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So you’re missing the shimmering guitars and harmonies of Kingsbury Manx? Or, maybe, you’re quite disappointed with the new Shins album (rightfully so…

You would have to search deep into the Seventies memorabilia to find the cover of the album that inspired the cover art Nashville’s The Paperhead used…

There is something I call music depression. It is an episode that lasts for several months during which the ‘’the patient’’ is unable to find new…

After flirting with orchestral and electronic sound which relied on Smith's internal content on their previous album In Dreams, Editors…

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…

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

Melbourne bases band Brighter Later is another evidence how Australia is a tough competitor on the world’s music scene. The project of Jaye…

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…

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…

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…

Another little miracle from Sweden. Promise And The Monster is alter ego of Billie Lindahl, a girl who released her debut album Transparent Knife back…

Downtempo (who still remembers trip-hop?) has become such a formulaic genre that whenever somebody lists a certain album or an artist under such a…

Making albums about every continent of the world? Sounds a bit too ambitious and pretentious, doesn't it? Actually, it depends on who does it and…

Spoiler alert: following throwback might appear more ambivalent than it really is. Emo is probably the only genre that not even those who place…

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

You know when you wait for a record, and you wait, and you wait until your anticipation slowly ceases to exist. And then, when you least expect it,…

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

Chuck Prophet has been around since the times Green On Red roamed the wide fields of roots rock in the Eighties. Those were the heady days, with The…

Fronteers are a Hullensian four piece making big waves in the UK's indie scene at the moment. Don't let their baby-faced appearance fool you,…

As each year gets close to its end, I start scavenging other people’s “best of” lists to find something I’ve not heard before, something to have for…

Daughter have released a new album that I still didn’t have the chance to listen, so I have decided to remind us all about their …

When you believe in people, the whole world is a church. And when your family believes in you, your life is easy like indie song. Music runs in the…

The name of the band sometimes tells  what we can expect from it. Joanna Gruesome is an ironic reference to folk singer Joanna Newsom but…

We’re getting flooded with acronyms, so why not another one? This time for a much-maligned term a “supergroup”. It had its troubles since Blind Faith…

Ok, so you’re born in Russia, raised in Israel, you become sensitive to all that is burdening this world and want to express it through music. Where…

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

Ok, so the girl (Zoe) is from Montreal and the boy (Nicola) is from Venice, where should they meet and what will the music they make sound like? Th…

The name of Night Beats is a hommage to Sam Cooke. These boys were touring with The Black Angels, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Zombies, Black Lips…

A lot of complaints about the second The Proper Ornaments album Foxhole. It seems to come from the same quarters that didn’t like the way…

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…

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…

After a stellar album Salt Year released in 2011, Chris Bathgate took a longer hiatus and isolated himself in the nature, enjoying symbiotic life with…

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…

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

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…

During the first half of the 90s, British collective Slowdive established as one of the most prominent shoegaze bands, leaving three classics behind…