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Alive In New Light
IAMX is Optimistic? A Miracle!
Only a year after the album Unfall, Chris Corner returned with the new record Alive In New Light. In some way, it wraps up the story started with…
Yellow Light (Despicable Me 3 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
What's happened to Pharrell's magic touch?
Ok, I’ll come right out and admit it. I just went to see Despicable Me 3, a few days ago. Of course, it was because I was in the company of …
Common Sense
Common Sense
The debut from the young East London rapper is a unique coming-of-age story that shapes the best of grime, Afrobeat, dancehall, and early ’…
Gone Is Gone
Gone is Gone – Gone is Gone [Review]
Supergroups. They always bring lots of promises but fail to deliver them almost every time. Anyone remembers SuperHeavy, a project consisting out of…
Merkabah / SunInYourHead
Shaddah Tuum ooze menace on EP
Shaddah Tuum weave dark and ambient soundscapes that ripple with edgy industrial menace. Their shamanic incantations insinuate themselves into the…
Shadow of the Moon
Railway Gamblers Deserve More Attention
Sometimes, good things are buried deep down in the entropy of the world and you find them by accident. This is especially the case with the…
Caiga la Noche
Fall The Night of Los Mesoneros is now available
After a long wait, the Caracas grouping Innkeepers, now impeached in Mexico, have released their second studio album called nightfall whose album has…
Starflower
Crushing on Jennifer Paige’s new sound
In the 90s, she got us all singing the light hearted guitar pop song “Crush”, and many of us probably forgot her since. Back then, I actually bought…
Ten Best
Is it still murder on the dance floor?
When Sophie Ellis Bextor broke through, in the early 2000s, I really thought she was going to be massive, but with the occasional appearance put aside…
All the Colours of the Dust
Jakob Skott - All the Colours of the Dust
Jakob Skott came out with a new album ''All the Colours of the Dust'' earlier this year, and the new album packs some really fine…
Higher Than Here (Deluxe)
In the here and now
I love my soul vocals smooth, unless it's the old soul music, like Motown, but every time I hear the voices of people like Amos Lee and James…
August And Everything After (Deluxe Edition)
#tbt: The Best Of Counting Crows
For some artists, love means not wanting to live anymore. And while they give us the reason to live with their heart on their sleeves, I am always…
Amanecer
THE GLOBALIZED SOUND OF THE COLOMBIANS OF BOMBA STEREO
Bomba Estéreo history in music has been recorded and an impeccable track record. At dawn he went twice to dance, to contagion and that of the…
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…
Jei Beibi
Café Tacvba consecrates its experience in Jei Beibi
They are already 28 years of musical career and Café Tacvuba manages to show the best musical document of the moment in which they are living. A…
What Dreams Are Made Of
Caribbean Hip Hop Recipe Finally Penned Down: Welcome R.City Empire
Dear most dedicated Hip Hop fans, our holy brothers, hugely mistakenly downsided, finally…
1958 Miles
The Original Miles Ahead
Miles Davis’ music is the safe place where you can always find inspiration, meditate, get excited, or simply lay back and relax.…
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Remastered Version)
Introducing David Bowie's alter ego - Ziggy Stardust
Bowie started his career with the hit “Space Oddity” in 1969, for the astronaut Major Tom who is abandoned in Space and ended with…
Kylie Christmas (Deluxe)
My new annual tradition
For me, the Christmas season really begins after December 5th. This is when radio stations turn into Christmas stations and it’s publicly…
Giros
Giros, the thirtysomething album by Fito Páez
There was a time when Fito Paez made good records. It began exactly 30 years ago with Twists, the album currently the singer pays tribute with a…
Best Of
#tbt: Best Summer Album Ever
There are many albums that are made for chilling nearby big waters. Some are obvious, like those records by The Beach Boys, Tame Impala, Buena Vista…
CHANGE
Ella Mai Change Album Review
It may seem that time is sometimes simply relative, but when it comes to specific Time, from February 15th, the essense is much…
Deep Purple
Come Taste the Band
Originally released in 1975, “Come Taste the Band” heralded the arrival of new guitarist Tommy Bolin. The former James Gang…
Individuality (Can I Be Me?)
Jazz Album Recommendation Individuality (Can I Be Me?) By Rachelle Ferrell
This is all about Rachelle Ferrell and her album Individuality (Can I Be Me?) released in 2000. Ferrell is a girl from Pennsylvania, who started…
Loud Hailer
Jeff Beck's Critic Of Today's Society
Although he is 72 years old, Jeff Beck still does not think he should retire his guitar, which he proves with his newest release titled Loud Haller.…
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…
Kindly Now
Keaton Henson Laid Bare
After some consideration, I realised that Keaton Henson’s Kindly Now is most definitely one of my favourite albums of the year. It…
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,…
The New High
Will Brent Finally Bring In Some Cash?
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…
The Devil's Walk
The Brilliant Electronic Apparatus of Apparat
I don’t remember that there was ever a more beautiful cover art than the one for the Apparat’s album The Devil’s Walk,…
For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Slow, Deep and Hard
The title of Type O Negative’s first album is a perfect describer of Subrosa’s new record, For This We Fought the Battle of Ages.…
2012 - 2017
When Nicolas Jaar Plays House, That Doesn't Mean He Plays Safe
It is generally accepted notion that when an artist is having fun while making his music, the listener is also going to enjoy it. Under the pseudonym…
One More Light
One More Light: Track by track
Nobody Can Save Me Much to my surprise this is actually a strong start. I groaned at the auto-tuned opening, but the track itself is an effective look…
Shape Shift With Me
Post-Dysphoria Punk
After nihilistic and vulgar album Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Laura-Jane Grace went through a chatarsis and left us wondering what will…
The Ultimate Collection
All Tops Dream Of Dreampop
My dream is to listen to dreampop all day and all night long. Luckily, the internet has allowed me to have access to infinite number of musicians who…
From A Room: Volume 1
Beard-Country Representative
Chris Stapleton has been sneaking around American scene as an author for a long time until he finally released his debut Traveller two years ago.…
Wine-Dark Sea
Winedark Sea: The Piece and CD A Review (John Mackey, Frank Ticheli and Others)
The University of Texas Wind Ensemble and Nathan Williams give such stunning performances of Frank Ticheli’s …
Statues
#tbt: Moloko - Statues
Back in the 2000s, r’n’b pop was ubiquitous. There were not many pop artists who offered something else. At that time, there was one unique band. It…
General Admission
MGK General Admission Album Review
is the second studio album by American rapper Machine Gun Kelly. It was released on October 16, 2015, by Bad Boy Records and Interscope Records.…
An End Has A Start
Albums that turn 10 in 2017: Editors, An End has a Start
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…
At Least For Now (Deluxe)
Benjamin Clementine: Best New Artist of 2015
Kudos!Kudos!Kudos! Why have I just discovered this man? I don’t know, but he is going straight to the top of my BEST of 2015 chart. Maybe…
Reluciente, Rechinante y Aterciopelado
The live return of Aterciopelados
Aterciopelados is elemental part of our Latin American cultural idiosyncrasies. The decade of the 90s has his songs as soundtrack of our lives. Since…
Memorandum
Autumn Is Coming
Dashing bearded guy with the suggestive falsetto and a guitar. This would be a perfect title for the movie about The Leading Guy, my new…
Different Creatures
Circa Waves Joins The Migration Crisis Awareness Movement
Four guys from Liverpool sound more confident, mature and powerful on their second full-length album, just as the frontman Keiran Shudall wanted and…
Teenage Dream
#tbt Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Let's go back to times when Katy Perry was still Katy Perry, or at least she looked like one. It was the time when she was regularly in tabloids,…
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…
Third World Pyramid
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid
The Brian Jonestown Massacre recently came out with a new album titled ''Third World Pyramid''. Of course The Brian Jonestown…
Something More Than Free
10\10 for Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell is James Blunt for people who know what music is. Even though James Blunt’s latest album proved that he knows how to sound like…
One Stone
Trixie Mattel is a Drag Version of Dolly Parton
Every time I hear super awesome music from none other than a drag queen, one fairy gets born. Drag queens who are also a great musicians are extremely…
The False Foundation
Archive Asks You To Join Them in Questioning The Public Sphere
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…
7
A Track by Track Review - Seal’s 7
Boy, has this been a crazy month for album releases. It felt like the 90s again with everyone from The Corrs, Nick Carter, to Enya and Bjork releasing…
G I R L
Review: Pharrell's 'G I R L'
Pharrell’s second solo release, G I R L, is the culmination of his year-and-a-half-long winning streak. His unadulterated happiness is…
A Song I Can Live With
Chip Taylor - Another Great Waiting To Be Re-discovered
Luckily, not everybody has forgotten Chip Taylor. After all, he is to get inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For those who have forgotten&…
SOUR SOUL
Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD Sour Soul LP
I began listening to this album strictly because I saw that BadBadNotGood was making the beats. BadBadNotGood is a improvisational, hip-hop…
No Estás Solo
Rodrigo Solo and Luis Iran prepare a concert together
Without doubt the Venezuelan music scene, there has been a lot of talent, and one of the great virtues, is the support between the various projects…
Too Dark Park
Skinny Puppy's Sonic Masochistic Masterpiece
Skinny Puppy's eighth studio album is something of a masterpiece. So dense are the sonic tapestries that it is nearly impenetrable. Produced by…
Random Access Memories
#tb The Standard of Modern Electronic-Dance
Recently, I have watched an episode of HBO’s brand new show Young Pope and in one scene, the main characters, pope, asked his advisor who does she…
Awesome Rock on Piano
Interview with Dmytro Morykit about his album 'Awesome Rock on Piano'
I interviewed Dmytro Morykit, about his recent album of classic rock covers Awesome Rock on Piano and include below some of his thoughts on the…
Vine
Jen Gloeckner - Climbing Up The Vine
Downtempo (who still remembers trip-hop?) has become such a formulaic genre that whenever somebody lists a certain album or an artist under such a…
Harder Love
Strand Of Oaks Returns To Confessional Mode
Between 2014 album Heal that marked a breakthrough on the scene, and 2017 Hard Love, Timothy Showalter, aka Strand Of Oaks went through some personal…
When You Cut Into The Present
Møster! - When You Cut Into The Present
Møster! are a renowned Norwegian experimental avant-garde psychedelic noise-rock outfit, who happen to mix a variety of subgenres in their…
The Thread That Keeps Us (Deluxe Edition)
When Calexico Does Pop, It's Never Pop
A dormant album Edge of the Sun from 2015 had recently got an awaken brother. The Thread That Keeps Us is shorter, focused and more diverse collection…
Cold Night in Soho
When Soho Gets Cold, The Tiger Lillies Get Colder
Cold Night in Soho is the first album in ten years in which The Tiger Lillies did not put focus on theater piece. They are everything but regular band…
Gargoyle
Lanegan's Gargoyle Is An Art Piece Of Rock
One of the most important contemporary musicians, with plentiful collaborations and participations in wide variety of his colleagues projects has just…
Death Song
70s are Back In The Sound Of Black Angels
Good morning, America! Mornings were definitely better when Obama was a president, and many musicians seem to be aware of this. It seems like there is…
Rebels
Eriel Indigo teases new EP
Arriving like a neon-clad day-glo 21st Century Barberella, Eriel Indigo steps off the mothership with fully-formed glitter-noir pop songs that…
Late Night Tales: David Holmes
Can Late Night Tales Disappoint ?
