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Boxer is a point of no return for The National. With three albums under their belt, including the critical darling Alligator, the band were starting…

In June of 2015, I had the great privilege of hearing Ben Howard peform live at the Grand Arena in Cape Town. I have not stopped talking about it…

If Moon Shaped Pool ends up being Radiohead’s final album (there are rumours) then it’s possible to split the bands career into three distinct acts.…

Wagner as in Kurt, the Lambchop main-man, not Richard the Opera man. It is still a good mood piece, as in Flotus, the new Lambchop album. It has been…

Vulnicura is very personal; Bjork's vulnerability is shown from the first few lines. Although she has stated that the writing process was a way of…

  We are only tourists in this life/ Only tourists but the view is nice The name of David Byrne is often replaced with the name Talking Heads…

Explosions in the Sky (EITS) is one of the most emblematic post-rock bands, and for good reason, their lengthy instrumental pieces with little more…

On his sixth album titled Garden of Ashes, multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood confronts his inner and outer demons by participating in modern events…

Navigating the ever-expanding troves of online music communities such as Bandcamp can be a daunting task for those with even an inkling of an…

Although initially a project of two guys, Darius Keeler and Rosko John, Archive is the music collective that featured many artists over the past two…

Grant Lee Buffalo were one of those bands that never got enough recognition from the media and the audience. Their 1999 debut Fuzzy, a fusion of…

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…

I'm going to talk about something different in this series today. All the other 10 year articles have been about albums that I would consider as…

Well of course Moon Shaped Pool would make the cut, since I never shut up about Radiohead. There's a lot to be said about the album, which is the…

Do you remember when you were young? Do you remember that very distinctive mixed and contradictory feeling of fearlessness and doubt, of possibility…

It may be hard to remember now but in 2007 Birmingham gloom rock band Editors were one of the biggest bands in Britain. After their terrific 2005…

Here with us again is another incarnation of an album about love turned into a disaster that at the time it came out was proclaimed a disaster. Later…

Arcade Fire have come to a point that every iconic band reaches eventually: they are a victim of their own success. They are one of the rare acts that…

The Maine has been touring non stop since the release of their last album, American Candy, earlier this year. As this is their fifth album, we all…

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…

  In my opinion, the most important commandment is that you should become a better person every day. Let’s see If Slim Cessna&…

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…

Cavalier Song are a Liverpool band consisting of Daniel Melia, Luke Mawdsley, Jason Dugdale, Mark Greenwood, Matt Ward and…

Garden State has a lot to answer for. Yes it’s now lazy journalism to combine Zack Braff’s directorial debut with the emergence of The Shins in pop…

For every type of darkness, there is a different light creature. Just because something is dark, it doesn’t mean it can not make you laugh.…

“Foltin” are one of the most exciting bands coming from Macedonia. Building their sound through all these years (from 1995 until…

I first took notice of Matt Redman's music when I heard The Heart of Worship more than a decade ago, 15 years to be exact. From then on,…