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White Light
The Corrs - As Fresh As Ever!
The super sibling quartet from Ireland are back after a decade long hiatus, just about to remind us how much we had been missing them all these years.…
Pennied Days
Weekend EP Batle: No Joy vs Night Moves
Consider following review as a double review, rather than a battle between two EPs. There are not easy to compare, anyway. No Joy Series…
At the End of Summer
Majutsu No Niwa - At The End Of Summer
Majutsu No Niwa are a renowned Japanese psychedelic noise rock/garage rock band, who have released a number of pretty good albums within their…
Bash the Bishop
Boycott The Baptist - Bash The Bishop (A Smashing Good time)
I was contacted around December 2016 by the vocalist and guitarist of this power duo. Now, I check out a page called Underground Music Coalition and…
Under The Red Cloud
Under the Red Cloud by Amorphis: Another home run
First, I need to say that this album was by far the toughest to review in my short career as a music reviewer. I listened to it for the whole month,…
Canción Animal (Remastered)
Soda Stereo: A Sign of Better Times
Ask any 15-30 yr-old Latin american folk what Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Colombia have in common and…
Blak And Blu
#tbt Clark - Body Riddle
Third album of a talented electronic musician Chris Clark who performs under simple name Clark was warm supersonic hug of cordial welcoming into the…
FLAME
Light it up, Rachel Foxx!
I was sent a link to preview Rachel Foxx's third EP, before it’s release. This was a while ago, but I only got to it ater this EP got its…
Outcasts (DEMOS)
Savant Shares Outcasts
Aleksander Vinter is excited to release Savant - Outcasts today, a 4-CD anthology of new and unreleased material, VIP mixes, demos and more to…
There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)
After four years - Four Tet, again
Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet is obviously a busy man. He has been involved, and probably is at this very moment - in a myriad of projects. Whether it…
Flotus
Wagner as a Mood Piece
Wagner as in Kurt, the Lambchop main-man, not Richard the Opera man. It is still a good mood piece, as in Flotus, the new Lambchop album. It has been…
Coloring Book
Chance the Rapper would rather make Chicago a better place than listen to what the president thinks.
The culture of rap is about gain, many MC’s who start out writing about their lives, struggles, and relationships, are usually talking about their…
Amplifier
Amplifier turn it up to eleven
Four-piece progressive rock band from Manchester, Amplifier produce expansive, reverb-washed alt-rock designed for better living. Think Soundgarden&…
Too Dark Park
Skinny Puppy's Sonic Masochistic Masterpiece
Skinny Puppy's eighth studio album is something of a masterpiece. So dense are the sonic tapestries that it is nearly impenetrable. Produced by…
Kindly Now
Keaton Henson Laid Bare
After some consideration, I realised that Keaton Henson’s Kindly Now is most definitely one of my favourite albums of the year. It…
2014 Forest Hills Drive
Review: J Cole's '2014 Forest Hills Drive'
J Cole has crafted a slew of good albums, but he has yet to craft a great one. While each of his three major label releases contain scattered moments…
The Light In You
Meditation for hispters and experiments for indie rockers
Favorite Americana players, known for their dreamy sounds, are finally back. Seven years after releasing the Snowlake Midnight and Strange Attractor,…
50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (Live)
Maybe Old, But Definitly Not Forgotten
“Old Crow Medicine Show” have been around for awhile and their mastery of the country, folk, bluegrass in all forms and guises has earned them enough…
Purple
Shock me, I needed a surprise
After two excellent albums, Baroness released Yellow and Green, an album that saw them completely (well, not completely, but close to that) changing…
Subjective Concepts
Strange Wilds: Subjective Concepts
Hailing from Olympia, Washington and formed in 2012, Strange Wilds comprise of Steven (Vocals/Guitar), Sean (Bass) and Allen (drums). For three guys,…
Soul Flowers of Titan
Barrence Whitfield and The Savages and The Eclectic Flowers of Soul
When young Barry White started working in a record shop, during his journal studies at the University of Boston, he didn't imagine that was the…
Dialectic of Ignorance
Pontiak's Dialectic of Ignorance is Demanding and That is Good
Since 2004, brothers Carney, Jennings (bass, organ, vocals), Van (main vocal, guitar) and Lain (drums, vocal), are traveling across some very…
Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Japanese Breakfast is Food For Your Shoegaze Soul
What would you like to listen for breakfast? If you have nothing on your mind, I suggest you digest Japanese Breakfast. Behind the name Japanese…
Cá Entre Nós
Bossa For The Gloomy Weather
Brazilian singer Wanda Sa is not hiding her mature years on the cover of her new album Ca Entre Nos. She feels she has nothing to hide or be ashamed…
The Wilderness
Emotional Explosions
Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be an emotional ride to the other side. The Wilderness is the fifth album by one of my favorite post-…
Trouble
The Dead C - Trouble
The New Zealand lo-fi avant-garde noise-rock/garage rock greats The Dead C came out with a new album this year via Ba Da Bing Records. As was perhaps…
American Life (U.S. Enhanced-Non-PA Version)
#tbt: Madonna - American Life
Following does not need a big introduction, because the artists itself is so big, it does not demand an introduction whatsoever. I know, this was some…
Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
Leave It To Jess
Jess Glynne may be a name (you've heard) that has been uttered through radio or television. As a former X Factor contestant, who appeared on the…
No Good
Noir Pop
The world of pop music is populated with so many artists who are trying to copy each other. It is not a plagiarism, it is just a promiscuous idea.…
Lovers
Merival's Folksy Dreamworld
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…
America 2.0
Paul Messinger - America under review
What should be more fit to be given an Americana treatment (with quite a twist, though) than America itself? Paul Messinger who hails from North…
The Storm Within
The Anatomy Of Melancholy
Screw Paradise Lost, true kings of melancholy-driven metal are Evergrey, fronted by Tom S. Englund, a genius songwriter, singer, and guitarist. Even…
Starflower
Crushing on Jennifer Paige’s new sound
In the 90s, she got us all singing the light hearted guitar pop song “Crush”, and many of us probably forgot her since. Back then, I actually bought…
Elephunk
Nostalgia for Elephunk
If we’re honest with ourselves, we never really got over the masterpiece that is The Black Eyed Peas’ Elephunk. The 2013 release…
Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
R'n'r Prophet Called Chuck
Chuck Prophet gained recognition as a member of the group Green on Red during the 80s of the last century. In 1990, he started off his solo career,…
The Glowing Man
Swans - The Glowing Man
Swans came out wih a new album titled ''The Glowing Man'' earlier this year. Micheal Gira's Swans don't need much of an…
Okovi
Fifth Coming Of Zola Jesus
On the cover of her fifth album, Zola Jesus' face is covered with mask made of mud and ink. Underneath, Zola's eyes peek through and they look…
Born To Play Guitar
Born To Play Guitar
After B.B. King has passed this year, Buddy Guy is left alone as inviolable king of blues (all due respects to legendary protagonist of golden age of…
La Gárgola
Chevelle's La Gárgola Album Review
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Tool and Queens of the Stone Age conceived and had a baby? Probably not...…
Chasing an Illusion
Chasing Illusion
Sorrowful lyrics against spirited playing create a magical crux on the experimental singer-songwriter’s latest, a powerfully maternal and spiritually…
When On Fire
When Christine Owman Is On Fire
Ever since she moved to Glitterhouse Records, the career of Christine Owman got on its velocity and diversity. Until 2013, she was releasing records…
Currency Of Man
Melody Gardot Is A Current Woman
Jazz lovers, fasten your seatbelts! One of the most beautiful female jazz vocals of modern era belongs to Melody Gardot. Her voice is not the only…
Greatest Hits
Tracing Tracy Chapman's Musical Journey
Nearly three decades ago, this singer-songwriter stepped into the wider world stage after years of performing in smaller, more intimate platforms. Her…
Incarnate
Killswitch Engage's Beyond The Flames Is Beyond Words
Everyone who doesn’t prefer to swear in millions of GB of music on their hard disk is nostalgic about the times when bands released home videos…
7/27 (Deluxe)
7/27
Prior to 2016, the last song by a girl group to climb into the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 was The Pussycat Dolls‘ “When I Grow Up” in…
We All Want The Same Things
How to Identify With Craig Finn
Although he is not the biggest singer songwriter of his generation, Craig Finn is certainly the best rock storyteller whose main preoccupation are…
Dark Sky Island
Sparkling Despite the Fluidity of Time
Other than our family, our friends can help shape the music we listen to as well as enjoy. It was through a friend that I first heard of Enya and her…
The Ninth Hour
Sonata Arctica Became A Band With Only One Good Song
No matter how grumpy I was when I heard the information that they are preparing the new studio material, Sonata Arctica will always be one of those…
Live In Japan
George Harrison’s Live In Japan Concerts 1991
It is a once in a life-time thing it seems—to have George Harrison on Tour in any form or fashion. At the risk of being marked weird, he only came out…
Boxer
Albums that turn 10 in 2017: Boxer, The National
Boxer is a point of no return for The National. With three albums under their belt, including the critical darling Alligator, the band were starting…
Pasos Sincopados
Little Revenge presents its 'Pasos Sincopados'. Part I.
