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Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
Leave It To Jess
Jess Glynne may be a name (you've heard) that has been uttered through radio or television. As a former X Factor contestant, who appeared on the…
Better Man
Little Big Town reveals Swift debut with Better Man
Better Manis the new single off Little Big Town's album, Breaker. The song was penned by a young girl in Nashville, who had pitched the…
Absolution (New 09 version)
#tbt: Muse - Absolution
Let’s go back to the time when Muse were able to verify their identity. I remember buying their album Absolution, putting it in my CD player and…
Low
David Bowie - Low
Now I have never been a huge admirer of most of David Bowie's work, but this particular album alongside Diamond Dogs are still two memorable…
Silver Eye
Goldfrapp Continues To Experiment
Here is a band born with tendency to experiment with various genres and subgenres. In the wake of their tenacity to swim upstream instead of following…
Greatest Hits: Pieces of Three
Michigan Based ThreePeace Reggae Rock for the Millenium! The Police, The Clash, Greta Van Fleet all rolled into a fat one!
Michigan Based ThreePeace Reggae Rock for the Millenium! The Police, The Clash, Greta Van Fleet all rolled into a fat one! ThreePeace is an American…
Bad Posture
On The Back Porch
Sometimes it is hard to portray your music on its album cover. For John Andrews & The Yawns, that seems to be no problem on “Bad Posture”.…
A Weekend in the City
Albums that turn 10 in 2017: Bloc Party, A Weekend in the City
I'm going to talk about something different in this series today. All the other 10 year articles have been about albums that I would consider as…
Sketches Of Brunswick East
King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard - Psych jazz this time around
When King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard announced that they will issue five albums this year, even their fans (myself included), who were…
Canadiana Grotesquica
Geoff Berner - Canadian Gargantua and Pantagruel
For those that decided to skip reading the Francois Rabelais literature classic Gargantua and Pantagruel, Canadiana Grotesquica, the new, seventh…
The Gleaner
Tara Dente Comes Through
La música es aún mejor cuando se comparte. Así es como Tara Dente describe concisamente el proceso de creación de su segundo …
Pusher Man
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Pusher Man/Remember Tomorrow
The renowned stoner doom/psychedelic rock band Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats recently came out with a new two track 7'' Single. Uncle…
Emotions - EP
From cloning and covering to being original
There are many times that I (have to) multitask and I usually end up wishing I could split myself into more than one individual, but there’s…
Deep End
Doc Robinson - Midwest Loves Its Pop
There seems a particular penchant for good pop oriented rock, soul, anything, in the US Midwest. Think Rockford Illinois’ Cheap Trick, or any of the…
Chasing an Illusion
Larkin Grimm Finds Truth In Illusion
On his fourth album titled Chasing The Illusion, Larkin Grimm confronts his inner demons from the past by transforming pain into a possitive message…
Koop Islands
#tbt Koop: Koop Islands
When I signed up to last.fm, it was probably one of the most rewarding moments in my life as I suddenly found myself in a position to not only…
One More Light
What Happened To Linkin Park?
Oh man, how many strong opinions were created when the new album by Linkin Park saw the light of the day! First of all, it is an indicator that the…
11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory
11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory
This is a cute folk-rock for the masses. That doesn’t need that the guys are not fun. Dropkick Murphys is a band who connects jocks, rockers,…
The Congregation
The Congregation
Leprous are one of those bands that you listen to and pre-order new records from because you want to see them evolve. I got into them in 2012, after…
VII - Sturm Und Drang
Return to Form
Although 2009's Wrath was something very hard to beat, I still thought objectively that LoG's 2012 release Resolution was a bit of a…
Funeral
The debut albums of 2005 that defined the groups that made them
2005 was the last year when indie was a proper musical force. In the 11 years since then, indie music has been cannibalized by other genres, most…
Wonderland
Magic Shoppe - Wonderland
Magic Shoppe are a fascinating psychedelic rock/neo-psych band from Portland, Oregon. While having released the Interstellar Car Crash EP earlier this…
Anthropocene
Deludium Skies - Anthropocene
Deludium Skies is a one-man psychedelic rock/noise-rock/doom band from Austria – a country that has not produced a whole lot of cool bands…
Hubris
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
Oren Ambarchi is an Australian musician and multi-instrumentalist, who has released a vast number of albums through the years. His albums have had…
If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Review: Drake's 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late'
The endearingly sensitive and vulnerable Drake that the world had grown accustomed to is dead and gone. If You’re Reading This It…
The Jazz Side Of The Moon
The Jazz Side of the Moon
Playing and recording covers is a common thing among musicians. Actually it is one of the stages in learning how to play, compose, arrange and…
What If
The Jerry Douglas Band - What if, indeed!