Compilations are big business and Late Night Tales series has turned into, it seems, good business. After all, they are a label in itself. I’ve been…
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,…
Moon Shoes EP
Ravyn Lenae undefining a genre
For many, the summer is a time for letting loose (aka partying), but for those who slow down during the summer, I have found you the perfect music by…
2gether
Too much electro-pop and jazz
I was having one of those humdrum weekends, where I do nothing but lie in my bed, binge-watch movies and TV series, eat, sleep, browse Facebook and…
Phase 3
Skeppet - Phase 3
Skeppet are an interesting Danish band that venture in the realm of psychedelic rock, electronic music and space rock influenced ambient drones. Their…
No Time For It
Fantasia's pretty generic this time
Can you believe it’s already 12 years ago, when she won American Idol?! Even though Fantasia was born into a musical family, thus it seemed…
Humanz
Gorillaz Playful Like Monkeys
They'll never forget you 'til somebody new comes along are clairvoyant words of Glenn Frey that he sang in New Kid in Town from the legendary…
Blood Moon
This is How Spending Time in Nature Sounds
Martin Craft is a composer and a producer who currently resides at Berlin, London and Joshua Tree. He is performing under a stage name M. Craft and,…
Integrity
Tom Harrel and The Art of Improv
Fantastic, legendary trumpet player Tom Harrel continues to prove that it's possible to create masterpieces even when you are in your…
Love Undercover
#tb When The Corals Were on Hiatus
When The Coral went on a hiatus, its members commenced working on their solo projects. That is how Ian Skelly’s and James Skelly’s debuts…
Pool
My Albums of the Year: Porches: Pool
It's amazing how quickly the musical landscape can change. Only a few year s ago I was drowning in gloomy artists talking about death and other…
12 Songs to Haunt You
It Ain't Easy
So I just borrowed a title from an old Three Dog Night (remember them?) song. Actually, that is easy. What is really hard is keeping up a certain…
Earl Grey
Girl Ray - How To Properly Brew Earl Grey
Earl Grey is a popular but finicky tea to make. If you don’t let it stand long enough, it has a bland taste: if you let it stand too long, it becomes…
Trouble Maker (Deluxe Edition)
Rancid! Rancid! Rancid!
I'll see ya in the pit, as Rancid would say. Trouble Maker has the arguments and quality that would make any punk boy and girl consider visiting…
Ritual Spirit
A Fistful of maddeningly good melodies
Massive Attack are back, and while the new EP titled Ritual Spirit contains only four songs it is just long enough to show us that they are…
A Black Mile To The Surface
No Breakthrough For Manchester Orchestra
Manchester Orchestra are not from Manchester. They are not even from UK. They are not even orchestra. Manchester Orchestra are Americans from Atlanta…
Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
Can Wider Audiences Be More Prophetic About Chuck Now?
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…
Jesus Calling: Instrumental Songs For Devotion
For Those Who Have Ears to Hear
I am fond of listening to instrumental music when I work. I find instrumental music relaxing and especially so if it is an instrumental cover of a…
Minor Victories (Orchestral Variations)
Mogwai's, Slowdive's and Editor's SuperGroup In The Purest Instrumental Form
After the eponymous debut, Minor Victories have prepared an interpretative surprise with their new release. In case you didn’t know, this is a…
White Winter Hymnal
#tb Fleet Foxes' Debut
Music magazines often use the term Wooden music when they want to describe the type of music that I am about to review. It stands for the following:…
More Songs About Buildings And Food
What band did you finally discover in 2016?
I pride myself on being a connoisseur of classic 80s indie. From Joy Division’s Closer in 1980 to Disintegration by The Cure in 1989, and all of New…
The Soul & the Heal
More Good Licks from Morlix
For the uninitiated, listening to “The Soul & The Heal”, the new Gurf Morlix album (eighth in line), might sound like Tom Waits gone Americana…
Thunderbitch
Thunderbitches Better Beware
It’s Thunder, bitch! The name of the new Brittany Howard’s (Alaba Shakes) project speaks for itself. Earlier this year, we had an…
Complete Third
A Cult Star That Should Definitely Have Been Big
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…
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…
Growing Up Is For Trees
Growing Up Is For Trees
Let me get one thing straight – these guys are not from Barcelona, they are from Scandinavia. How could something so cheerful come from a…
Mariner
Reaching for the stars
Three years passed since Cult Of Luna released their last record, the unique, gritty, mechanical beast called Vertikal. In the meantime, they went on…
Your Wilderness
Emotionally Filled Atmo Rock
I first heard about The Pineapple Thief three years ago when their vocalist, Bruce Soord, worked with Jonas Renkse (Katatonia&…
Golem
Wand - Golem
A hodgepodge of genres such as Garage Rock, Grunge, Noise, Punk and Psychedelic Rock converging in a surreal burst of loud guitars. That's a great…
Push the Sky Away
Cave's Best?
It's not a Bad Seeds album. It is a Nick Cave album, but if you listened to it next to anything from the the Sexual…
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…
American Utopia
More than a Talking Head (David Byrne)
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…
The Reverses
Magnificently Insane Industrial Sludge
Oh, how I love records like The Reverses, the newest album by Terra Tenebrosa, where a bunch of maniacs plays music which could probably be used as a…
Peace Potato
Doug Tuttle - DIY Psychedelic Pop
Her comes do it yourself man Doug Tuttle third time around as a solo artist and offers us his Peace Potato. Hot potato or not, right off, it is a very…
The Sweet Release of Death
The Sweet Release Of Death, Rotterdam's Finest Noise Rock
Sometimes, a name of the band can discover a lot about the band, and sometimes the name is a total flop that has nothing to do with the music the band…
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…
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’…
Manual Override
Saskwatch - The manual override worked!
Not all good Australian music reaches other continents that easily. Case in point - Melbourne’s Saskwatch. Here come’s their fourth album Manual…
Garden of Ashes
Apocalyptic Garwood Gives His All To Warn You About The World
On his sixth album titled Garden of Ashes, multi-instrumentalist Duke Garwood confronts his inner and outer demons by participating in modern events…
El Dorado
Shakira returns with El Dorado
After a long time away from the music scene, Shakira has decided to reappear to release her number 11 album from the repertoire titled El Dorado and…
Songs About Jane
Maroon 5 And Their Songs About Jane Debut Album
Haven't you noticed that a lot of the world famous bands today, their debut album is their best piece of art? Maybe it is just my opinion, however…
Change
From B-52 To First Solo Album
Next year, B-52 are going to celebrate forty years of their career, and the prelude to this grand milestone is a solo album by its founder and main…
Americana
Americana
The Kinks legend uses Americana to blaze a path through both America's rock’n’roll history and his own. Its back-to-…
Future Present Past
Is this The Strokes?
The Strokes are an American rock band that most people are familiar with, but after their groundbreaking debut in 2001 called “Is This It”, it has…
For The Young
Scandinavians Folk It Better
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…
Borders
What's up with Borders?