Small Revancha, the musical project directed and conceptualized by the duo of Claudia Lizardo (daughter of the legendary PTT Lizardo of the same…
Psicodelia
Random Capt. Beefheart Psicodelia
Captain Beefheart (con o sin su Magic Band) es uno de los músicos de rock más debatidos, mucho más que sus discos fueron comprados.…
WOPTOBER
Mane Music
Prison can change anyone. Enough time isolated from the world, treated as subhuman and discarded like garbage is soul-breaking and creatively stifling…
We Are Millionaires
Fij & Bickers - Forlorn but not beaten
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…
Root/Void
Jams Keep on Rolling
MV + EE or for the uninitiated, Matt Valentine and Erika Elders keep on making their tasty jam rolls. Like this song from their new album Root/Void, &…
The Deep Set
Deep Set, Deep Melodies
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…
Displaced Sleepers
Nothing Displaced Around Here
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,…
If I Die Before I Wake
Suzuki Junzo - If I Die Before I Wake
Suzuki Junzo is a renowned Japanese psychedelic rock guitarist and ''If I Die Before I Wake'' is his latest album, released only as…
Times Infinity Volume Two
The Dears - To infinity and back
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…
Throbs
The Fog Ensembles' Throbs: Subtle Atmospherics
Thessaloniki trails behind Athens’ size and global stature as Greece’s second largest city, but comes in first as the source of musical inspiration…
In Colour
Album that makes everything else seem like a noise
Not everything is black and white. When life seems grayish, there is always music to color it. I can’t say I wasn’t skeptical when…
The Wild Swan
The Wild Swan of Ireland
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. This could be said about Foy Vance, an Irish author who was supporting act for many superstars (Elton…
The Album Paranoia
Ulrika Spacek? Who is Ulrika Spacek?
In this age of information glut, whether it is the number of music titles available or the method by which you can reach them, it is so easy for quite…
8
Less to go until the Sunset Roll Festival.
Despite the difficult situation that exists in Venezuela, it is a great pride for all that music festivals are still made and that may present major…
Here Lies Man
Black Sabbath in Africa?
Wonder what would have happened if someone sent Black Sabbath to study polyrhythms in Africa back in the seventies? Can you imagine the fusion…
Weathered Meat
Nearly Dead - Weathered Meat
Nearly Dead is a Canadian noise-rock band from British Columbia, and they have so far released a handful of fine noise rock albums. The latest of…
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Summer Deconstructed
Everyone knows the four seasons; spring, summer, autumn and winter. And I am certain that everyone knows at least one movement from Vivaldi’…
Volume 1
Mildlake's Supergroup
Although the term supergroup has become lame, I can't help myself but to attach it to BNQT. To be honest, that was the intention of its members,…
Life, Love And Faith
Mister Marmelade
Serious friends of rock n roll know what it means the term brother from the south. Southern music is an intersection of country, jazz, soul, gospel,…
Dopamine
BØRNS Dopamine Album Review
Take a dreamy trip through electronic daze known as BØRNS. Garrett Borns better known by his stage name BØRNS, released his…
Anarchytecture
Anarchytecture
I love when musicians scream political messages into our passive-aggressive minds. During the 90s, Skunk Anansie have surprised the scene with an…
Oh Wonder
Oh Wonder - Oh Wonder!
OH WONDER – OH WONDER Londoners Josephine van der Gucht and Anthony West describe themselves as an alt-pop writing duo. Perhaps the most…
I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt
#tbt: Earl Sweatshirt - I don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
Rap album about self-awareness is jt a common product. Candor has also been absent from hip hop culture for a long time. Lyrics about prison you have…
Chapter and Verse
The Boss Drops Unusual Collection
After 43 years of unpredictable, yet successful music career, the time has come for Bruce Springsteen to pack his hard work into few compilations.…
Cult of Dom Keller
Cult Of Dom Keller - Cult of Dom Keller
Cult of Dom Keller are a renowned psychedelic rock band from the United Kingdom. They are a psychedelic rock band that tends to mix various genres.…
Trap Or Die 3
Album Roll Out : Jeezy Trap Or Die 3
Trap Lord Young Jeezy, nowdays just Jeezy decided to Trap on us for the third time, droppin his latest…
Everything Now
Everything Now is too much to ask from Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire have come to a point that every iconic band reaches eventually: they are a victim of their own success. They are one of the rare acts that…
Expect the Best
Widowspeak as The Closure For The Autumn
We are soon going to enter the winter period, and before that happens, I have a perfect album for you to conclude the autumn behind us. Widowspeak was…
Christmas Kiss (Deluxe Edition)
Austin Marolla - Christmas Kiss
Christmas Kiss begins with a warm acoustic guitar and piano, in a groove that reminds me of something from a later Tom Petty record. This song is a…
Worlds (Remixed)
Porter Robinson Takes Us Into Another Dimension With His Album 'Worlds Remixed'
As electronic music’s popularity has increased over the last few years I’ve felt an overwhelming disconnect to it. A lot of the…
Rot
Bed Wettin Bad Boys Can Wet My Bed
Garage punk quartet from Sydney Bed Wettin Bad Boys started off as a side project of Nic Warmock (founder of R.I.P. Society Label) and Joe Sukit,…
The Colour In Anything
Here are a few of my favourite things about James Blake's The Colour in Anything
If you’ve read the article that precedes this one, you will know something about my newfound obsession with James Blake. Although this…
Some Twist
Michael Nau - ...And The Summer's Back
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…
Still Brazy (Deluxe)
Music Like A Bullet
As soon as he ended his successful collaboration with DJ Mustard that resulted in epic debut My Krazy Life, YG dropped an album that keeps all the…
Dead Magic
Reincarnation of Diamanda Glass, miss Anna Von Hausswolff
Take what is the destiny of a human being, a thin pathetic line that marks and surrounds the neverending and the unknown silence. Right in that…
Hammer of the Witches
Metal is a witchhunt
Everything is funny when you think about death, said a great German writer Tomas Bernhard. What’s not funny is when those who sing about…
Tutu
Miles from India
Jazz and Indian music have been “buddies” for a long time now. Even before the likes of Tom Scott, John Coltrane, and John McLaughlin, Indian…
Notilus
You Will Thank Me For Notilus
There is no greater happiness than when you find a band whose album is constantly on repeat, while you are simultaniously aware of its brilliance and…
Acoustic
Acoustic Simple Minds
lSimple Minds have long been imprisoned in the maze of their own discography. After they resented the 80s during the decade they became famous (90s),…
Reflection
Brian Eno Delivers an Over-Conceptual One-Track Album
We entered the new year with the 26th album in the career of Brian Eno, one of the most respected artists of the contemporary music. His work…
Quiet and Peace
Buffalo Tom's Present To All Of Us Is Familiarity
If you take a look at Buffalo Tom's career, you will get the impression that this is a band who did not get the attention they deserve. The band…
Bitches Brew Live
Bitches Brew
If we’re talking about groundbreaking music, this album by Miles Davis is one of the few that can hold this attribute with great pride.…
Homeward
Ben Labat & The Happy Devil - Life goes on, so does the music
Having trouble in life, wandering around and changing professions like shirts seems to be a common thing in Americana. Usually, it is quite often the…
Common Sense
Common Sense
The debut from the young East London rapper is a unique coming-of-age story that shapes the best of grime, Afrobeat, dancehall, and early ’…
Heal the World
Marcus Norberg - Far From a Disappointment
It has been decades since Sweden has earned the trust of music fans worldwide to come up with something special (and yes, that does include ABBA,…
Fake Sugar
Fake Sugar
The debut solo album from Beth Ditto finds the former Gossip singer reconnecting with her southern roots. Despite some thin lyrics and odd production…
Saint Molly
Studying At The Academy Can Make You A Saint
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…
American Band
The Most Candid American Band
There are not much bands with a discography that is competitive enough to beat the description of Drive By Truckers: American Band. Over…
Abysmal Thoughts
The Drums Finally Matured
The Drums are back with abysmal thoughts. The follow-up to Encyclopedie (2014) is their fourth album and the first album without guitarist Jacob…
Lions
Crowes and Lions
The Black Crowes were among the first artists in the nineties to embrace the retro sound and looks without hesitation. They simply looked like, let’s…
Suddenly, Like Flames
LSD March - Suddenly, Like Flames
LSD March is a renowned Japanese underground psychedelic noise rock band. They have released a great number of albums through the years, and while…
Two Different Worlds
Midwest's Premium Country Artist - Ryan Koenig
Music journey of Ryan Koenig begun in the basements of Midwest, in the role of a guitarist and singer of garage-punk band The Vultures. Twelve years…
Mariner
Reaching for the stars
Three years passed since Cult Of Luna released their last record, the unique, gritty, mechanical beast called Vertikal. In the meantime, they went on…
Getz/Gilberto (Classics International Version)
An Iconic Record
Getz/Gilberto is an iconic record in many aspects. First, it’s one of the first and best crossover records of all times, blending jazz and bossa nova…
Not Even Happiness
Another Flower in Americana Scene Blossom
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…
Eclipse
Astounding Comeback
Eclipse, the first Amorphis album featuring Tomi Joutsen behind the mic, and a crucial one for their history got released back in 2006. After left…
Beautiful Lies
Birdy Is All Grown Up
Still in her sensitive years, British pop sensation Birdy released her third album this spring, turning out to be her most mature effort yet. It is…
12 Songs to Haunt You
It Ain't Easy
So I just borrowed a title from an old Three Dog Night (remember them?) song. Actually, that is easy. What is really hard is keeping up a certain…
Have You In My Wilderness
Baroque trip-pop
Just imagine baroque pop influenced by Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac successfully combined with jazz and trip hop. Now add emotional confidence…
Last Place
After A Decade Long Sabatical, Grandaddy Make An Eclectic Return
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…
The Getaway
get away
I finished listening to the album when my neurons twisted lyrics for taking what they thought. I could not leave unscathed the auditory delight, he…
Worried Kid
Scandinavian Folk At Its Best
Bellhound Choir is a solo project of Danish author Christian Hade Madsen. His first EP Stray Screech Beastdropped in 2015 and it was a teaser for his…
Don't Hesitate
Don't Hesitate Will Blow Your Mind! by Raul Midon
The incredibly talented and skilled New Mexican musician Raul Midon is the real deal, my friends! I discovered this amazing musician when I just like…
Wonderful Wonderful
The Album That Took The Killers To The Top Of Charts
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…
Outside The Box
Hacktivist -Outside The Box
There is something incisive about artists who use their music as a tool for political activism. I believe the final product returns to the…
Rosewood Almanac
Will Stratton IIs An Inspiration For Anyone Struggling With Cancer
Rosewood Almanac is the sixth studio album by Will Stratton, musician currently residing in New York. Will studied philosophy for a short while before…
A Latino Christmas
Celebrating a Latino Christmas
Fifteen songs will make you smile and feel satisfied for choosing to listen to Latino Christmas. That's true for me, of course. But honestly,…
In My Room
The Stunning Debut Album In My Room By Jacob Collier
With only 22 years, Jacob Collier already became a Grammy award winner (and guess what, not only one but he won two Grammys for his Debut Album!). For…
Weird & Wonderful
Liquid Stranger's New EP is Absolutely Weird, but Decidedly Wonderful
The genre-bending maestro known as Liquid Stranger teased his newest EP with the original release of Hotbox late last year, and now he…
A Crow Looked at Me
Attention! This Is How Grief Feels Like!
