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Forcefield
Track-By-Track Review: Tokyo Police Club's Forcefield
In 2014, Canadian alternative/indie band Tokyo Police Club released their latest album, Forcefield. So, how does it compare to their previous works,…
Hit Me Baby...
The Baseballs Are On The Edge Of Their Cover-Career
A cover of a song is like a panorama of the city seen through a differently colored glasses. Ergo, covers are fashionable. As we all know, fashion…
Politika
New release by Bernays Propaganda
One of the most popular acts on the Macedonian alternative scene, “Bernays Propaganda”, which I already introduced to the readers…
Emily's D+Evolution
Turning point in Esperanza Spalding’s career - Emily's D+Evolution review
Esperanza Emily Spalding has recently published her album Emily's D+Evolution(about two months ago), and I have to say... In this album, Esperanza…
Good Old Underground
Ewian Combines Radiohead and Muse, and the Result Is Epic
We often have a chance to witness surprises at the most unusual places. The core of this surprise is an artist Ewian Christensen, a Latvia-…
Vacation Freeze
The Greatness Of the Lesser Men
Adult disoriented rock is a phrase that The Lesser Men use to describe the genre of music they are playing. As time goes by, that is exactly how I…
Inti
Machine Mass Deliver Jazz Fusion Covers of Jimi Hendrix
Although the name sounds more metal than Megadeth, Machine Mass is actually Belgian-British-American jazz fusion band formed by guitarist Michel…
american dream
Small Letters, But Big Words from James Murphy's Pen
Recently I had a discussion with one of my friends who is also obsessed with music about significant artists who created genius music after 2000. His…
Clapton Grass
A Religious Music Compilation to Enchant the Soul
The following youtube video referenced features some of the most breathtaking religious classical vocal music ever. It is a spellbinding compilation…
Plans
Death Cab For Cutie: Plans
On my 18th birthday, a boy gifted Death Cab for Cutie's Plans to me along with a letter confessing his true feelings for me. Irrelevant as this…
Phenotype
Dissonantly Extravagant
If we compare Phenotype, the album reviewed here, with recent Select Difficulty from Periphery it’s obvious Textures selected the highest…
Capacity
Capacity
Big Thief’s sophomore album beautifully excavates family history and trauma into a delicate, intricately built folk rock record, showcasing…
The Navigator
Hurray For PoertoRican Vagabond
Alynda Segarra, the creative force behind the band Hurray For The Riff Riff, traveled across United States with a banjo in her hands like a vagabond…
Borders
What's up with Borders?
Lucky enough, it doesn’t happen all that often that a big news story actually makes it to my doorstep, or near enough anyway. For a few…
In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
Discovering Neutral Milk Hotel
I realise I’m doing this completely the wrong way around, but I really enjoy discovering older music and identifying the newer music it has influenced…
Storm Is Coming
Darrell Kelley - Storm Is Coming
Well it’s been brewing for a while now and Darrell Kelley wants you to know that it’s coming and will be here before you can ask, “What the heck was…
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…
Hello
Lyrica Anderson: freakin` Hello!
About freakin` time for the debut work of art from this amazing gal, after nothing but success with writing for the biggest industry names,…
Big Walnuts Yonder
SuperGroup With A Superpower
Big Walnuts Yonder is a supergroup. I don’t like using this hackneyed term anymore, but it is what it is. So, the supergroup is comprised of members…
Mysterium
Hammock - The endless sorrow of a loss
There are a lot of things you can think about and let your thoughts wander while lying in a hammock. Usually, you get into it to relax, have leisurely…
Majestic (Live)
Kari Jobe's Majestic (LIVE)
Worship singer Kari Jobe is a singer who is just dripping with the holy spirit. Many of the songs that she sings on her albums are full of the spirit…
Inspirations
Dwight Trible - ‘Everyday’ music becomes spiritual jazz
Singer Dwight Trible is slowly becoming a known name on the jazz scene, but also, his name is starting to crop up elsewhere in the music world. His…
Matter + Spirit
The Candles Burn on Lightly
When you take a first listen to The Candles album “Matter+Spirit” you might be lead into thinking that you are hearing a Southern or a West Coast band…
Multi-Love
“Multi-Love,” or The Art of A Loveable Claustrophobia
I can vividly picture the first reaction of those familiar with the previous work of Unknown Mortal Orchestra to the opening moments of its newest…
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…
50th Anniversary Collection
#tbt (sort of) : Neil Diamond 50th Anniversary Collection
Urge Overkill, UB 40, Barbra Streisand, Monkees, Johnny Cash. What is a common denominator for this musicians? Well, they have all covered at least…
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…
Ultimate Care II
Matmos Presents: The Sound Of Medical Prodecures
Let me present you with an album that takes the term experimentation to the whole other level. Actually, this is not the first album of its…
The Direction of Last Things
Intronaut Is the S***
Progressive is not understood by many people and that needs to change. If you are reading this and you have never been listening metal, I have…
24K Magic
Feel the magic Sparkles in24K Magic by Bruno Mars
Yeah, we all know who Bruno Mars is, but not this Bruno Mars that's on the 24K Magic Album record. If you are looking for a perfect blend of R&…
Profession chanteur
Profession singer, and a few other things too
So nice to have your label, and Freaksville is a very good indie label, that can put out your stuff. And Belgian singer Benjamin Schoos has…
Dead Reckoning
Threshold – Dead Reckoning [Review]
Threshold is my favorite progressive band hailing from the UK, and probably my favorite progressive band of them all. I more or less love all their…
Music Complete
New Order \ Old Order
They were the sh**. They were the natural continuation of Joy Division. They were pioneers of electronic and dance music combined with post punk. They…
Statues
#tbt: Moloko - Statues
Back in the 2000s, r’n’b pop was ubiquitous. There were not many pop artists who offered something else. At that time, there was one unique band. It…
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…
East
Take a trip East with Justin Rutledge
East is the latest album from Canadian alt-country singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge. Aptly titled, East was recorded in Nova Scotia, a far cry from…
The Tambourine Girls
Tambourine Girls - Another Guitar Variation That Works
No girls or tambourines among these four Aussies that go under the name Tambourine Girls on their debut album. I’m sure that a girl or two on…
Heathen
Thou - Heathen
Thou are a doom/sludge metal band from Baton Rouge in Louisiana and they have been operating as one of the more unique and better bands in the whole…
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…
Flying Microtonal Banana
King Gizzard Travels to The Middle East
When back in the Sixties droves of musicians, rock or jazz went to the Middle East and further down towards the Indian Ocean, they brought back much…
Sing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / Deluxe)
The soundtrack you can't help but Sing along to
‘Sing’ is a movie soundtrack. Listening to it without having seen the movie was hilarious - I put it on in my car when…
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-…
Dum Spiro Spero
Elsa Hewitt - Hope is eternal
Electronic artist Elsa Hewitt is hitting big this year. When you are a part of Gilles Peterson’s “Future Bubblers” program, it means you probably got…
Vivir Mi Vida - The Remixes
Marc Anthony Premieres 'Vivir Mi Vida' Making A Triumphant Return To Music
Puerto Rican Salsa sensation Marc Anthony marked his return to music when he premiered his new song, “Vivir Mi Vida”, at the…
Every Open Eye
The Resurgence of Synthpop
Esto se siente como los 80 de nuevo! Escuchar a Chvrches siempre ha sido un placer aun así debido a que su sonido a menudo me transporta de…
Gumboot Soup
King Gizzards - Five Albums in One Year
Previous year was the year of King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, and whoever tries to convince you otherwise, feel free to ignore them. When they…
I Decided.
