The ultimate idol of indie audience, Mac DeMarco, releases his new full-length album This Old Dog, almost three years after the halcyon…

Authors of the songs used in TV shows are often less known than those songs are. When we connect the artist with the song, it happens that we don’t…

The name of this Welsh band is Colorama and their sixth album is Some Things Take Time. And this is not a pun since it took Carwyn Ellis and his…

For some reason, there has been an ongoing debate about M.C. Taylor, and his Hiss Golden Messenger project. Nine years and six albums on, he has…

Is there a bigger cliche in the world of music than an indie band from New York? Not many things come to mind and everytime something new and original…

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

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…

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…

Listening to Gareth Dickson’s album “Orwell Court” one of the thoughts passing your mind is, that hopefully, it's not the court of George…

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

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

If you tried to count the number of gifted young musicians with a thousand song ideas in their head, playing and recording them in a number of bands,…

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

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

Saying that there is nothing interesting in today’s music, and that the old guys are making the best albums is ridiculous. There are many examples…

It seems to me that I am beginning almost every second review with the observation that many singers and bands are creating records bursting from…

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…

Here comes Mick Harvey again, continuing his tribute saga to Serge Gainsbourg that now spans four Albums - from “Intoxicated Man” in 1995, “Pink…

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…

The first moment you encounter the music of Coti K.,“The Man From Managra”, a Greek guy form the Island of Tinos, you would be hard pressed to say…

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.…

  It took a long time for Lisa Hannigan to drop her new baby, aka, record. I have been waiting for five years. The wait is over and At Swim…

British singer/songwriter James Page who goes under the name of Sivu has been diagnosed with Meniere disease, which causes disorder of one’s inner ear…

I am constantly amazed by the hidden gems of South African music. Although increasingly less hidden and deservedly so, Oddo Bam’s first EP,…

Natasha Khan known as Bat For Lashes cease to amaze the individuals who await a new album from the songstress. Bat For Lashes as a whole concept…

While discovering new music is always an exciting event for me, there is something really special about finding musicians in my area that make music…

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…

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…

Grief can be an exceedingly strong motivator and can produce some deeply sad, bad at the same time, life-affirming music. Remember, for example, Neil…

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…

Combining acoustic music with electronics can be a tricky thing - it either turns out great or falls flat on its behind. That may be the reason the…

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…