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…
Sea of Noise
The Bones are doing fine, thank you
Watching the ever popular BBC show Later... with Jool Holland, of course, late at nigh, can make you doze off. Paricularly if artist playing at that…
Villains
What Do QOTSA Stand For Now?
After proving himself in Kyuss, John Homme was walking through several projects and bands, profiling himself into a rock icon that does seem like an…
Promeneur
A Stroll Through Styles - In French
If you are a fan of French popular music, Mathieu Boogaerts is probably a known quantity to you. If you think of French pop only in the terms of…
Acoustic Christmas
Going for an Acoustic Christmas
As the days lead us further on towards the merry month of December, I am also happily moving on in choosing Christmas albums that would have their…
Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
Rehabilitating Metallica
You can try avoiding Metallica, but when the biggest band in the world releases album, it is not possible for you not to hear about it.…
Blackstar
Goodbye, gender bending king!
If anyone was a true chameleon in music animal world, it was certainly David Bowie. So many personas and masks that he had change since the beginning…
Inviting Light
Nothing Flat With The Flatliners
The Flatliners are a Canadian punk-rock dudes who are stepping back from hardcore and ska roots with their fifth album Inviting Light, and making a…
Onion
Shannon and The Clams Step Out Of Underground
In October 2016, when Shannon Shaw and Cody Blanchard started working on the new material, the main idea was that the songs would be personal and…
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Dreamy Freak Folk Pop
Some people can’t sleep because they are thinking about their dreams. Some people dream when they are awake. Some bands are like dreams.…
Every Country's Sun
Every Country's Sun
With David Fridmann producing, the latest Mogwai album contains the same bratty conviction that defined their greatest records, like there’s something…
Night Thoughts
Suede Knows Saudade
The wait is over and it wasn’t even a long wait. After Bloodspots in 2013, which represented a sound shift, the seventh album by Suede is…
MultiViral
Calle 13: El Residente Presidente?
Until 2009, Calle 13, a Puerto Rican band formed by stepbrothers René Pérez (lead singer, songwriter) and Eduardo José…
Hello
Hello to 4 million albums sold in a week
''Hello. Can you hear me...'' - Yes Adele the world can hear you. To be exact near to 30 million people heard you in less than 24…
Modern Pressure
Daniel Romano - Dylan Revisited
It would be hard to say that Daniel Roman has returned. The guy simply has not left. Saying that this guy is a musical shape-shifter would e an…
Purpose (Deluxe)
Purpose Ain't Swaying Me
Justin Bieber, Justin Drew Bieber. The ‘Joffrey Baratheon’ of pop music delivered another album – Purpose. I guess this album could be seen…
Boxes
Dull Dull Dolls
At one point, it looked like Goo Goo Dolls could become one of the biggest mild-stream American bands. What happened? Sequence of mediocre…
Ocean's Kingdom
McCartney’s “Ocean’s A Kingdom Proves a Tear Jerker”
Juro que el Paul McCartney es el mejor! Su sentido de la melodía nunca muere. Su sensible a la armonía y el ritmo nunca desaparece. O de…
Cardinal (Expanded Edition)
My Albums of the Year: Pinegrove: Cardinal
There's something about Pinegrove's sophmore album, technically their label debut, Cardinal that is pleaseingly alt-country. You remeber alt-…
DROGAS Light
DROGAS Light
Lupe Fiasco’s new album introduces itself with a shocking display of force: “Dopamine Lit (Intro)” is two minutes and 49 seconds of foghorn bass,…
Burn the Witch
Radiohead's New Album. How Do You Really Feel About It?
First of all, I want to say that I am the biggest fan of Radiohead. I even have a mouse-bear tattoo that served as a logo for their Kid A era. With…
Always Ascending
Yours Cowardly, Franz Ferdinand
What was happening during Franz Ferdinand's five year hiatus that preceded the release of their brand new LP Always Ascending? The most important…
Get Busy
Matisse refreshes his sound!
The Mexican romantic trio, Matisse, is debuting with the release of the reissue of his album '' Go up, Summer Edition '&#…
Caiga la Noche
The Innkeepers are unstoppable
Los Mesoneros, Venezuelan band still residing in Mexico, have been unstoppable since the release of their second studio album titled Caiga La Noche.…
Pusher Man
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Pusher Man/Remember Tomorrow
The renowned stoner doom/psychedelic rock band Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats recently came out with a new two track 7'' Single. Uncle…
All Night Long
Rochelle's catchy All Night Long
When Rochelle first entered the Dutch music scene, she seemed set to be our very own Beyoncé. She first got noticed after winning the…
Pijan slavej
The Drunk Nightingale and the magical world of Foltin
“Foltin” are one of the most exciting bands coming from Macedonia. Building their sound through all these years (from 1995 until…
Bamboo Diner in the Rain
The Picture is Clear - The Waves Are Covered In Light
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…
Can’t Go Home (feat. Adam Lambert)
Adam Lambert is taking this track home
When I heard about this latest Adam Lambert collaboration, I knew I just had to check it out. Adam has always been exploring electronic dance music in…
Life Is Good
Life Is Good...is good
In my alcohol-induced and terse analysis in consultation with Google, I have realized that this was the first year in which all three of the most…
Solo
The New of Los Mesoneros already has a name and date
Caracas band, currently impeached in Mexico, has been doing an exceptional job in creating new musical material. For several months, Innkeepers have…
Bored To Death
Back In The Saddle Again
Now each friend from the 90's that you may or may not talk to but happen to be friends with on Facebook heard about Blink 182's newest single.…
Hunger Game
Fifi Rong Pursues Masochistic Self-Liberation with Hunger Game
As promised, the music video for Hunger Game - the second single from Fifi Rong's new EP The Crown - signals a move towards…
All The Things You Are
Jazz Standards Vol.8 - All The Things You Are
‘All the Things You Are’ is a song from the Broadway musical “Very Warm for May” which opened November 17,…
Blank Tapes
Organic Lament
“Blank Tapes” is a track from Everything Feels Better Now (2016), From Indian Lakes’ fourth full-…
Needed Me
Ri-Verse Psychology
In today’s society, the issue about relationships and commitment has seemed to change drastically. When I was growing up, a “…
I'm Yours (feat. Vic Mensa)
Justine Skye`s Official Video for I`m Yours
This 20-year-old diamond of a female vocalist has become one of my heavy addictions over the last few months, and I am very unpleasently picky, and a…
Don't Go
In Choir of Mourning
Even though Hannah Georgas impliments an indie cred appeal, one can not help but since an underlying jazz element. Then again with the melancholy…
Under the Weather
The Sun Harmonic shares new album & focus track Under The Weather
Coast to Coast , el quinto álbum de estudio de The Sun Harmonic , captura la importancia de los viajes y la experiencia que los acompaña.…
Everybody Knows
Kimbra's Everybody Knows Addresses Our Post-Weinstein Climate
When Kiwi singer-songwriter Kimbra announced the release of her upcoming third album Primal Heart (19 January 2018) to her fans…
Lose You
What's To Lose?
An after fight song. I sing “I cannot fuck you enough”. It's also about someone who wants to push you away and…
El Mismo Sol
Under the Same Sun by Alvaro Soler
As its catchy chorus says, we are all under the same sun, only it gives them some brighter than others. This young Spanish artist of 24 years…
Gaia
The Sound and the Pachamama
Have you ever came to a place and hear the sounds or music around you changed your mood? Sometimes when we go out of our thoughts everyday, stress…
Caught In Time, So Far Away
Nocturnal Nostalgia
Canadian dream-pop duo You'll Never Get to Heaven's (Chuck Blazevic and Alice Hansen) ghostly EP Adorn (2014) bears some…
Fine Ass Mess
The dark side of Mr Probz
In between all the pop stars who are trying to get our attention with doing or wearing crazy things, there’s Mr Probz. The Dutch singer,…
Blu (feat. Damon Albarn)
Hedonic Confusion
Guernsey-born DJ, electronic music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mura Masa (21-year old Alex Crossan) is on the cusp of…
Behind Your Back
Funky Furtado
It wasn’t all that long ago when I first blogged about Nelly Furtado. She has just collaborated on someone’s mixtape and I…
Unstoppable
Gorgeous Lianne La Havas in Unstoppable
First time I heard Lianne La Havas was when a friend suggested it who knows my taste of movies and music so well. It's easy for me just to relax…
New York
New York = Love's Graveyard
Milk and Bone is a Montreal electro-pop duo (i.e. Laurence Lafond-Beaulne and Camille Poliquin) who earned critical acclaim with their debut album…
Saint Ivy
Subtle Politicization
Brooklyn drag superstar Merrie Cherry was instantly sold on the idea of appearing in the music video for Brooklyn indie rock band Beach…
Not an Addict 2017 (feat. Skin)
Laidback 25th anniversary track
The Belgian rock band K’s Choice has always been a bit of a memorable one-hit wonder to me. The lead singer sounded like Suzanne Vega and that one hit…
Te Recuerdo Dulcemente
Juanga and Calamaro locked themselves in the study
I think it sounds crazy but when you analyze it makes sense. The Mexican Juan Gabriel, a legend of music, is joined with Argentine Andres Calamaro,…
I Just Wanna Live
songs that come back to you
There are songs we heard during a stage in our life, in adolescence, for example, the sounds we hear are often associated with our personality and…
Dimensiones
Revelation Artist: Laura Buitrago
Searching and searching I found this girl who apparently started in the popular video network better known as Youtube, doing cover songs of the…
Los Ageless
The Relentless Sadness of St Vincent’s “Los Ageless”
As the title of her second single suggests, art rocker St. Vincent (Annie Clark) is poised for a return to biting satire after the poignant, heartfelt…
Revolvist
A Shoreline Dream - Revoltist
US based progressive shoegazers A Shoreline Dream have released their latest single/video ‘Revoltist’.…
Violet
Now With Feeling
Who knew pastel could conjure up so many feelings. In Violet by the band (creatively named) Hippo Campus has a Vampire Weekend Indie appeal but this…
Ann Wants to Dance
Je Ne Sais Quoi
In 2015, Parisian indie duo Papooz (Armand Penicaut and Ulysse Cottin, who are childhood friends) appeared on the scene with their…
Reverie
Desire's Horrors
When it comes to music from contemporary openly queer artists, there are roughly two camps. There are the 'mainstreamers', who…
Love On The Weekend
John Mayer's New Single
On Thursday, November 17th, John Mayer released his highly anticipated single “Love On The Weekend” through a live-stream event held on Facebook. John…
Love On The Brain
A Side No One Has Ever Seen
The Billboard Music Awards of 2016 shed a lot of insight, one being (in my opinion) the best performance from Rihanna as she performed the track '…
Cigarettes out the Window
Sardonic Tenderness
San Diego indie pop duo TV Girl (Trung Ngo and Brad Petering) first shot to modest fame in 2010, when a song from their self-titled EP, If…
Stir It Up
Stir it Up - Bob Marley & The Wailers Cover by ThreePeace from Marleyfest
Stir It Up - Bob Marley & The Wailers Cover by ThreePeace from Marleyfest feat. Jeff Warner - Live at Churchill's October 14, 2017…
Trouble
Cage The Elephant Trouble
Popular indie rockers Cage the Elephant released a new single entitled “Trouble”. The guys haven’t released much since…
#WHERESTHELOVE
Where is the love?
