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Black
Black
Country megastar Dierks Bentley returned last May with his eighth album Black, the most fully-formed LP of his…
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics
East Meets West
It’s an indescribably fulfilling to hear how The Heliocentrics once again adjust to the playing style and instrumentation of their collaborator. In…
Porgy
Great entrance: 'Porgy' by Labyrinth Lounge a Stunning Debut
Labyrinth Lounge is a high energy and quite a lot closer to jazz with a terrific funk and hyper-Gershwin Broadway vibe laced throughout it. Vocalist…
Visiones
Posted the nominations for the Union Rock Show awards.
On 5 and 6 November the awards Union Rock Show in alfredo sadel Plaza de Las Mercedes will be held in the awards different national, such as Versed…
Atomic
Emotional Mogwai
Scottish band Mogwai, one of the pioneers of post-rock genre, have eight albums in their discography, and Atomic is their fourth soundtrack. Work on…
The Search for Everything - Wave One
The Search for Everything: Wave One
Today, John Mayer released four songs from his new album “The Search for Everything”. On social media, Mayer has announced that he will be releasing…
General Admission
MGK General Admission Album Review
is the second studio album by American rapper Machine Gun Kelly. It was released on October 16, 2015, by Bad Boy Records and Interscope Records.…
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (Remastered)
Recommendation for all Rock Lovers - Ritchie Blackmore's R-A-I-N-B-O-W
The one and only British rock band Rainbow fellas! I am so influenced by this band that when somebody says Rainbow the first thing I think of the band…
Feel It Break
Dark, Atmospheric, Innovative Pop
Young Canadian band Austra have been enjoying escalating success of late, mostly in Eastern Europe where they have just completed a…
Polygondwanaland
King Gizzard Strike Again! And Again! And Again! And Again!
No, this is not a repetitive review. I know you think it's the fourth time I am reviewing Lizzard's record. King Gizzard and The Wizard Lizard…
The Congregation
The Congregation
Leprous are one of those bands that you listen to and pre-order new records from because you want to see them evolve. I got into them in 2012, after…
Dodge and Burn
Sympathy for the Rebel - Dodge and Burn by The Dead Weather
The Dead Weather is a supergroup, where the star of the band is not actually fronting the band. Yes, I’m talking about Jack White, who is…
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…
Paradise
WEEKEND EP DUEL: Anohni vs Blonde Redhead
ANOHNI Vs Blonde Redhead Consider following review as a double review, rather than a battle between two EPs. There are not easy to compare,…
"Awaken, My Love!"
Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love! [Review]
Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover is back! After launching an awesome TV show, Atlanta (check it out, it’s great), Glover got back into…
Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
Substitute for Tame Impala
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is an Australian band formed in 2010. They already have a bunch of materials behind themselves (this is their…
Big Band Holidays
Bring your Christmas magic in your home with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Happy winter holidays and New Year to all of you Kurrent Music blog readers! I hope you are having a great festive time. In addition I would like to…
Endless Summer
Soley - Turning Nightmares Into Dreams
It must have something to do with all those geysers in Iceland. I don’t know what else it could be that makes the modern music coming from that island…
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…
Light Falls
Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls
The relatively well-known Illinois drone/drone metal/psychedelic rock band Wrekmeister Harmonies came out with a new album recently. The seven track…
Process
Sampha Drops Debut Album Of The Year
You know when you see a shooting star and make a wish? You know how rare that happens? Well, I feel the same when I hear a good debut album…
Hiding Place
Music For the Soul
Fresh off her month long tour for her recently released album, Hiding Place, and more recently, kicking off an Acoustic Sessions Tour with…
AM
AM: Signature Sounds
What can be said about the already-famous Arctic Monkeys album AM that hasn't been said already? It's modern. It's uncensored. It's…
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…
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…
Incarnate
Still Holding The Throne
Killswitch Engage is one of the founding fathers of melodic metalcore, a metalcore subgenre that launched this bastard child of metal and HC into…
Paging Mr. Proust
The Most Underrated Rock Band
In a better, parallel universe, The Jayhawks would be the number one pop-rock band of the 90s. Vigorous vocal harmonies, canny cadence, mellifluous…
Holiday Of Love
Simply Well Done
Who doesn't want a holiday of love? Everyone wants a holiday and if it is one filled with love, I think everyone would want that. But what if we…
Happy Days
I got no issues with Happy Days
Hoy en día, vamos a tomar un poco de un paseo por el lado salvaje, porque vamos a estar hablando de Brooke Candy. Brooke ha lanzado su segundo…
Merkabah / SunInYourHead
Shaddah Tuum ooze menace on EP
Shaddah Tuum weave dark and ambient soundscapes that ripple with edgy industrial menace. Their shamanic incantations insinuate themselves into the…
Examples
Shining Examples
Personally, I’m not a big fan of beats albums. At least, not for home listening. In a club, fine, that should be their main purpose. But at home, I…
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…
Policies of Power EP
Policies of Power
Samantha Urbani’s debut is alt-pop with style and nuance. She coats her sound with some retro ’80s accessories, but her real emotions remain grounded…
Extraterrestrial Highway
Ten East - Extraterrestrial Highway
Ten East is an instrumental psychedelic rock/stoner rock/deser rock band from Los Angeles, California. They have released 3 full length albums through…
Led Zeppelin II
Rediscover: Led Zeppelin II
In my 15 years of listening to music quasi - religious way from that When the Levee Breaks reproduced under the needle of the…
See How They Run
Do you remember when you were young?
Do you remember when you were young? Do you remember that very distinctive mixed and contradictory feeling of fearlessness and doubt, of possibility…
Ropewalk
Just Another Island Band
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…
Paper Gods
Fear Of Dancing With Lindsay Lohan
Million dollar question: on whose album did John Frusciante play short before he announced he is retiring from his active music career? The answer…
To the End of the Sea
Does The Sea Have An End?