Lucky enough, it doesn’t happen all that often that a big news story actually makes it to my doorstep, or near enough anyway. For a few…
Seremonia
Seremonia - Seremonia
Seremonia are a great Finnish psychedelic rock/occult rock/doom band, who have released a number of great albums to date. The best of these albums…
Not Even Happiness
Not Even Happiness
Singer-songwriter Julie Byrne’s new album has the lucidity and tactility of a healing crystal. Not unlike Phil Elverum, she …
Spiritual Haven
New Age/World Review: Russell Suereth-Spiritual Haven
Russell Suereth is a keyboardist with a focus on New Age and world music. His new album Spiritual Haven is a combination of classic Western…
57TH & 9TH (Deluxe)
After Many Years, Coming Back To the Rock Scene Perfectly Made By Sting
Being an artist with so many successes and hit songs produced is the most blessing thing that can happen to an artist and also extremely hard to…
Thinkin Out Loud
Thinking Out Loud First Impressions
This girl never stops impressing, that`s for sure. Young, but only by numbers, this smashing sunshine of vocal enchantress, Ms.…
Songs for the Ravens
#tb Sea Of Bees' 2011 Debut
Consider this throwback a sonic kiss. I am serious – this music will hug you and kiss you in all the right places. Young girl from Sacramento managed…
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…
Bad Omen
The World's Greatest Goth Country Singer
When someone avoids being labeled either by genre or by appearance, then we say that someone is standing out from the sea of multiple copies that…
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…
Calm
Curve Co-founder Dean Garcia and Rose Berlin Wow on SPC ECO 'Calm'
SPC ECO create wonderfully evocative atmospheric pop. The music of electric echoes encompassed in a world of deep maroon.SPC ECO has released their…
La Saboteuse
Yazz Ahmed - World Jazz At Its Best
Quite a number of modern jazz trumpet players are adding various tonalities from different musical styles as well as from different parts of the world…
Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
Big in Japandroids
Near To The Wild Heart Of Life is the third studio album of Brian King and David Prowse, a Vancouver based duo known as Japandroids. They self-…
Pagans in Vegas
Pagan Indie
Show me on this beaver where Canada touched you. Jokes aside, Canada has a lot of great bands, especially on indie rock scene. One of them is, for…
Mexico
GusGus: Mexico
Having started out nearly 20 years ago as a 12-strong Icelandic art collective creating techno tinged trip-hop and arty electronica, GusGus have…
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…
Pacific Myth (Deluxe)
Metal Trailblazers of CrowdFunding
Talking and writing about the new Protest The Hero is interesting for million reasons. If we leave the brutal quality of these fun Canadian…
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…
Under the Radar, Vol. 2 (Deluxe)
Robbie Williams' Second Compilation of Rarities
Under The Radar was one of the best compilation of rarities which showed that Robbie Williams has a strong team capable of delivering so many stellar…
Miss Understanding - Single
The Get Down Soundtrack is Not Worthy of its Awesome Show
In the late 70s, New York was not remotely similar to what it is today. Then, it was split, aggressive and broken city whose citizens were…
Psicodelia
Random Capt. Beefheart Psicodelia
Captain Beefheart (con o sin su Magic Band) es uno de los músicos de rock más debatidos, mucho más que sus discos fueron comprados.…
Are You Ready For Me
Are You Ready For Pretty Vicious?
Pretty Vicious are one of the most hyped bands in British music at the moment. Four teenagers from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, they are Elliot…
On The Lam
Cavity - On The Lam
Cavity is a renowned stoner metal/sludge/stoner doom band from Miami, Florda. They have released a number of great albums through the years, but the…
Lose Control
Glass Animals & Joey Bada$$ Lose Control
This week, experimental indie rockers Glass Animals meet New York rapper Joey Badass and create a surprisingly good collaboration track. As somebody…
Mystère
Hypnotic and mysterious (if that album title wasn't clear enough!)
From the very first seconds of Sphynx, the opening song from the second album of this French band two things are clear. On one hand, this is an…
Ritmo Revolution
The Rhythm Revolution that opened paths.
In the mid-90s, in the city of Valencia one of the most important musical bands of the genre Reggae and Ska in Venezuela is formed. and writing your…
Night Thoughts
Suede Knows Saudade
The wait is over and it wasn’t even a long wait. After Bloodspots in 2013, which represented a sound shift, the seventh album by Suede is…
Big Walnuts Yonder
SuperGroup With A Superpower
Big Walnuts Yonder is a supergroup. I don’t like using this hackneyed term anymore, but it is what it is. So, the supergroup is comprised of members…
Fantasy Empire
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
Lightning Bolt is a renowned American avant-garde noise rock/math rock band. The duo who make up this great genre surpassing noise rock band have…
Crystal Fairy
Crystal Fairy
Crystal Fairy pits together At the Drive In’s Omar Rodríguez-López, Le Butcherettes’ Teri Gender Bender, and Melvins members Buzz Osborne…
The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Tragic Rock Opera
After three radiant albums, Titus Andronicus are back with another radioactive material for your rock brain cells. It is not a tragedy as the title…
Product 3
Beat Connection Product 3 Album Review
Organic and wild, Beat Connection’s gives the listener a inside look on modern electronic indie pop. These four young musicians from…
The Wild Swan
The Wild Swan of Ireland
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. This could be said about Foy Vance, an Irish author who was supporting act for many superstars (Elton…
Tango Umbrella
Nu Metal Tango
Here is a scene that will never get out of my nostalgia driven, nu metal head: a tank running over a doll supported by the sound of one of the most…
Ritual
Fire! Orchestra - Ritual
Fire! Orchestra is a renowned Norwegian avant-garde psychedelic rock/free jazz band that is made up of Fire! and other artists they collaborate with.…
I Got Your Medicine
Shinyribs Has Your Medicine
When he was 14 year old teenager, living in Beaumont, Texas, Kevin Russell found a sewing machine, guitar and box full of comics underneath his father…
Gill Landry
Ghost Country
There are some artists who think love songs are songs about ghosts. There are some artists who think love has an afterlife. When love ends, these…
Music From Siesta
Stay Cool! Miles...
Summer is coming! Actually, summer came in Macedonia a week ago. With temperatures over 30°C (86 °F) afternoons are already becoming…
Sleep Sound
Of Sound and Silence
It took me awhile to 'get' Jamie xx's Sleep Sound, the B-side to his 2014 single Girl. The mostly-instrumental track features fluid,…
Leaving LA
Father John Misty's Leaving LA: A Portrait of the Artist as an Ironic Prophet
Five years ago, when Joshua Tillman had just ‘buried’ his music catalog under the J. Tillman moniker to start performing as Father…
Saw You In A Dream
Hazy Wistfulness
There's a compelling origin story that details why Amber Bain, a young solo female artist from Buckinghamshire, England, decided to…
Back to You (feat. Bebe Rexha & Digital Farm Animals)
Louis Tomlinson Is Proving His Worth Through Music
Louis Tomlinson has talked with the media, stating that continuing on with a solo career wasn’t his first choice or let alone being…
Humble And Kind
Tim McGraw: Humble and Kind Review
When we were all kids, we were always taught to appreciate the simpler things in life. We were raised to be humble and kind among others. …
Fantasy
A funky fantasy
How do you review a single by a singer who’s deceased? Especially when the artist has been so vocal about artistic freedom as George Michael. But a…
Dear Life
Beck's Psychedelic Existentialism
Veteran idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Beck poses a dreary existential question in the chorus of “Dear Life”, the fourth track…
Heavy (feat. Kiiara)
A fnas reaction to Chester Bennington
This week Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington hit back at fans, this one included, that have accused the band of selling out with their new pop…
Chateau
Angus and Julia Stone’s World-Weary Escapism
“Chateau”, the second track from Aussie sibling duo Angus and Julia Stone’s forthcoming album Snow (out on September 15)…
My Enemy (feat. Matt Berninger)
CHVRCHES and Matt Berninger are Estranged Lovers on My Enemy
If you had called the phone number that was featured in the music video for Get Out - the lead single from Scottish synth-pop trio…
Bottom Dollar Baby
Nathan Wiley's Gritty Blues-Rock
Wiley suffers talent well. Concocting 11 sundry offerings from musings of hog cemeteries, pillaging bandits, the saving power of sin and revisionist…
Planet Caravan
Planet Caravan - The Unorthodox Sabbath Song
‘Planet Caravan’ is the strangest song that Black Sabbath had ever recorded. I mean, the song is not strange at all by itself, but…
Things It Would Be Helpful To Know Before The Revolution
Accessible Bleakness
After warning music listeners about a dystopian high-tech future where a soulless new generation of consumers are entertained via virtual sex with…
Midnight - Single Version
Power of Love
That moment when we breach the threshold; when a crush turns to love and when our deepest desires are awakened, what do we do? Most people would…
Closer
Lemaitre Have Us Believing Happiness Is That Much Closer
'Closer' by Lemaitre featuring Jennie A. was ironically discovered (for myself) through the new Pixel Google Phone commercial that Youtube…
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Gloomy Clarity
Four years after the release of their debut album Ministry of Love(2013), Los Angeles duo IO Echo is back with an airy…
Cámara Lenta
Mariana Vega premieres her single in “Cámara Lenta”
This romantic singer and Venezuelan composer had us while wanting some new tunes and finally the wait is over, as we knew had been immersed in the…
The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
Da Vinci’s great artwork “Mona Lisa”
This is the first single by Rock band Panic at the Disco's third album, Vices & Virtues. The song was released on February 1,…
My Funny Valentine - Live
JAZZ STANDARDS Vol.5 - My Funny Valentine
“My Funny Valentine” is a song composed as a show-tune by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1937 Broadway show “…
Don't Know Why
Slowdive's “Don’t Know Why”: Unburied Magic
The music video for 90s shoegaze icon Slowdive’s “Don’t Know Why” begins on an effervescent note,…
Take Off Your Shirt
Bibio's 'Anti-Party' Anthem
English music producer Stephen Wilkinson (the main man behind Bibio) has been duly noted by music critics for carving out his own genre of ‘…
You're So Vain
Frankly Speaking
Ever thinking about a former lover and wanting to dedicate a song to him or her without really sounding bitter but would sum up all your experiences…
The Sound of Music [The Sound of Music]
50 Years After, the Hills Remain Alive
Julie Andrew's version of the Sound of Music is 50 years old this year. That this made the news is proof that this song has remained a perennial…
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Barber’s Adagio for Strings: string quartet turned funeral music
Samuel Osmond Barber II (1910 - 1981) was an American composer who composed a piece called Adagio for Strings. The piece is frequently played at…
Alaska
Maggie Rogers Leaves Us Stuck In Alaska
Maggie Rogers falls somewhere between pop, indie and dance. So properly classifying where the song-writers music should be placed is highly difficult…
Desire
Laws Of Desire
Let's be real for a moment, Years & Years came out of the dark and into the light. Before anyone had a chance Years & Years over…
You Don't Know Me
Not your homie Jax
I have a guilty pleasure, at the moment. I get incredibly cheerful every time I hear Jax Jones’ “You Don’t Know Me”. You know, that track with the…
Ruin
Shawn Mendes Unveils “Ruin”
After just one week of having released the video of his song Treat You Better the young Canadian, delights us with this new project. Ruin is called,…
Strangers
Strangers Can Be Friends
Take into account The Gaslight Anthem, Wavves and Girls formed into some sort of super group. The Rebel Light may be the outcome but surely this band…
Boys Like You
Yes, indeed, who IS Fancy???