How to forget the song that launched to stardom this band so unique, a video that was identified with a question mark and a very special question,…
Revival
Song in honor of the victims of Orlando.
This news gave around the world and already nearly a month slaughter that claimed the lives of nearly 50 people. It is impossible to forget and many…
Quiet Room
Quiet Rooms For Mother
While 'Quiet Room' is a slight distance away from Babes In Toyland's traditional tracks, 'Quiet Room' acts as the sole…
Refuge Of The Roads
Joni&Jaco
There’s something magical when two geniuses meet and tune in their talents and unique abilities. When that happens, magic happens. Joni…
Closer
Guilty Pleasures & Nostalgia with the Chainsmokers
While my previous music tastes consisted exclusively of indie, folk and alternative rock, I’ve always had a secret soft spot for a well-…
I Give You Power
Arcade Fire's Brand New Gift to Our Ears
My love for Arcade Fire has spanned most of my adult and teenage life. You can imagine, in light of this, the surprise and delight my eardrums…
One More Time
One more time Craig's not average
If anyone had an unexpected comeback, recently, it is Craig David. It’s not all that long ago when I wondered what happened to him and wrote…
Seasons (Waiting On You)
Waiting for Change
The agonies of unrequited love is a musical theme that can easily devolve into mere cliche and hopeless sentimentalism - but Baltimore synthpop band…
Fool's Gold
What's Eating the Wallflower
Music listeners who stumble upon Jack River’s “Fool’s Gold” music video will probably find themselves drawing some comparisons to alt-pop chanteuse…
Something Just Like This
About something just like this
I think I probably said this in my last blog about Coldplay, about two years ago, but what on earth is going on with this band? What happened to them?…
Lovesick
Midnight Fusic's Lovesick Pays Melodic Tribute to the Trials of Adolescent Romance
Up-and-coming Malaysian alternative indie band Midnight Fusic have cited a wide variety of international and local predecessors as their musical…
The Pretender
The Pretender: One Of The Most Brutally Honest Songs
“The Pretender” is an extremely amazing, sad, and truthful song written by Jackson Browne in 1976 for his album with the same exact name. This song is…
Me and Michael
Will Me and Michael Prove to be the Big Song on MGMT's Little Dark Age?
En su perfil de Q Magazine en diciembre pasado, cuando MGMT discutió su próximo cuarto álbum, Little Dark Age , Me and Michael fue…
So Good
A Killer Hook
Southampton trio Band of Skulls have been mainly criticized for their lack of originality; The Guardian's Dave Simpson…
Please
Rhye's Androgynous Vulnerability
Gender-bending indie R&B act Rhye (Canadian vocalist Michael Milosh and Danish instrumentalist Robin Hannibal) recently released “…
Trojans
Get You Out Of My Head
Can’t get you out of my head! Isn’t that what we all say when have that person stuck in our head, playing on an endless, looping reel? Well, Atlas…
Statuette
Ecofeminist Bossa Nova
“Statuette” is the third glimpse of Metric/Broken Social Scene singer Emily Haines’ sophomore album Choir of the Mind under the Emily Haines &…
XXXO
M.I.A. Is Not Your Pin-up Girl
I recently came across some interesting opinion pieces by Noisey writer Kat George, each detailing her appreciation for pop stars…
Up in the Hill
Quirky Alt-Pop
The title of the record came by accident. I was talking to my manager on the phone and due to the bad reception she misheard me when I said I was…
Love So Soft
Loving soft, coming back hard
“Love So Soft” has brought Kelly Clarkson back to the mainstream. The singer recently signed with Atlantic and announced that a new album would follow…
Closer
Closer
For the first 10 seconds, the song sounds like it’s building to something monumental: thundering piano chords, sweeping synth washes, and a swelling…
Adicta
Maite Perroni shows herself “Adicta” in her New Video
Maite Perroni is a Mexican singer and actress who on Friday launched the world's new music single Addicted, this issue is still part of his…
Respect
COVERLAND Vol.20: Respect
“Respect” had a lot of covers since Aretha Franklin released the song as a single in 1967. Franklin's cover became a sort of a…
What's Up
Whats Up? a song from The Institute of Highspeedart's record Club V
Whats Up? a song from The Institute of Highspeedart's record Club V
One Call Away
Charlie Puth
Charlie Puth is a 25 year old American singer songwriter whose 2015 song SEE YOU AGAIN , was co-written and produced with Wiz Khalifa, hitting #1 on…
La Jetee
The Vryll Society - La Jetee
Psychedelic rockers The Vryll Society released La Jetee back in April and firmly established themselves as one of Liverpool&…
Capitán Tapón
Captain Plug the new Alejandro Sanz
Spanish singer-songwriter Alejandro Sanz comes with a new single called Captain cap, the third of his album SYRUP which already has rated Triple…
Before I Do
Sevyn Streeter slows it down on new single
I'm actually surprised that, after over a year of blogging, I haven't yet dedicated a blog to Sevyn Streeter. I was introduced to her music by…
Bonbon - English Version
Not Wasted For Once
Era Istrefi is a Kosovo-Albanian singer and her hit Bonbon is a simple, yet tasteful take on the sins and pleasures of temptation. The review will…
Alive
SIAFIED!
By now the legend of SIA is pretty much apparent to us. She is the powerhouse songwriter behind successful hit numbers of many an artist including the…
Million Dollar Doll
Sultry Urgency
After years of being a collaborator - first as a member of the band Luna, and then as one half of the husband-and-wife duo Dean & Britta -…
Billie Jean
Rebirth of a Song
This is one of the best covers in history. Chris Cornell managed to give this song a completely new life and a deeper meaning. The lyrics that talk of…
Control
Escapist Nostalgia
I've always preferred music that’s soothing and dreamy. Hazel English, SF Weekly Oakland-based Sydney …
Cold Cut
The Hubbards Are Back!
It’s been a little while since we’ve heard anything new from Hull’s favourite four-piece, The Hubbards, but now they&…
Bottom Dollar Baby
Nathan Wiley's Gritty Blues-Rock
Wiley suffers talent well. Concocting 11 sundry offerings from musings of hog cemeteries, pillaging bandits, the saving power of sin and revisionist…
All My Love (feat. Conor Maynard)
All of Cash Cash and Conor
Dance producers trio, Cash Cash, really work across the scope of electronic music. Every time they present another sound and perhaps that is exactly…
Nothing Lasts
Lo-Fi Musings
Nothing Lasts isn't as pessimistic as its title makes it out to be. Noah Kittinger was only 18 when he released his debut LP …
Pleader
alt-J Deliver Epic Poignancy With The 6-Minute Pleader Music Video
You can always expect to be amazed by an alt-J music video, but the English indie rock trio have truly outdone themselves with the recently released…
Wrong Crowd
Youthful Melancholy
If you've heard of British singer-songwriter Tom Odell, it's probably because of his smash hit Another Love - which was successful enough to…
Feel Good Inc.
Feeling (really) Good with Seramic
It’s been a while since something new has made me feel the way I do when I press play on the Black Eyed Peas’ Elephunk. I was not familiar with…
One Of Us
MUSICAL REALITY INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE
Realitys seized the TV. Even MTV (Music TV) bases its entire programming Realitys Shows. MTV in its early days, was conceived as an exclusive…
Here Comes Your Man
songs that look alike
Have you ever heard a song that reminds you of another song? The're looking for, and sound the same, but it's not the same band, but…
Sorry
Justin Bieber: Being Sorry
Trust, respect, and honesty are essential elements of maintaining relationships. However, the relationship becomes unstable when one of the elements…
Heart of Steel (feat. Bright Lights)
Raiden Pops Into The Scene With Truthful Heart of Steel
Raiden is on the fast track to becoming a world known household name. If Heart of Steel is any indication about Raiden's ability to merge synth…
Always Sad
For their new single Jesus and Mary Chain state the gloriuosly obvious.
