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There must be someone who deserves the same hype as Frank Ocean. There must be and here he is. Twenty year old author and multi instrumentalist Alex…

  With seven albums in the discography, including the latest Impossible Dream, Haley Bonar has made enough to be considered as a fertile…

So easy for an album to be overlooked these days. Even if you are just an ordinary fan, you have piles of CD’s (still?), vinyl records or files on any…

Another little miracle from Sweden. Promise And The Monster is alter ego of Billie Lindahl, a girl who released her debut album Transparent Knife back…

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…

When you have sixteen albums in your discography, three Grammys and records that shaped a generation of listeners, no one expects you to deliver…

The importance of the New Zealand’s Flying Nun label has been quite fairly recorded, particularly through the works of such seminal bands as…

  Fierce Mercy is the 13th album by an Australian musician Colin Hay. Wow, that sounds like a really prolific artist, doesn’t it? Still, it…

The name of the band sometimes tells  what we can expect from it. Joanna Gruesome is an ironic reference to folk singer Joanna Newsom but…

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…

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…

When poets get to singing… For some it is a problem, for others, it is a blessing, Dylan, Cohen, Simon, Oberst and yes, based on his first…

Here comes Mick Harvey again, continuing his tribute saga to Serge Gainsbourg that now spans four Albums - from “Intoxicated Man” in 1995, “Pink…

Chicago based band Whitney dropped their debut Light Upon The Lake last year. The debut, released under eponymous Secretly Canadian label, secured…

While discovering new music is always an exciting event for me, there is something really special about finding musicians in my area that make music…

It must have something to do with all those geysers in Iceland. I don’t know what else it could be that makes the modern music coming from that island…

Authors of the songs used in TV shows are often less known than those songs are. When we connect the artist with the song, it happens that we don’t…

Tegan and Sara are the newest artists to join the ranks of artists greatly experimenting with their sound. The Canadian Indie Pop duo is trying their…

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…

I certainly don’t know the answer to the question from the title, but I’ m not even bound to try. Doesn’t sound too appetizing. But what I did try out…

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…

What would you like to listen for breakfast? If you have nothing on your mind, I suggest you digest Japanese Breakfast. Behind the name Japanese…

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

Australian singer/songwriter has just released his highly anticipated new music video Lucretia's Eyelandt off of his new album Revisited. Check it…

Only year and a half  after self-released V, and a little bit more since split-album No Life For Me, a collaboration with Cloud Nothings,…

When I first encountered the music of Yo La Tengo, sometime in the first half of the 00s, they were already had a reputation of one of the most…

PledgeMusic has been a resource many a musician has been using recently to make sure that their work sees the light of day and then promoted further.…

  The Coral is a band by two guys who are into retro music. They are also into adapting it to the modern, indie music. This time, they have…

British singer/songwriter James Page who goes under the name of Sivu has been diagnosed with Meniere disease, which causes disorder of one’s inner ear…

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…

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…

Back in the day, Sia Kate Isobelle Furler was the name that didn't mean a lot to vast majority of people on our crazy little planet. Yet, she was…

When I first saw Diane Birch in 2010, my first impression was that she is a hybrid of Pattie Smith and Diane Keaton who tries to play the piano as…

One of the solid releases from January this year came from Canadian duo Japandroids. In 2012, they dropped Celebration Rock and generated a…

  Richard Hawley’s Lady’s Bridge was one of my favorite albums back in 2007. Refreshing love poetry the singer delivered on this record found…

Even with names like Zita Swoon being tossed around among music critics, the current Belgian music scene seems to be somewhat an unknown quantity to…

Angel Olsen caught our attention with her 2014 second studio album Burn Your Fire for No Witness. This 29 year old girl from St.Louis played with…

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…

Female authors with guitars are becoming a frequent thing. And it’s good that this is the case. Every day, I discover a new name, no matter what the…

The Ruby Suns can either be a shifting conglomerate or just Ryan McPhun, a guy around whom the whole band and its musical idea revolve around. That…

It’s been three years since the last album by Canadian indie rock group The New Pornographers. In this period, the members either focused on their…