I Decided
I Decided. attempts to bury Big Sean’s wide mean streak and present the 28-year-old in a mature light. 2015’s Dark…
Flying Microtonal Banana
Flying Microtonal Banana Is Lunatic's Manifesto
Australian geniuses King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have returned with the new album, and by the end of the year, there will be…
Road Salt Two
#tbt Pain Of Salvation: Road Salt Two
Pain of Salvation is one of those bands that you either hate or love. Ok, let's not be too harsh or too emotional; let's avoid extremes. I…
Hang
Foxygen's Hang Is An Amalgam of Retro and Modern
Do we make mistakes or do mistakes make us? I am not going to get metaphysical, don’t worry, but I am trying to emphasize the importance of occasional…
Pure Heroine
Our Heroine
It’s hard to believe that Lorde’s debut album was released four years ago. Aside from a very strong sentimental attachment that I have to it (it was…
La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful
Experimental Happiness
Whenever I am listening to this artist, I dream about Africa. Yannick Iiunga from Cape Town is the new name on the music scene. After the successful…
The Aggrovators Present: Jackie Mittoo
Jackie's Bounce
Ok, so here we have a true Reggae legend. Like Bob Marley? Well, almost. One of the things that always gets stuck in your mind when you listen to…
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…
Radio Static High
Hey Colossus - Radio Static High
The London psychedelic/krautrock masters Hey Colossus came out with a new album earlier this year, and this album surely did not disappoint. The album…
TOO
Sarcastic Punk
By Stereogum, Fildar were named one of the best bands of 2012. This year, the one who is going to name them as such is me. Great debut album was a…
Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
Can Wider Audiences Be More Prophetic About Chuck Now?
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…
Moth Boys
Spector - Moth Boys
Spector, I have been expecting you. When you are expecting something for so long and you are certain of the result of your expectation, what can…
The Divine Feminine
Divine Music
Wow. This is what I have to say about Mac Miller's brand new album The Divine Feminine. I really really really liked this album for a number of…
Need Your Light
Contagious As Always
Ra Ra Riot are born on American indie rock scene in 2006. They formed on a campus of Syracuse colleage in New York and recorded their first demo in…
Of Monkees And Men
Monkeying With The Monkees
Scott McCaughey is no more a Young Fresh Fellow. In more ways than one. For one, this legend of the Seattle music scene is no more a spring chicken…
Lust For Life
Lust for Life
The fourth full-length from Lana Del Rey is sincere and sublime, pushing her fascination with pop culture iconography even further while adding a…
Needles into the Ground
Khost - Needles Into The Ground
''Needles Into The Ground'' features the British experimental duo Khost in collaboration with Justin K. Broadrick from Godflesh, and…
More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me
more Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me Is Encouraging
If you are sick of studio albums of Bruce Springsteen, and you are looking for something similar but more powerful, The Smith Street Band have been…
Pacific Myth (Deluxe)
Metal Trailblazers of CrowdFunding
Talking and writing about the new Protest The Hero is interesting for million reasons. If we leave the brutal quality of these fun Canadian…
Quentin Tarantino The Essential (Spotify Exclusive)
How Ennio Morricone Won His First Oscar
And that is how Morricone had finally won his first Oscar only two years ago. Although soundtrack for Hateful Eight is a solid one, the situation…
Perfect Illusion
Lady Gaga Releases Perfect Illusion Tracklist
First we were surprised with the announcement of his return to the studio to record what will be his new album he decided to head Perfect Illusion,…
LNZNDRF
The National Beirut
After the collaboration of the members of The National and Menomena (aka Pfarmers), the time has come for The National and Beirut to work on their…
Pictures of Saint Paul Street
Greg Ashley - When Cynicism Pays Off
Through the 5+1 solo albums he has made so far, Greg Ashley has shown that if you are to fit into the shoes of guys like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou…
Ouroboros
Transcendental LaMontagne
When Bon Iver first appeared, he scored a nickname ‘dark version of Ray Lamontagne’. Meanwhile, Ray Lamontagne, the…
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,…
Honest Life
Folk Heroine of Generation Z
Female authors with guitars are becoming a frequent thing. And it’s good that this is the case. Every day, I discover a new name, no matter what the…
Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles
Essential Albums: Where the Light Is...
I always seem to be asked the question as to what my favourite album is and who’s my favourite artist. For me, it’s a question…
Goose Snow Cone
Coping Mechanisms
The clinical frankness of the title of indie veteran Aimee Mann’s latest album Mental Illness (2016) is actually meant as a jab…
Natural Slumber Aid
A Time for Nature, A Time For Sleep
De acuerdo con un artículo de WebMD , los adultos como usted y yo necesitan 7,5 a 8 horas de sueño cada noche. Sin embargo, el artí…
The Echo Of Pleasure
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Return To The Right Sonic Path
Bands come and go, but their members keep on moving, especially If their music addiction is impossible to cure. There is no panacea for loving music.…
Stuck in the Status Quo
All-out Against The Status Quo
As of the early Nineties, Antwerp, Belgium emerged as one of the strongest rock scenes this side of La Manche Channel. And it has quite a lot to thank…
Testify Love
Ava Cherry Coming Back With “Testify Love”
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the next witness to take the stand and provide testimony is Ava Cherry, with “Testify Love”.…
Centres
Centres Hit The Centre
Judging by his albums so far, you can call Canadian composer/musician/singer Ian William Craig’ music anything but a run of the mill ambient/neo-…
Penrose Winoa
Oro Swimming Hour - Lo-fi childhood memories
Looking at the cover of Pro Swimming Hour’s debut album Penrose Winoa (whatever that is) you have an impression that it was drawn by a very advanced…
La lucha
Interview with La Vida Boheme
In recent days, there has been great movement in the Venezuelan musical movement, with good recordings, undoubtedly one of the most outstanding has…
Horehound
Horehound
Well, what can I do – I just love that retro sound that became popular again at the beginning of the new millennium. The Dead Weather are…
Ash & Ice
Who Killed The Kills?
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have a profuse chemistry, and it has been a constant of all of The Kills albums, starting from Keep On Your Mean Side…
Back to Harbour
The Harvest Ministers - A Bumper Crop
William Merriman has been behind the quietly sophisticated Dublin band The Harvest Ministers for some thirty years now. Even though it doesn’t seem…
The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Tragic Rock Opera
After three radiant albums, Titus Andronicus are back with another radioactive material for your rock brain cells. It is not a tragedy as the title…
Different Creatures
Circa Waves Joins The Migration Crisis Awareness Movement
Four guys from Liverpool sound more confident, mature and powerful on their second full-length album, just as the frontman Keiran Shudall wanted and…
Resurrection
Adina Howard brings a freak resurrection
Adina Howard is known to be surprising. Usually she just shows she has a lot of guts. To return to music was a bit of a surprise to me too. The last I…
Live At Spacefest!
BJM's Anton Newcombe Brings The Psych Goods on Pure Phase Ensemble Collaboration
Pure Phase Ensemble 6 feat. Anton Newcombe has unveiled the video for 'Balwan', the second track teasing the…
Trippy Caribbean
Trippy Caribbean: Rawayana's new album
Rawayana is a Venezuelan band of reggae, ska and pop formed in 2007 in the city of Caracas, in 2011 released his first studio album License To Be…
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…
Renaissance
“Renaissance” in the twenty first century by Marcus Miller
I have been in some deep thoughts these days before I started writing this article. This album helped me to get my thoughts all together. Honestly I…
All of Me (Originally Performed By John Legend)
Chester See's All of Me
When All of Me by John Legend came out, I and many others loved it so much that it was bound to be a “replay track” in your audio…
The Reverses
Magnificently Insane Industrial Sludge
Oh, how I love records like The Reverses, the newest album by Terra Tenebrosa, where a bunch of maniacs plays music which could probably be used as a…
Give More Love
Young At Heart, Ringo Starr
Richard Starkley is approaching his 80th birthday, but nothing shows that he is old. For Ringo Starr, it's like time has stopped. Who knows, maybe…
Earl Grey
Girl Ray - How To Properly Brew Earl Grey
Earl Grey is a popular but finicky tea to make. If you don’t let it stand long enough, it has a bland taste: if you let it stand too long, it becomes…
Stitch Puppy
Acoustic Symbolism
Here is a manifestation of multi tasking: you are leading a punk-rock band Lagwagon while participating in million other music projects and you find…
7
Seal and his lucky number 7?
