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, &…

Even though they had success with their debut album, The View never managed to capitalize it in a right way. They are always somewhere near but they…

When you bruise a diamond like Lost In The Dreams, it is clear that you signed up in the history of music books. Adam Granduciel may not even need…

Magazines like the British music monthlies “Uncut” and “Mojo” have a tradition of including a music CD since their inception. Usually, whether it is…

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

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

A little bit of Libertines, a little bit of Babyshambles, a little bit of solo work. That is how the life flows for Pete Doherty. After 2009 debut…

William Merriman has been behind the quietly sophisticated Dublin band The Harvest Ministers for some thirty years now. Even though it doesn’t seem…

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,…

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…

When the term Americana crops up in a conversation among music fans, usually the first things that come up to mind are any country music variations,…

Ever since Rufus Wainwright, we didn't have an author who is a triple-threat pundit, capable of having superpowers in singing, composing and…

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

So, Hope Sandoval and her mystery are back with us again. It has been 26 years since she first appeared along with former Rain Parade co-leader David…

Although most of us know David Duchovny as Molder from Dossier X, not a lot of us know that this multifaceted actor is also a singer who recently…

I got drawn to listen to Julie Byrne’s “Not Even Happiness” album after a series of articles, posts, whatnot about it. The simple stark black and…

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…

Even with names like Zita Swoon being tossed around among music critics, the current Belgian music scene seems to be somewhat an unknown quantity to…

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…

I simply cannot stand anymore when any new or relatively new band that has a punk pop tendency is compared to Green Day as if those guys invented…

Ok, sometimes you have to eat your own words. Its a hard thing to do, but if has to, it has to. Reviewing the Curse of Lono EP last week, I was quite…

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

Louise Burns is one of the names of Canadian indie scene. She has been active for a long time, and she is only thirty. Her debut Mellow Drama was…

If we are looking for bands who used internet to their advantage, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah would be at the top of the list of those who utilized web…

These days it ahem there is a proliferation of singer/songwriters inspired by a similar generation from the Seventies. Like then, today’s batch can be…

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