Talk about sneaking up from behind! I seriously had never heard of this guy, “Who is Fancy”, until he kissed Meghan Trainor at the…
The Night We Met
Lord Huron Seeks The Night We Met and So Do We
Upon first listening to The Night We Met, I ended up scrambling around trying to figure out where I had heard the song before. Of course, as many of…
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.…
That's What I Like
Bruno Mars Does It Again With That's What I Like
I won't lie, Bruno Mars is the kind of artist I would love to be. True to his craft and honest about what kind of music he intends to make, Mars…
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…
Cool
Cool Is Coming Back
As much of a mystery MIYNT turns out to be, the track 'Cool' allows for a semi-realistic mystery become the center piece for MIYNT transparent…
Make Me...
A Stronger Britney
Britney Spears has finally released the very highly anticipated new single, Make Me. Within minutes after its release, the song was featured on many…
Man on the Moon
Zella Day's Psychedelic Dreaminess
After the release of her debut album Kicker (2015) last year, LA-based Arizona singer-songwriter Zella Day has collaborated with…
No Church On Sunday
An Agnostic Anthem
Music in 2016 is, for the most part, secular. While many vocalists - from the likes of Whitney Houston to Katy Perry to Usher to Avril Lavigne -…
Anointed
Blaqk Audio - Anointed
Davey Havok and Jade Puget are Blaqk Audio an industrial electronic band. Though best known for their work with multi-platinum…
Red Eyes
Thomas Azier's Haunting, Retro-Gazing Electropop
Music has turned into nothing more than just a rush in the background while you are busy doing other things. I don't want to change that, but I…
Sweet Relief
Orgasmic Funk
Kiwi singer-songwriter Kimbra has not released any new material since The Golden Echo (2014), but a recent Instagram post reveals…
New York
Restless Impermanence
I have a particular fondness for songs that successfully embody the general zeitgeist of a location - songs that seem to encapsulate the essence of…
Apartment Story
Songs that started it all: The National, Apartment Story
If there was one band that could sum up my early twenties it's The National. The song that made that possible was Apartment Story. In many ways…
Flower of the Universe - From Disney's
Sade Embodies Cosmic Maternalism on Flower of the Universe
Disney’s 100 million dollar adaptation of American author Madeleine L’Engle's 1962 Newberry Award-winning young-adult…
Blackout
Cinematic Minimalism
British singer-songwriter Charlotte OC recently released Blackout as a teaser for her upcoming full length debut album from Harvest Records,…
Liberty Or Death
ThreePeace strikes chord of Support for the Troops with Liberty or Death on KUAC Alaska
ThreePeace was featured on KUAC Fm in Alaska with their song Liberty or Death. The song is a song written in support of the American Soldier who…
My Smile Is Extinct
Youthful Melodrama
“My Smile Is Extinct is the second track from New Zealand singer-guitarist Kane Strang’s sophomore album Two…
O Holy Night
Abigail Winzer gives us a beautiful rendition of O Holy Night
What a revelation is truly is to have an artist keep the true nature of Christmas music that keeps the soul and essence of the holiday spirit. The…
Bajo la Tormenta
What if the sky falls?
Yes, without you noticing. The songs are not only dance them or to mourn, let you reflect on life situations of this way. It shows your feelings and…
Forgive Me
Austra's Forgive Me: The Art of Sad Dance Music
I borrowed the title of this blog post from The Guardian's review of Canadian electronic band Austra's second album, Olympia…
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…
Golden Slumbers - Remastered 2009
The Beatles: Golden Slumbers
With over one billion records sold there is no doubt that The Beatles are one of the greatest bands ever to exist. Everyone knows and loves them for…
Rivers and Roads
The Song That Has My Head and Heart
This song. The first time I heard Rivers and Roads was when a friend performed it as his senior farewell. It is truly incredible. Besides…
So Far Away
Carole King's So Far Away
One of the most influential and groundbreaking albums of the seventies was “Tapestry” by Carole King. Virtually every song on that record is memorable…
All My Life
Lasting Just Like Love
Because this month couldn't end without me being thankful to have celebrated one more year of wedded bliss, I am taking time to commend one of the…
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…
Song For You
Rhye's “Song for You” Evokes Empathetic Intimacy
LA alt-R&B outfit Rhye (Mike Milosh, sans Danish producer Ryan Hannibal) recently released “Song For You”, the…
In Undertow
Jangly Uncertainty
Canadian indie quintet Alvvays have released the first taste of their sophomore album Antisocialities (8 September), which seems…
Lloraré Las Penas
the latin flavor
They say that it is better not to mourn laugh. They used to say that Venezuela had the ability to laugh at their misfortunes and that helped him be…
Junkie
Euphorically Addictive
I would say don’t be afraid to write something that’s actually catchy. I think a lot of people fear catchiness because they might…
You In Your Were
Happy Feels with Kevin Drew & Leslie Feist
For me, the main appeal of this song and the accompanying video, is that it makes me really, really happy. Somehow the feel-good factor is so high on…
Annie's Song
Unexpected Poignancy
Sound governs the emotion and the senses. Bong Joon Ho, Okja 'Dolby Atmos' Featurette Bong Joon Ho&#…
Everything
Bublé: Everything
Inspired by major musical influences such as Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, Michae Bublé has gone a long way earning and…
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…
Stop Playing With My Heart
Timeless Anguish
What kind of music would you expect a former US marine and drum corps member to produce? A stage name like Avid Dancer or the retro-inflected…
Scream
An ideal world
In the audiovisual world (movies, novels, series or films) sound weigh heavily. The music drives the action, explains what happens and guides the…
Cold Water (feat. Justin Bieber & MØ)
A drop of cold water
It was to be expected. Once the collaboration between Major Lazer and Justin Bieber was announced, everybody already knew it was going to be a hit.…
Last Night On Earth
Ouroboros Cosmos
Never underestimate duos beause Lemaitre are a singular until from Oslo, Norway. With influences ranging from Daft Punk, Justice, Deadmau5 and Cryatal…
Girlhood
The Preatures Have Raw Originality In 'Girlhood'
Okay, The Preatures have technically been around since 2010 and I ask myself... how did I go this long without hearing their music? As many times that…
Reverie
Desire's Horrors
When it comes to music from contemporary openly queer artists, there are roughly two camps. There are the 'mainstreamers', who…
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 ‘…
Afterhours feat. Diplo & Nina Sky
NEW HOT JAM: TroyBoi-Afterhours ft. Diplo and Nina Sky
London naitive, TroyBoi, a one time versatile multi genre music producer and a part of a Dj duo SoundSnobz, is one hard working man machine. Currently…
Bounce Back
Big Officially Bouncin` Back!
Mr. Big is back to enlighten us again... Latest visual of the Bounce Back joint produced by the amazing …
Sombre Fayre - Demo
Final Fire
Look at this, a band called Neon Waltz has six people in their group. Yes, Arcade Fire can become a symphony but does that mean other bands can pull…
Slow Hands
No slow rise
A few weeks ago, I was well impressed by the direction Harry Styles had chosen for himself when he released his debut solo single “Sign Of…
One More Dollar
A Migrant's Tale
If it wasn't for Berklee's Songwriting MOOC on Coursera, I would never have known of Gillian Welch's gem of a song. One More Dollar is a…
The Hills - Remix
The Weeknd opened the Stereo Picnic
A dark stage, cries of an expectant audience and Bogota night with a dry climate against all odds, were hit by an explosion of sound and red lights…
Glow Up
Catch That New Shine With Meek!