On Twitter, Seal announced it as his seventh studio album. Though that could be open for discussion, 7' is his first original album in years. His…
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…
Grace
JEFF BUCKLEY’S GRACE
One of the greatest tragedies of the 00’s was the loss of the prolific and incredibly talented musician, Jeff Buckley. It is a wonderful…
Big Love
Simply Meh
I am sure everyone in this whole wide world had listened to Simple Red’s single Stars when it came out. Guys from Simply Red had a nice…
Supernature
Goldfrapp's Supernature
Formed in 1999, Goldfrapp has been putting out smooth electronic, synth driven glam rock on a regular basis ever since. The electrifying…
We The Generation (Deluxe Edition)
The Curse of The Second Album
With their first album, the music band from London occupied the top of the charts and then many awards enriched the beginning of their career,…
Painting Of A Panic Attack (Deluxe)
Painting of A Panick Attack
Frightened Rabbit is a band from Scotland formed in 2003. Initially, it was a solo project of Scott Hutchison until it turned to band comprising of…
Caiga la Noche
Los Mesoneros finds sonorous personality and takes a risk in Caiga La Noche
Almost six years ago Innkeepers made his debut with Indelible (2011) album which received four nominations Latin Grammy 2012 in the categories of…
Orange Garage
Miminokoto - Orange Garage
Miminokoto is a pretty well-known experimental Japanese psychedelic rock/garage rock/psychedelic noise rock band. They have released many great albums…
Take Her Up To Monto
Mama Ro
The ex lead singer of legendary band Moloko released her third studio album last year, titled Hairless Toys. The album was experimental, as everyone…
Integrity Blues
Integrity Blues Does Not Sound Integrated
Instead of integral diet, Jim Adkins and emo entourage have decided to kick off with integral blues – ones again. Those of you who are familiar with…
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…
Murder Of The Universe
The Most Creative and The Most Prolific Band
Australian psychedelic rockers King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard are not slowing down. On the contrary, they announced release of four to five albums…
Intellectual Property: SOI2 (Deluxe Edition)
Recommended: The New Ras Kass Album
John Austin, musically recognized under the aka Ras Kass, is an American rapper, known for his ability and technical skill as their lyrics very…
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, &…
Higher Than Here (Deluxe)
In the here and now
I love my soul vocals smooth, unless it's the old soul music, like Motown, but every time I hear the voices of people like Amos Lee and James…
The Gamble
Refined Experiment
Reunions of past collaborators can often be disappointing, especially when it comes to art projects. Luckily, Nils Frahm did not fall into that trap…
Teens Of Denial
The Complexity of Teen Rebellion
Will Toledo is an unbelievably prolific author, the one who released ten albums in a period of just six years. Albeit he has been active…
Is This It
Impacting Music With Simplicity and Minimalism
The Strokes are an American rock band loved and listened to by many people of all ages across the world. The band was created in New York City in 1998…
Ion Vein
Never In The Spotdark
Formed in 1994 in Chicago, American metal boys Ion Vein were trying hard for a long time to find their place in the light (or should I say, in the…
Abbey Road (Remastered)
Abbey Road - My Album Recommendation by The Beatles
Abbey Road is definitely the album that will cheer you up if you are a Beatles lover. It is their 11th studio album which includes incredible songs…
RELAXER
Alt-J Loses Coherence In Eclecticism
Let's talk about eclecticism without aroma. Five years and three albums are just enough for Alt-J to make his new release highly anticipated. A…
Two Years
Two Years of Great Sound
Missing those Galaxie 500 albums? Low got too loud? Cowboy Junkies and Kristine Hersh nowhere to be found? Or, whatever happened to Kramer, the guy…
After Laughter
Bring the laughter back...
Despite having been a Paramore fan for roughly ten years now, I have to admit that I’ve fallen a little out of the loop with the band. My younger…
Music For People In Trouble
Susanne Sundfor - Music to get you out of trouble
Norwegian singer Susanne Sundfor has been around for some ten years now, but she gained more international prominence only after her 2015 album Ten…
Cut Your Teeth
This Cambridge Girl Will Cut Your Teeth
It is not neccesary to be educated in order to create good music. In the case of Kyla La Grange, it seems like her educational experience in…
Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Deluxe Edition)
Seniors Just Wanna Have Fun
Taxi, can I get I ride to the 90s? The longest way possible. I am not a fan of the people who are nostalgic, those wise braggers who have lived…
One Woman Man
Powerful follow up to One Strike
All Saints are picking up the pace of their comeback. I feel like it was only yesterday when they released their first single since 2006, “…
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…
Begin
Neo Soul
Lion Babe is a duo from New York that has just released its debut album Begin. They are characterized as neo soul, even though there are many…
I
Ulaan Khol - I
Ulaan Khol are one of the many projects of Steven R. Smith, and one of the slowest and noisiest for that matter. There are quite a few albums under…
The English Riviera
Metronomy <3
Happiness is just the matter of seizing the right moment to do the right thing. There are some things that are always right. Whenever I get depressed…
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.…
Smoke Beach
Kill West - Smoke Beach
Kill West are a relatively new Argentinian stoner/psychedelic/garage rock band, who have stormed into the psych rock scene with their great new album…
Interpretations
The Ups & Downs of Charles Matthews Jr.’s “Interpretations”
This is a collection of primo R&B songs done by a long term musician in the R&B world. A deeper look into the songs on this record,…
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…
Awake And Pretty Much Sober
Intricately Layered & Easy on the Ears
Awake and Pretty Much Sober by Violents is one of my most recent discoveries and the strange tension between cool, icy indifference and…
La Saboteuse
Yazz Ahmed - World Jazz At Its Best
Quite a number of modern jazz trumpet players are adding various tonalities from different musical styles as well as from different parts of the world…
The Hunted
Watch 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Trailer feat. The Hunted by Snow Ghosts
'The Hunted' is out now, accompanied by a new re-worked version and a remix by Malcolm Axel. Tracklisting: 1. The Hunted (Apocalypse Version)2…
In The Now
Perfect Dull Xmas Present
It’s Christmas, the time of the year when it’s all about giving presents. Books and records are always a good thing to give. Some of the people in…
The Archives of Rotten Blues +1
Green Machine - The Archives of Rotten Blues
Green Machine or ''Greenmachine'' as they are usually spelled, is a cult Japanese stoner metal/sludge/psych rock band. While all of…
The Bad Testament
Obscure Blues of Scott H. Biram
Self-proclaimed one man band and one of the damned guys of outlaw country, Scott H. Biram, brings The Bad Testament, an album that comes after various…
More Rain
Come Back, M Ward
My brain has a special grey area. It is an area where I feel peculiar empathy for all of those great artists who suddenly start losing…
Fake Sugar
Thank God Beth Ditto Didn't Dissapear
You will agree that there is an ever-occurring phenomenon called a disappearing artist. I am not adverting to artistic people who were kidnapped or…
Beauty Behind The Madness
Boring Weeknd
There is no beauty nor madness here. Abel Makkonen Tesfaye aka The Weeknd has impressed the charts with his second album Beauty Behind The Madness but…
Vessels
From Dust To Dust
Melodic Death metal is in a rut nowadays; numerous bands are playing it, and just a handful of them can be called original, quality ones, ones that…
Better Man
Little Big Town reveals Swift debut with Better Man
Better Manis the new single off Little Big Town's album, Breaker. The song was penned by a young girl in Nashville, who had pitched the…
Canadiana Grotesquica
Geoff Berner - Canadian Gargantua and Pantagruel
For those that decided to skip reading the Francois Rabelais literature classic Gargantua and Pantagruel, Canadiana Grotesquica, the new, seventh…
Calm Down
Has Katy B calmed down too much?
