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,…

 The Head And The Heart is a young band from Seattle who got recognized with their self-titled debut due to its irresistible sensitive…

Mark Olson, one of the original co-founders of The Jayhawks is back with a new album, and although he is credited as “the head of the bill”,…

I often find myself drawn to certain songs because of the mood that they create. Cigarettes After Sex is such a prime example of this in each of their…

  ‘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…

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

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…

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…

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…

Australian singer/songwriter Angus Stone has been around for a while and either in the duo with his sister Julia or under his own name he has been…

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…

  Dashing bearded guy with the suggestive falsetto and a guitar. This would be a perfect title for the movie about The Leading Guy, my new…

The moment the opening track, “Riverview Fog” starts, you get the feeling that you’ve heard all this before, but that the cards have been reshuffled…

Grief can be an exceedingly strong motivator and can produce some deeply sad, bad at the same time, life-affirming music. Remember, for example, Neil…

One thing is for sure when it comes to Irish people – they have an incredible sense for melody. They never sound like they are going to…

Spector, I have been expecting you. When you are expecting something for so long and you are certain of the result of your expectation, what can…

So you don’t know what Rune Husk is? But of course, it is the new Of Montreal EP! Oh, you want to know what that means? Well, then, you will have to…

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…

Let me get one thing straight – these guys are not from Barcelona, they are from Scandinavia. How could something so cheerful come from a…

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

Bands come and go, but their members keep on moving, especially If their music addiction is impossible to cure. There is no panacea for loving music.…

Listening to the fifth album of Beirut, it made me wonder what the hell has happened with the band that always crafted good stuff and gave us four…

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…

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…

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…

  The ultimate idol of indie audience, Mac DeMarco, releases his new full-length album This Old Dog, almost three years after the halcyon…

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…

I can vividly picture the first reaction of those familiar with the previous work of Unknown Mortal Orchestra to the opening moments of its newest…

Consider following review as a double review, rather than a battle between two EPs. There are not easy to compare, anyway. No Joy  Series…

For some reason, there has been an ongoing debate about M.C. Taylor, and his Hiss Golden Messenger project. Nine years and six albums on, he has…

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…

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…