernsey's auction is announcing an impressive guitar: about three hundred instruments from jewelry eighteenth century to…
Jesus Culture
verses of hope
A few days ago I suffered a tragedy, my best friend died because of an accident, I was broken without wanting to leave home, without eating, he was…
T. Hardy Morris
T. Hardy Morris Interview
T. Hardy Morris fronts Dead Confederate and is part of the indie rock supergroup, Diamond Rugs, but his latest solo album, Drownin’ On A…
Marc Anthony
Official the separation of Mac and Lima.
Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony and his wife, Venezuelan model Shannon de Lima, announced today that they have decided to end their marriage. After…
Lil Wayne
Is Lil Wayne retiring from music?
Lil Wayne has been making headlines since last week after he hinted recently on Twitter that he is contemplating leaving the rap, saying it is…
Sia
Sia will be looking for Dory
Sia, the singer - songwriter who has us enamored by its eccentricity and compelling topics, presented his album This is Acting. This album, its…
The Game
Does Game's The Documentary 2 Live Up To It's Predecessor's Legacy?
Serial albums are not a new phenomenon in the world of hip hop. Many top artists have released them over the years, for instance Jay-Z’s…
Charli XCX
Charli XCX and The F Word
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Lorelei Taron
Lorelei Tarón will not give up… for her beloved Falcao García
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Irán
My favorite albums by Venezuelan artists published in 2016
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Maxine Linehan
Maxine Linehan Reveals Moonlight in Vermont
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Camille Bertault
Wop-boppa loo-bop da-doo-bah-dop...
Scatting is a technique from the early ages of jazz music, brilliantly developed further by Ella Fitzgerald in the forties, and extensively used by…
Maman Kusters
MAMAN KÜSTERS
This is it! The true thing. This is the sound and style. This is something monumental: a well-planned invasion, an inevitable cult. This is the act of…
Boston Rex
The 5 best Venezuelan albums and EP's that you should listen to.
It is impossible to deny the good musical talent in Venezuela in various genres, such as folk, rock, indie, pop and even reggae, and in this 2016…
Bruce Springsteen
Springsteen's autobiography due out in September
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Jonas Sanche
Jonas Sanche on trial in The Cypher Effect
New content Chilean Jonas Sanche, is d eun unreleased track in connection with the group of The Cypher Effect, which already have episodes with names…
Hillsong Worship
Hillsong’s Mountain Powerfully Displays the Message of Christ
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Kurt Oldman
Prolific TV & Film Composer Kurt Oldman Takes Us Behind the Scenes of SuperMansion & More
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Desiigner
Rappers Who Sound Like Other Rappers
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Meek Mill
Meek Mill is back with a new album!
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Jan Daley
Tony Bennett Fans, Make The Addition Of Jan Daleys Smooth Jazz Christmas Album To Your Holiday Playlist
Want to have a ”Swingin’ Christmas” this year? Well if it wasn’t too obvious from that small plug that we&…
REDCON-1 Music Group
Mission: Music Therapy
Service members from all branches of the military are faced head-on with a variety of challenges ranging from physical injuries to psychological…
Madonna
Improvised concert offers Madonna in Paris in tribute to the victims.
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The Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers
The Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers 'Ocooch Mountain Home' - Album Review
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Khalid
Khalid – American Teen: New Song
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Flowers Must Die
Flowers Must Die
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Icona Pop
San Tomé released a new EP
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Sin Bandera
Sin Bandera returns with Not in this one
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Paulo Franco
Paulo Franco Shares the Eclectic The Last Card
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Dori Freeman
Dori Freeman ‘Dori Freeman’ - Album Review
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Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw ‘Damn Country Music’ – Album Review
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Charly García
Charlie was discharged!
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Chabuca Granda
Big Chabuca Granda
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Carlos Vives
The good moment that Carlos Vives lives
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The xx
Jamie xx, in charge of replacing Frank Ocean at Primavera Sound 2017
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
CCR: Fortunate Son
The lyrics to the 1969 song reference rich people who orchestrate wars and then draft the poor to fight in them. People have criticized the musicians&…
Caramelos De Cianuro
Rock as national identity
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6 String Drag
6 String Drag Interview
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Immortalizing Bob Marley
I believe there’s a great divide in music as an artistic medium. There’s artists who use music as a basic formula to express an…
Gnarls Barkley
5 Songs to soundtrack your Black Friday
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Eric Clapton
Still Got It At 70
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Ryan Leslie
Les drops new new Plans
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Chino & Nacho
Nacho premieres theme for his fans.
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Gera MXM
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Gabo Parisi
Gabo Parisi premieres music video
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Nicky Jam and Maná are a success!
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Kitchen Confessions #6 : Interview With Kyle Christopher
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Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters @ Union Chapel, London, UK | February 16, 2016 – Review
I’ve been hearing about the delights of Union Chapel for a couple of years now, but it wasn’t until last night that I was finally…
BTS
BTS IS ON FIRE!
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Eric Clapton will release his new album in September
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Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey walks through Los Angeles in her White Mustang
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Faith Evans Ruch
LISTEN: Faith Evans Ruch ‘Sugar’ / ‘Thank You’
Faith Evans Ruch always had soulful tones to her voice a la Patsy Cline, so it only made sense to feed her purely traditional country sound through a…
Gustavo Cordera
Gustavo Cordera, between controversy and misfortune
How exciting that you / You should know / That tail is the most sought / apple And those breasts the food of my creation (...) So begins one of the…
John Mackey
John Mackey’s Hymn To The Blue Hour Demonstrates His Love for Chorale Settings
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Joe Fox & The Frantics
Cooler Music Out Now From Joe Fox and the Frantics Single Dancin’ Shoes, on Spotify and Youtube
Joe Fox and the Frantics release with their cooler single, “Dancin’ Shoes”, available on all music platforms including Spotify and Youtube. …
Dirty Snowman Society
Dirty Snowman Society Go Snowblind
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Metallica
Almost there for Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
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Kendrick Lamar
Grammy 2016 Predictions
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Stromae
Stromae calls it quits
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George Harrison
Commentary on George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”
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Gustavo Dudamel
Venezuelan Pride: Gustavo Dudamel to the Walk of Fame
The man who rejuvenates classical music. So cataloged National Geographic magazine, in 2010, the director of orchestras native city of Barquisimeto (…
Gloriana
Gloriana ‘Three’ – Album Review
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Jacob Davich - EP Review
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Claydon Connor
Claydon Connor ‘Under The Big Sky’ – Album Review
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Queen
Queen re-releases All Dead, All Dead to celebrate 40 years of News of the World
The album that includes the classics We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions was recorded in London during the summer of 1977 and published in…
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Sia and Diplo collaborate for the soundtrack of The Neon Demon
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Fito Páez
Fito Páez will close his tour in Cuba
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Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn ‘Everything It Takes’ (Ft. Elvis Costello) – Single Review
Ah the sweet, sweet sound of a steel guitar, don’t you just love it? I don’t know about you, but when I hear the beautiful cry of…
Nautilus Pompilius
Nautilus Pompilius. Russian classic rock band.
“Nautilus Pompilius” is a classic Russian rock band. It appeared in 1982 in Sverdlovsk. This band from a Russian province gained…
BTS
Bangtan Boys: Young Forever
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What do the glasses hide?
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Chloe & Halle
This Duo Drops a New Style
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Zombie Zombie
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Somewhere in the deep woods of Amazonia, where the unknown forces dwell, there is a space station – mysterious and frightening. No one knows…
Demonic Death Judge
Demonic Death Judge
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Take a Chance on Artistic Integrity
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