UK singer, Katy B, usually is always “ok” in my book. Normally I fall in love with any track that she sings. She’s got a…
Peace Potato
Doug Tuttle - DIY Psychedelic Pop
Her comes do it yourself man Doug Tuttle third time around as a solo artist and offers us his Peace Potato. Hot potato or not, right off, it is a very…
Before We Forgot How To Dream
Who is SOAK?
One thing is for sure when it comes to Irish people – they have an incredible sense for melody. They never sound like they are going to…
The Gleaner
Tara Dente Comes Through
La música es aún mejor cuando se comparte. Así es como Tara Dente describe concisamente el proceso de creación de su segundo &#…
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…
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…
So What The Fuss
Stevie Wonder rapping! Yeah, you read well!
I can never get enough satisfied while listening to the music of Stevie Wonder! I would like to share with you guys a song by Stevie Wonder from the…
Real Fake
Xinobi's Emphatic and Anthemic Dance Track
Xinobi is the stage name for Portuguese DJ and music producer Bruno Cardoso, who makes music under the Discotexas label with Moullinex. Real Fake is a…
WTF (Where They From) [feat. Pharrell Williams]
WTF MISSY?!
What the F are all these Hip Hop artists doing with all that money. THIS is how you do it! Two words: Missy Elliot. This…
Power Over Men
50 Shades, Reversed
Power Over Men is a single from London singer-songwriter Jamie T's (Jamie Treays) upcoming fourth album Trick. While Jamie T is relatively unknown…
Timeline
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It's Midnight
Palpitations For The Broken Hearted and Mistreated
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I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around
Stylized Moodiness
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Slip Away
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Drove U Crazy (feat. Bryson Tiller)
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Please
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Sexy Boy
A Sultry Transgression
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My Signature Move
Pink Unleashes Her Imagination To Create “Just Like Fire”
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The Man Who Sold The World - 2014 Remastered Version
COVERLAND Vol.11: The Man Who Sold the World
There are countless covers throughout music history; some were more successful than the originals, some were not, but there aren’t so many…
Mecca
Transcendental Desire
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Breathe (feat. Melanie Munoz)
Breathe by Beat Author
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Take It All
Take It All
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Summer Holiday
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Buried Plans
Minor Alps' Introspective Harmonizing
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Clementine
Her Name isn't Clementine?
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King
Performance Art Fit For A King
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Beggin & Pleadin
Brandy Gears up For Metamorphosis
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Did I Step on Your Trumpet
Danielson's version of Gospel
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Karma Police
The Subtle Artistry of Karma Police
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Replica
How a Song Called Replica Sounds Unique
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Thong Song (feat. Sisqo)
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Archie, Marry Me
Catchy Conviction
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The Garden
Sunny Ozell Evokes Leisurely Domestic Bliss with The Garden
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On + Off
Maggie Rogers Turns Us On + Off Again
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Hurricane
Heart of Darkness
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Party Like a Russian
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On Hold
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Paint It, Black
Ciara's dark side sounds good
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Talking to Myself
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Runnin' (Lose It All)
Runnin' Through the Charts
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Sour Patch Bounce - Original Mix
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One More Night
Cathartic Retro-Soul
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Just Hold On
Louis Tomlinson's first solo release
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Little Bubble - edit
When the Bubble Bursts
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First Time He Kissed a Boy
Transcending Homophobia
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Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)
Entrapment of an Era
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Friendship (Is A Small Boat In A Storm)
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Every Kind Of Way
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Electric Love
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Afterhours feat. Diplo & Nina Sky
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You Look Good
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Everybody's Got Something
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Shine a Light
Heavenly Transcendence
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I Love You More Than You Love Yourself
Austra's Operatic Empathy
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Poor Boy
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Blu (feat. Damon Albarn)
Hedonic Confusion
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Love Me
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Secret Love Song
A Mix of a Little Everything
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Carry Us
Singer-Songwriter With An Uplifting Advantage
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Let's Hurt Tonight
One Republic are not as strong as before
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Gangsta
Will Jay's Gangsta Presents a Counter-Cultural Vision of Masculinity
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Baby
It's Pixie Baby!
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My My My!
Troye Sivan Embodies Uninhibited Queer Desire in “My My My!”
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Together, Locked Safely
Electronic Melancholy
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Don't Touch My Hair
Militant Serenity
What you did indeed say is, “This is why many black people are uncomfortable being in predominately white spaces,” and you still…
Hotline Bling
Cool Groove Hotline Bling
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Bassically
Tei Shi's Intimate Power Struggle
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Roses
A Not-So-Typical Love Song
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Man on the Moon
Zella Day's Psychedelic Dreaminess
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Stop Playing With My Heart
Timeless Anguish
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The Other Side of Hollywood (feat. Cheyenne Jackson)
Interview with Songwriting and Music Production Duo Doug Rockwell and Tova Litvin
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Cone of Shame
Faith No More with a new video for Cone Of Shame
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Buried Alive
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Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
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Freal Luv (Far East Movement X Marshmello)
Eclectic Hybridity
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With A Little Help From My Friends - Remastered
COVERLAND Vol.26: With a Litle Help from My Friends
When I was starting to listen and collect rock LP’s as a teenager, the triple vinyl from Woodstock ‘69 came to me before a Beatles…
Stardom
Pushing the Right Buttons
Uncovering an international band is equivalent to finding your long lost twin. If that is too overly melodramatic, well that's how it feels. Lust…
Luna
What to do when you can't talk?
In the history of music, singing emerged as a form of expression of the slaves who were in America, it was his way of expressing pain, sing to nature…
Red Eyes
Thomas Azier's Haunting, Retro-Gazing Electropop
Music has turned into nothing more than just a rush in the background while you are busy doing other things. I don't want to change that, but I…
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…
Dangerous Woman
Dangerous Women in all its Versions
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Behind Your Back
Funky Furtado
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Never Be the Same
Can Camila Cabello Score a Continuity of Hits with “Never Be the Same”?
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Rise
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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…
Tulips
Luxuriant Stasis
Based in San Francisco, The Bilinda Butchers consist of Michal Palmer, Adam Honingford, and Ryan Wansley, who derived their band name by…
You're a Germ
Wolf Alice Throws Ill At Ease Chaos With You're A Germ
At one point no one had heard of Wolf Alice and within a two-year span, everyone was sharing a song or two from the acclaimed English band. …
Sign of the Times
A Promising New Direction
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On Hold
Disco-Tinged Bittersweetness
In The Key of Awesome's 2010 parody of Lady Gaga's Telephone, there's a line that resonates powerfully in the smartphone and social media…
Subways
Quirky Psychedelia
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Es Mejor
[ IRAN ] DUSTS OUT A CLASSIC OF PARANOIAS
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Midnight - Single Version
Power of Love
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All Along the Watchtower
COVERLAND Vol.12: All Along the Watchtower
Jimi’s version was the first I heard in my life. Quite sometime passed until I heard the original version by Bob Dylan. And I liked it also very much,…
Get Lucky
COVERLAND Vol.25: Get Lucky
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In and Out
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
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Shine A Light
A Grand, Soulful Empowerment Anthem
Initially known as Raines, Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Mike Nelson changed his stage name to BANNERS with the release of Shine the Light - a…
Stitches
Stitched up by Shawn Mendes!
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Heathens
The Suicide Squad OST: Heathens
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Just right
The Song That GOT Me Into Kpop
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Oh Woman Oh Man
Orchestral Grandiosity
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Despacito - Versión Pop
Despacito is on top of the world
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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.…
You Know I'm No Good
Far Too Good To Not Be Good
'You Know I'm No Good' references several of Amy Winehouse's own views about herself. Self-image, emotional stability and the rocky…
Rooting For You
Rooting for You
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One Call Away
Charlie Puth
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Bajo la Tormenta
What if the sky falls?
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Twentytwo
Sunflower Bean's “Twentytwo”: Perseverance Against a Pessimistic View of Adulthood
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It Ain't Safe
It Ain't Safe... But the Music is Good
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Out of Love
Armchair Stack
Out of Love is the first single from London trio Strong Asian Mothers' (vocalist and keyboardist Kalim Patel, drummer, producer and writer Josh…
Troubleman
The Long Cut
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All In My Head (Flex)
Big Fifth Gear Flex Time!