Another day, another Seattle band that has been around since the first part of the Eighties. And again, more of a cult, particularly among the music…
Hoops
Hoops They Did It Again
Blues is a sound of a man who is still trying to find out who he is. Blues rock is omnipresent on today’s music scene. Many artists…
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…
Sonic Messenger
Expo 70 - Sonic Messenger
Expo 70 is a quite well-known psychedelic rock/drone/space rock project of Justin Wright, who started the project in Los Angeles. Expo 70 has…
The World's Best American Band
The World's Best American Band
The Louisville band sell classic pop-rock almost perfectly. Their sophomore album is smart, well-polished, and cheeky—loaded with more riffs than you…
Death Of A Bachelor
Panic! At The Disco’s New Album Will Be The Death of You
Death of a Bachelor is Panic! At The Disco’s fifth studio album released this January 2016. What makes this one mind-blowing is that the…
Heart On (Deluxe Edition)
Zipper Down
Zipper Down came after seven years of waiting. Take that, those who whine about Adele’s 3 year period of latency. Same as their previous…
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…
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…
The Time Between Us - Split
Another Effective Collab Between Two Sergent House Artists
After the release of her third album Marked For Death last year (which allowed her to terminally prove her talent), Emma Ruth Rundle…
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…
The Nothing
The Last Dinosaur - Overcoming The Grief Through Music
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…
Tara Jane O'neil
Tara Jane O'Neil - Eighth Time Like The First Time
No big mystery or innuendo in the title above. Just the fact that Tara Jane O’Neil has decided to go the self-titled route only for her eighth&…
The Veil
#tbt: Peter Gabriel - Hit
In this week’s #TBT, I am providing you with a record of an artist who always polarized general audience. In my humble opinion, If you are not…
Fourth
Soft (but powerful) Machine
Soft Machine is one of the iconic bands of British rock music. They are among the founders of the legendary Canterbury progressive rock scene. Named…
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),…
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…
Perfecto
Music For Pizza Restaurants
To make a perfect mainstream pop album is an extreme sport. There are too many parameters to satisfy, too many target audiences and music critics…
Big Mess
Grouplove Brings All the Messy Fun To The Yard
Labels are for brands, not for bands. Show me on this review how much do you agree with the previous statement. Even though they present themselves as…
The Complete BBC Sessions
The Greatness Of Led Zeppelin Can Never Be Shaken
BBC Sessions by Led Zeppelin was originally released in 1997, and it represented a significant album back then due to the fact that their concert…
Sketches Of Brunswick East
Sketches of Brunswick East Confirm King Gizzard's Status
Just when you think that King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard got stuck on psychedelic rock and progressive hard rock, using recursive motives, the most…
Blurryface
Perfect Sound, Average Songs
Production has cut my album in half. The songs are good; the only extra thing I need is a good production. This is just one of the many statements…
Lay Low
Chanson Folk
When you have Jane Birkin as your mother and Charlotte Gainsbourg as your half-sister, it is only a matter of time before you start making music. For…
Trouble Maker (Deluxe Edition)
Rancid! Rancid! Rancid!
I'll see ya in the pit, as Rancid would say. Trouble Maker has the arguments and quality that would make any punk boy and girl consider visiting…
Songs One Through Eight
Brilliant Side Project
DBUK were formed in 2005 as a side project of Slim Cessna’s Auto Club and Munly & The Lupercalians. Saying that they are a side…
Ruins
Wolf People Use Mythology as A Weapon For Dealing with The World
Wolf People is a band from UK, formed in 2006. Until now, they had released four albums, and are currently promoting Ruins. Since 2009, they are…
Ouroboros
Mythic Sunship - Ouroboros
Mythic Sunship are a Danish instrumental psychedelic rock band, who just recently released their newest album through the renowned El Paraiso Records.…
Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
James Hetfield is already thinking about the new album
A mere six days of Metallica's new album entitled have been released to the public Hardwired ... to self Destruit after 8 years of absence in…
Sex for the Wealthy
Coitus Int - Sex For The Wealthy
Coitus Int are a legendary Dutch post-punk/garage rock/noise rock band, who started out back in the 1980s. Their albums tended to mix post-punk and…
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…
Volcano
Substitute For MGMT and The Flaming Lips
If you don’t like what MGMT or The Flaming Lips currently have to offer, then reject their work and embrace Temples. I promise you are not…
Miman
Hyper Existential Indie Rock
Only a year after surprisingly good debut album of Nicole Saboune, we are getting another positive surprise called Miman. On the cover, we see a…
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Jay-Jay Johanson with a new EP
I only recently discovered Jay-Jay Johanson as an artist and was immediately astonished by his incredible ability to construct beautiful elegant…
Pile
A Giant Dog, Avid Fans of Rock ‘n’ Roll
A Giant Dog's music is like a giant mastiff who barks, growls and tears everything apart with its teeth and ferocious energy. Through 14 songs, we…
Amanecer
THE GLOBALIZED SOUND OF THE COLOMBIANS OF BOMBA STEREO
Bomba Estéreo history in music has been recorded and an impeccable track record. At dawn he went twice to dance, to contagion and that of the…
Sunrise to Sundown
Vintage Rock Is Strong In This One
Spiritual Beggars started as a side project of Michael Amott, a genius guitarist of Carcass and Arch Enemy. Over the years Spiritual Beggars became…
Bath White
50FOOTWAVE release new “Bath White” EP
50FOOTWAVE has just released their Bath White EP via HHBTM Records. This is their sixth mini-album since forming in 2004 and…
Pariah
Pariah
Twenty years into her career, after a hiatus of more than a decade, the Chicago footwork producer finally releases her debut album, taking apart her…
Jei Beibi
Café Tacvba consecrates its experience in Jei Beibi
They are already 28 years of musical career and Café Tacvuba manages to show the best musical document of the moment in which they are living. A…
Say What You Mean (Radio Edit)
Pop Artist EM Is Giving Us Taylor Swift Vibes in her Latest Spotify Single Release “Say What You Mean”
Have you guys listened to Pop Icon EM’s latest Spotify single release titled “Say What You Mean”? The track is giving us…
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…
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…
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…
Wonderland
Magic Shoppe - Wonderland
Magic Shoppe are a fascinating psychedelic rock/neo-psych band from Portland, Oregon. While having released the Interstellar Car Crash EP earlier this…
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…
Scissors, Paper, Rock!
Scientists prove what 25 million people have already seen...
Earlier this year, researchers from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria published an article titled Instrumentational Complexity of Music…
A Fever Dream
A Fever Dream
The Manchester band are attuned to the absurdity of our times. The hyperactive synth-pop of their fourth LP is full of surreal vignettes that reflect…
Grim Weepers
Morbid, Morbid, Morbid
Grim Weepers is the fourth album by Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks, and the first one after the four year hiatus followed by EP Halloween is Here.…
Origin of What
Tyvek - Origin Of What
Tyvek are a pretty well-known American lo-fi garage rock/noise rock band, who have released a number of great albums through the years. Their latest…
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…
Marseille
Jazz Is Vital Energy For Ahmad Jamal
Even though he is already in his seventies, legendary Ahmad Jamal continues with the same level of enthusiasm in 2017 with his dedication to the…
No Sometimes Yes
Luca Draccar - “No Sometimes Yes”
An Italian native by way of Berlin, DJ Luca Draccar is affected by many things in his life and art including being bipolar. There is a long tradition…
Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures
Everybody expects from a supergroup like “Them Crooked Vultures” to make something really great, although there are many examples…
Testimony
Robbie Robertson - The Decades of Testifying
I really hope that this is a more current picture of Robbie Robertson on this new album he put out called Testimony. Well, new in the sense that it…
Not A Little Bit
K Michelle says: K’s Over It!
OMG! How much I love this track. K Michelle dropped the audio for “Not A Little Bit” on YouTube, about 6 days ago, and I&rsquo…
Horizontal Lines
Sunkissed Baroque Pop from the Summer of 2015
Twin Within is the collaboration of Canadian duo Steve McKay and Alex Samaras. Mckay (the percussive force behind the experimental folk of Bruce…
22 Cents Less
Mina Is In The House!