Writing a music review should be easy, right? Sure, most of the time. All you have to do first is decide which category the album belongs to… Again,…
Mayhem in Blue
Hail Spirit Noir – Mayhem In Blue [Review]
Hail Spirit Noir play a trippy mix of psychedelic rock and progressive black metal, with a pinch of avant-garde. Their debut record, Pneuma, was a…
Wrong Creatures
Without Fillers, Wrong Creatures by BRMC would be a diamond
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is one of the bands that refreshed the rock scene with their sound at the onset of the new millenium. Today, almost twenty…
So
Peter Gabriel: So
Peter Gabriel’s fifth studio album is by far one of his most accomplished. Lead single ‘Sledgehammer’ is a joyous,…
Inner Journey Out
Psychic Ills - Inner Journey Out
The renowned American psychedelic rock/neo-psych band Psychic Ills came out with a new album just about a week ago. The expectations towards Psychic…
American Life (U.S. Enhanced-Non-PA Version)
#tbt: Madonna - American Life
Following does not need a big introduction, because the artists itself is so big, it does not demand an introduction whatsoever. I know, this was some…
Unlikely Saints
Unlikely Saints Deliver Exquisite Debut
Unlikely Saints released one of the most peculiar albums of the year, and this is only their debut. The band's members are Jay (Big Pappa)…
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…
...Of the Dark Light
....Of The Dark Light
Long Island death metal stalwarts bring considerable technical aptitude to an album that works within the framework of their long-established sound.…
Didn't He Ramble
Glen Hansard Does Not Ramble
Glen Hansard is a cute Irish man who conquered the world by singing the Academy award winning song Falling Slowly. The movie Once has become a classic…
Love Jones EP
In the Case of love
I started following R&B singer Case on social media about 8 years ago after getting introduced to his manager. I only remembered him from “…
Goths (Deluxe Version)
The Mountain... Goths?
I am so happy that I am alive in the time when so much good music is produced. I don’t know how would I obvercome my struggles If it wasn’t for this…
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…
Deluxe
Skeppet - Deluxe
Skeppet are an interesting Danish psychedelic rock/krautrock band, who I have reviewed on this site once before. This time however the album under…
Road Salt Two
#tbt Pain Of Salvation: Road Salt Two
Pain of Salvation is one of those bands that you either hate or love. Ok, let's not be too harsh or too emotional; let's avoid extremes. I…
Won't Be There
Luke Reed - One For The Summer
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,…
Two Devils Will Talk
Captain Paul McKenzie Sailing With His Crew
Paul McKenzie will be singing. McKenzies are celebrating 25 years of existence, although Paul is the only member who has been there from the beginning…
A Beautiful Collection - Best Of Carole King
A Truly Beautiful Collection
There is no denying that Carole King stands today as a living musical legend. The awards she has received, her songs that have charted through the…
The Penny Collector
Carrie Elkin - The Soul Americana
That is soul as in giving it all and having a true feel for a certain music genre. It his case the folkier version of Americana. When trying…
I
Ulaan Khol - I
Ulaan Khol are one of the many projects of Steven R. Smith, and one of the slowest and noisiest for that matter. There are quite a few albums under…
Bonfire with Manitou
Native American Themed Bonfire With Manitou album by Leftee Features Ojibwa Songs and Spirits at 432hz! Check It Out!
This album was delivered spiritually and musically in the divine energy of the universe at 432hz frequency. Leftee lead singer and drummer of the…
Here Lies Man
Black Sabbath in Africa?
Wonder what would have happened if someone sent Black Sabbath to study polyrhythms in Africa back in the seventies? Can you imagine the fusion…
Body Cults
Narcosatanicos - Body Cults
The Danish noise-rock/psychedelic rock band Narcosatanicos came out with a new album a short while ago via Bad Afro Records. Their previous self-…
Lupercalia
I(n)diosyncratic Pop
Patrick Wolf is a love singer. From his early days, love was his biggest inspiration, whether cheerful or painful. In my opinion, Lupercalia was the…
Bang My Head (feat. Sia & Fetty Wap)
Bang on collabo!
