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The name of the band is Kikagaku Moyo, or for those who do not know Japanese, like me, Geometric Patterns. Luckily, judging by this, their third album…

What can you get when you combine one of the most intriguing musicians that appeared in the past few years on Australian independent scene and…

  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…

Modern music often resembles the old saying “history repeats itself.” As decades pass, more and more artists regress into a dark cloud of past sounds.…

Remember “The Wicker Man” movie? No not the 2006 remake, but the 1973 English mystery horror classic based on the 1967 novel “The Ritual”, involving…

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

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…

So you’re missing the shimmering guitars and harmonies of Kingsbury Manx? Or, maybe, you’re quite disappointed with the new Shins album (rightfully so…

Anybody remember a Britpop luminary going by the name George Nigel Hoyle? No? Well, he was a member of the Britpop second-tier band Gay Dad, but who…

  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…

Ok, so you’re born in Russia, raised in Israel, you become sensitive to all that is burdening this world and want to express it through music. Where…

Favorite Americana players, known for their dreamy sounds, are finally back. Seven years after releasing the Snowlake Midnight and Strange Attractor,…

Is there a bigger cliche in the world of music than an indie band from New York? Not many things come to mind and everytime something new and original…

Spoiler alert: following throwback might appear more ambivalent than it really is. Emo is probably the only genre that not even those who place…

Fasten your seatbelts, dear readers, because what you’re going to encounter might be very intense. I am pretty convinced that you never had a chance…

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:…

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…

It was 2006 when unfortunate and tired Jason Lytle decided to impede the work of the group called Grandaddy. Over the following period, he charged his…

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

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

How is it possible that you are only 22 years old and you are such a poetaster? How is it possible that this is just your debut and you are already…

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…

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

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…

  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 Dears, or shall we say, Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak and whoever’s in Montreal at the time, have been around for a while, actually, as…