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The Spoils
Graceful Dread
Bristol-based trip hop pioneers Massive Attack have recently released an eerie, abstract and beautiful video for “The…
Hymn For The Weekend
Coldplay gives us a taste of what they will present at SuperBowl 50 with Beyonce
With less than a week for the big show and it seems to excite the fans and leave the audience wanting more, the artists invited to celebrate the…
Smile
Lily Allen Still Brings On A Smile
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Glorious (feat. Skylar Grey)
Can't hold Macklemore down, again
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Obsesionado
Farruko drives the networks crazy with his new video
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Will I See You
Seeing too much
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Hallelujah
More Pentatonix Christmas
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Juntos
What Does Latin Love Sound Like?
The sounds are always with us; heartbeat, breathing, for example, are natural sounds that are within us, and that usually do not listen. Sometimes we…
Map to the Stars
Laidback Pyschedelia
Lo-fi bedroom pop band Ducktails recently released Map To The Stars, the first taste of their upcoming sixth album Jersey Devil (and…
Guys My Age
Edgy Teen-Pop
I think our idea was just about writing from personal experience. We’ve been in this situation before — we had people writing…
Gilid
Music From My Country: OPM Series (Part 1)
Gilid by Moonstar88 is still probably one of my favorite Filipino songs ever. It talks about loving from a distance. The word “gilid&…
Flesh Without Blood
Grimes Flesh Without Blood
The self proclaimed alien love-child of Aphex Twin and ABBA, Grimes, released a new single this week entitled . The Canadian singer songwriter cites a…
Take Me
A Song for Mending Hearts
South Korean singer-songwriter MISO's debut single Take Me is the promising result of her artistic incubation with the Red Bull Music…
The Jungle Line
COVERLAND Vol.10: The Jungle Line
This article from the Coverland series is a sort of an homage to Leonard Cohen, who passed away yesterday. I am not a fan of his work, but he left his…
RAW EXIT
Channy Leaneagh's Schizophrenic Feminism
Noisey: Your new record “Shulamith” is named after the radical feminist Shulamith Firestone. How did you come about her?  …
Oh Woman Oh Man
This may be the best way to listen to London Grammar
Part of the problem with London Grammar’s first album, If You Wait, is that each song was weighted down by dark moods, emotion, and tone.…
Úa
Sóley's “Úa”: Icelandic Fairy-Tale Escapism
When Icelandic multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter Sóley (Sóley Stefánsdóttir) released her…
Dear Life
Beck's Psychedelic Existentialism
Veteran idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Beck poses a dreary existential question in the chorus of “Dear Life”, the fourth track…
Forgive Me
Austra's Forgive Me: The Art of Sad Dance Music
I borrowed the title of this blog post from The Guardian's review of Canadian electronic band Austra's second album, Olympia…
Bounce Back
Big Officially Bouncin` Back!
Mr. Big is back to enlighten us again... Latest visual of the Bounce Back joint produced by the amazing …
Apartment Story
Songs that started it all: The National, Apartment Story
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Angels
Transmissions in Space
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Closer
Lemaitre Have Us Believing Happiness Is That Much Closer
'Closer' by Lemaitre featuring Jennie A. was ironically discovered (for myself) through the new Pixel Google Phone commercial that Youtube…
Sativa
Jhené Aiko and Rae Sremmurd's Sativa Evokes a Beguiling Weed Trip
‘I'll keep it simple, baby’. On “Sativa”, her standout duet with Mississippi hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd,…
Adicta
Maite Perroni shows herself “Adicta” in her New Video
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Renegade
Midnight - 4 am
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Mythological Beauty
Big Thief Open A Cinematic View Into The Vision That is Mythological Beauty
Capacity the second album coming from Big Thief follows vocalist/guitarist Adrianne Lenker through the stories she has lived throughout her life. One…
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…
Youth in Decay
Troves' Elegy for Lost Youth
You've probably never heard of Troves, and that's because they're brand new. Formed in Brighton, England, in early 2014, the band…
Don't You Wait
Take Care For Now
Don't expect to group Cloves in with the rest. Every day it may seem like a melancholy songstress comes into view. Yet with Cloves their is a…
T.O.N.Y.
Classy Sass
I could make the argument that Solange (Knowles) deserves to be appreciated as an artist without being compared to her older sister Beyonc&…
Wanna Be Yours
Flash Guordan Is Banks!
While his debut is still cookin`, R`n`B soulman Guordan Banks fires up new lightning. Slow-teaser Wanna Be Yours …
One More Dollar
A Migrant's Tale
If it wasn't for Berklee's Songwriting MOOC on Coursera, I would never have known of Gillian Welch's gem of a song. One More Dollar is a…
Have I Been A Fool
Have I Been A Fool
Jack Fabian Peñate was born in Blackheath, a fairly posh London suburb, on September 9, 1984. While still in his teens, …
American Money
Money Does Look Like Love
BORNS also known by the birth name Garrett Borns recently released music video for 'American Money' dresses up and plays on our hyper…
Still Breathing
Still Kicking...
Green Day are continuing on their status quo of releasing videos, this one for their latest single 'Still Breathing' is a lyric music video.…
Point Seen Money Gone (feat. Jeremih)
''Point Seen Money Gone'' new Snoop Dogg video
Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. was born in Long Beach on October 20, 1971, better known as Snoop Dogg or Lion in his experimental side with reggae and…
3 Things
When Your Life is Falling Apart, Listen to Jason Mraz
I found this song last year when my teacher recommended it to me. I found out I had anxiety, I was so stressed with school and my personal life. I…
Real Thing
Urgent Honesty
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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…
Bohemian Rhapsody - Remastered 2011
Never ending rhapsody
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Lost Stars
Adam Levine releases song without Maroon 5
This song is called Go Now, and is not part of a new album, it's just a project that was part and is an English film called Sing Street,…
About Today
Warrior gave us The National song that could not be beaten
Warrior is a complex film about the nature of family, abuse, and violence. It was billed as a sports movie but the fact that it starred both Tom Hardy…
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…
Your Best American Girl
Truth Tells No Lies
Mitski clearly focus' on an all too real issue. The radical effect to be 'Your Best American Girl' campaign. Even though I reside in the…
Manuel Medrano
The molten pop of Manuel Medrano
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Maluma
Maluma's Four Babies
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Axl Rose
Axl Rose on tour with AC/DC
Axl Rose, the leader of the US group Guns N'Roses, will be the lead singer of the Australian rock band AC / DC during the upcoming European…
Eric Frisch
Eric Frisch spreads good vibes with new music video The Light Ahead
The feel good song for the holidays is already among us. Eric Frisch has released the most light-hearted and fun music video that we can watch over…
Tinashe
Companionship To Joyride ! ! !