Out of all the dance tracks that I had on my list to listen to this week, this one is my favorite. Eva Simons “Bludfire&rdquo…
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar [Review]
I always had a kind of strange relationship with Ulver’s releases. Every time when Garm and his group delivered a new album I would end up being more…
Origin of What
Tyvek - Origin Of What
Tyvek are a pretty well-known American lo-fi garage rock/noise rock band, who have released a number of great albums through the years. Their latest…
The Cornerstone of the Corner Store
Vinnie Paz's new album now available
Vincenzo Luvineri, better known in musical aspects as Vinnie Paz is an American rapper, acclaimed for being part of the supergroup Jedi Mind Tricks,…
Asesina
Okills surprises with a video clip for Asesina
The Okills grouping has surprised us with the launch of its new video of the song Killer part of his album titled America Supersonic which has been…
So Proud
#tbt - Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
In a mature phase or their lives, many artists return to what inspired them when they were young. Bob Dylan would turn to the 30s and 40s of the past…
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,…
Raskit
Finally, the old Dizzee Rascal Is Back
During my teenage years, I was hooked on rap, among other music styles. As this genre witnessed a real expansion in my country at the beginning of…
Dandelion Sauce Of The Ancients
Terminal Cheesecake - Dandelion Sauce Of The Ancients
The legendary British noise rock/psychedelic rock band Terminal Cheesecake recently came out with a new full-length album in nearly 20 years. Due to…
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:…
These Things Take Time
Molly Nilsson and Her Noir Loneliness
No one will ever keep you company and then you die. True? Let’s ask this artist. Molly Nilsson is special for many reasons. One of them is…
In Mind
Real Estate Have Perfected Their Dreamy Surf Sound on ''In Mind''
Back in 2012, I was studying psychology in Wisconsin for one academic year , which means that I was separated from my friend and…
Birkin / Gainsbourg : Le symphonique
Birkin Makes Gainsbourg Proud
As far as her musical, particularly singing career goes, Jane Birkin has often been disputed. First criticism going her way was that she would have…
Trippy Caribbean
Rawayana dared and presented her Trippy Caribbean
The Venezuelan group recently announced that his third album would be called Trippy Caribbean plate and finally here! Under the production of Jos…
Unfinished Business
A Future Big Pop Star? Short Review of Nathan Sykes Debut Album
While I was listening to Ariana Grande’s album “Truly yours” I discovered the song “Almost is never enough” in which she is cooperating with Nathan…
Words Like Young
Timothy Nelson - Will Fly Far
As each year gets close to its end, I start scavenging other people’s “best of” lists to find something I’ve not heard before, something to have for…
I See You
I see you
Listening to the xx used to feel like eavesdropping on the most private of conversations. On 2009’s xx and 2012’s Coexist, vocalists Romy Madley Croft…
Throbs
The Fog Ensembles' Throbs: Subtle Atmospherics
Thessaloniki trails behind Athens’ size and global stature as Greece’s second largest city, but comes in first as the source of musical inspiration…
÷ (Deluxe)
Ed Sheeran breaks records with Divide
No doubt Ed Sheeran is ravaging all records with its new album Divide with only 15 days after it is released each holder has captured the music press…
Ropewalk
Just Another Island Band
Even though they had success with their debut album, The View never managed to capitalize it in a right way. They are always somewhere near but they…
Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
I think most people who dig noise-rock/indie rock/post-hardcore know Fugazi. An introduction here is perhaps not needed, since the band is universally…
Begin
Neo Soul
Lion Babe is a duo from New York that has just released its debut album Begin. They are characterized as neo soul, even though there are many…
Shadows in the Night
Dylan's Creative Block
Fallen Angels is another cover album by Bob Dylan dedicated to the evergreen American music and big Frank Sinatra. Last year, Dylan released Shadows…
The Light In You
Meditation for hispters and experiments for indie rockers
Favorite Americana players, known for their dreamy sounds, are finally back. Seven years after releasing the Snowlake Midnight and Strange Attractor,…
Child Support
Back to the raunchiness
About 20 years ago, H-Town was hot, apparently. At that time, I’d only heard of them, but with the exception of catching a video on MTV once…
Oh Wonder
Oh Wonder of Wonders
Sticking with the theme of festive vinyl, It’s time to talk about Oh Wonder. Oh Wonder, are a London based duo, who’s …
Heal the World
Marcus Norberg - Far From a Disappointment
