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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…

Last year I touted on these pages (it is a site, but you still have to flip the pages one way or the other) Michael Nau’s album Mowing (like the…

  ‘ZABA’ is one of the best debut albums released in the past decade. When I put the record on for the first time, I had no idea who Glass…

When the term Americana crops up in a conversation among music fans, usually the first things that come up to mind are any country music variations,…

After ambitious art phases, run by gut and fueled by and emotion, artistic process usually comes to the point of homeostasis. It is not a bad phase…

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…

  Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. This could be said about Foy Vance, an Irish author who was supporting act for many superstars (Elton…

Bedroom, or shall we be more precise and say home recording musicians seem to be a very common instance these days. Most of them rarely catch the eye…

Conor Orbest came out of the phase in which indie-folk audience perceived him as the best author of the younger generation and entered the new era in…

Saying that Prarie Cat’s new album Is Cary Pratt is actually light as a feather can really go two ways - that it is so light that it will slip by…

In times before the Internet, it was so easy to miss a good band. You simply could not have heard of them, particularly if they went the independent…

I got drawn to listen to Julie Byrne’s “Not Even Happiness” album after a series of articles, posts, whatnot about it. The simple stark black and…

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

This one came practically out of nowhere when last year was closing. Actually, it originally came from Glasgow, passing through Yorkshire. Whatever,…

Seth Swirsky I said. Seth who? A composer sonngrwiter, movie director... Never heard? How about a guy who wrote Love Is A Beautiful Thing that was a…

Let’s turn on our time machines and go back to the release of  Florence and The Machine’s debut. Remember when you played Lungs for the very…

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

“The song is a sci-fi narrative about a woman who falls in love with a robot. In the video she hallucinates on rocket fuel and tears apart…

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,…

Into her fifth album since 2009, Samantha Crain still hasn’t achieved the recognition she deserves. All the positive reviews by the critics …

It’s finally time to talk about what has been described as Sufjan Stevens’ most personal album to date. The mysterious, melancholy man behind the…

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…

Critics’ new favorite band Tame Impala are becoming one of the most successful alternative acts of our time. They also have one album that I…

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…

Ariel Pink (Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) decided to dedicate his eleventh studio album to unfortunate pop musician Bobby Jameson, which can be concluded…