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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…

It seems the Australians and New Zealanders have a special knack for good, healthy, melodious rock, or power pop, or whatever you want to call it. As…

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…

Anything that has something to do with the New Zealand masters The Clean will always get my attention. So when the name of Clean’s drummer Hamish…

  If someone asked me who is the most brilliant female singer in the world right now, few names would pop in my mind. The following review…

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…

The name of this Welsh band is Colorama and their sixth album is Some Things Take Time. And this is not a pun since it took Carwyn Ellis and his…

I thought these guys were missing in action, Haven’t heard from them in a while. Almost forgot what they sounded like. But then, no matter how much…

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

Another day, another Seattle band that has been around since the first part of the Eighties. And again, more of a cult, particularly among the music…

Martin Craft is a composer and a producer who currently resides at Berlin, London and Joshua Tree. He is performing under a stage name M. Craft and,…

February is the month when cats make love (while sounding like crying babies), and I start to think that this is why all the great albums drop around…

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…

Pete Fij and Terry Bickers - never heard? Well, if you are a close follower of all things music, particularly the late Eighties and early Nineties…

Todd Gautreau’s last name might associate you with a guy from France and not Dallas, Texas. But then, wrong presumptions will not take us anywhere,…

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

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…

Over the past twenty years, Detroit hasn’t necessarily been a hub for folk and alt-country. Those genres have scratched the surface, but techno and…

On October 30th, 2015 The Neighbourhood released their sophomore album entitled The Neighbourhood is a group that has historically evoked a strong…

Saying that Prarie Cat’s new album Is Cary Pratt is actually light as a feather can really go two ways - that it is so light that it will slip by…

Modern bands fascinated by all things psychedelic do not only listen to the ‘old masters’ but probably also what each other is doing. And that is a…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

If you are sick of studio albums of Bruce Springsteen, and you are looking for something similar but more powerful, The Smith Street Band have been…

“Death is real, someone’s there, and then they’re not”, echoes the beginning of Mount Eerie’s latest and long awaited album since his wife’s passing…

After falling head over heels in love with Merival’s Soda Island collaboration with Izzard, I scoured the internet to find more of Merival’s honeyish…

Becca Stevens is one of the leading Americana musicians of today and her fourth album ‘Regina’ is a culmination of her solo career so far. Her last…

Texas power-poppers or harmony rockers (whichever you prefer) Cotton Mather and their main brain Robert Harrison (I guess the same last name with…

Londoner Daniel O’Sullivan seems to pop in and out of the scene in recent years. He made a studio and a live album in 2011 and a few other…

 Sometimes, good things are buried deep down in the entropy of the world and you find them by accident. This is especially the case with the…

In theory, some musicians should have all the predispositions to make it - a good voice, songwriting skills, musicianship, good backup, come up with…

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

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,…

Show me on this beaver where Canada touched you. Jokes aside, Canada has a lot of great bands, especially on indie rock scene. One of them is, for…