It has been decades since Sweden has earned the trust of music fans worldwide to come up with something special (and yes, that does include ABBA,…
Burning Bridges
Bon Jovi's Bridge Is Falling Down
The struggle is real. Rock dinosaurs Bon Jovi are persistent even though their career is not as shiny as it was in the 80s and 90s. I can freely say…
A Seat at the Table
Record Of The Year
Let me get one thing straight: Beyonce might be a bigger star, but Solange is way more special. I have been a huge Solange fan ever since her debut…
Peanut Butter
Riot Pop
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…
Dangerous Woman
Ariana Is Dangerously Contagious
Ariana is a little girl with four-octave range, and that is her strongest weapon. With the great intonation and interpretation, it was just a matter…
Annulment (Live)
Starting Form an Anulment
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…
Slowness
Outfit grow on second release Slowness
Outfit were formed in 2011 from the embers of synthpop band Indica Ritual. Essentially a progressive, melodic and emotion-fused art-pop band, Outfit…
Ouroboros
Transcendental LaMontagne
When Bon Iver first appeared, he scored a nickname ‘dark version of Ray Lamontagne’. Meanwhile, Ray Lamontagne, the…
Worried Kid
Scandinavian Folk At Its Best
Bellhound Choir is a solo project of Danish author Christian Hade Madsen. His first EP Stray Screech Beastdropped in 2015 and it was a teaser for his…
Algo Sucede
Julieta Venegas confirms Something Happens Tour
After being nominated for the 2016 Grammy for his album Something Happens Mexican-American singer announces an international tour to promote the…
Wrapped In Red
My Christmas favorites
I'm still one of the many people who feels joy once the first bells start entering the music when December starts. Even though I've heard some…
Revival
Slim Shady is Not Back
Marshall Matters, aka Eminem, returned to the music scene with Revival, a desperate collection of redundant tracks and collaborations with top-notch…
Indeleble
The New Bands Festival 2016 is coming.
On 11 January this year, the official website of the Fundacion Nuevas Bandas, the date for the start of the Festival New bands, which will be from 18…
Suicide Squad: The Album
Suicide Squad Kills It
Pure adrenaline punched into fourteen hard tracks of fire is what you shall blaze while rocking to the highly ranked motion picture album, Suicide…
Escultura
SCULPTURE: The last work of art of GUACO
After 2 years of inactivity the Super Band of Venezuela Guaco throws the disc number 40 of his successful career. Sculpture is called this album that…
Atoma
Dark Tranquillity – Atoma [Review]
Along with At the Gates and In Flames, Dark Tranquillity shaped melodeath genre. Back in the 90’s three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden made an entirely…
Black
Black
Country megastar Dierks Bentley returned last May with his eighth album Black, the most fully-formed LP of his…
Future Standards
Future Standards, now!
They don't fit. The tags, that is. The tags listing what kind of style you should designate to Howe Gelb. It is fifteen or more. Probably more,…
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics
East Meets West
It’s an indescribably fulfilling to hear how The Heliocentrics once again adjust to the playing style and instrumentation of their collaborator. In…
Those Younger Days
Indie Family
When you believe in people, the whole world is a church. And when your family believes in you, your life is easy like indie song. Music runs in the…
Gøggs
Gøggs - Gøggs
Coggs are a relatively new American no-nonsense garage punk/garage rock band and a one of the projects of Ty Segall. While they have released an EP…
Kitsune
Intriguing First Chapter
A while ago, in a review of Marriages’ latest album, I said that Salome is my AOTY and that claim still stands. After hearing final remnants…
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…
Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here
Two men, one of them in flames, shake hands in a studio back lot. The image of a nude woman emerges from a red veil. A diver breaks the waves of a…
Moon Lagoon
Co-Pilgrim - Escaping the middle ground
Listening to tons of music it is usually two groups of artists that draw your attention - those that sound incredibly good and those that sound so…
Life After Youth
Elizabeth Powell Overcomes Her Struggles Through Land Of Talk's Third Record
No matter how successful you are, life is full of ups and downs. To maintain equanimity and to persevere despite life's severe challenges is…
Good For You
Good For You
The Portland rapper’s debut album balances playful verses and cheerful wit with more revealing moments of introspection. On the cartoonish…
Art of Asian Meditation
Turning Music Into Meditation
I have recently discovered Jean-Pierre Garattoni, and I am glad that he helped me discover Asian sound in his three-part combo titled Moods of Asia.…
How Did We Get So Dark?