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Volcano Choir
Volcano Choir - A New Discovery
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Victor Drija
Bieber's Sorry is covered by Victor Drija
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Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Bedingfield is the pop prom girl
Some pop songs become classics due to sales or large amount of plays, but other songs become classics on the Night of the Proms. The Proms puts…
LjPix
New Swag with an Old Twist
I've been keeping track of this artist and I have to say I'm somewhat impressed. He's not the most lyrical or creative but he definitely…
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart premieres video for “Saturday Night”
Just a few days ago , the indie singer - songwriter, Venezuelan / American origin, Devendra Banhart, published his last full - length, Ape In Pink…
Aldemaro Romero
Dinner in Caracas with Aldemaro Romero
A musical celebration of Caracas would be incomplete without the participation of the great Aldemaro Romero. A native of Valencia (Carabobo), he…
Bain Wolfkind
Bain Wolfkind
Coffee, black coffee, I need more black coffee right now. Black coffee, black nails on her feet and a black poison between us. Making love in a car,…
Banks
A Poignant Finale
You might love, hate or be wholly indifferent to Lena Dunham's highly polarizing and thinkpiece-baiting HBO series Girls, but it…
Luis Fonsi
Christmas gift for Luis Fonsi
Puerto Rican singer luisfonsi and his wife aguedalopez21 , Spanish on which this married since 2014, welcomed on Tuesday their second child, a son…
Chris Brown
Rihanna and Chris Brown together again
Seems to have left behind all that conflict between famous artists Rihanna and Chris Brown, after being a famous Hollywood couple, remember that all…
James Franco
James Franco releases album for his band Daddy
It is not the first time we see a famous actor enter the world of music. Now it is the turn to the great James Franco to break into this industry…
Kanye West
“Swish” already has a release date
February 11, 2016 will be the release date of the new album of Kanye West, which was confirmed by the rapper himself through its official account of…
Bahari
The Wild Ones Lure to Surrealism
The song has listeners obviously wanting more. A style that breathes smooth and relaxing, this group can without a doubt be on your list of…
Nicki Minaj
Hot 100 dominatrix
After the whole thing about that Nicki Minaj diss track and the discussions that followed the inevitable happened: Nicki’s star status got even bigger…
The Killers
The Killers dedicate a new album to Christmas
The US group The Killers presented its traditional annual project dedicated to Christmas. For this year, it is the disk Do not Waste Your Wishes, a…
DJ Snake
DJ Snake comes with everything
William Sami Etienne Grigahcine, better known as DJ Snake and famous for producing great songs like Turn Down For What and Lean On, he confirmed…
Abraham Mateo
If it doesn't work, do reggaeton
He is a graceful, talented young man, accustomed to singing pop, romantic songs, a kind of Hispanic Justin Bieber. Maybe it had its captive audience,…
Justin Quiles
The Veguilla brothers remix Si Ella Quisiera
Gadiel Yandel and have made the decision to intervene in the famous song if she wanted the reggaetonero J Quiles. The successful issue that has put…
Britney Spears
Britney censored.
The return of Britney Spears new music continues to talk about. Not only for the physical exercised where is the singer, but also for the new album…
Rhett May
Rhett Mays Creatures of the Night is a Pink Floyd Inspired Rock Masterpiece
Rhett May has created what is sure to be the next classic rock hit with his psychedelic rock-pop fusion album “Creatures of the Night.”&…
Alfredo Naranjo
Alfredo Naranjo and Rafael El Pollo Brito serenade Venezuela
They call land of grace and thus from the affection felt towards the terroir, devote the space born a subject which is, above all, a declaration of…
Weezer
The White Album, the new Weezer
A white image published in their social networks enough to deduct the release of the new album by the American band Weezer: The White Album, titled…
Zapato3
They premiere a documentary about the band Zapato 3
The rock and roll reaches the rooms Venezuelan cinema with the screening of the documentary Flight over you, which records the trips and concerts…
Jake Monaco
Interview with Jake Monaco
One of the hardest working composers in television and film, Jake Monaco is currently providing the score to three different series: Amazon’…
Michelle Lewis
Michelle Lewis ‘The Parts of Us That Still Remain’ - Album Review
Michelle Lewis, with her folk/pop lilt and incredibly personal, storytelling narratives, is the true definition of a songwriter; as her press pack…
Phoenix
The Gararock 2017 festival among the best in the world
Paris is the love capital of the world and today is the epicenter of the terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Islamic State. However, the capital of…
Francesco Digilio
Biography
Francesco Digilio, pianist, arranger and record producer, is active on the Italian and international music scene.Francesco Digilio boasts several…
Percy Grainger
PERCY GRAINGER’S “MOLLY ON THE SHORE”
Percy Grainger is one of the premier composers for the Wind Band. He is certainly someone I would want to be molded partially after. One of the pieces…
Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Wilson ‘Christmas In My Heart’ - Album Review
Country music and Christmas music have a long-standing partnership, and each year sees several major artists releasing their collections of standards…
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin returns to La Paz 23 years later.
Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin returned today to woo his audience in La Paz, 23 years after his first visit to the Bolivian city, which arrived…
ATTICUS GEORGE
Atticus George ‘Tomboy’ – EP Review
Atticus George are going from strength to strength. I featured them back last November when they released their debut single ‘The Reins’, and…
Lil Mama
When we thought we saw everything
Pop music female figure and he took the musical world stage for several years. During early millenium they had very popular prominent figures, but…
Sinead Harnett
Easing on to the top
Sinead Harnett will immediately grab your attention with her soulish voice and a look that reminds you a lot of Jessie J. Her latest single, &…
Carla Morrison
Carla Morrison: Studying All The Time
It is no secret that Mexico is the most important music market in Spanish and also one of the largest. Wherever you look, there will always be an…
Britney Spears
Britney Spears present in social networks.
It is no secret that this new world of social networks has served as a form of market for artists because through them keep informed all his…
Nick Merico
If You Were My Girl Review
Nick was born in Argentina on December 29, 1995. He currently resides in Miami, Florida. Nick started performing at the age of 11 at various…
Lindi Ortega
Lindi Ortega @ East Village Arts Club, Liverpool, UK | January 29, 2016 – Review
Unlike many of the country artists gracing UK shores of late, Lindi Ortega has a storied history touring in Britain and Europe. Part of the reason for…
Barrule
Barrule ‘Manannan’s Cloak’ - Album Review
Fiddler Tomas Callister, Welsh accordionist Jamie Smith, and bouzouki player Adam Rhodes, make up the Manx power-trio, Barrule. Hailing from The Isle…
Aventura
Adventure returns
Good news for fans of Bachata. The renowned Aventura, once the king of bachata commanded Romeo Santos, said that will rejoin for a stellar presentaci…
José Alfredo Jimenez
Jose Alfredo Jimenez birthday
Jose Alfredo Jimenez is the highest representative who has had the Mexican ranchera music and bohemia. It was a bon vivant world between canteen and…
Gwen Stefani
Return of a Dynamic Duo
It’s been, how long, since this duo has teamed up to produce an awesome song? I’m not really sure but I remember when they did,…
Lil Supa
Lil Supa' soon in Bogota
Marlon Morales undoubtedly real and authentic character, constant tiller of his mention of exponent of Hip Hop Venezuelan and Latin American, arrives…
Monstercat
Five years of electronics: Monstercat seeks excellence
Among others, the Earmilk website recently published a delicious work on electronic seal Monstercat, who recently arrived in its fifth anniversary.…
Dustin Lynch
Dustin Lynch is Golden With New Album
Dustin Lynch has been named numerous times as a country artist to watch. He as great albums that are making waves in the country genre. I remember…
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt Dazzles With Virtuosity in His Concerto For Orchestra
Franz Liszt, the consummate master of piano composition and piano music in the Romantic period may have had a glamorous career as a virtuosic…
New Reveille
New Reveille ‘Cannonball’ – Album Review
You might be wondering who New Reveille are, since I usually only review the albums of major artists. New Reveille are an independent country/alt-…
Daya
Definitely not sitting still
Not all that long ago, I considered writing about Daya when she had released ‘Hide Away’, but I think someone else here at Kurrent…
Calvin Harris
The most popular songs of 2017
2017 has been good for the music world. These months have had good movement and we are only in the middle of the year. For this reason the Billboard…
Scout Gillett
Scout Gillett Shines Bright in 2020
Scout Gillett is an artist on the rise for this year. Her groundbreaking new single one to ten has been making the rounds and captivating all in its…
Rayland Baxter
Rayland Baxter ‘Imaginary Man’ – Album Review
I first came across Rayland Baxter back in 2013 when he came across the pond to support Kacey Musgraves in London on her ‘Same Trailer Different Park’…
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher all surly
The arrogance of Noel Gallagher was unveiled to the world since 1991 when he formed with his brother Liam, the legendary British band Oasis. Despite…
Lorenzo Mohr
Show-Stopping Debut Release From Lorenzo Mohr!