It’s a pretty crowded house. You have Adele, Beyonce, Gaga, Perry and Pink. Swift and Sia, then there’s Rihanna and Del Rey,…
Chasing an Illusion
Larkin Grimm Finds Truth In Illusion
On his fourth album titled Chasing The Illusion, Larkin Grimm confronts his inner demons from the past by transforming pain into a possitive message…
Into The Wild Life (Deluxe)
P!nk Lavigne?
Halestorm is an American rock band who spent most of their time on tours and Into the Wild Life is their third album. Listening to Halestorm, it is…
On My One
Bob Dylan Lost His Successor
Jake Bugg was entitled as “the next Bob Dylan”. After his third album, the title does not apply anymore. It is…
Superunknown
The Top Five Albums of the 90's
The nineties saw the comeback of distorted guitars hanging on the knees, long-haired bands, hard rock riffs and pessimistic lyrics. It was called…
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-…
FUTURE
Future Still Swimming in Dark Waters
Two years after his sepulchral watermark DS2, the dual sides of Future's artistic persona appear to be set in stone. There is…
Goths (Deluxe Version)
The Mountain... Goths?
I am so happy that I am alive in the time when so much good music is produced. I don’t know how would I obvercome my struggles If it wasn’t for this…
We Are All Just Floating Objects
A journey too short
So, I have a new roommate, he’s from Ireland and seems like a really cool dude. He’s also a musician, and the main reason for his…
In The Army 1981
Puffy Areolas - In The Army 1981
Puffy Areolas are an American noise-rock/garage rock/garage punk band, who have released a few pretty good albums through the years. Their best album…
Saluting Sgt. Pepper
Django Bates - Takes On Sgt. Pepper
In a year which saw such (deservedly) lavish celebrations of The Beatles all-time masterpiece Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band you…
The Last Hero
Alter Bridge Comes Strong With Fortress Successor
There they are – they overcame the burden of their past. Creed released 4 albums, while Alter Bridge cemented their place in…
Back Together
is Robin Thicke getting it back together?
Not many artists have had a hit single that kept playing in high rotation for like two years straight, but Robin Thicke is among them with “…
New Bermuda
Deafheaven New Bermuda
The California-native, black metal innovators, released their 3rd full-length album entitled on October 2nd, 2015.New Bermuda Deafheaven has the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Back to the Woods
ALBUM RECOMMENDATION: Angel Haze-Back To The Woods
Ok we all know where all eyes are constantly turned to all the time... This girl... Wow, how can you describe exquisite art in words... You can`t.…
Pretty. Odd.
#tbt: Panic At The Disco: Pretty.Odd.
Spoiler alert: following throwback might appear more ambivalent than it really is. Emo is probably the only genre that not even those who place…
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…
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…
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar [Review]
I always had a kind of strange relationship with Ulver’s releases. Every time when Garm and his group delivered a new album I would end up being more…
Urge To Kill
Brainbombs - Urge To Kill
Brainbombs are probably the most notorious raw noise-rock band in the world. They hail from Hudiksvall in Sweden and have been releasing albums with…
Z
#tbt My Morning Jacket
One of the most repeated and most overstated opinions you could about what is the worst thing for a musicians is that he was born in the wrong time,…
Dreams
Gabor Szabo's Dreams
“Dreams” is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó recorded in 1968 and released the year after on the…
Curse of Lono EP
Curse of Lono - EP With Just One Problem
Por lo general, tengo un problema con EP. Son ese territorio término medio, que no es ni (preferiblemente un golpe) sola, ni un disco de mú…
Direct
#tbt: VANGELIS - DIRECT
After three bizarre, yet enormously creative and conceptual albums, Vangelis had opened the new chapter in their career with the album that went on to…
Seremonia
Seremonia - Seremonia
Seremonia are a great Finnish psychedelic rock/occult rock/doom band, who have released a number of great albums to date. The best of these albums…
Make Way For Love
Kiwi That Makes The Room War
Despite of his classical music education gained at the University of Canterbury, the eclectic music influences Marlon Williams was exposed to from his…
Songs From The Road
In Memoriam: Leonard Cohen's Songs From The Road
The beginning of Leonard Cohen’s career was marked by songs of love and heat, and then songs from the room. One of my all time favorite live albums is…
Ten Best
Is it still murder on the dance floor?
When Sophie Ellis Bextor broke through, in the early 2000s, I really thought she was going to be massive, but with the occasional appearance put aside…
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
John Grant: Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
John Grant, formerly of alternative rock band The Czars, has a knack for re-invention and experimentation. His first album Queen of Denmark was a…
Thatched Roof Glass House
Thatched Roof Glass House by Alpha Cat
Alpha Cat’s new album Thatched Roof Glass House is a contradiction in terms from the title on down to the songs. It is a m…
Swear I'm Good At This
Swear I'm Good at This
On their debut LP, the eager duo fumbles that which makes indie pop so meaningful. It becomes a lively collection of empty gestures. The &…
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…
Nuestro Historial
Goon Mat and Lord Bernardo
When the bassist Stinky Lou decided to abandon music waters and to open his own bar (Lou's bar), the rest of the band knew that they will at least…
Acapella - Acapella Christmas - Acapella Group
Enjoying an Acapella Christmas
This is such a good Christmas album. So good that I almost felt regretful that it took me 4 years after its release before finding it. All is not lost…
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…
Dookie
Dookie
From its humble roots in the Bay Area punk scene to its massive hooks, Dookie has become one of the greatest teenage…
A Weekend in the City
Albums that turn 10 in 2017: Bloc Party, A Weekend in the City
I'm going to talk about something different in this series today. All the other 10 year articles have been about albums that I would consider as…
Acid Guru Pond
Bardo Pond - Acid Guru Pond
Acid Guru Pond is an interesting collaboration album between the always great and impressive Bardo Pond and the equally renowned Acid Mothers Temple…
Circles and Squares
Seth who?
Seth Swirsky I said. Seth who? A composer sonngrwiter, movie director... Never heard? How about a guy who wrote Love Is A Beautiful Thing that was a…
Confident
Demi Lovato Confident Album Review
Pop sensation Demi Lovato released her new full length LP titled on October 16th, 2015. is a sizable, 55 minutes long and features both Iggy Azalea…
Future Standards
Future Standards, now!
They don't fit. The tags, that is. The tags listing what kind of style you should designate to Howe Gelb. It is fifteen or more. Probably more,…
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha as told by John Williams
Prior to Memoirs of a Geisha, composer John Williams had never asked to compose for a movie before. Being the resident composer for Steven Spielberg…
Shadow of the Moon
Railway Gamblers Deserve More Attention
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…
The Weather
Thunder From Down Under a.k.a. POND
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…
Path of Eight
Mouth of the Architect – Path of Eight [Review]
Three long years since post-metal juggernauts Mouth of the Architect released their last album, titled Dawning. The record was okay, not too shabby,…
Sand
Dans Dans - Sand
Dans Dans are a Belgian instrumental jazz-rock/psychedelic rock trio, who have released quite a few critically acclaimed albums through the years.…
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…
Skylarking
XTC's Skylarking remixed by Steven Wilson
It has been 30 years now, almos to a day when XTC issued their seminal Skylarking an album that should be on practically any best of all times albums.…
Love
Lana Del Rey returns with Love
And it was strange that the English songwriter, Lana Del Rey, has not delivered any new material since we are accustomed to always be throwing new…
Atoma
Dark Tranquillity – Atoma [Review]
Along with At the Gates and In Flames, Dark Tranquillity shaped melodeath genre. Back in the 90’s three bands from Gothenburg, Sweden made an entirely…
LoveBlood
King Charles - Loveblood
As King Charles released a new album, New Orleans, just this week, I would like to write about the artist's 2012 release, Loveblood. This is an…
Alive In New Light
IAMX is Optimistic? A Miracle!