How Did We Get So Dark?: The New British Heavy Rock
How Did We Get So Dark? After countless concerts mainly in Europe, accompanying Foo Fighters part of his North American tour in 2015 and…
Shape of You
Ed Sheeran releases tracklist for his new album
Young UK, Ed Sheeran, has been working on his next album titled divide ÷ , however, before publishing completely that album, he has released to…
Fax Message Breakup EP
Rodney Cromwell to release 'Fax Message Breakup' EP
Rodney Cromwell is the nom-de-plume of Adam Cresswell, founding member of indie-folktronica band SALOON (who had four entries in John Peel&…
Who Is This America?
Afrobeat for the new generations
Born in a Brooklyn warehouse in 1997, 12-piece ensemble Antibalas is credited with re-introducing Afrobeat to a wider global audience. A Brooklyn-…
A Way in the Wind
Railway Gamblers Bring Their A Game Again
When someone creates a masterpiece as Railway Gamblers did at the beginning of the year with Shadow Of The Moon, many would go on…
The Man of Sorrow / The Man Who Sorrows
Lwstndrds - The Man of Sorrow / The Man Who Sorrows
Lwstndrds are a two-piece powerviolence/grindcore/noise/sludge metal band from Zabrze, Poland. While usually their repertoire includes harsh, brutal,…
Christine And The Queens
Is The Hype Around Christine and The Queens Legitimate?
Heloise Letissier, known as Christine and the Queens, is a French musician who shook up the music scene this year. Her debut was released…
Big Love
Simply Meh
I am sure everyone in this whole wide world had listened to Simple Red’s single Stars when it came out. Guys from Simply Red had a nice…
The Tourist
Clap Your Hands Say Nah
If we are looking for bands who used internet to their advantage, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah would be at the top of the list of those who utilized web…
in•ter a•li•a
At The Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a [Album Review]
When you release an album recognized by many as the best post-hardcore release ever, there’s not much to do than to call it quits and focus on other…
Virgo Tendencies, Pt. II
A Raw and Honest Story
The suburban Chicago songbird has released her winter follow-up to its summer sibling Virgo Tendencies Part 1. The triple threat superstar's…
Afterglow
ME, SARAH AND LGBT
I’m sorry to disappoint but I am not gay. However, a few years ago I found out me and LGBT have a weakness in common: Sarah McLachlan, the…
Life Is Good
Life Is Good...is good
In my alcohol-induced and terse analysis in consultation with Google, I have realized that this was the first year in which all three of the most…
South America
The Anatomy of Frank - Personal Anatomy of the World
Making albums about every continent of the world? Sounds a bit too ambitious and pretentious, doesn't it? Actually, it depends on who does it and…
Awake And Pretty Much Sober
Intricately Layered & Easy on the Ears
Awake and Pretty Much Sober by Violents is one of my most recent discoveries and the strange tension between cool, icy indifference and…
White Light / White Heat (Deluxe Edition)
#tbt The Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat
Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker did not need to sing about the smelly town and the monstrosity of its busyness. That was…
Gopro: Eagle Hunters in a New World
Film Soundtrack Done Right
Making a film soundtrack requires a double mastery. You have to make do music an additional part of the story told in images, but you also have to…
Polysemy
Mestís Polysemy Album Review
The progressive metal band Mestis, released a new album entitled . Mestis is an instrumental group most notably including Javier Reyes from the band…
Gang Signs & Prayer
Gang Signs & Prayer
The debut solo album from the breakout grime MC is a detailed portrait and full-throated riot, switching between clapping back at lesser rappers and…
Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Deluxe Edition)
Seniors Just Wanna Have Fun
Taxi, can I get I ride to the 90s? The longest way possible. I am not a fan of the people who are nostalgic, those wise braggers who have lived…
My Love Is Cool
Ecstasy Rock
Right in the middle of this year, we have got one of the strongest debut albums. We will have to wait and see what the last quarter is about to bring,…
Two Different Worlds
Midwest's Premium Country Artist - Ryan Koenig
Music journey of Ryan Koenig begun in the basements of Midwest, in the role of a guitarist and singer of garage-punk band The Vultures. Twelve years…
De Bach A Los Beatles
The Beatles in the Style of JS Bach?