TGIF everyone the Jesus and Mary Chain have released another single from their upcoming album Damage and Joy. Amputation felt like the band dusting…
Cherry Bomb
Cherry Bomb From The Runaways Still Makes Sense Decades Later
An all female Rock/Punk band from 1970's California took on the world by storm. More so Japan where The Runaways popularity shot through the roof.…
Rosanna
A Drum Beat to Inspire for Decades
The drums are one of the most, if not the most, important aspect in a number most of the music that we all listen to. That being said, the drum parts…
I'm Into You
Chet Faker's Subgenre Promise
'I'm Into You' by Chet Faker was off of the debut Thinking In Textures. Since the explosion that has become Chet Faker's ever lasting…
Fuera De Este Mundo
Cycle 1- Venezuelan music
Growing up, we look what we liked in childhood, either because it reminds us something good or because he came to us, and we want to keep looking…
If I Get High
The Ache Into Infinity
Nothing But Thieves apparently have no problem with breaking a few hearts with their music video for 'If I Get High'. Which ultimately this…
I Carry Your Heart With Me (I Carry It In)
The Heart Knows and Understands
It's not just chocolates, red roses or diamonds. Songs and poems also have their place in love stories. E.E. Cummings had a good share of love…
Si Quieres
PREMIERE: The last video of Juan Gabriel
If you want average duration over six minutes, was published in the Mexican channel in Youtube Vevo website, where Mennos two days of its release,…
Make a Man
Make A Man (Music Video) - Estrons
I'd like to make a man a of you... simply lyrics yet they impact such a punch that Estrons should have been discovered way earlier. This…
Change
Christina Begs for a change with her new Song
Christina Aguilera joins the group of artists who deeply regret the tragedy that occurred a few days ago in Orlando, Florida; Where some 49 people…
Keep Running
Sensuous Momentum
After two well-received EPs and over 3 million Youtube views for Bassically, Brooklyn-via-Argentina singer-songwriter Tei Shi (Valerie…
Bassically
Tei Shi's Intimate Power Struggle
Tei Shi is the stage name for Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and producer Valerie Teicher, who hails from Buenos Aires. Since the release…
Let Me In
Dreamy Desolation
Brooklyn-based quintet Snowmine consists of bassist Jay Goodman, drummer Alex Beckmann, lead singer/composer Grayson Sanders and…
Sweet Creature
Sweet Creature Follows Harry Styles Along The Road Of Truth And Circumstances
Harry Styles has put out another single titled Sweet Creature. It would be safe to assume as well as state the sweet nature of this newest track. As…
Beautiful People
Elegiac Ambience
“The original instrumental to Beautiful People is a personal song about loss, hopelessness and chaos, but the message is love and hope.&…
First
Beat of the Drum
A good drum beat is the essential back bone to any song. No...every song that has ever existed on and off of the internet. If someone tells you…
Virile
Fraternal Love
French cousins Guillaume Alric (a.k.a Mayd Hubb) and Jonathan Alric founded The Blaze before joining Bromance Records. This resulted in their…
Omaha
Baby Left on Omaha
'Letting go' is an emotional terrain that accomodates a wide variety of emotions: sadness, resignation, nostalgia, melancholy, anger, despair,…
Future Politics
Austra's Promising Political Escapism
Future Politics is the breaking down of paradigms. In this video, we wanted to explore what a world might look like if our values were transformed:…
Hopeless Romantic
Defying Expectations
“I was like, wait a minute, [Jenny Lewis is] on Warner Bros., and she just made a record that sounds like the record I wanna make.…
Hollow
The airy and fragile sounds of Hollow
There are some songs you could write an elaborate review blog about, but when it comes to this song, I could actually make this short and sweet, and…
Your Type
Carly Rae Jepsen's Evolving Pop Persona
The verdict is out. As music critics and fellow blogger NMONDSCHEIN note, Carly Rae Jepsen has followed up on the success of her…
Songs of Prayer 1 - Solo Piano Music for Prayer
On The Song of Prayer
Chad Lawson is a fabulous, award-winning pianist and composer that is so multi-talented that he earned more awards that most people would even dream…
Roxanne
Understanding The Meaning Of Rock
The Rock is conceived through its history as a sound of protest, to do things differently irreverent, boldly, with weight, strength, able to move to…
China Girl - alt mix
COVERLAND Vol. 7: China Girl
David Bowie and Iggy Pop wrote “China Girl” together in 1977 for Iggy’s album “The Idiot.” It didn&…
We Are the People
Psychedelic Surrealism
Thanks to a well-scored Honda Civic ad, Sydney electro-glampop duo Empire of the Sun (Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore) have placed a…
Bohemian Rhapsody - Remastered 2011
Never ending rhapsody
With the end of the year nearing, it is time for all kinds of lists. Lists of the best and the worst of 2016 have already reached my desk…
Wherever You Will Go
The Oscar Awards and the Soundtrack of the Subconscious
One of the most famous awards in the world and the history of cinema, has always had a place for the Best Soundtrack for Film, a category that has…
Ultralight Beam
Small Moments of Clarity with Kanye West
There are some days that are just made to be shitty. I was late to work for my afternoon shift of personal training, and like all days in which a…
I Was A Fool
Sunflower Bean's I Was A Fool Swirls in Nostalgic Woe
After a few years in the New York band circuit, an EP, a well-received debut LP, and extensive touring, Brooklyn rock band Sunflower Bean has…
Belong (feat. Kimbra)
The Long Haul
In anticipation of his upcoming sophomore album The Space Between (out June 9), London singer-songwriter and guitarist Fyfe&…
Handcuffs
Orlando Victims and Youtube Stars in “Hands” Lyric Video
An extraordinarily emotional and full of all sorts of characters video they carry in their hands the message of optimism and acceptance that is…
Heartbeats
The Winter Sounds Talk New Record for 2018
The Winter Sounds are a band that has been breaking through in a major way this year, and 2018 sees no sign of slowing down. Set to release their most…
Wild
Broken Glass, Broken Homes
This ethereal song is something unlike none other, speaking of broken families in a way that you can't help but sympathize with. The way the…
10,000 Emerald Pools
Pleasure Center
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is released to give you, you know — it bathes the pleasure centers, basically. I feel like…
Army
Ellie Goulding Dedicates Her New Video Army
The interpreter Soundtrack of the blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey brings a new video called Army. Ellie reached the top after winning a poll by the…
No Hard Feelings
Uplifting Poignancy
North Carolina folk rock quartet The Avett Brothers' (banjo-playing Scott Avett, guitarist Seth Avett, double bassist Bob Crawford and…
Calling Me
Answering The Call
Aquilo, a U.K. alternative duo consisting of Tom Higham and Ben Fletcher, are noted for quiet pondering songs that touch upon human nature.…
En la Noche Te Perdí
One more year without Americania but its music does not die
Americania was formed by Italo, Armando and Alvaro, three impressive musicians with talent to spare, who won the intercollegiate New Bands ... in…
Deadwood
Toni's bringing in something new
I don’t think I’ve been this excited about a new music announcement than the announcement that I spotted from Toni Braxton, just a while ago. I just…
West Coast
West Coast Drive
A fundamental tune, capable of ripping your heart out, aching to head to the West Coast and call it home. Lana Del Rey showed the troubled…
Losing You
Boy Pablo Makes Teen Romantic Angst Warm and Inviting with Losing You
After being smiled upon by YouTube's algorithm, earning a significant fanbase, and embarking on a 15-city European tour, 18-year-old Chileno-…
Adore
Amy Shark Pops Into The Mainstream With Adore
Last year Amy Shark's song Adore reached a mass audience by winning the Pop Song of the Year during the Queensland Music Awards in Australia. Also…
Nancy (With The Laughing Face) - 78rpm Version
JAZZ STANDARDS Vol.6 - Nancy (with a Laughing Face)
I decided to continue the series on jazz standards with a less known composition (in terms of its not-so-frequent use by jazz musicians) called &…
Good Goodbye (feat. Pusha T and Stormzy)
And it just gets worse: Linkin Park, Good Goodbye
For a band that has been globally popular for over fifteen years you wouldn't think Linkin Park would need to worry about gaining new fans. I'…
Stay Happy
Stay Happy Is Broken Social Scene's Best Message
With only a week out on the internet Broken Social Scene's newest track Stay Happy leaves everyone wanting more. Broken Social Scene always…
Lemon
Swagger Overshadows Wokeness on N*E*R*D and Rihanna's Lemon
Lemon is Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo's comeback hit as N*E*R*D, an outré funk rock side project…
On The Line
Avery LR releases new Hip Hop track, They Don't Like That
Every so often there's a music video that matches the rawness of a lyricist like Tupac and BIggie, but Avery LR shows the intensity he brings to…
Junkie
Euphorically Addictive
I would say don’t be afraid to write something that’s actually catchy. I think a lot of people fear catchiness because they might…
Without You
Another 'Without You' Song
It's perfectly understandable to believe that no one would be able to put a fresh spin on the 'can't live without you' theme, given…
Take My Pain Away
The Human in the Machine
Moullinex means attention to detail. A careful craft of melodies, a strong sense of human touch in machine-based music, the melodrama of swirling…
Sunscreen
Mediterranean Vibes
The partnership between London duo JeanGa and George began at an auction, where both parties were bidding for a Roland TR-707 (a programmable…
Get Lucky
COVERLAND Vol.25: Get Lucky
Let's move the Coverland series to present day. This time I’m gonna present you the cover of Daft Punk’s 2013 international…
Search Party
The Search Is On!
You know how there's that one popular song that you keep on hearing on the radio, in a cab, at the department store or in a restaurant and you…
Mad Hatter
Mad Hatter
Melanie Martinez makes arty, alternative singer/songwriter pop that straddles the line between folk, electronica and hip-hop. Born in Baldwin, New…
Little Bubble - edit
When the Bubble Bursts
Appearing 3 months after Keep Your Name, there is no official mention of whether Little Bubble will be part of a new Dirty Projectors LP or EP. It…
Chi Chi
Razor-Sharp Braggadocio
'Live from the zoo, this the new 212'. Controversial Harlem rapper Azealia Banks breakout hit 212 is a very tough act…
Night Owl
Frenetic Funk
Summer 08 (2016), British indietronica quartet Metronomy's fifth studio album, revisits the terrain they carved out in sophomore effort&…
Shove It
Reggae Balanced Under Hip-Hop
Reggae points with a Hip-Hop twisted fist of power. Santigold was the first to introduce this music listener to the varied vast expanse of space to…
Heartbreaker
How Do We Know A Heartbreaker?