Only a year after the album Unfall, Chris Corner returned with the new record Alive In New Light. In some way, it wraps up the story started with…
Paper Bells
The Future of Prog
Here is another excellent band coming from the UK in the recent years. Trojan Horse is described by some critics as the “future of prog rock.” The…
Annie's Song
Unexpected Poignancy
Sound governs the emotion and the senses. Bong Joon Ho, Okja 'Dolby Atmos' Featurette Bong Joon Ho&#…
Nterini
Fatoumata Diawara's Nterini is an Affecting Portrait of Migrant Hardship
In the stunning music video for Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara's recent single “Nterini” (which…
Heathens
The Suicide Squad OST: Heathens
Whoever said “the more the merrier” clearly has not listened to Twenty One Pilots yet. But, wait-- twenty one? That’s…
Into Black
Abstract Sensuality
As Bust's Eliza C. Thompson has noted, What’s most impressive about the Portland-based band [Blouse] is their ability to pack…
Apartment Story
Songs that started it all: The National, Apartment Story
If there was one band that could sum up my early twenties it's The National. The song that made that possible was Apartment Story. In many ways…
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…
Motion Sickness
Cathartic Melancholy
After sharing the plaintive and meditative Smoke Signals in January, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers offered a second…
You In Your Were
Happy Feels with Kevin Drew & Leslie Feist
For me, the main appeal of this song and the accompanying video, is that it makes me really, really happy. Somehow the feel-good factor is so high on…
Makeshift Love
Good Charlotte Makeshift Love
Your favorite middle school pop-punk band is back! That’s right, this week Good Charlotte released they’re first song since 2010…
Alibi
Empara Mi's Alibi Presents Dramatic Self-Purging
“Alibi” is the latest addition to a growing body of work by Empara Mi, a singer-songwriter who has positioned herself within the…
A Sky Full of Stars
Revisiting A Sky Full of Stars
Music has a strong influence in arts and political movement that ever walks the earth. Music can either make or break you or perhaps enlighten you…
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…
Wes Anderson
Humdrum Love
Now, my objective is to write really great songs that really speak to people and can be translated into different parts of people’s lives or…
Half Truth
No half truths about good music
With his grey hair, Michael McDonald, already seemed like he was around in music for a long time, when I liked his songs in the 80s. His duet with…
No Church On Sunday
An Agnostic Anthem
Music in 2016 is, for the most part, secular. While many vocalists - from the likes of Whitney Houston to Katy Perry to Usher to Avril Lavigne -…
Too Many People
Chelsea Nikkel's Antisocial Anthem
Princess Chelsea (i.e. Auckland-based singer-songwriter Chelsea Nikkel) is probably best known for her viral hit The Cigarette Duet, a track off her…
Play Out
Zola Blood - Play Out
Zola Blood produce lo-fi electronic music that is warm and soulful. Their sparse, analogue sound exists in a fog of sinewaves, samples and…
Starboy
STARBOY
The Weeknd has released a cinematic, action-packed clip for his new single and collaboration with Daft Punk, Starboy. The…
Make Me...
A Stronger Britney
Britney Spears has finally released the very highly anticipated new single, Make Me. Within minutes after its release, the song was featured on many…
Hearts in Motion
Noise Pop Finds A Solid Foundation
Give the 90's one thing, whether you where a fan or not...Noise Pop became a true visionary substance. And Yuck from Georgia have the courage to…
Chili Town
Chili Town with Hinds
Hinds, a female group you wish you where a part of. This Spanish band has collectively created a sound that uses 1960's girl groups, indie, smooth…
Someday We'll Linger in the Sun
Re-inventing the ordinary : Gaelynn Lea's Someday We'll Linger in the Sun
Our love’s a complex vintage wine / all rotten leaves and lemon rind / I’d spit you out but now you’re mine In a world…
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…
Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major, Symphony of a Thousand Erster Teil: Veni, creator spiritus Veni, creator spiritus
Mahler’s Symphony of 1,000 (Symphony Number 8) Dazzles and Keeps It High
One of the best symphonies of the last gasp of the Romantic era is Mahler’s Symphony number 8, or Symphony of 1,000. The latter title was …
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…
A Bridge Over You - (Radio Edit)
Songs That Are Meant To Heal & Inspire
“If we got to No 1, it would be insanity but a really good version of it.” - Katie Rogerson, NHS choir member. “A Bridge…
Restart
The year of the restart
Say, do you remember that year that Beyonce had taken off? I don't. I remember hearing about her planning it, but then it was followed by the…
Company
T Fires That Company Dance!
New Year, new time, new days and brand new music videos curtain called are here! And who is better to start this Year with then our R`n`B&…
Over And Over Again - Cahill Remix
Beyond an Everlasting Promise
When we meet our “better half”, our partner-in-crime”, or the best term of all “soulmate”, in the…
Bird Set Free
Sia Bird Set Free
Pop powerhouse Sia, is on her way to makinga new album titled . This is ActingBird Set Free was released as the first promotional single on November 4…
hammer
nothing,nowhere.'s hammer Offers Sensitive Swagger
'Think it's about time that they go and take me serious/ If you not feelin' this, you probably delirious': the pre-chorus on…
I LUV IT
Psy does it again
It has been a few years since Gangnam Style took over the world and dominated the Internet. He got everyone talking, dancing like they are at a rodeo…
Detox
Detox Too Good
I know I know, you're probably saying, but Aaron, you just wrote an article about Skepta last week! You'd be correct by saying this, however I…
Drunk
I Was Just Drunk Back Then
Husky is a Melbourne-based indie post-rock duo that consists of singer-songwriter Husky Gawenda and multi-instrumentalist Gideon…
Caught In The Middle
In the middle of a comeback
It's been a while since Anastacia has released new music. Her latest album was a collection of lesser known gems performed live and chosen by fans…
Scream
An ideal world
In the audiovisual world (movies, novels, series or films) sound weigh heavily. The music drives the action, explains what happens and guides the…
Fast Car (Riley Remix) [feat. Dakota]
Fast Car Re-Lived by Jonas Blue featuring Dakota
On a Sunday morning, nothing is more perfect than waking up with a cup of coffee, a good read and a classic song out of the radio. Mostly played by…
Real Deal
Is Jessie J's return the real deal
It feels like the release of a new Jessie J single, last week, got very little attention. There was just too much music news going on to keep…
Crystal Bell
Gothic Female Metal artist, Ayin Aleph, releases new video for Crystal Bell
Hollywood based, but European raised, Ayin is at the confluence of classical music and heavy rock, combining Baroque influences (massive choirs) and…
Get Low
Get Low - James Vincent McMorrow
Get Low by James Vincent McMorrow is a song that caught me completely off guard. I make a habit of listening to some of the Apple Music curated…
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…
Uh Huh
Uh Huh Ignites A Fire Under Julia Michaels
Julia Michaels has been behind the scenes writing music for big Popstars Selena Gomez and Fifth Harmony. Michaels who is barely 23 years old has…
Baby Boy
Baby Boy is Beyonce's Greatest Accomplishment
This is a difficult article to write for a several reasons. Beyonce is one of the world's most popular artists, one of the highest selling artists…
Toy Enamorao (feat. Sharlene & Nacho)
Mozart premieres “Toy Enamorao” accompanied by Nacho and Sharlene
Three great artists of the urban wave have come together to create this theme that have called Toy Enamorao, this time the Dominican Mozart La Para…
Bajo la Tormenta
What if the sky falls?