Rearranging pop tunes for orchestra is such a common occurrence. One of the bands that many composers have tried to arrange their music for is The…
Tell My Sister
Sisters That Brought Optimism Back To Folk
In American folk-rock music, 1975 was a year of powerful, dark and confessional albums. Just take a look at this series: Bob Dylan – Blood On The…
Come Away With Me
#TBT: Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
This week’s review is dedicated to one of the most critically praised best-selling debuts in the 2000s. It is also dedicated to the artist herself,…
Behind the Mountains
#tb Brutus' Second Album
It’s not that difficult to form a band who nourishes traditional hard rock, to proclaim yourself a successor of Black Sabbath and to build a career on…
Wincing the Night Away
Albums that turn 10 in 2017: The Shins Wincing the Night Away
Garden State has a lot to answer for. Yes it’s now lazy journalism to combine Zack Braff’s directorial debut with the emergence of The Shins in pop…
La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful
Experimental Happiness
Whenever I am listening to this artist, I dream about Africa. Yannick Iiunga from Cape Town is the new name on the music scene. After the successful…
Broke With Expensive Taste
Azealia Banks Continues To Slay
Even though she released one of the most interesting rap albums in 2014 and shut the mouth to everyone who called her one hit wonder because of…
Can’t Go Home (feat. Adam Lambert)
Adam Lambert is taking this track home
When I heard about this latest Adam Lambert collaboration, I knew I just had to check it out. Adam has always been exploring electronic dance music in…
En la memoria de la piel
Rosana returns overwhelming and authentic
Stay right there in the middle of the rush, wrap me in touch, kisses I gave you and let me off balance playing give you the world and make you smile,…
Back Together
is Robin Thicke getting it back together?
Not many artists have had a hit single that kept playing in high rotation for like two years straight, but Robin Thicke is among them with “…
Triplicate (Sampler)
Triplicate
Triplicate, again, features Dylan singing tunes from the Great American Songbook. His voice is filled with character, though the…
Chapter One
The Saturdays V-Day : Chapter One
This Universe spread female vocal is opening her first solo segment of music and the title Chapter One seems more than just a right…
The English Riviera
Metronomy <3
Happiness is just the matter of seizing the right moment to do the right thing. There are some things that are always right. Whenever I get depressed…
Dodge and Burn
Jack White's Dirty Gothic Blues
From all Jack White’s project, it seems to me that The Dead Weather has the most freedom and maybe that is its main problem. Horehound and…
Aground
Carlton Melton - Aground
Carlton Melton are a renowned American instrumental psychedelic/space rock band. They have become known for their fine far out psychedelic jamming…
Across The Multiverse
Dent May - Multi-versing the Musical Universe
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…
Paradise
WEEKEND EP DUEL: Anohni vs Blonde Redhead
ANOHNI Vs Blonde Redhead Consider following review as a double review, rather than a battle between two EPs. There are not easy to compare,…
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&…
Blood of the Saints
#tbt: Powerwolf - Blood Of The Saints
Key years in career of Powerwolf occur in two year intervals, and everything started in 2003. Two years later, Return inBloodred came out, and then…
The Switch (Deluxe Edition)
Switching Things Up with Emily King
If you are not yet familiar with Emily King, an exciting discovery awaits you. Emily King is an old soul with a fresh, new style. She seems to draw…
Volume 1
BNQT Do a Banquet, Seventies Style
We’re getting flooded with acronyms, so why not another one? This time for a much-maligned term a “supergroup”. It had its troubles since Blind Faith…
Coeur De Pirate
Coeur de Pirate's Unique Loveliness
Beatrice Martin is a classically trained pianist who graced us with her debut album under the moniker, Coeur de Pirate, in 2008. Martin's …
The Direction of Last Things
The direction of metal evolution
I fell in love with Intronaut from the moment I heard their, at the moment, best album ‘till date, Valley Of Smoke. After that fantastic…
ANMLS
Anger Imported From Chile: ANMLS
In the light of recent events, it could be said that the music scene is mostly not interested in confronting with the problems of the Earth. There are…
Astronomy Domine
Pink Voivod
Heavy Metal (in its extreme forms) is a scary music. At least for me - all those growling litanies they call vocals, they really creep me out. But the…
Toxic
An Enchanted Gothic Cover
Toxic was made famous by none other than Britney Spears. Famous for the song and music video. However in true originality, Yael Naim crafted a…
Behind Your Back
Funky Furtado
It wasn’t all that long ago when I first blogged about Nelly Furtado. She has just collaborated on someone’s mixtape and I…
It Will Come Back
Hozier Howls Along To It Will Come Back
Whether it's the end of a relationship or an unrequited love, everyone goes through the motions of waiting to end it all of else. Hozier seemed…
Thinking Out Loud
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