Da Honorable C.N.O.T.E did it again, and constructed fourth Meek Mill`s track, this time under the title Glow Up.…
Dog Years
Slow Dancing in Seconds
By following up on the success of her breakout single Alaska with Dog Years, NYU Clive Davis Institute alumni Maggie Rogers…
Sabali
Global Appeal
As Pitchfork's Joe Tangari has noted, Grammy-nominated musical duo Amadou & Mariam's (i.e. Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia, who…
Nevermind the End
Bedroom Siren
Like Basically, Nevermind the End showcases Brooklyn-via-Argentina singer-songwriter Tei Shi's fluid vocals and insightful…
I Wish Everyday Was Christmas
One to watch: M'Lissa
There are many artists who only had one hit with a Christmas song. In some cases, the song is more famous than the person who sang it, but this year,…
Ode To Rose
CODA FACTO Share Catchy New Track Ode To Rose
Founded by Alexander DeRoo and Jonathan Harley, CODA FACTO are a Hamilton, ON-based duo who fuse melodic Brit-Rock and Americana with modern vocals…
We Are All On Drugs
A Bunch Of Happy Kids
Even though Weezer are not kids or teenagers anymore 'We Are All On Drugs' acts as a right of passage. In that complete coming-of-age…
Roxy
Sibling Cooperation
After releasing two albums - Cults(2011) and Static(2013) - New York indie duo Cults (vocalist/guitarist…
Overpowered
Neuroscientific Pop
You might remember Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy as being one-half of electronic pop duo Moloko, or for being a…
Last Christmas
Carly sleighs the Holiday Season
See what I did there? Well it's not exactly an exaggeration and Carly Rae Jepsen has officially dropped what might just be the year's first…
You're Still a Young Man
A Song for Older Generations vs. Younger Generations on Love
There has always been this constant back-and-forth between the younger generations and the older ones on the subject of love. Older generations are…
Lift
Another funny nightmare from the minds of Radiohead
I'm not used to this. In 2017 being a Radiohead fan has been uncharacteristically rewarding. Not only am I still obsessed with last year's A…
City Of Stars - From
La La Hollywood
There once was a time, not so long ago, where movies were full of song and dance. The women were amazingly beautiful with …
So Lillies
Of Lilies and Violet Grace
Five years after being released on Californian avant-garde electronic singer-songwriter Julia Holter's critically acclaimed debut…
Wild at Heart
The Electric Petals Share New Track “Wild At Heart”
The modern psychedelic rock of The Electric Petals came together in the summer of 2020. Hailing from Temagami, Canada, they produce in their old 1950s…
Desire
Dilly Dally's first single Desire doesn't dissapoint
With a white noise-esque sound blowing up my speakers from the beginning and then shortly after the gritty smoker voice lead singer, Katie Monks,…
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&…
Real
Is This Real Enough For You?
Real the track from Years & Years will strike a chord within you. Maybe it will be sutble, yet it will be effective. Released as the first…
Find Me
Sigma feat. Birdy Adds A Depth Of Emotional Turmoil
After the rough actions of the United States, music seems like a safe haven even more than ever. Somehow Sigma's newest music video for 'Find…
Vanilla
Moody Beach's Vanilla Shines on Youth and Consequences
It makes perfect sense for Youth & Consequences, a YouTube Red original production series that has been described as a…
Sleep On The Floor
Should You Sleep On The Floor Or Not?
Have you ever wanted to runaway from it all? The Lumineers ask this question with their song 'Sleep On The Floor'. A few days ago The…
First Time He Kissed a Boy
Transcending Homophobia
Danish electropop trio Kadie Elder's First Time He Kissed a Boy seemed like a timely song to review, given the recent Orlando shootings …
Boyfriend
Real Lesbian Representation
With all the advances in legal LGBT rights in the West, gays and lesbians are no longer confined to closets and underground scenes. Part of the…
Body and Soul
JAZZ STANDARDS Vol.2 - Body and Soul
In this second article dedicated to jazz standards, I present you the most covered one of all times - “Body and Soul”, a…
Seasons (Waiting On You)
Waiting for Change
The agonies of unrequited love is a musical theme that can easily devolve into mere cliche and hopeless sentimentalism - but Baltimore synthpop band…
Losing My Head
Losing it to Krystl's new sound
Krystl is one of those unknown treasures of the Dutch music scene. She’s still rising even though she’s been around for several years. Her debut was…
No More Heroes - 1996 Remastered Version
No More Heroes
The Stranglers rose from the fertile British punk scene in the Seventies, but, as it was the case with The Clash, their musical output is far more…
Sweep Me Off My Feet
Throw The Towel In Because Pond Have Come Out With A Need To See Music Video
On May 5th of 2017 Pond released their seventh studio album 'The Weather'. To much acclaim, the prog-psychedelic band decided to take matters…
Cheerleader
A Cheerleader No More
Sometimes I imagine songs 'talking back' to one another, which is easy to do when different artists take on the same subject matter. In this…
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,…
Keep Running
Sensuous Momentum
After two well-received EPs and over 3 million Youtube views for Bassically, Brooklyn-via-Argentina singer-songwriter Tei Shi (Valerie…
À tout à l'heure
That Elusive Moment of Being
Every day includes more non-being than being. Yesterday for example . . . has it happened a good day; above the average in ‘being.&rsquo…
Decide
Experimental Decisions
'Decide' curated by Junior Empire attributes an avant-garde techinque. As a band this track sounds like a track full of repeated loops, layers…
Victorious
Wolfmother Victorious
Hallelujah! The band that was once slated as the next Led Zeppelin”, has finally released a new track. As a long time follower of this…
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Why sing in Spanish?
There are several artists who opt to sing in another language other than their own. Usually the English is a universal language, and all artists…
Drove U Crazy (feat. Bryson Tiller)
It Drove Me Crazy (In a Good Way)
Since Gucci Mane's release from prison I feel like he's been unstoppable. He's released album after album and had hit after hit. Some say…
Los Ageless
The Relentless Sadness of St Vincent’s “Los Ageless”
As the title of her second single suggests, art rocker St. Vincent (Annie Clark) is poised for a return to biting satire after the poignant, heartfelt…
Infinity Guitars
Infinity Guitars Still Sounds Explosive After Seven Years
Bitter rivals are the first term that comes to mind when Infinity Guitars by Sleigh Bells comes on the radio. Recently Infinity Guitars found it's…
Under the Weather
The Sun Harmonic shares new album & focus track Under The Weather
Coast to Coast , el quinto álbum de estudio de The Sun Harmonic , captura la importancia de los viajes y la experiencia que los acompaña.…
Ugly Boy
Die Antwoord Open The Door To Ugly Boy
Die Antwoord are a bit like that horse pill you had to swallow as a child to get rid of a massive sinus infection or some other serious illness.…
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…
Big Picture - SG Lewis Remix
London Gramar: Big Picture
I'm a little late to the London Gramar love-in, whilei like etherial dream-pop their first collection of songs didn't really do it for me and…
Gracious Tempest - Live
When they speak in a song
Who does not remember the intro of Never will mourn or I'll Never Break Your Heart by The backstreetboys, or in certain rap songs like I&…
buttercup
Hippo Campus' buttercup is an Ode to a Gritty Female Boxer
One month short of celebrating the anniversary of their debut album landmark (February 24, 2017), up-and-coming Minnesotan indie rock quartet Hippo…
Only For You
Rock Your Heart Out
'Only For You' is a track off American blues rock band Heartless Bastards' fourth studio album Arrow (2012),…
One More Night
Cathartic Retro-Soul
One More Night is the 6th track and third single from London-based singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka's second album (2016),…
The Logical Song
A Modern, Ironic Classic
The success of that record was basically down to its great songs. I never tired of hearing them over the entire time, and I think the album has a very…
Treat You Better
Shawn Mendes premieres Treat You Better
Who can forget the young Canadian guy who Diola around the world with its theme Stitches, that no one was removed from the head, that subject with…
Big Jet Plane
Big Jet Plane on Repeat
Romantic, sentimental and slightly heartbreaking...however, Angus & Julia Stone have radically presented us with their track 'Big Jet…
Hotline Bling
Hotline Bling Was So Fire, It Started Some of Its Own.
We all knew that the Hotline Bling music video was going to be straight fire. And, as expected, it was. However, the…
The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14: Overture
The Nutcracker: It's Music & Magic
One could not merely put aside one classical music when the holiday season is about to start. Sure, there are lots of Christmas music to choose from…
With Strangers
Romanticisms at the Root of Little Joy
With Strangers captures the spirit of Little Joy's self-titled and only full-length release. The warm analog recording and soft vocal croon only…
Hurricane
Heart of Darkness
Hurricane is probably New York duo MS MR's (vocalist Lizzy Plapinger and producer Max Hershenow) best known single, and a perfect…
Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods
Beck's Blues
Beck is such a diverse artist that nothing could come as a surprise out of his repertoire. But, even though not surprised, I was very pleased and…
Get Lucky
COVERLAND Vol.25: Get Lucky
Let's move the Coverland series to present day. This time I’m gonna present you the cover of Daft Punk’s 2013 international…
Praying
Kesha's personal prayer
Pretty much out of the blue, Kesha released her new single last week. One day, she announced a new video on Instagram and the next day, the video was…
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…
Gasoline
Dreams On Fire
The more Halsey releases music videos, the more the public comes to understand who Halsey is as a person. Never to be the one that was shy, talking…
The Man Who Sold The World - 2014 Remastered Version
COVERLAND Vol.11: The Man Who Sold the World
There are countless covers throughout music history; some were more successful than the originals, some were not, but there aren’t so many…
Unstoppable
Gorgeous Lianne La Havas in Unstoppable
First time I heard Lianne La Havas was when a friend suggested it who knows my taste of movies and music so well. It's easy for me just to relax…
'97 (feat. Rich The Kid, Bobby Kritical & 1wayfrank)
K Slams The New `97 Trap!