Yes, without you noticing. The songs are not only dance them or to mourn, let you reflect on life situations of this way. It shows your feelings and…
Hard To Handle
COVERLAND Vol.4: Hard To Handle
The Black Crowes are one of my favorite bands from the nineties. When they first came to prominence with this particular song, I remember thinking -…
Flip and Rewind (feat. Rashida Jones)
Time to reminisce
As the daughter of Quincy Jones, she’s mainly known as an actress, but she does sing too. So, how come you didn’t know that about…
Thrill
The Sounds Gives Us A Thrill
2016 may be the year of resurgence for certain bands, The Sounds certainly are one of those bands. While hot on the heels of a new United States tour…
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…
New Day
A cheerful day
Ok, I have to admit that I think I’m rekindling my fanship for Take That. They’ve just released a new single called “New Day”, with a bit of a weird…
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 &…
Dust in the Wind
humanity soundtrack
Throughout history, art has reflected and questioned everything that surrounds the human being, in turn allows humanity to show themselves and their…
Breathe
Just Breathe
Its been 15 years since French electronic music trio Télépopmusik debuted with Genetic World (2001), and '…
White Mustang
Lana Del Rey’s Retro-Futuristic Romantic Gloom
Lana Del Rey’s motivations for emulating Taylor Swift and wiping her social media backlogs clean are still unknown, but this decision has…
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…
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…
Halfway to Nowhere
Subdued Pessimism
25-year-old north London-based singer-songwriter Chelou's (French slang for ‘louche’) real name is presently…
Ballin
Bibi`s Court : Ballin` Official Video
Bibi Bourelly keeps amazing us with her distinctive vocal timbre and slick catchy lyricism. This super-addictive ear sickness of a jam…
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:…
I Ain't Got Time!
Tyler`s Groove Flip In A Ripped Out Rap !
Tyler The Creator is maybe one of the most versatile creative artists of today. With his fourth studio album Flower Boy on…
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…
Cloud
Elias: A Hard Man To Find
Once in our lives we find ourselves asking a very important question while watching our favorite TV series: Who in the name of everything holy sang…
Ballad of a Thin Man
COVERLAND Vol.27: Ballad of a Thin Man
‘Laibach’ is one of the greatest and most popular bands to come out from the ex-Yugoslavian music scene. They come from Slovenia and were amongst the…
Don't Know Why
Slowdive's “Don’t Know Why”: Unburied Magic
The music video for 90s shoegaze icon Slowdive’s “Don’t Know Why” begins on an effervescent note,…
Someone That Loves You
Forbidden Love
Boy meets girl; boy already has a girlfriend. Romantic friction and emotional turmoil ensures. This is the simple but effective premise of “…
Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
Adele's Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
I first knew Adele because of her song “Rolling in the Deep” and it had really made such an impression on me for it is one of the…
Hey Boy
Take That go synthpop on Hey Boy
Back in the high days of Take That’s success, I too was a fan. Altogether, I was into the light hearted bubbly pop music while growing up,…
Instruction
Jax and Demi's spicy instruction
I’ve not been too excited about the most recent releases by Demi Lovato in collaboration with others, but her recent collaboration with Jax…
Nada Es Suficiente
Nothing is enough: Salomón Ackerman's country pop bet
It talks about the typical situation of a couple in which one of the parties is always dissatisfied, this song I wrote at age 17 and, although it has…
Say What You Want
Andrew Hung's Tentative Transparency
“Say What You Want” is the lead single from Andrew Hung's upcoming debut LP Realisationship, which will be…
Peace Bomb
Eric Scott Drops A Peace Bomb
Eric Scott is no stranger to folks in Washington DC. He’s a 15-time Wammie winner (WAMA - Washington Area Musicians Association) and he has…
Big Picture - SG Lewis Remix
London Gramar: Big Picture
I'm a little late to the London Gramar love-in, whilei like etherial dream-pop their first collection of songs didn't really do it for me and…
What Do You Mean? - Acoustic
Am I a Belieber?!
First things first. I am NOT a Belieber. I never was... but after listening to the acoustic version of this song, I cannot say I never will. I did say…
Suicide Saturday
It was a Suicide Saturday ... In a Summertime Kind of Way
Hippo Campus (the band's name is a play on the region of the brain in charge of memory) is a four-man indie pop-rock band founded in Minnesota in…
Black And Grey
Discolor Blind tease new EP with single 'Black and Grey'
If a musician’s creative output is intrinsically linked to the journey that brought them to that point then it is hardly surprising that&…
Prince William Sound
Prince William Sound by ThreePeace remembers oil spill which still lingers 27 Years after Exxon Valdez Ran Aground!
Prince William Sound by ThreePeace Remembers Oil Spill Which Still Lingers 27 Years after Exxon Valdez Ran Aground! Back in the Late 80's…
I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around
Stylized Moodiness
Chromatics' much-anticipated fifth album Dear Tommyis still nowhere in sight, but the electropunk-Italo disco quartet have…
Turn The Music Louder (Rumble) - Radio Edit
Tinie Tempah and Katy B channeling the 90s
The great thing about putting different artists together, is that you might just get something different from them than the usual. KDA definitely got…
Eternity
Built To Last
Surf beat, west coast and best of all a fun pick me up track from Communions. 'Eternity' sounds like the kind of song friends share between…
Cleopatra
Regards, Regret
The Lumineers are no strangers to the indie scene. With the celebratory success of “Ho Hey” from their self-titled debut album, they were under a lot…
Imagining My Man
Spells Will Be Cast While Listening To Aldous Harding's Imagining My Man
This New Zeland singer has all the right moves planned out. A gothic remorse emotional track such as 'Imagining My Man' brings Aldous Harding…
Strangers
A Real Lesbian Top 100?
With her blue wigs, androgynous style, tri-bi identity (biracial, bisexual, bipolar) and self-made internet fame, the extramusical aspects of alt-pop…
With You
Chester Bennington: Songs that Started it All
The first time I had heard Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park it was on a borrowed CD on a cheap portable CD player that skipped songs at the slightest…
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…
Dismal Universal Hiss
System Corporation - Dismal Universal Hiss
New Zealand rock outfit System Corporation are released their debut single ‘Dismal Universal Hiss’ at the end…
Sticky Leaves
Angelic Resolution
The landscape that Linying walks through in her latest video - vast open plains bordered by a series of hills and an expansive blue sky - could not be…
Worth It
Mechanical Melancholy
Eerie, chaotic, hypnotic, haunted and casually melancholy. Moses Sumney takes a risk and with 'Worth It' completely scores a hundred and…
Brand New (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
Brand New TY $ign!