How can we tell a heartbreaker from another? Alabama Shakes came out with 'Heartbreaker' on their first album 'Boys & Girls'…
Alarm
Still coming to her own
In the business, we like artists that come into the studio with a clear idea of what they want and who can give a reference to another track or singer…
Innocent Dreams
Maven Grace's Innocent Dreams is an Antidote for Alienation
Musicians often complain about the remote collaboration process, where songs can be recorded without a singer ever sharing studio time with…
Atoms
Post-Break up Chill
I can see why Atoms, a track from Roses - the debut album from Atlanta-based Awful Records' 'Darkwave Duchess' Abra -…
Diamonds & Rust
The Iconic “Diamonds and Rust” by Joan Baez
This iconic song is a beautiful piece of poetry that is full of descriptive detail and flowing rhymes that just capture the heart. The song was even…
Live And Let Die
COVERLAND Vol.8: Live and Let Die
A great song can chart several times just like “Live and Let Die” did, the first time with the original version by “…
LMK
Kelela's Electro-Soul Feminist Hookup Manifesto
In Björk collaborator Andrew Thomas Huang’s music video, LA-via-DC Ethiopian-American singer-songwriter Kelela alternates between a…
Messin' Around
Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias together with the video for “Messin' Around”.
This time these great artists came together to create the new video for Messin 'Around and could not expect less from them. We find a video…
1000
N.E.R.D. and Future Deliver Electrifying Political Chaos With 1000
Swagger overshadowed political awareness on N. E. R. D. and Rihanna’s “Lemon” (tutorial No. 1); Pharrell Williams tips…
Wild Things
The Queen of the Uncool, Rebellious, Misfits
All hail, Alessia Cara! Staying close to her anti-social, introverted roots, Alessia Cara once again proved that being cool ain't all…
Snake Eyes
It's In the Eyes
La canción Ojos de serpiente trae interesantes letras y la melodía al álbum Wilder Mente de Mumford and Sons. A diferencia de su…
A Lack of Understanding
For A Better Phrase Here Is A Lack Of Understanding From The Vaccines
Coming off of their debut album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? The Vaccines have now come to worldwide acclaim. Some would say even an…
Sería Feliz
Latin Thought
The sound attracts you, the melody becomes sticky, and gradually you convince yourself that the story behind that song, it has happened to you.…
Disorder - 2007 Remastered Version
Songs that started it all. 1) Disorder, Joy Division
As much as I write about Radiohead, surprisingly, they aren't my favourite band. That spot goes to Joy Division, the Manchester quartet who,…
Run The Jewels
Mike & El-P Announce RTJ3 & Run The World Tour
Killer Mike and El-P aka Run The Jewels have garnered major support for the movement they’ve built with the eponymous albums that they’ve released the…
Placebo
Placebo – MTV Unplugged
After a successful and fruitful musical career that celebrates 20 years of artistic career, the British band Placebo and MTV launched next November…
Lee Gallagher
Lee Gallagher Interview
Lee Gallagher inhales the Bay area of California, making it part of who he is musically. After a few years in the area, Gallagher appreciates its…
Alice In Chains
Alice In Chains working on new album
Alice in Chains was one of the glorious pioneering grunge bands in Seattle. Their marriage took place in 1987 and have since been a…
Massive Attack
The disturbing videos of Massive Attack
Massive Attack returned loaded. After six years without edit a studio album (Heligoland). It was late January when the British group released the EP…
Yandel
Yandel returned to the music scene As Before with Wisin
Singer Yandel premiered his latest album #UPDATE, and with him his first single Como Antes which has the collaboration of Wisin, with whom he…
Foreigner
Will they say yes?
I Wanna Know That Love Is (Foreinger) belongs to the few songs that feel sincere, for their lyrics, the ability to convey that feeling, which is a…
Rels B
RELS B - MONEY MAKER
Rels B, recognized European rapper is on tour throughout Spain with his inseparable Itchy and Buco, presenting Boys do not cry, his first…
Incubus
Incubus released their album 8
Californian band Incubus has been formed since 1991 and last April 21 released its eighth studio album titled 8 . It would be the first full length…
The Strokes
The Strokes' new album could be released in June
Eighteen years and five albums after starting his musical career in the streets and bars of New York, members of the group of indirock The Strokes…
Claydon Connor
Claydon Connor ‘Under The Big Sky’ – Album Review
We previously featured Claydon Connor in our monthly Stray Plectrums post back in June, the spotlight shining favorably on his…
Roger Daltrey
Rock is dying for Roger Daltrey
Live music with passion, and therefore generates so much controversy. Roger Daltrey has just declared that the rock is dying and is very pessimistic…
Steven Tyler
An outing to the movies in Lima was Steven Tyler.
The American singer Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, was on Sunday to Lima cinema to see the film Counter starring Ben Affleck, local media…
Gente De Zona
La Macarena is back
23 years of unstoppable success meet during this 2016, the renowned theme popularized by the Spanish musical duo Los del Río: La Macarena. Being…
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is back!
The rumors were true and the wait came to an end: Guns N 'Roses has returned. After 23 years of separation, vocalist Axl Rose, guitarist…
Deni Bonet
Deni Bonet Shines Like a Diamond on New Record
Deni Bonet's essential new album Bright Shiny Objects is a breath of fresh musical air for 2017. Following Bonet's career for a number of…
Dead by April
Dead
Something that gives me shivers. Music that may seem to sound ordinary and predictable, but it’s not like that at all. The band’s…
2Pac
Immortal Tupac Shakur
Fans Rap and Hip Hop are celebrating. On April 7 it will be introduced to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Roll gangsta rap legend Tumac Shakur.…
Juanes
Juanes will perform at the Nobel Prize ceremony
This Dec. 11, the Colombian singer Juanes will sing at the concert that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos who was elected as Nobel Peace Prize…
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Hey Joe, look who you brought together
Nick Cave is a cool guy - cool as a jazz cat can be, although he has nothing to do with jazz. That’s why this totally weird combination of…
Joey Montana
Joey Montana says Hello to you
Joey Montana surprises his fans with his new single. Hello it is one of the songs that will be part of his next album titled U - Back to The Roots…
Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland's cause of death revealed
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner Medical Examiner Minneapolis revealed that the cause of death of former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, was…
Thalía
Thalia and Maluma together
Since that night is the title of the new song of the Mexican singer Thalía recorded with the Maluma Colombia, in which he reveals an explosive…
Eddie Murphy
Artists Who Hate Sampling Ridiculed In New Eddie Murphy Show
Sampling is and has for as long as I can remember been a contentious issue in the world of music, especially hip hop. For those that don’t…
Nk Profeta
NK Prophet releases another controversial theme
Leonardo Viloria Venezuelan rapper, better known as NK Prophet once again returns to a subject of much controversy. In his new single titled Forgive…
Darkthrone
Darkthrone
I’m all things black, the blackest black ever. My black ink sentences are driven into the white. Black ink is in my skin as a mark of…
Benny Cassette
Tollund Men
Autoerotik “We are no longer dirge-pop, we are now serial killer rock. “Let's Die.” This is it. This is f#cking it!…
William Cepeda
Cepeda directs Salsa, flavor and control
The University of Puerto Rico announces an event in which a fusion of salsa and gastronomy promises, and that will take place on 28 May. Trombonist…
Rene Velazco
René Velazco wants to be a reggaeton player
Venezuelan singer Rene Velazco, better known as René, period, and former member of the group Salserín, published the song Who wants to be…
Torrecè
Torrecè, a gang under suspicion
The anzoatiguense group has just released the first single from their first album. The song is called Tribal. I have to say that when I heard the…
Elton John
An attack on an Elton John concert would be planned by a teenager.
A young radical Islamist admitted Thursday before a London court that he planned a bomb attack in London, as possible targets including a concert by…
Lil Uzi Vert
You Was Right already has an audiovisual
This time, it is the rapper from Philadelphia, Symere Woods, better known by his stage name as Lil Uzi Vert, which brings the audiovisual of the song…
Diamante Eléctrico
Diamante Eléctrico announces a new single and the start of its next tour
Diamond Electric and released his new single Vacuum. This is part of his album The Great Oscillation and will be accompanied by a video clip that is…
Alex Turner
Alex Turner talked about Arctic Monkeys
Since 2003 Alex Turner has appeared in the indie rock music scene worldwide. It is more than a decade making good music, innovating and leaving a…
Adele
Adele for the 2017 Super Bowl?
The event will be held in the city of Houston the next February could expect British singer for the halftime show. Majestic voice singer said he is…
Jenni Rivera
They revive Jenni Rivera with a hologram
A concert held in the framework of the Day of the Dead was the strange scenario used to present back to life of the late Mexican singer Jenni Rivera.…
Buck T. Edwards
Buck T. Edwards Great American Novel
Great American Novel, the new album from Outlaw Country Artist Buck T. Edwards has been released and has hit the ground running. The album features 15…
Sting
Tickets for Sting's concert at the Bataclan sold out in less than an hour.
Tickets for the Sting concert held on the occasion of the reopening of the Bataclan theater a year of jihadist attack that caused 90 deaths, were…
Tomates Fritos
Fried Tomatoes is renewed
20 years new album. So Tomates Fritos celebrates two decades of experience in Venezuela. A homonymous production with a clear message: reinvent…
Circa Waves
Circa Waves: Indie Rock 'n' Roll Hasn't Been This Fun in Years!
Circa Waves have been providing fun, hook-driven indie-rock, to a generation in desperate need of it, since forming in 2013. They are four lads from…
The Pretenders
The Pretenders present their album Alone in concert
The Portuguese EDP Cool Jazz festival will be the scenario in which the Anglo-American group The Pretenders present his latest album. Alone, as the…
Aretha Franklin
No more concerts for Aretha Franklin, announce retirement.
