Sophie Allison is obviously a very smart girl. I say, girl, since at the time Collection, her first official album is out, she’s yet to turn 20, and I…

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…

Alela Diane is one of those American folk authors who was slowly and non-intrusively building her spot in the music world. She self-released her debut…

If we take a look at the history of music, we can chronologically determine how the geographical focus of pop-rock industry was shifting. In the 50s,…

Four guys from Liverpool sound more confident, mature and powerful on their second full-length album, just as the frontman Keiran Shudall wanted and…

To make a four year hiatus proved to be a smart move for London trio. There was enough time for contemplation about the next step and the change in…

  Everything you bury becomes a seed. Some artists have buried so many emotions inside of themselves that eventually became a fertile ground…

When Bon Iver first appeared, he scored a nickname ‘dark version of Ray Lamontagne’.  Meanwhile, Ray Lamontagne, the…

From the very first seconds of Sphynx, the opening song from the second album of this French band two things are clear. On one hand, this is an…

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…

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…

The Ruby Suns can either be a shifting conglomerate or just Ryan McPhun, a guy around whom the whole band and its musical idea revolve around. That…

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…

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 certain things that always come up to mind when you mention New Zealand and music - the first is Kiwi Rock, as a specific genre, the second…

Into her fifth album since 2009, Samantha Crain still hasn’t achieved the recognition she deserves. All the positive reviews by the critics …

Surprise! This is another Americana folk review, as it seems that music within this genre makes love and gives birth to new babies every day. Julie…

Jess Williams was a supporting act for Marissa Nadler on her last year’s European tour. There were only few people inside of United States who have…

When I first saw the cover of the new The Wave Pictures album (and there is quite a few of them), something kept nagging at me it seemed so familiar…

It has been a while since I heard so many musical things going on in around 20 minutes. So around from Minneapolis comes Pat Keen with Albatross, his…

The guy who recorded an album alone in the woods. This line might end up on Justin Vernon's tombstone. There's something irresistible about…

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:…

Back in the day, Sia Kate Isobelle Furler was the name that didn't mean a lot to vast majority of people on our crazy little planet. Yet, she was…

Soley revealed her light and sunny side on her third studio album. The title Endless Summer suggests it, and it proves that fairy vocal of the singer…

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

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…