Dolla bought a brand new Porsche Dolla did a cover of The Source Dolla did the XXL Dolla bought my bitch Chanel goes the insanely dope intro hook…
Un-American Woman
Transatlantic Ambivalence
Un-American Woman is the first taste of Dinner's (LA-based Danish singer-songwriter Anders Rhedin) sophomore album New Work,&…
The Ratio Of Freckles To Stars
Whisper-y Intimacy
San Fransisco-based Halou (pronounced huh-loo) consists of Rebecca and Ryan Coseboom; the duo have carved a name for themselves in the indie scene by&…
The Queen Is Dead - 2011 Remastered Version
Songs that started it all: The Smiths The Queen is Dead
Never underestimated how impressionable a teenager discovering indie music is, a least the ones who only just started buying NME. That was the case…
Broke
Joe Budden is all about love
On September 8 Joe Budden released the video of his brand new single for the upcoming album ''All love lost'' set to be…
Shut Up Kiss Me
Glam Girl's Looking For A Fight
Angel Olsen handles ignorance and men with her track 'Shut Up Kiss Me'. Check out the music video because Olsen rocks a silver sparkle wig…
Try
Why sing in Spanish?
There are several artists who opt to sing in another language other than their own. Usually the English is a universal language, and all artists…
Sugar for the Pill
Bittersweet
Having released their first album in more than 20 years, Slowdive does not disappoint with this melancholic love track Sugar for the Pill. The low,…
Fun
Disco down with Blondie
When I heard that Blondie were about to release a new album, later this year, I had expected it would be a rock album. Last I heard…
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…
Prelude in G minor, Op.23, No.5 : Alla marcia
Rachmaninoff Op. 23 Piano Prelude Gallops Along
Stepping even further into the world of piano music we have Rachmaninoff’s G Minor Prelude which is triumphant and yet overshadowed piece of music. It…
Ruin
Ruins For You And Me
Cat Power has always been something of a mystical force. Kind of like Fiona Apple, Hope Sandoval and Kim Gordon mixed up and laid out on a sheet of…
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…
Cool Girl
Tove Lo is a Cool Girl in her New Video
This girl of Swedish origin barely 28 years has managed to break into the entertainment industry, his musical career is just beginning with their…
Dog Years
Slow Dancing in Seconds
By following up on the success of her breakout single Alaska with Dog Years, NYU Clive Davis Institute alumni Maggie Rogers…
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.…
Runnin' (Lose It All)
Running under water
Beyonce is like Rihanna's big sister. I always saw her like that. I don't really like Rihanna's or Beyonce's music, with exceptions of…
So Sad, So Sad
Timeless Indie Pop
I draw inspiration from my daily life but also snippets of things I hear and then I write down. When I come back to them later,…
Gold Lion
Songs that started it all: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gold Lion
Usually getting into a band is a conscious choice for me. If I come across great reviews of singles, shows, and albums, like anybody, it would get my…
Whipping Post - Live At The Fillmore East/1971
COVERLAND Vol.21: Whipping Post
This is one of the great anthems of rock music. The incredible riff and soul moving melody assured its place in music history. The Allman Brothers…
Elevator Operator
Profound Mundanity
Melbourne singer-songwriter-guitarist Courtney Barnett's 2016 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist propelled the Australian indie darling to a…
King
Performance Art Fit For A King
Years & Years have been killing various music channels when it comes to their album Communion, releasing six singles, one single King…
Tú Me Quemas - AtellaGali Dance Remix
Chino and Nacho Arrive in Hollywood with Ride Along 2 the Movie
The famous Chinese Venezuelan duo Nacho not stop ringing in the news, highlighted by its urban music increasingly encroaching over the US and the…
Hand It Over
MGMT's Hand It Over Wraps Existential Anxiety in Psychedelic Gauze
MGMT opted for Edvard Munch’s Selvportrett ved vinflasken (Self-portrait with bottle of wine, 1906) for the artwork for…
Moonlight on the Water (Instrumental)
Spotify Breakout Instrumental Artists You Should Follow Playlist!
Spotify Breakout Instrumental Artists You Should Follow Playlist! A great new song list is developing on Spotify the Spotify Breakout Instrumental…
Boyish
Hippo Campus' Boyish Exuberance
It's hard to believe Minnesota indie rock quartet Hippo Campus have not actually released their debut album yet, given the success of their first…
First Time He Kissed a Boy
Transcending Homophobia
Danish electropop trio Kadie Elder's First Time He Kissed a Boy seemed like a timely song to review, given the recent Orlando shootings …
L.E.S Artistes
Santigold's Artistic Manifesto
Santigold is the stage name of Philadelphia-born Santi White, who is probably best known for 'Disparate Youth' (2012) and her genre-blending…
On My Mind
Ellie Goulding Debuts New Single
Ellie Goulding has been rather silent ever since her last release, but that changed this morning on UK radio station Capital FM's Breakfast Show…
Loše Vino
COVERLAND Vol.23: Loše vino
“Loše vino” (Bad Wine) is one of the best songs ever written by Goran Bregović, the guitarist and principal leader of…
Major Tom
Hard-hitting American dramas want you to like this song
Whoever has seen both shows can agree that Breaking Bad and The Americans are two of the best dramas of the last ten years. Both shows are firmly…
Breakin' Up
Breaking Up Never Felt So Good
Breakin' Up, a track from LA alt-rock band Rilo Kiley's (Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Dave Rock) fourth album …
Magallanes Sera Campeon
the eternal rivals
No. I do not like baseball in a frantic way, but in Venezuela is baseball tradition, something peculiar as the arepa, hallacas and mises, something…
Rich Man
Rich Man Does No Good Deed
A modern day Peter, Paul & Mary four piece band capable of sweet, sweet sounds. The Coconut Kids compose of sullen singing missed…
Sweet Disposition
Sweet Nostaglia
Whether it be a film, tv show or a sudden appearance of a long forgotten memory while shopping at the grocery store...The Temper Trap's…
Decode
About a movie soundtrack
A film should not only tell a story that achieves capture attention, generate empathy and have a deal that connect with an audience. There is…
Perfect.
Perfect Imperfections Come From Bibi Bourelly and Earl St. Clair
Imperfections are perfect, that's what we can learn from Bibi Bourelly and Earl St. Clair in the music video for their duet Perfect. Before…
Blue Song
Where Is Mint Royale after Blue Song was released?
With many things in life, I discovered music through an oddly popular U.K. show called 'The Mighty Boosh' which essentially was a comedy…
Single (feat. Mistah Mez)
Most Promising Pacific Artist Loves Being Single!