The soul diva Aretha Franklin has announced his retirement from live music after 56-year career, and will do so after the publication of a new album…
Ariel Rot
Ariel Rot bets on nostalgia in the first preview of his new album
Argentine rocker residing in Spain, Ariel Rot introduced the first single from their upcoming studio album. The theme, entitled Only goodbye,…
Monstercat
Monstercat, the best platform for electronic music
If you are one of those that you like electronic music and spend a lot of time in front of seeking new artists of the genre screen, and hearing new…
Nine Inch Nails
NIN will release a new EP
After 3 years without publishing a new musical project, the American band Nine Inch Nails announced that December 23 will a new EP. The promise had…
Paramore
Paramore releases video for second single I Told You So
The band Paramore released the music video for their second single Told you so . With a pretty European style, vocalist Hayley Williams surprised…
Varsity
In Varsity's Krissy, a Friend's Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Chicago garage pop quintet Varsity's sophomore album Parallel Person will be released on April 27, 2018. The new record…
Miss Kittin & The Hacker
Miss Kittin & The Hacker
Leather boots, whips and chains. And a forgotten glamour. You are in this room with dim red light. This room is very cozy and disturbing. It&…
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
Vampire Weekend's Rostam Shares First Video Of His Project With Hamilton Leithauser, A 1000 Times
Rostam Batmanglij ex Vampire Weekend announced the launch of a new project with singer of the band The Walkmen, Hamilton Leithauser, premiering live…
Lana Del Rey
Lana del Rey premieres video with The Weeknd
After showing the cover of his new album on April 11 through their RRSS, the Lana del Rey singer debuted her new song Lust For Life which includes the…
Silvestre Dangond
2017 for Silvestre Dangond will begin in...
The Colombian Silvestre Dangond already started preparing for next year where he hopes to continue to make his fans dance. The singer announced his…
Sin Bandera
Sin Bandera is premiere
After a more than successful international tour that took to Sin Bandera visiting for several Latin American cities, the duo released the first…
Neil Young
Neil Young releases new live album: Earth.
The legend Neil Young announced the release of a new live album which will be called Earth that was recorded last year during the tour of the disc…
Hector Berlioz
Berlioz's Simply Fantastic Symphony
What can be said about Berlioz and his Symphony Fantastique? One could say so much about the wide variety of orchestral colors and timbres used…
Blake Shelton
A Guy with a Girl
Blake Shelton's latest release, A Guy with a Girl is actually about how he feels regarding his relationship with singer, and The Voice co-star,…
Bob Dylan
The Nobel to Dylan. What Blades, Sabina and Joselo think
Bob Dylan has so far not responded to calls from the Swedish Academy, which last week was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016. Since then…
Ozuna
Ozuna presents video clip of El Pecado
Puerto Rican artist has released his latest production, entitled Sin, an issue which had already been showing several previews for their social…
Grandmaster Flash
An Extremely Rare 1982 Grandmaster Flash Mixtape Appears Online
Grandmaster Flash will forever be remembered as one of hip hop’s pioneering DJs. Flash brought innovation to the art of DJing in several…
Rich Mullins
A Staple—“Awesome God”
This song is such a classic in the Christian song community. Rich Mullins does a fabulous job worshipping and praising the Almighty God by getting us…
Mumford & Sons
Live: A Beautiful Collision
Have you ever looked back on your past and thought “I wish I wasn’t like that”? In the present you feel liked a changed…
Amba Shepherd
Amba Shepherd Hypnotizes with New Original Release Wide Awake & Dreaming
Her stellar voice has made Amba Shepherd into a darling of the electronic music scene through high profile features in tracks like Hardwell&…
Deana Carter
Deana Carter 'Southern Way of Life' - Album Review
Like many fans, I remember the delights of ‘Strawberry Wine’ and ‘Did I Shave My Legs For This?’, the former dreamy and nostalgic, the…
Don DiLego
Don DiLego Shares Magnificent New Record
Don DiLego has been an artist that continually breaks through barriers. His eclectic sound goes beyond the stylistic boundaries of Americana, Folk and…
Algodón Egipcio
Egyptian Cotton and Gabylonia will be presented at the SXSW Festival 2016
The band Gabylonia Egyptian Cotton and will be responsible to represent Venezuela at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. The South by Southwest is an…
Lady Gaga
Gaga Rocking
We all know the eccentricity of L ad and Gaga, which comes out every time takes the stage. Another strong elements of the singer is her incredible…
Jacob Collier
An Absolute Genius
Some artists are born more talented and some have to work more to get where they want to be. And there are those who have to do very…
James Hetfield
James Hetfield Says Metallica Won't Wait Too Long To Release Their Next Album
The American band Metallica just made all his fans delirious and metalhead public with their new album Hardwired ... to Self Destruit. The disc has…
U2
U2 and Noel Gallagher played together
Bono and Noel Gallagher from more than 40 years making music. The Irish group U2 was formed in 1976 under the influence of post-punk but which over…
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga returns!
Lady Gaga returned to the New York bar where he began his career years ago to sing before an audience that included Robert De Niro and Helen Mirren,…
Reik
Reik joins a great reggaeton duo
Reik is betting on a new production of one of his latest hits. The song What Gano Forgetting will hand the duo Zion & Lennox for a remixed to…
Pope Francis
The Pope Just Shutdown 5th Ave. and Announced An Album...
WTF! Yep, Pope Francis is dropping an album on November 27. Entitled Wake Up!, the collection of songs (sung in Italian, English,…
R.E.M.
a reissue of REM's Out of Time is coming
Universal Music will release a reissue of Out of Time by REM, when the 25th anniversary of the launch of what was one of the albums most celebrated…
Sting
Puting The Sting back in rock
After hearing about it for months, I can now finally write about new music released by Sting. His new single, “I Can’t Stop…
Lake Haze
Lake Haze
Come closer Imagine some special atmosphere – the air is grey and objects are liquid. Everything is so blurred that it seems you are about…
John Mackey
John Mackey’s Hymn To The Blue Hour Demonstrates His Love for Chorale Settings
Hymn To The Blue Hour by John Mackey is a fine, chorale style piece for wind ensemble. It starts off with a very stark first flute solo. The C could…
Roxette
Roxette is back
The Swedish duo Roxette, Marie Fredriksson and composed by Per Gessle, is back in the orbit of international pop rock. With over 30 years of career,…
Kasabian
Kasabian's Brilliant Cross-Genre Covers
English rock band Kasabian (which currently consists of vocalist Tom Meighan, guitarist and vocalist Sergio Pizzorno, drummer Ian Matthews&…
Ricardo Montaner
Ricardo Montaner becomes increasingly romantic
Ricardo Montaner again surprised everyone with the presentation of two new singles. One of the most romantic singers of Latin America is in full…
Thirty Seconds To Mars
Come back 30STM after 4 years
US rock band 30 Seconds To Mars, led by actor and musician Jared Leto, introduced Walk On Water, their first single in four years since the release…
Tommy James & The Shondells
Draggin’ The Line 2020 Version by Tommy James (featuring Steven Van Zandt and T.O.N.E-Z) Best Classic Rock on Youtube, Spotify, and More!
Classic rock legend Tommy James is back at it again with his first new album in nearly ten years, titled Alive. The album, which charted #10 on…
Shakey Graves
Shakey Graves - Roll the Bones
Shakey Graves is a charming fellow. Born Alejandro Rose-Garcia, he is an Americana musician from Austin, Texas, United States. His music is a cross…
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli’s Christmas and Other Tracks Create a Benchmark for Vocalists
Andrei Bocelli is one of the most prominent modern opera singers in today’s repertoire. He sings right up there with the angels. He is in…
Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Ballerini Breaks The Tomato Drought With A Pop Song, But That’s Okay
When Kelsea Ballerini initially came on the scene last fall with the release of her debut single ‘Love Me Like You Mean It’, I was sceptical. I didn’t…
Biffy Clyro
Enter the strange Biffy Clyro Cabaret with the video for “Howl”
'Ellipsis' is the latest album by the alternative rock band Biffy Clyro and still touting now with the odd video of Howl the new…
Santana
Santana and the return of a historic formula
A memorable guitar, the audience ecstatic, perfect harmony, history being written. It is August 16, 1969, on the main stage of Woodstock and sounds…
Trae Tha Truth
Trae Tha Truth 2
Trae is really making his trail last long in big style. After last year`s banger album simply powered Tha Truth, featured…
The Killers
The Killers premiered the video for The Man
After announcing officially the subject The Man, the American band The Killer has not stopped offering new news. They have performed new songs in…
Lil Supa
The Cult of Supa
I've taken my music New York to Cuzco, were insults before, now I worship Mounted on a Shelby Cobra and lighting a cigarette, Lou Fresco…
Mike Cooper
Mike Cooper
This dark room feels everything I’m into. This room knows my feelings and desires; it envelops me with coziness and atmosphere I need. Pre-…
Spotify Landmark
Streaming versus live music
Now, with the information that the US recording industry gets more than 70% of its revenues from digital platforms and downloads looming on the one…
Colin Lloyd Tucker
Another Moonlight Serenade. New Old School
My promotional CD arrived with a hand written note from Colin containing the somewhat cryptic message ‘more of the same old new horizons&…
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber comeback succeeded
It's more a rule than an exception, that people who rise to fame early on in life, have a breakdown or need a break altogether. Boy bands like New…
Paramore
Gig Review: Paramore - The Royal Albert Hall, London
I won’t lie and say I wasn’t nervous about attending a concert so soon after the Manchester Arena attack, even more so about being in London so soon…
Taylor Swift
Apple Music commercial brings together Drake and Taylor Swift
Some time ago, singer Taylor Swift wrote a letter to the company Apple Music, in which he complained about the fact that during the first three…
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar releases unexpected album
After the many awards received for his previous album To Pimp a Butterfly, fashion rapper, Kendrick Lamar, she surprised everyone with the release of…
Britney Spears
Know the name of Britney Spears' new song!