ATL rap cat bangs up the Trap swag on his new single `97. He linked up with the coolest squad that he could for…
Strobe Light
Ultraviolet Cool
We wanted to make a film that celebrates two dancers from Johannesburg. As well as that feeling of being young and creating your own universe within…
LMK
Kelela's Electro-Soul Feminist Hookup Manifesto
In Björk collaborator Andrew Thomas Huang’s music video, LA-via-DC Ethiopian-American singer-songwriter Kelela alternates between a…
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…
King
Performance Art Fit For A King
Years & Years have been killing various music channels when it comes to their album Communion, releasing six singles, one single King…
Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy)
Britney's Back (but so what?)
The music video for Make Me..., the lead single for Britney Spears' upcoming 9th album Glory (2016) has just been released. The…
Semaphore
Too Far Gone for the Semaphore
In most areas of my life, I struggle to express myself in a way that feels authentic and genuine. Music is a respite from that — it's…
Teenage Dirtbag
That Teenage Dirtbag Baby!
American alternative rock band Wheatus was formed by Newport, New York musician Brendan B. Brown in 1995 with his brother, Pete Brown. The group is…
Oh Devil
Ominous Temptations
'Oh I know, oh I know/ same old thing, same old show': LA indietronica duo Electric Guest's Oh Devil acknowledges that it has the…
Same Old Love
It's hard to let it go
Selena Gomez seems to have been born for a life in entertainment. As a matter a fact, she hardly knows anything else. Her career actually began at the…
If I Get High
The Ache Into Infinity
Nothing But Thieves apparently have no problem with breaking a few hearts with their music video for 'If I Get High'. Which ultimately this…
La Vida Se Goza
Mata Rica tells us that Life is enjoyed with this video celebrating 20 years of musical career.
The Venezuelan group of Ska and Reggae Mata Rica as part of its celebration of 20 years of musical career, after two years of launching its fourth…
Attack
Fifi Rong Flips the Video Game Script with Attack
London-via-Beijing singer-songwriter and electronic music producer Fifi Rong's recent single Attack arrives on the heels of the titular…
Paul Simon
Paul Simon Rocks Madrid!
Paul Simon really makes things fiery on his last tour (or supposedly last tour). He makes his attempt at one of his finest hits “Bridge Over Troubled…
Free Nelson MandoomJazz
Free Nelson Mandoomjazz
Find your black shapeless garment and put it on! Get ready for ceremonies and rituals! Get ready for the experiments and the unforgettable trip into…
Juan Luis Guerra 4.40
Cuban rumba and Dominican merengue are World Heritage Sites
Two Latin American musical genres were proclaimed by UNESCO as Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Cuban rumba and Dominican merengue were raised with…
KAMAU
Nat Turner Biopic: The Birth Of A Nation Review
October 7th is reserved for yet another history movie event, the Nat Turner biopic, directed by our leading role man …
Nicky Jam
Nicky Jam was the first chosen to do Despacito
The popular and successful song Despacito by Luis Fonsi in collaboration with Daddy Yankee begins to generate its own history. This week it was…
José Luis Rodríguez
Together José Luis Rodríguez and Chayanne.
It is no secret the delicate state of health which is the Venezuelan singer Jose Luis Rodriguez El Puma which suffers from an incurable disease for…
Låpsley
A Stunning Debut
Låpsley (Holly Lapsley Fletcher) is a British pop musician; after a couple of EP’s, her first full-length got released a couple of…
Melendi
Melendi's new single
Two years was Ramón Melendi Espina, known simply as Melendi, without producing new material. The wait is over. The Spanish singer left his…
J Balvin
J Balvin brings news
Recently J Balvin released his new single Mi Gente, which has the collaboration of Willy William , and has caused a viral sensation with millions of…
Darkthrone
Darkthrone
I’m all things black, the blackest black ever. My black ink sentences are driven into the white. Black ink is in my skin as a mark of…
Bob Dylan
Part Two: Dylan
After listening the song by Dylan you might be confused as to what it meant or what story he was trying to tell. It normally takes a few listens to…
Tommy James & The Shondells
Listen to Paul McCartney and Tommy James 70sTop Songs-Another Day and Draggin’ The Line on Spotify
While Paul McCartney was reveling in all his top 5 hits in 1971, Tommy James, legendary star of Tommy James and the Shondells, also had a Top 5 hit…
Brandy
Throwing it out on social media
Let me just get this straight: I love social media. You can find me there a few times a day, but I also hate social media. Mainly for showing me a…
Bob Dylan
A Nobel Prize in Literature for music?
It's just as rare. It's just not that does not deserve it. Bob Dylan's talent is immense, and deserves great prizes. In fact,…
Maldita Nerea
Damn Nerea premieres the video for Bailarina
Maldita Nerea released the video for Dancer, her latest single. With this, the group is preparing their next studio album, which makes their fans…
One Direction
One Direction triumphs at the AMAs
Undoubtedly the awards ceremony delight us with what promised and more. Start with a strong performance from the multifaceted artist Jennifer Lopez…
Rihanna
Rihanna and Drake release new collaboration
A union that gave good results in 2011 and 2013 is repeated three years later, with the intention of reoccupying first places in the charts. Work is…
Pablo Alborán
North America it's your turn to enjoy Pablo Alborán live.
After touring a full house throughout Spain during 2015 so far with his Terral Tour, Pablo Alboran announced today its plan concerts in North America…
Jaimeo Brown Transcendence
Jaimeo Brown - Transcending the Genres
Trying to look back at this heavy year (in every respect), I was trying to remember the good jazz music. Somehow, most of it pointed at reissues. Not…
Niccolò Paganini
Paganini with violin and guitar
Between 1782 and 1840 lived the violinist and composer Italian Nicolo Paganini, widely known for his acrobatic virtuosity on the violin, author of…
Alejandro Sanz
No to aggression, says Alejandro Sanz
The news is that Alejandro Sanz came out in defense of a woman who was attacked by a man in the Mexican town of Rosarito, Baja California. The fact…
Nina Kraviz
Nina Kraviz
triplovin Feeling sexy and calm; feeling dreamy and horny in space. It’s like a calm and horny space. And you’re an astronaut…
Nicky Jam
Nicky Jam, Maná and Daddy Yankee will perform at the Los Dells Festival
A new Latin music festival debuts this summer in the Midwest with the participation of artists including Maná, Nicky Jam and Daddy Yankee. The…
Ozuna
Start of new tour and more nominations
ozunapr Rican urban singer-songwriter is in a great moment, he is nominated for the Youth Awards in the Artist Revelation category. The young man is…
Natalia Lafourcade
Natalia Lafourcade does it again very well
Some people, a good topic that once did the job stayed with Natalia Lafourcade of In 2000: be a nice pop composition that attract people. However Sn,…
Maná
Maná announces its tour The Latino Power
The renowned Mexican band Mana announced Tuesday 9 February, a new tour of several US cities in order to promote the Latino vote in this election…
OMI
October 2015: A Good Snack
Refreshing releases, public urination, solid Pop; though no groundbreaking releases characterized October 2015 in the music industry, there were…
The Piano Guys
Nearer My God to Thee Rocked by Nine Cellos
The Piano Guys are so great in their 9-cello arrangement of “Nearer My God to Thee.” It is lovely and low and a real joy to behold on the ears. The…
Paul Chambers
THE LOW END Vol.3: Paul Chambers
Bass playing developed through the years, as a combination of the advancement of playing skills and the rise of new technologies, such as the upright…
David Bowie
Leaderless Spiders from Mars
Rarely are there bands that share the creative burden collectively. Usually, and that’s good, there is a leader, an author or team of…
Laura Guevara
Laura Guevara is inspired by Armando Reverón
The relentless pursuit of light and ingenuity that characterizes rag dolls created by the Venezuelan painter Armando Reveron, served as inspiration…
Nao Katafuchi
Nao Katafuchi
Here is an artist I have found recently. His name is Nao Katafuchi. He comes from Japan, but Nao resides in New York now. Music this man makes is…
Malaa
Mala's art
While still the identity of the producer and DJ is not known, what can be sure is that its themes and mixes are spectacular. almost a year she…
Café Tacvba
New album and new tour for Café Tacvba.
The Mexican rock band Cafe Tacuba announced today the launch, on 5 May its new production after five years of absence and conducting a tour of more…
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris leaves premiere
On June 26, Calvin Harris and several pop icons joined together to release the music video for the song Feels featuring vocal collaboration by…
Juan Diego Flórez
Juan Diego Flórez, a fully mature tenor
Soon, the Peruvian lyric tenor Juan Diego Flórez will be seen in his native Lima to sing a charity concert in favor of the victims of the floods…
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey and The Weeknd: new audiovisual
On the morning of May 22, American singer Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, better known as Lana Del Rey, released the official video for the song Lust For…
Pablo Milanés
Pablo Milanés denounced having suffered Harassment in Chile.
The Cuban singer Pablo Milanes claimed to have suffered police harassment after his arrival in the Chilean city of Concepcion, located in the south…
Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon will release a new album
American rock band, Kings of Leon, will end his three-year drought and next October will present his new album. As confirmed by her label, Sony Music…
Nikki Clan
The Pop Rock Of 2000
Frank Vieira
Frank Vieira ‘Three Little Words’ – Album Review
If you’ve been reading the site for some time, you may remember that we featured Frank Vieira in our first ever Stray Plectrums post…
Carlos Baute
Carlos Baute debuts with the Latin Gold Award
Last May 16 was first awarded the Golden Latino Awards, which honor people of film and music, organized by the World City Foundation in Marbella (…
Lucy Hale
Lucy Hale ‘Road Between (Deluxe Edition)’ – Album Review
Lucy Hale is the Pretty Little Liars star that has been causing a buzz on the country scene for the last year. Entering a music career, she chose…
Astro Lasso
Does Love Sell Records?