Twangy guitar riffs and a bold, jazzy sax accompaniment provide the basis for this enthusiastic anthem by Italian native, Lorenzo Mohr. His debut…
Deutsch Nepal
Deutsch Nepal
It is like a mantra and fresh water. It is like life itself staring into your eyes. You are full of fear. You do not know what to do and…
Backstreet Boys
Back Street Boys and Spice Girls could prepare a tour together
Still they have no confirmed countries and above date, only been advanced that could occur during the next 2016. There is only a small chance of…
Future
Collaboration between Future and Drake
Two of the most influential rappers of the genre have released a new single in between. This new track, Used To This, part of the new Future mixtape,…
Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns--A Great Live Worship Experience?
If you are looking to get close to God, this is a live worship experience that you could pursue. The music has some of the elements of Jesus and his…
MGMT
2017 will be the year of MGMT
The sound that create alternative bands when composing his songs are full of rhythmic and harmonic seduces from the first moment you hear. If you…
Adele
Towards the 2017 Grammys
On Sunday February 12 will be held the 59th. Grammy Awards, with which will be awarded to the best albums produced in 2016. In the category of Album…
Yandel
Never forget me official video
Yandel Reggaeton singer has released a new music video on their YouTube channel, it is the topic Never Forget Me, second song from his latest album…
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…
Alexis & Fido
One in a million, Colombian Remix
This topic has been ringing everywhere for a few months, and that Alexis & Fido do not stop perrología create hits. While this song is a…
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga prepares for her new tour
Whether in a bar or on a baseball field, Lady Gaga says she will give it all in every performance. The singer leaves this summer on a stadium tour…
Giuseppe Verdi
mass of the dead
One of the most beautiful musical forms is the requiem, requiem or Missa pro defunctis or Missa defunctorum. It is a generally sung work, which…
Roxana Labatt
Breakout Single The Way From Brand New Artist Roxana Labatt!
“The Way” is Austin, Texas based singer Roxana Labatt’s debut single to hit the streaming platforms, set to be released on June 19th. Although she is…
One Direction
Is One Direction over?
It seems that sad news for fans of One Direction is coming. The successful British boyband could come to an end after almost 6 years of being on top…
Rae Sremmurd
Rae Sremmurd - Set The Roof ft. Lil' Jon
The musical duo called Rae Sremmurd, composed by brothers Lee and Slim Jxmmi Swae is to return then hit No Type with a new album called SremmLife 2,…
Awkwafina
Flipping Racial Stereotypes
As (2016) producer Salima Korona observes, hip hop culture and Asian Americans are generally perceived to be polar opposites: To be honest,…
Rawayana
A band made on the internet
Beyond just trying to make music, Rawayana is a Venezuelan group that invites people to escape from reality to an imaginary island of much reggae and…
Daphne Khoo
Innocence Lost
The high-tech, hyper-globalized island nation of Singapore (population size: 5.5 million people) may be known as the Switzerland of South-…
The Beatles
The story behind the unpublished photos from the Beatles' last concert 50 years ago.
Bruno Coon, a fan of the Beatles, witnessed 50 years ago the last concert of the group, certainly a historic event. But the Californian, which at…
arnoldSRecords
arnoldSRecords' artist manifesto
Arnoldsrecords has been composing for years as an amateur and now semi-professional. He loves to create surprises and original atmospheres to maintain…
Rubén Blades
The great Rubén Blades and his last tour
With a heavy Ruben Blades announced that his tour Walking, goodbye and thank you will be the last of his career. Panama stated that, for the moment,…
Marc Nelson
Marc Nelson is open for business
La semana pasada, Marc Nelson dejó caer una pista nueva en Soundcloud y anunció que más nueva música venía. Tras el intento…
Natalia Lafourcade
Natalia Lafourcade and her emotional compass
By Gerardo Guarache Ocque It's December 2012, Christmas eve. His manager, his family, almost everyone tells him not to do it. He has time,…
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel’s Concert In Central Park 1981
After about 11 years of being broken up, Simon and Garfunkel finally launched on a successful show and following tour of the 1980s. The starting point…
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden
Mark Bowden is a very innovative composer who likes to improv with woodwind instruments. The only work that I could find so far is “Parable&…
Julio Iglesias
Julio Iglesias concerts are postponed for October.
The singer Julio Iglesias has been forced to postpone concerts he had planned in Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Miami until next October, because of…
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift already has a name for her next album
Finally the pop star released the name of his new album and release date. Taylor Swift, through social networks has announced that her new album…
6 String Drag
6 String Drag Interview
Kenny Roby (previously featured here) and Rob Keller disbanded 6 String Drag at the top of their game, nearly 15 years ago. The first new album from 6…
Japan
Kousokuya
Sinking into a swamp of vicious and dark sounds seems so easy and not painful. This mirage wraps you; it hugs you with iron tenderness. You’…
The Beatles
The Revolutionary Album “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” by the Beatles
Unfortunately a lot of people today know “The Beatles” just for Yesterday, Let it be etc. In fact these are 4 English boys (Paul…
Frank Ticheli
Vesuvius By Frank Ticheli
t’s time for another Frank Ticheli piece review. Vesuvius is a fabulous rhythmically syncopated piece written on the theme of the famous…
Ciro y los Persas
Ciro's Persian Orange is coming
It started the countdown to the presentation of the upcoming album of the grouping Argentina Cyrus and the Persians. The rock band, formed in 2009,…
Yew Haiku
Yew Haiku Unveils Bold New EP
Yew Haiku’s latest release “Psy and Cygnet” is an experimental and intricate EP for those looking for an indie/bedroom pop dream. This 3 track EP,…
Desorden Público
The unnoticed discs of Public Disorder
little more than a week ago Public Disorder released Those who stay, those who leave with its own video, which speaks of a phenomenon that…
Marama
We tried, the new from Márama
The Uruguayan group Marama, famous for its success Loquita presented, through their social networks, their latest single entitled We tried,…
Blondie
Pollinator is the new and more Punk from Blondie.
A pinch of melody: that's the most important ingredient for a good Blondie song, according to singer Debbie Harry. We try to do something…
Dierks Bentley
Dierks Bentley ‘Somewhere On A Beach’ – Single Review
Dierks Bentley recently released his eighth studio album, Black, in May of this year. Bentley calls the new album a “relationship…
Nights Amore
A Beautiful Discovery: Nights Amore
There is this artist who I just found who is so to-the-heart and the music is so inspiring. It’s Nights Amore. In just discovering their music, the…
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj twerks for “Rake It Up” video
Just after the rumor that the music video was not going to be released would reach the fans, the Nicki Minaj and Yo Gotti audiovisual for the song…
Bob Dylan
#tbt Bob Dylan: John Wesley Hardling
This week I am taking you back to the record that witnessed Bob Dylan turning his back on countercultural scene for whose construction ge was majorly…
Dirty Beaches
Dirty Beaches
Memories and Future Visions. Oh, I still remember that moment when I’ve heard Dirty Beaches for the first time! It was “Black Silk…
Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots' Suicide Squad video
Ready, go to the best grain. You came to read this news just because he said Suicide Squad or Twenty One Pilots is a combination of names that can…
Drake
Drake presents Sings at Paris Fashion Week
Although in the last days the news of all the portals has been the images where Drake is seen as the deceived by Rihanna by the famous photos of the…
Calvin Harris
My Way new song by Calvin Harris.