D Lewis or Donell in full is Samoan, but South Auckland born ordinary human, until he…
New York
New York is a delicate tribute to St Vincent's Heroes
After basically tearing up her own rulebook with her 2014 self-titled album, St Vincent can do anything she wants. Except what Annie Clark wants is to…
Ann Wants to Dance
Buoyancy
Is life getting you down? Trampoline, Parisian indie duo Papooz's (Armand Penicaut and Ulysse Cottin) second song from their debut album…
Cheerleader
A Cheerleader No More
Sometimes I imagine songs 'talking back' to one another, which is easy to do when different artists take on the same subject matter. In this…
Lust for Life (with The Weeknd)
Newfound Optimism
Fans have never had to look to hard to find the melancholy, fatalism and nihilism in Lana Del Rey’s many, many songs about doomed love (with…
The Trip
Wistful Wanderlust
Like Porches' Car, Still Corners' The Trip explores the promise of travel and the desire to escape. The Trip is more one-…
Together, Locked Safely
Electronic Melancholy
Canberra electro-pop trio SAFIA (lead vocalist Ben Woolner, drummer Michael Bell and guitarist/synth master Harry Sayers) have been stalwarts…
Never Be the Same
Can Camila Cabello Score a Continuity of Hits with “Never Be the Same”?
Ex-Fifth Harmony member Camila Cabello days as a pop underdog are over. Her debut solo single Crying in the Club may have been lackluster,…
Sleep Sound
Of Sound and Silence
It took me awhile to 'get' Jamie xx's Sleep Sound, the B-side to his 2014 single Girl. The mostly-instrumental track features fluid,…
Tuve Para Dar
We give what we become
I feel that the Venezuelan society is increasingly violent. In all aspects; insecurity, treatment for family, friends and coworkers. Currently,…
Hello
After several years of waiting Adele says Hello.
As a preamble to its third full-length album entitled 25, the British singer Adele released its latest promotional single Hello accompanied by a…
Just Hold On
Louis Tomlinson's first solo release
You can tell that at the end of the first year of One Direction’s hiatus, members of the group are getting restless. Probably sparked by 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…
Talk Baby Talk
Emma Louise's Talk Baby Talk and other positive things about the mainstream pop market
If I were to describe Emma Louise’s voice to you, you would probably imagine a sound completely different to the one she makes. The purity…
You Go Down Smooth
Interchangeable Melody
Lake Street Dive comes together as organically as one band can. With the members in one way or another alread accomplished musicians or hailing from…
Quite Like You
Someone Like You
Saskatchewan singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andy Shauf recently released a music video for Quite Like You, the fourth track from his…
Finally (feat. SWV)
BBD and SWV finally get it right
We are just a little over a week into the new year and already it is giving us some surprises, especially for r&b fans. The upcoming mini-…
Photomaton
The Black Sun of Melancholy
Photomaton is French electropop trio Jabberwocky's (Camille Camara, Simon Pasquer, and Emmanuel Bretou) best known single from their…
S.O.S.
COVERLAND Vol.19: SOS
What Portishead did with ABBA’s “SOS” is a remarkable example of a true cover - completely altered in mood,…
Planet Caravan
Planet Caravan - The Unorthodox Sabbath Song
‘Planet Caravan’ is the strangest song that Black Sabbath had ever recorded. I mean, the song is not strange at all by itself, but…
Rooting For You
Rooting for You
It’s safe to say that London Grammar’s brand new offering is not at all what I expected. Although Hannah Reid’s rich, strong vocal remains the main…
Piece By Piece - Radio Mix
Kelly Clarkson's growing up in Piece By Piece
If you were thinking that her recent collaborations, with her sort of mother-in-law Reba McEntire, meant that Kelly Clarkson was now doing Country…
Body Lights the Way
Skye Wallace Shares Sporty New Body Lights The Way Video
Canadian rocker Skye Wallace has just dropped the official music video for Body Lights The Way – a carefree, groove-driven song conveying a…
Watermelon Man
JAZZ STANDARDS Vol.14 - Watermelon Man
The sixties were an era when younger musicians started to write extensively, with many of the then-new compositions becoming standards in the decades…
Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett's Avant Gardener
Courtney Barnett Avant Gardner Listening to WFUV in New York City last week, I came upon -Courtney Barnett's…
Aerosmith
Aerosmith Considering Farewell Tour
Rock band Aerosmith have taken some time off from touring as lead singer Steven Tyler prepares to release and promote his solo country album. Tyler…
The Beatles
Ringo ''The-Drum'' Starr
Do you want to know how classic The Beatles are?''Strawberry Fields forever, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, We all live in a yellow…
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,…
Noblesse Oblige
Noblesse Oblige
“It’s just the two of us, my coitus feels fabulous” Here are my favorite perverts. These two are like a good wine and…
The Killers
For Reasons Unknown
Listening to the Killers is an experience. Listening to the song For Reasons Unknown gives me the chills. One of the things I love most about the…
2 Chainz
New Video: 2 Chainz + Gucci Mane + Quavo
Excerpted of the last mixtape 2 Chainz, Hibachi for Lunch comes the official audiovisual song number 3, which is named Good Drank and features the…
Major Lazer
Major Lazer sings to the Christmas tree
US Major Lazer electro house band surprised fans with the launch of a special issue dedicated to Christmas. The song was titled Christmas trees and…
The Rolling Stones
The Stones made Bogotá vibrate
The first few times never forget. More than 42 thousand fans can ensure that this statement is true. The Rolling Stones were presented for the first…
Pop Dogg
Pop Dogg To Headline UMP Festival
Summer time is officially in full swing in Malawi and much of Southern Africa. Summer brings with it a myriad of music and arts festivals in the…
Shakira
Shakira and her new song are something to talk about
Colombian star continues seizing the radio rankings across the continent with his new hit I Fell. This song, dedicated to his current partner Gerard…
Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu and her life lessons
Why the video of Erykah Badu’s surprise visit to a high school is double shocking It’s easy to mistake Erykah Badu for a one hit…
Berget Lewis
Lady of Soul takes on the UK
In April of this year, I’d already mentioned her in my blog about Glennis Grace who had just gone viral online and now, Berget Lewis is causing a…
Shakira
Shakira premieres new single with Maluma
Colombian singer Shakira, released this week its new single called Blackmail, which was performed duets with his countryman Maluma. This new song was…
Chino & Nacho
Nacho brings medical supplies to children from JM de los Ríos in Venezuela.
Singer-songwriter Miguel Ignacio Mendoza, better known as Nacho, the urban music duo Chino y Nacho, visited the Hospital JM Los Rios, located in San…
Ivete Sangalo
Ivete Sangalo replaces Ariana Grande in Lisbon.