Love is the ideal songwriting formula, probably not easy, able, it is easier to talk about heartbreak. Precisely because it is an emotion which has…
Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys releases new single “Holy Wars”
The R & B singer Alicia Keys has released a new single from their upcoming full length album, Here, which will be released next Friday…
Justin Quiles
The Veguilla brothers remix Si Ella Quisiera
Gadiel Yandel and have made the decision to intervene in the famous song if she wanted the reggaetonero J Quiles. The successful issue that has put…
Ricky Martin
Audiovisual launch of Vente pa'ca
After the great success of his latest album to anyone who will listen, ricky_martin premiered his new single Come over here ft. maluma worldwide…
X-Syndrome
X-Syndrome, A Band That Slipped Through The Music Stream
- This Los Angeles, California band did not get too well known outside of California, but they had the potential to be a lot more than that in my…
Mattress
Mattress
I wanna get you a golden dress There are records that make you stumble. And then you just stop, look around and stare at your feet on a pavement…
HundredMillionThousand
HundredMillionThousand set to release debut album, lp1 on April 8th
We are only 2 months in to 2017 and we already have a plethora of artists releasing their debut albums to dip their feet in the cold water music…
Diamante Eléctrico
Electric Diamond: The new impulse of Colombian rock
Faith & Harry
Faith and Harry Just Be There
Sibling duo Faith and Harry are taking the music world by storm, at ages 13 and 11, they have a grown up sound, and are filled with talent, poise and…
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters announce new album, Concrete And Gold
After a few weeks of surprisingly revealing a new single titled Run, the Foo Fighters have officially announced the launch of a new production that…
Caramelos De Cianuro
How to take her to the stars?
They say that everything good in life, hurts, costs, even more but is accustomed, but after the pain is learned to like. Cianuro Caramels is one of…
Afrojack
Afrojack comes with a new style
Nick van de Wall, better known as Afrojack, it is not always in our corner of the world of music, the DJ and producer of Dutch origin offering a type…
Pharrell Williams
Pharrel Williams singing in Spanish
This is one of the attractions of the new video of J Balvin, '' Safari '', which was released Friday. The song was…
The Beatles
Not so (born) yesterday
For true music fans it’s going to be a very good Christmas, because the one wish they have had for many years is finally coming true: The…
The Ivory Moans
The Ivory Moans
Ladies and Gentlemen, please, meet the band you are about to love. The Ivory Moans! This group from Philadelphia, US, is on their way up and it seems…
Julieta Venegas
It's the only thing there is
Juan Gabriel
Juan Gabriel shares a microphone again: Los Dúo 2
Marc Anthony, J Balvin, Franco de Vita, Paty Cantu, Wisin are some of the artists who will share the microphone with Mexican singer Juan Gabriel,…
Foo Fighters
David Grohl's daughters star in Foo Fighters video
The group releases The Sky Is A Neighborhood, second single of Concrete and Gold, disc that will launch in September. Foo Fighters premiered the…
周杰倫
Try by Patrick Brasca Feat. Jay Chou
What makes a movie tick? Is it the million-dollar budget? The A-list Hollywood stars? The distinguished and esteemed director? The incredible CG and…
Kory Bard
WEEKLY HEARTBREAK: Kory Bard Engaged
ATTENTION MEGA-FANS 🔼 This could leave you with a face like a wet weekend if you've been mega-crushing on Kory. Hundreds of…
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga prepares for her new tour
Whether in a bar or on a baseball field, Lady Gaga says she will give it all in every performance. The singer leaves this summer on a stadium tour…
Enrique Iglesias
The battle for the biggest summer hit
In most of Europe, it’s pretty normal to link the Spanish language to the feeling of summer, and more importantly, the feeling of a summer holiday. So…
Joey Montana
Joey Montana publishes appetizer of his new single
Last Thursday, the Panamanian singer Joey Montana, published on its social network Instagram a preview of his new single Hello, in which he took the…
Chino & Nacho
Let politicians continue doing politics. My life is music
Recently, Venezuelan singer Miguel Ignacio Mendoza, Nacho waylaid speculation that have rung around the supposed interest of aspiring to political…
Aretha Franklin
No more concerts for Aretha Franklin, announce retirement.
The soul diva Aretha Franklin has announced his retirement from live music after 56-year career, and will do so after the publication of a new album…
HS87
Interview: Rey Reel
Published by Beyond The Stage Magazine It’s a balmy Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, and Rey Reel, the mastermind beatsmith behind…
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…
Manuel Turizo Zapata
Manuel Turizo, a promise for the urban genre
Turizo Manuel Zapata is MTZ, is 16 and a powerful voice that promises much in the urban genre. With more than twelve songs written, this young…
Chino & Nacho
“Nacho doing his thing”
The singer and composer Nacho does not get tired of work and after coming to deliver the donation to the Hospital JM de los Rios and give great joy…
Gorillaz
Gorillaz releases dance video for Strobelite
Grillaz is a group known for giving surprises, especially when it comes to their new album, and this time they are back with a new music video for…
Avicii
Tim's new music
It is very difficult to meet someone who does not even like a topic of Avicii's music Tim Bergling has captivated us all since 2011 with the…
Beyoncé
I Will Always Love You covered by Beyonce
The little Blue Ivy Carter was fortunate to boast the talents of his mother, at a charity event at his school, The Center for Early Education in West…
Rawayana
Rawayana's third album is coming.
The Venezuelan band of trippy pop Rawayana premiered two new songs from their third album. Come along I and Come along II, which were also presented…
Ben Howard
Scenic Soundtrack: I Forget Where We Were
This January, I took a holiday to Iceland. It had always been a dream of mine to visit this country, quite frankly it’s beautiful and one of…
Гражданская Оборона
Punk-rock as it is. Grazhdanskaya Oborona.
Grazhdanskaya Oborona (also known as GO and Grazhdanka) was Soviet and Russian punk band. It appeared in 1984 in Omsk, Siberia. The leader, lyricist…
David Bisbal
Singers of Operación Triunfo meet again on stage
Some of the leading figures of the first edition of Operación Triunfo Spanish reallity show will participate in a special concert, which will…
Frankie Ballard
Frankie Ballard + Charlie Worsham @ Hoxton Square, London, UK | March 17, 2016 – Review
I have a few highlights of C2C Festival and its subsequent ‘Introduces’ shows, but one that I did not expect was the sheer…
Guillermo Carrasco
The poetry is by Guillermo Carrasco
A velvety voice caresses the ears is Guillermo Carrasco, Venezuelan singer that these days reaches the Venezuelan scene with his repertoire. On…
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam Environmentalist, demand sanctions for those responsible for ecocide in Brazil.
American alternative rock band (Grunge) formed in 1990, Pearl Jam demanded an exemplary punishment to those responsible for the dumping of sludge and…
T.I.
Black Man TIP!
It`s all about political stand these days in USA, the Black America wave is flooding the States and taking some action on the…
Sia
Sia Presents: Reaper
Australian singer-songwriter Sia presented his new single called Reaper, the first of his latest album titled This is acting will be available from…
Foreigner
Will they say yes?
I Wanna Know That Love Is (Foreinger) belongs to the few songs that feel sincere, for their lyrics, the ability to convey that feeling, which is a…
Carlos Vives
Carlos Vives will receive another recognition
Carlos Vives will add another recognition in his artistic career. The Colombian will be honored by The Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame (The Hall of…
Louis Tomlinson
Former One Direction member criticizes Justin Bieber for canceling his tour
Singer Louis Tomlinson also did not support the Canadian's decision to consider that he should have made a final effort to return to his…
Fonseca
Fonseca collaborates with Alexis and Fido
The fusion of folk rhythms and pop music production defined Colombian singer Fonseca. Now the 37-year musician dabbled in urban music, without losing…
Tom Rosenthal
Save America, Melania!
Sometimes it takes an outsider to provide fresh insight. British comedian and songwriter Tom Rosenthal's Melania just might be the best protest…
MGSP
MGSP Shows Us a Sign with Epic New Video
Worlds collide. MGSP is a pure synergy of modern electronic music and rock&roll roots consisting of childhood best friends, Gregg Sgar and…
Víctor Manuelle
Víctor Manuelle, between samba and salsa
The Puerto Rican singer Victor Manuelle who has a history of three decades of tropical music, introduced a new single in which he invites the…
Nashville Cast
‘The Music of Nashville: Season 2: Volume 2’ – Album Review
About a month ago the final soundtrack album of season 2 of Nashville hit shelves in the US, with it following a couple of weeks later in the UK.…
Bob Dylan
The Nobel to Dylan. What Blades, Sabina and Joselo think
Bob Dylan has so far not responded to calls from the Swedish Academy, which last week was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016. Since then…
The Cramps
Songs The Lord Taught Us
This is one of the greatest rock 'n' roll albums ever released. The Cramps don't pummel and you won't pogo. They throb... you'll…
Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland's cause of death revealed
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner Medical Examiner Minneapolis revealed that the cause of death of former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, was…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland--A Brief Biography
The life of Aaron Copland (I've found) is very inspiring with the wide variety of styles that he has experimented with throughout his lengthy…
Mandolin Orange
Mandolin Orange @ The Borderline, London, UK | November 17, 2015 – Review
It was a very windy night in London when Mandolin Orange were due to grace the city, but that didn’t stop the flurry of people that filled…
Pepper
Pepper, It On (Hawaii's Island Rock Band, Overshadowed by R.H.C.P.?)
