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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…

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…

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…

  Shannon Wright dropped her 10th  album this year titled Division. This author from Atlanta creates forcefully and consistently,…

Does being prolific means getting better and better at what you do? Or is it the other way around. Let's examine this on the example of the…

The coolest sisters are back! And I couldn’t be more thrilled! Haim are manifestation of Californian spirit, that old school cool one, not Katy Perry…

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…

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,…

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…

MV + EE or for the uninitiated, Matt Valentine and Erika Elders keep on making their tasty jam rolls. Like this song from their new album Root/Void, &…

One of the bands who is strongly influenced by the 90s British rock (Radiohead and Oasis in particular) is most The Boxer Rebellion.  What&…

Autumn and spring are moderate seasons. Both are some sort of foreplay for winter/summer, which means they are not extreme. On the other hands, our…

Ever since Rufus Wainwright, we didn't have an author who is a triple-threat pundit, capable of having superpowers in singing, composing and…

First things first: if you were wandering whether that PA im Matt Podn PA stands for Pennsylvania, the answer is yes. That is because Matt Pond, the…

As of the early Nineties, Antwerp, Belgium emerged as one of the strongest rock scenes this side of La Manche Channel. And it has quite a lot to thank…

“I can’t be without, I just need it here” This lyric in the first track on the album on Not Disappear, New Ways,…

As I’ve said before, it is the longevity of an album that shows its true worth. It is for this reason (and quite a few others) that I would…

What was happening during Franz Ferdinand's five year hiatus that preceded the release of their brand new LP Always Ascending? The most important…

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…

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…

These days it ahem there is a proliferation of singer/songwriters inspired by a similar generation from the Seventies. Like then, today’s batch can be…

One of the most popular acts on the Macedonian alternative scene, “Bernays Propaganda”, which I already introduced to the readers…

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

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…

There are two types of Weezer albums: those that have name and then those that don't have a name so we have to recognize them by their color. All…

Ok, so I never heard of Tim Meskers before. So, a know all music site tells me that he might be known to discerning music fans from a band called…

Give man a beard and  a guitar and he can rule your emotional world. After only first few notes, I have realized that this is a magnificent…

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…

Melbourne bases band Brighter Later is another evidence how Australia is a tough competitor on the world’s music scene. The project of Jaye…

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…

Anybody who is a fan of harmony-filled pop rock the late sixties or early Seventies, s well as any current variations of this musical theme has surely…

This year’s debut Album release, Zaba, from Glass Animals was a toe curling, shivering mix of jungle sounds and psychedelic dreams. The…

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…

Miike Snow is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Christian Karlsson (who is half of the EDM duo Galantis),…

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…

Mark Eitzel, the man with probably most biting, sometimes even cynical, but always with a human line seeping through is back. The former…

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…