Scottish producer and DJ based in the UK has launched its new work is called My way, where we have the opportunity to hear him sing. You're…
Margo Price
Margo Price’s Surreal Year
When news came out last month that Margo Price and Sturgill Simpson did not receive any CMA nominations, fans of country music were left scratching…
Sixto Rein
Sixto Rein and his other place
The career of this corduroy is one of the most followed among Venezuelans, and that Sixto Rein has presented topics that have become hits that have…
Carly Rae Jepsen
Let's turn up the volume (hope)
Although our mind and our dominant feelings are not positive, music has that ability to change our mood in just a few seconds. It also happens…
Chayanne
Chayanne joins Wisin in What Have You Done To Me
Chayanne returns to the music scene with a new and interesting proposal adding to reggaeton song with Wisin, one of the movement's leaders.…
The Coachella
The coachella was a success
In recent years, one of the best known music festivals, has been the great Coachella, and in this edition 2017, as it was seen coming, would be a…
Hillsong Young & Free
Hillsong Young and Free New Hip Christian Pop
Hillsong Young and Free is one of the offshoots of the Famous Hillsong and much of the music that they produce is upbeat music seemingly for the…
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers
Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers ‘Loved Wild Lost’ - Album Review
If ‘Effortlessly Cool’ was in the dictionary, Nicki Bluhm’s face would be next to it. She, with her draping bangs, skinny frame, smokey voice and…
Wet
Melodic Melancholy
These songs are about being stuck in in-between places on a few levels. Being in the ambiguous place between the end of a relationship and whatever is…
Emily West
Emily West ‘All For You’ – Album Review
Patience and persistence are handy virtues when pursuing a career in music, and for every Taylor Swift, whose star has been shining since the age of…
Anima Sound System
Anima-Sound
Family You know, “a husband and a wife” means everything to me. Maybe I’m too romantic, I don’t know. But…
MC Hammer
MC Hammer did a one-time-only gig
Somewhere in August, the strangest thing reached me. It was a promo for a concert at the Staples Center in LA, USA. Nothing too weird really, but the…
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…
Piva
Piva wants to stomp with Bad
Piva continues with his career and eager to take on the world. Guatemala is in full promotion stage Mala, where he visited Venezuela to present this…
Mary J. Blige
Go crazy Mary J!
I feel a little misled today. I’d seen a UK radio station mention a new Mary J Blige single on their website last week. There’s…
Darius Rucker
Darius Rucker ‘Home For The Holidays’ – Album Review
Every year as we reach October and November, a new selection of country artists make their mark on the Christmas period. Some do so with a stronger…
HS87
Interview: Rey Reel
Published by Beyond The Stage Magazine It’s a balmy Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, and Rey Reel, the mastermind beatsmith behind…
*NSYNC
New NSYNC reunion
How can we forget that band that managed to give competition to the Backstreet Boys in early 2000? Although this boom did not last long enough, the…
Astro Lasso
Lasso's unique new album
Lasso is still in full promotion of his new record production. Under the strange name of The Volunteer Exile of a Saturated Mind , this one has been…
Beach Fossils
“Sleep Apnea” by Beach Fossils
On such evil and lovely rainy days, sometimes we often wander about the house, searching for a lot of “somethings” to do. For…
Reza Safinia
SCORE REVIEW: 'Birth of the Dragon' By H. Scott Salinas & Reza Safinia
In H. Scott Salinas & Reza Safinias’ new album “Birth of the Dragon – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack&…
The Mallett Brothers Band
The Mallett Brothers Band ‘Lights Along The River’ – Album Review
The title of The Mallett Brothers Band’s fourth studio album ‘Lights Along The River’, is an infinitely appropriate one. The thirteen-track offering…
Luis Fonsi
Despacito domination
There's nothing slow about that Let me just throw it out there. Let’s talk “Despacito”. It is the most played song around the world, so there is…
Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters @ Union Chapel, London, UK | February 16, 2016 – Review
I’ve been hearing about the delights of Union Chapel for a couple of years now, but it wasn’t until last night that I was finally…
Michael Jackson
Immortal
His dances created sensation, symmetrical steps accompanying music, gave the feeling that could float on stage, every movement reached the incredible…
will.i.am
Will I Am's identity crisis: Music producer or DJ
“There’s nothing like reinventing an old classic” says Will.I.Am at the end of a TV commercial to promote a new coffee machine. And every time I hear…
Metallica
25 years of Metallica's Black Album.
Were some figures of thrash metal but from that work would become global rock stars for the general public. The album Black album, which catapulted…
Isaac Cervantes
Isaac Cervantes returns with everything
Isaac Cervantes returned to his native Venezuela to try to conquer his compatriots with his new song Como Quisiera. It is a subject of his authorship…
Pentatonix
Dancing on their own
Just like many others, I love Robyn's Dancing On My Own. The lyrics are so recognizable and it's not a surprise at all that…
Rihanna
Rihanna receives distinction from Harvard
Harvard University gave the urban music singer Rihana a distinction in recognition of his work for the defense of Human Rights. The singer received…
French Montana
French Montana - Figure it Out ft. Kanye West, Nas
Wave Gods is the twenty mixtape rapper Kharbouch Karim, better known by his stage name as French Montana. Said album was released on February 19 this…
Adele
Will Adele pass the towel for the 2017 grammys?
Whenever lack least for the Grammy Awards 2017, and the more days pass, more are the artists who speak about their participation in the award will…
The Rolling Stones
German university receives 15,000 recordings of the Rolling Stones as a donation.
University of Freiburg (southwestern Germany) received donated a collection of 15,000 recordings of the Rolling Stones, as well as tens of thousands…
James Brandon Lewis
James Brandon Lewis On The Rise
Personally, watching James Brandon Lewis Trio live at last summer's North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam was a cathartic experience. I thought…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff's Dazzling Piano Concerto No. 3
Now, this is what I call decent piano and orchestra music! I am so into the top level of skill and proximity of value of this piece that I want to…
Drowners
New Music On the Way
The Drowners have become a household New York band that have increasingly built a catalog of songs playing on relationships, ill at eased attempts at…
Natalia Jiménez
Natalia Jimenez is already a mom!
The Spanish Natalia Jimenez, has become a new mother, after announcing she was pregnant a few months ago, we shared through social networks the…
Adele
Are the Grammy Awards Racist?
There were many who claimed that the main prizes of the recent Grammy awards must be for Lemonade Beyoncé, an album that received better reviews…
Chris Berardo & The Desberardos
Chris Berardo & The DesBerardos The Quintessential Americana/Roots Rock Band
Esta semana he tenido el placer de entrevistar a Chris Berardo sobre su banda de rock de gira a nivel nacional Americana / Roots, Chris Berardo y La…
Asia Argento
Asia Argento
Sexy drums are on their way! They fly right into your apartment to crash your bad mood and make to dance to furious music. You know, sex is in every…
Prince
Glastonbury to pay tribute to Bowie and Prince
This is a year of mourning for music. Important figures such as David Bowie and Prince have died unexpectedly. His influence and recursion noted…
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…
Kanye West
Kanye West is back on the attack
Kanye West is world renowned for his talent as a rapper, songwriter and producer, but there is something that definitely is not recognized and is by…
In Flames
In Flames and their 180° turn: a case study
In Flames was my favorite band for many years. They were one of the main reasons is started to get interested in extreme metal genres, back in the day…
T-Pain
Swedish PAIN is Heavier Than T-Pain
Formed more than two decades ago, Pain was conceptualized as a hobby-project of Peter Tagtgren. Within time, it became his main band, pushing even…
JAY Z
Jay-Z apologizes to Beyoncé for his infidelities
Rapper Jay-Z today released through the Tidal platform his new and personal album, 4:44, in which he talks about the ups and downs of his…
Miguel Bosé
A grant from Miguel Bosé for Ernesto Núñez
Ernesto Núñez is a Dominican bass player, who at age 22 won the Miguel Bosé Grant to study at the prestigious Berklee Music School,…
Mater Suspiria Vision
Drug Machine
So here it is – my extraordinary comeback in 2016. The head is full of darken and horrible thoughts. Memories and fears seem to be all…
Faith Evans Ruch
LISTEN: Faith Evans Ruch ‘Sugar’ / ‘Thank You’
Faith Evans Ruch always had soulful tones to her voice a la Patsy Cline, so it only made sense to feed her purely traditional country sound through a…
Maroon 5
Maroon no no no
There are very few Maroon 5 singles that I don’t like, but their new single, “Don’t Wanna Know”, is one of…
Richard Wagner
Wagner's Chevauchee des Walkyries
In this installment of articles, we’re looking at some of the angry classical music that has dotted the landscape in the past few centuries. First, we…