Because this band has the name Pepper, they may not be the easiest band to find, and ontop of that there is the more popular Red Hot Chili Peppers…
Yandel
Yandel is premiere
Yandel does not stop working and is already preparing to release his new album #UPDATE . As part of the promotion of his next album, he has just…
Future
Future reveals his new single “That's a Check” with Rick Ross
A just released their new song Buy Love with a video clip pretty lo-fi, Future, one of the most prominent rappers of our time presents a new…
Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw ‘Damn Country Music’ – Album Review
I was surprised when ‘Damn Country Music’ was announced given that it comes barely a year after the release of ‘Sundown…
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas covers ''Where is the love''
The American group The Black Eyed Peas, who years ago made a pause, became gather for a good cause and versionaron his theme song ''…
Demi Lovato
Demi Lovato is temporarily retiring
The singer Demi Lovato will take a break in 2017, and communicated it in his Twitter account with the message: '' So excited to 2017.…
Olga Tanon
Olga Tañón awarded for her outstanding career
Olga Tañón was awarded by Guinness World Records . The singer has been recognized with two titles: the first, being the female artist with…
Marika Takeuchi
Interview: Marika Takeuchi Dazzles In Her New EP, Missing Piece
You’ve probably heard Marika Takeuchi’s music before in the background without even realizing, maybe at a coffee shop…
Mirella Cesa
What's new from Mirella Cesa
The beautiful Mirella Cesa is a great professional moment. After a start to the year with hard work, the young and successful artist stomp in Latin…
k.d. lang
k?d remixes a masterpiece of Porter Robinson's song Sad Machine
We all know that k?d is a heck of a DJ but my oh my, where did this remix come from?! This remix of Porter Robinson’s “Sad Machine” is just fun in…
Chloe & Halle
This Duo Drops a New Style
These talented two were discovered singing on the internet by none other than, Beyoncé. Chloe & Halle are two sisters who Beyonc&…
George Benson
guitar auction
The auction house Guernsey's auction is announcing an impressive guitar: about three hundred instruments from jewelry eighteenth century to…
Musiq Soulchild
Enjoying the Little Things
Leading the way to the new album, “Feel The Real”, Musiq Soulchild has dropped two new videos, recently, and he’s bringing that real smooth jazzy r&…
Eric Church
Eric Church ‘Chief’ – Album Review
In light of Eric Church leading the list of nominations for the looming CMAs, I thought I’d review his 2011 album which helped him get these nods, ‘…
Los Sinvergüenzas
Los Sinvergüenzas celebrate fifteen years of music
A concert flavored party is the event where the jazz and contemporary music with traditional Venezuelan roots The Scoundrels held in Caracas its…
Sympathy Nervous
Sympathy Nervous
Sympathetic Nervous System I am the water; the water on a pavement. The water under your feet – boiling and looking at you &…
The Beatles
It's Getting Better All The Time
Do you ever feel as if you are floating above the clouds when listening to music? You are able to be released into your own world of beauty and…
Keith Green
Keith Green’s Christian Music Career
Keith Green is one of those timeless Christian artists that has helped so many solidify their walk with Jesus Christ. “Your Love Broke Through” is…
blink-182
Blink 182's new album California
Blink 182 The group presented the title of his new album called California whose cover was announced by social networks of the band. It will have a…
Colin Lloyd Tucker
Colin Lloyd Tucker - His Incredible Mind
Having just read Surferheads piece on this artist I am inspired to add my own experience of Colin's fine body of work…
The Beatles
The Beatles Did You Know
So many stories about The Beatles have been told and heard. Who knows what's true and what's myth. Here's few I found most interesting: -…
David Maslanka
David Maslanka’s Angel of Mercy
Upon listening to Angel of Mercy by David Maslanka, I find it a very pleasing read. It is a fine piece of music that has the distinction of the low…
John Lennon
John Lennon’s Final Record
John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s final record that would set a permanent standard for most rock albums of the eighties would hint at the somewhat…
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…
Alfredo Sadel
The serenaders of Caracas
Valses, serenades, songs, ballads ... Caracas nights have always been filled with beautiful songs that tell love, sighs to the moon, poems to the…
Weather Report
The Original Weather Report
Weather Report were one of the prime pioneers and most famous representatives of the fusion music in the seventies. They were known for their funk, R&…
Ricardo Arjona
The problem of the poet Arjona
Lionel Hampton
The Magic of the Jazz Vibraphone
The vibraphone is one of the most beautiful and gentle instruments. It’s a piano for drummers - it is classified under percussion and is a…
AC/DC
2016 is the year for AC/DC
The Australian band AC / DC, hard rock pioneer, announced a tour with 30 concerts in the US and Europe in 2016, which refutes rumors about a…
Laura Guevara
Laura returns drunk
Laura Guevara has given much to talk about since the release of their first self - titled album released last year, as I caused a positive reaction…
Marcus & Martinus
SundaySpotlight: Marcus and Martinus
Music phenomenons of the past 2 decade are an interesting topic that should be diligently explored. Why do some bands attract so much attention, and…
Ricardo Montaner
Singing in English continues to be an obstacle for Ricardo Montaner.
There is only one obstacle that Ricardo Montaner has not been able to overcome in its nearly four decades of experience: sing his songs in English.…
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift breaks down in tears at sexual assault trial
Pop star Taylor Swift burst into tears on Monday during final arguments in the civil suit accusing a radio DJ of fiddling with her before a concert…
will.i.am
Will I Am's identity crisis: Music producer or DJ
“There’s nothing like reinventing an old classic” says Will.I.Am at the end of a TV commercial to promote a new coffee machine. And every time I hear…
Bencoolen
BENCOOLEN Take Over the 9:30 Club
Bencoolen has been one of the most noteworthy bands of 2016, and 2017 is gearing up to be just as accomplished. Sharing their new…
RE:AKTOR
Re:aktor's, Zero Order, Um Conto Preventivo?
I first heard of this Portuguese band, Re:aktor, from their track Damage Zone on the compilation Monsters of Metal Vol. 2 on Nuclear…
Maluma
Yes or no the new Maluma with Anitta
Renowned reggaetonero Maluma still pushing through new frontiers, this time it does so with a neighboring country: Brazil. The Colombian scored his…
Bring Me The Horizon
sometimes change is good
As a deathcore/metalcore fan, you should familiar with Bring Me The Horizon. Or as a fan girl, you should know this band because of Oliver Sykes. Few…
Jeremih
Jeremih channels Michael Jackson on “I Think of You feat. Chris Brown and Big Sean.
On 2 February, the singer from Chicago, Jeremiah Felton, better known as Jeremih, released a new song with Chris Brown and Big Sean, which is…
Akapellah
Fiesta Boombox (Remix) - Akapellah Feat Lil Supa
From the Aragua, Venezuela, home quintessential Venezuelan rap, been two of the most important exponents of this genre come together to showcase…
Chance The Rapper
Lookin at the Finish Line
Even though not too many people may know about this guy, the world is about to. A lot of people claim that rap is dying, that there aren’t…
Metallica
Metallica and Rihanna together in New York
Great figures of music like Metallica and Rihanna joined other celebrities at a concert by the '' Global Citizen Festival '&…
J Burn
J Burn ‘Burnt Blue’ - Album Review
San Francisco Bay Area musician, activist, gardener and photographer J Burn comes from a long line of talented musicians, and it would be fair to say…
Major Lazer
Major Lazer released a song in Spanish with J Balvin and Sean Paul
After winning several successes in the last years, the trio Major Lazer continues working in the creation of new subjects to put to the world to…
Mumford & Sons
Live: A Beautiful Collision
Have you ever looked back on your past and thought “I wish I wasn’t like that”? In the present you feel liked a changed…
Fonseca
Fonseca releases Pure Curiosity, his new single
The singer-songwriter from Bogota says that in this song is 100% its essence, also combines different rhythms, including urban and reggae. Fonseca…
Arsonal da Rebel
5 Rap Battles That Didn’t Get As Much Hype As They Deserved in 2016
While 2016 might not have been the greatest year for battle rap it still was a good year nonetheless. There were plenty of battles this year that…
Megadeth
Dave Mustaine pays tribute with Megadeth to Chris Cornell
Today, March 18, during a concert in Tokyo, Japan, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine paused in his usual repertoire to pay tribute to vocalist and…
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen to reissue The River album
American singer - songwriter of 66 years old, will release a deluxe box with the reissue of his album The River published in 1980, being one of the…
Rico Love
May reservations under the name of Love
The year, unwillingly crawling behind our back left so much tasteful surprises when we recall all the music numbers from all those art hot lines...…
El Último Vecino
The Last Neighbor from the inside
There is a band revelation in Spain is playing brutal in bars and small clubs in the music scene of Barcelona. It's called The Last Vecino…
Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir
Top Five Contemporary Blues Songs
In my , I said something about the re-imagining of the Blues, and how that is a rare thing. A couple of years ago, a fellow musician and a…
Coldplay
Chris Martin showed solidarity with Venezuela during a concert
Chris Martin, vocalist of the British band Coldplay, sent a message of solidarity to the Venezuelan people in the face of the serious crisis. During…