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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…

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

Last year I touted on these pages (it is a site, but you still have to flip the pages one way or the other) Michael Nau’s album Mowing (like the…

Sometimes something good arises from the ocean of new bands. Some of them deserve your full attention, some of them partial attention and some should…

When you get caught into a music style (or quite a few of them) when you’re younger, they seem to stay with you forever. Psychedelic pop,…

When you take a first listen to The Candles album “Matter+Spirit” you might be lead into thinking that you are hearing a Southern or a West Coast band…

I’m old enough to remember the times before any Internet (yeah, that old) with what would be now considered scant information about any new and…

  In a long and impressive history of rock n roll, we have heard almost every combination of genre. Big talents have mixed the unmixable,…

Earl Grey is a popular but finicky tea to make. If you don’t let it stand long enough, it has a bland taste: if you let it stand too long, it becomes…

Give man a beard and  a guitar and he can rule your emotional world. After only first few notes, I have realized that this is a magnificent…

When poets get to singing… For some it is a problem, for others, it is a blessing, Dylan, Cohen, Simon, Oberst and yes, based on his first…

If you, like me (and many others), are disappointed that the singles from Justin Timberlake’s forthcoming Man of the Woods album did nothing…

Ariel Pink (Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) decided to dedicate his eleventh studio album to unfortunate pop musician Bobby Jameson, which can be concluded…

  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…

It’s been three years since The Strokes dropped their full-length album. I took this intermezzo between releases to forget that the album…

In times before the Internet, it was so easy to miss a good band. You simply could not have heard of them, particularly if they went the independent…

Working on a soundtrack is a double-edge sword for an artist. He needs to remain loyal to his signature sound, while simultaneously making sure that…

The best export product from Canada, at least when it comes to indie music, is no doubt Broken Social Scene (sorry Arcade Fire, you lost your title…

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…

Some knowledgeable reviewers thought that this combination between R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner could be “strange”. Falkner is a much more known…

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

  ‘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…

A dormant album Edge of the Sun from 2015 had recently got an awaken brother. The Thread That Keeps Us is shorter, focused and more diverse collection…

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…

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…