It must be something in the water. Australian drinking water. Otherwise, how would acclaimed psych, garage, blues, alternative singers like Nick Cave,…

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…

There is a standard tendency with rock critics, old and new - bring them up and then slam them down. I guess they take that critic word in…

Londoner Daniel O’Sullivan seems to pop in and out of the scene in recent years. He made a studio and a live album in 2011 and a few other…

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…

Back to vinyl, back to analog seems to be all the rage these days. Most of it is some sort of retro posturing, and as far as the music itself is…

Louise Burns is one of the names of Canadian indie scene. She has been active for a long time, and she is only thirty. Her debut Mellow Drama was…

If you tried to count the number of gifted young musicians with a thousand song ideas in their head, playing and recording them in a number of bands,…

Jake Bugg became famous at the age of 18, and he is an independent artist ever since. I don’t remember he was ever related with some popular…

In an interview with the band, lead singer Elena Tonra detailed that she sings about those things which she finds difficult to talk about. I remember…

When back in the Sixties droves of musicians, rock or jazz went to the Middle East and further down towards the Indian Ocean, they brought back much…

If there was a band in recent times that could easily pick up the title of American Gothic, then it is the Handsome Family. Even more fitting is the…

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…

  James Mercer and his crew came back with the new material. I say crew on purpose as the members have completely changed since the last…

Not so long ago, The Shins were epitome of indie band. Practically anyone who was obsessed with exploring indie niche could not help themselves but to…

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

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…

The girls from Warpaint have released their third studio album. After numerous plays, it is plausible to conclude this is their most dance-y release…

Frightened Rabbit is a band from Scotland formed in 2003. Initially, it was a solo project of Scott Hutchison until it turned to band comprising of…

After twenty years and absolutely brilliant “Untune The Sky” mini-lp and “Instinct” album from early to mid- Nineties, Richard Davies, another among…

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

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…

The name of this Welsh band is Colorama and their sixth album is Some Things Take Time. And this is not a pun since it took Carwyn Ellis and his…

Beatrice Martin is a classically trained pianist who graced us with her debut album under the moniker, Coeur de Pirate, in 2008. Martin's&nbsp…

No girls or tambourines among these four Aussies that go under the name Tambourine Girls on their debut album. I’m sure that a girl or two on…

Through the 5+1 solo albums he has made so far, Greg Ashley has shown that if you are to fit into the shoes of guys like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou…

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