The ninth album Pop princess Britney Spears, due out next June and the fans are excited about this new release after three years of silence from…
Ricardo Montaner
Montaner wrote to Messi
After losing the final of the Copa America, and seeing themselves surrounded by excessive external pressure, the best player in the world Lionel…
James Bay
James Bay: The Modern Singer-Songwriter
The last ten years or so has produced some great pop and rock music, but if we’re being honest with ourselves, the digital and electronic world is…
Nashville Cast
Nashville, Season 4, Episode 10 – RECAP
This was the Winter Finale, so plenty of drama to make us want to tune in when the show returns in March (yes… March). The big story of the…
Café Tacvba
Café Tacuba will return with a new album for 2016
One of the alternative rock bands most famous Latin American, Café Tacuba, has confirmed that for the second half of next year will please its…
Carlos Angola
I settle, the new Venezuelan Carlos Angola
With a suitcase full of discs and dreams, Venezuelan Carlos Angola started during last year 2015, the city of Madrid, where he held the release of…
Eric Selby
Catching Up With Eric Selby
Washington D.C. is lucky to have Eric Selby, the lauded Blues Hall of Fame Inductee. His up-and-coming release Do, Baby. will be…
A Tribe Called Quest
A Tribe Called Quest Set To Release Final Album in November
When people talk about the greatest rap groups of all time one name which never gets left out is A Tribe Called Quest. The group was formed in the…
Charlie Puth
Charlie Puth releases video for How Long
Morton Feldman
Feldman's Love Testament
Morton Feldman is one of the most notable and important classical composers of the 20th century. He was a pioneer of indeterminate music alongside…
Metallica
The window that Master of Puppets opened in a teenager
Much of those born after the fall of Marcos Perez Jimenez grew up with a family member who praised the military life. A cousin or grandparent speaks…
Alan Vega
Alan Vega
Ugly Words for Ugly People (Special Someone) I don’t feel like suicide, I feel like Vega, though, it was a hard and pretty…
Nights Amore
New Nights Amore Album is on Fire!
I have written very many articles on Nights Amore in the past and I keep coming back to them and how touching their music is. They are an artist to…
Céline Dion
Celine Dion goes on
With the Billboard awards taking place today, Celine Dion is officially back on the scene. After the loss of her husband and brother, in January 2016,…
Keeana Kee
Digging Deep with Keeana Kee
Keeana Kee is gearing up to be one of the HOTTEST artists this Summer. A series of bangin' singles this year brings the artist to the…
Coco Jadad
Coco Jadad, the revelation of iTunes
It is Nicolle Jadad Tamer, but who from now on will be Coco Jadad, a young freshman at Marymount College of Barranquilla and who went on to record…
Amy Winehouse
Soulful To The End
Whether a lot of people pick Amy Winehouse, Amy definitely deserves a moment in the spotlight to continue on singing the way that had all of…
Cannabis Corpse
SundaySpotlight: Cannabis Corpse
Marijuana consumption and death metal? It is a crazy combination on which American death metal Cannabis Corpse have been studying music for the past…
Sean Paul
There's no getting around Sean Paul
Sean Paul must be one of the most asked feature-artists around. He often drops a verse or a few phrases on many singles by others, but I can't…
Lady Gaga
Honouring a Legend
David Bowie’s death came as a shock to everyone. The world mourned for the loss of a musical genius, a legend that will live on through his…
Willy William
The Secret Of A Good Soundtrack
Many times, the seconds of a song are enough to remember a movie, and also that sound is capable of transmitting the emotion that encompasses the…
Tim Kile
Tim Kile Goes the Distance on New Release
Austin, Texas-based recording artist Tim Kile just released his solo debut album and after years as a band member for groups 'Wild Light' and…
Gary Quinn
Gary Quinn - Album Review
Born and raised in Ireland, Gary Quinn listened to his father’s Kris Kristofferson tapes and then fell in love with the new…
Paul Chambers
THE LOW END Vol.3: Paul Chambers
Bass playing developed through the years, as a combination of the advancement of playing skills and the rise of new technologies, such as the upright…
The Beatles
The Love You Take, Is Equal to the Love You Make
I grew up with divorced parents. One lived on the Southside of Chicago, the other on the North. My mother had custody of me, so every other week my…
Charly García
Charly García, take care of yourself
After so many unfortunate casualties in the world of music, fans ask Orpheus, Apollo, Santa Cecilia and all possible deities of music to care…
The Mars Volta
Yahoo! Live Sets with The Mars Volta
It’s a known fact among musicians that a song and the memory of the song are not the same thing. When I think of Jimi Hendrix&#…
David Bowie
Bowie’s dotcom vision
When asked to write about David Bowie, I initially couldn’t think of what to write. I wasn’t a fan. I liked his pop days with Nile…
High Valley
High Valley ‘Make You Mine’ – Single Review
Canadian country duo High Valley has recently released a new single to US radio. The duo is composed of brothers Brad and Curtis Rempel who hail from…
Brad Paisley
In Defence of Brad Paisley’s ‘Wheelhouse’
‘Wheelhouse’ is my favorite Brad Paisley album. As a lifetime fan, I have long poured over the celebrated likes of ‘Mud On The Tires’, ‘5th Gear’ and…
Jacob Thomas Jr.
Jacob Thomas Jr. ‘Original Sin’ – Album Review
At a time when surface emotions, clichéd lyrics and over-complicated, electronically-perfected production are rife in country music and popular…
Vocokesh
Vocokesh
Vocokesh started out at the beginning of the 90s in Wisconsin, when F/i's Richard Franecki formed the band. Their debut album Ispepnaibara came…
Miguel Bosé
Miguel Bosé Unplugged
The Spanish singer Miguel Bosé recorded on 12 May in Mexico City an acoustic album MTV Unplugged, reported the specializing Billboard. I have…
Bob Dylan
Fallen Angels: the latest from Dylan
The iconic musician, poet and activist, Bob Dylan, has reason to continue to hold. The referent of the blues and American folk celebrated his 75…
Faith & Harry
Faith and Harry Just Be There
Sibling duo Faith and Harry are taking the music world by storm, at ages 13 and 11, they have a grown up sound, and are filled with talent, poise and…
Edward Snowden
Snowden's voice leaks into the music
And it is precisely under the Sónar Festival in Barcelona (Spain) where the composer Jean-Michel Jarre has just introduced its production…
Dracula Lewis
Dracula Lewis
Bloodsucking time! Or should I say “Bloodsharing”? The artist I want to talk about goes by the name “Dracula Lewis&…
Taylor Swift
Taylor is the highest paid of 2016
According to Forbes, the group One Direction, British singer Adele also and Taylor Swift are the best paid. With earnings of 170 million dollars for…
Freddie Mercury
25 years after his departure, Freddie Mercury.
On April 20, 1992, London's Wembley Stadium convirió in a sea of tears. There, 72,000 -a fans who joined around telespectadores-…
DJ Khaled
Dj Khaled Pairs Rihanna With Bryson Tiller For New Hit
DJ Khaled links R & B singers Rihanna and Bryson Tiller to the fourth single from their studio album, Grateful, released on June 16, 2017.…
JAY Z
Jay-Z Opens Up & Discusses 4:44 in Detail During Rap Radar Interview
Jay-Z has never really been one for interviews so when he does take part in one it’s something special. Just a few days ago he was featured in an…
Dusty Rust
Dusty Rust ‘Kansas City Cowboy’ - Album Review
Dusty Rust is a Honky Tonk performer from Kansas City, MO and he has…
Katy Perry
Katy Perry premieres music video for Swish Swish
Katy Perry today released the official Swish Swish video for her third single from her fifth album Witness , which features the special participation…
David Bowie
David Bowie with cancer three months before he died
British singer David Bowie learned that he was suffering from terminal cancer just three months before his death, on January 10, 2016, according to a…
Shakira
What does a mother sound like?
After three years, Shakira launches this eleventh album, El Dorado, a golden cover and a huge photograph of the singer as emerging from a lake.…
Viktor Tsoy
Russian rock legend. Viktor Tsoy.
Viktor Tsoy was the leader of Russian rock band “Kino”. Beside the music, he participated in cinematograph. He played the leading…
Maluma
'Come here' new song by Maluma and Ricky Martin
This great duo made known to us through social networks on this subject as expected and has caused quite a stir due to rumors of jealousy he felt…
Dan Auerbach
The Bla Keys' Dan Auerbach reveals a new song and details of his solo album
The frontman of The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, has for some time working on the successor of his first solo album, Keep It Hid (2009), and today has…
Jacob Davich
Jacob Davich - EP Review
Jacob Davich’s self-titled debut EP has been a long time coming. The 25-year-old began his career as an actor at the age of 12, going on to star in…
Andrea Zonn
Andrea Zonn & The Friends She’s Made Along The Way: The Buddy & Jim Show Recap
Andrea Zonn remembers the first time she met Alison Krauss. She was ten and Alison was eight and the two were introduced at the Champaign Festival in…
Farruko
Farruko brings us Krippy Kush
Farruko released his new single Krippy Kush, one of the songs that are part of his next album TrapXficante . In addition, it has the collaboration of…
Mila J
Mila flexin on them bars in F.Y.M
Jhene Aiko`s older sis is seriously going for that money swag. Our sexy R`n`Bass diva has been heating our interests for…
Lady Gaga
Oscars Highlights Gaga, Sam Smith and more
First of all it was known that the show was going to be charged with material in terms of gender equality after the boycott planned by Jada Pinket…
Los Panchos
The return of Los Panchos
I stumbled upon return information Los Panchos, twenty years later: Gabriel Vargas Aguilar Vargas and Rafael Basurto -Gabi, two of the last members,…
Frank Vieira
Frank Vieira ‘Three Little Words’ – Album Review
If you’ve been reading the site for some time, you may remember that we featured Frank Vieira in our first ever Stray Plectrums post…