American singer Ariana Grande had to cancel his concert at the Rock in Rio Lisbon today for health reasons and will be replaced by Brazilian Ivete…
Rita Ora
Rita Ora releases music video for Your Song
Recently, singer Rita Ora premiered the video for her new single, Your Song which was filmed in Vancouver, Canada. The direction was by Michael…
Fur Coat
Venezuelan electronics at Coachella 2016
California is expected to forward every year to reach the last weeks of April. Much more this year because the Coachella Valley Music And Arts…
MGK
All Night Long already has its music video
American rapper from Cleveland, Richard Colson Baker, better known by his stage name like Machine Gun Kelly released his second studio album entitled…
Taylor Swift
The complexity of buying concert tickets
It wouldn’t have been a normal week if Taylor Swift hadn’t made any headlines. I know I’ve just blogged about her and I normally wouldn’t be writing a…
Dirty Snowman Society
Dirty Snowman Society Share Epic New Release
Stepping onto the scene once again with yet another addictive (no pun intended) single, Dirty Snowman Society releases their new song “Too…
Nao Katafuchi
Nao Katafuchi
Here is an artist I have found recently. His name is Nao Katafuchi. He comes from Japan, but Nao resides in New York now. Music this man makes is…
Marc Anthony
The Meaning of Epic
Popularly known or designated by the word epic the result of a heroic action, with courage and effort. It is also known as something to behold,…
The Rolling Stones
More than a rock concert in Cuba
And finally they played the Rolling Stones in Havana, as they had planned, especially Mick Jagger, when a few weeks ago had announced: free and the…
Luis Quintero
Luis Quintero and the tribute to Alirio Díaz
It was a beautiful meeting: guitarists Esteban Ojeda, Enrique Bravo and Luis Quintero tore the strings of their instruments to honor the recently…
Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto: The Bossa Nova Queen
I know it’s 2015 but I still can’t help it. Whenever I think of Bossa Nova music, I still find myself associating it with Astrud…
Tulipomania
Tulipomania Blooms In Full on Latest 3-Track Single
Philadelphia-based Tulipomania is releasing their new three-track maxi-single, along with new videos for '' and '' (Seahawks Remix)…
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…
Madonna
Posthumous tribute to George Michael led by Madonna and Elton John
Madonna and Elton John lead the tributes paid Sunday in the world by British pop singer George Michael, who died at age 53 at his home in London.…
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…
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio: Bathed in gold
He does not have a prodigious voice. Neither does a sculptural body. And worse still: she's always shown her arrogant diva pose and sour…
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius - Finlandia
There are two reasons for this article - first, the wonderful tone poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, called Finlandia, Op. 26, written in…
Juan Gabriel
Billboard Awards 2016
Despite the years, the glory will still smiling at Juan Gabriel, who last night of April 28 became the top winner of the 27th edition of the…
Mac Demarco
Mac DeMarco: One Of The Few New Artists With Authenticity
We constantly hear people moan and groan about today’s music being so awful. The same people often crave the nostalgia of classic rock and…
Roxana Labatt
VIDEO PREMIERE: Shattered by Roxana Labatt
What a crazy time it is to be an independent musician. Venues are closed yet it feels as though musicians are releasing more content than ever before…
Bomba Estéreo
They return with a great premiere
Bomba Estéreo is back with its new song Duele , and it is the first advance that comes from its next record production that will be released…
Retrovisor
Dying Young: How Should It Be?
Girls do not play with shopping ... The artists are starving ... Study a serious career ... Marry ... Ten children ... Take care of your…
Onechot
I'm not going to think about you OneChot's new video clip
Saturday July 9 at 7:30 pm., At the Experimental Room of the Chacao Cultural Center-CCCH, OneChot presented his video I will not think of you ,…
Ashley Monroe
Ashley Monroe @ Bush Hall, London, UK | March 15, 2016 – Review
I’ve been to a lot of gigs in my short lifetime. I’ve seen a lot of different artists in a lot of different venues playing a lot…
Paramore
Hello, Cold World by Paramore
Paramore, I consider would be my favourite band ever because their songs always have some depth and them and those roaring guitars and hammering drums…
Luis Miguel
Luis Miguel offers a preview of the song La Fiesta del Mariachi
The Mexican artist prepares an album to put an end to a musical drought marked by the cancellation of concerts, controversy and legal problems. He…
Synths Versus Me
Synths Versus Me
Synths versus me. You are the synth. And I am just me. So it’s you versus me. And I think I’m about to lose this game. I&rsquo…
Caroline K
Caroline K
As I try to touch the sky I need some special music – that kind of music which is a perfect partner in such a weird action, you know.…
The Psyatics
The Psyatics prepare to release their third full-length album
The City Of Sin has produced some great bands throughout the years, most notably, The Killers. Well, The Psyatics hope to achieve the same success by…
Mac Demarco
My Kind of Women
Whenever I introduce someone to Mac deMarco, it's always the same reaction. Who is this guy? How come I've never heard of him?” A…
Pentatonix
Why are PTX back to doing covers
At the end of last year, Pentatonix seemed to have succeeded in doing the best cross over ever seen in music. Not just because, technically…
SARABETH
SaraBeth’s Christmas Traditions Past and Present – Interview
When I last saw SaraBeth, it was on the 4th of July weekend 2015 and she, Glen Mitchell and Christen Cole had just been onstage at one WFRE’…
Kate Bush
#SundaySpotlight: Kate Bush
Here is an artist who is capable of flying, but no ones sees it because the world is glued to her feet. Nothing beyond her heart is hers. But her…
Johnny Cash
Logan Cash
On Thursday (October 20) the first trailer of the film 3 is titled Wolverine was released: Logan. In the development of audiovisual clip we can hear…
The Nuñez Project
The Nunez Project Entices with Lares
Luis Nunez has a rich musical family heritage and he grew up playing with A-list musicians and singers from all over Puerto Rico. At 16, he started…
J Balvin
Balvin and Maluma lead the MTV MIAW
With six nominations each, Colombian reguetoneros J Balvin and Maluma lead nominations for MTV MIAW 2017, which honors the year's best,…
Johann Sebastian Bach
If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.
Classical music has evolved alongside Western architecture, literature and the visual arts, with the music changing to fit the dynamic European (and…
Lil Uzi Vert
Lil Uzi Vert's new album is here!
Last August 25, the American rapper finally released his latest studio album titled Luv Is Rage 2 released by Generation Now and Atlantic Records.…
Leon Bridges
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better and More Memorable Melodies
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better and More Memorable Melodies Intro: Although some melodies may come to you in a spontaneous moment of…
YG
“YG - Word Is Bond ft. Slim 400” already has its music video
Word Is Bond is the fourth single from the album Still Brazy the second musical work YG. This track was released on June 16 and produced by P-Lo. YG…
Lepers & Crooks
Funky, Heavy, Beautiful Rock from Australia
Sydney 5-piece Lepers and Crooks came sprinting out of the blocks only two years ago with their first few headline slots being …
Jorge Glem
Jorge Glem in concert
Jorge Glem says goodbye in style. The Venezuelan musician will be presented on Friday April 22 at 7:00 pm at the Cultural Center BOD located in La…
Jorge Celedón
Not One Step Back for Jorge Celedón
Jorge Celedón and Sergio Luis Rodríguez are in a great moment with the presentation of their new album, Ni un paso atrás . This…
Pablo Milanés
Andrea Imaginario offers an album full of affection
The themes that have marked the various moments of his life, either by the magic of his melodies or the depth of his lyrics, were selected by the…
Victor Drija
Bieber's Sorry is covered by Victor Drija
Following the success of Justin Bieber theme Sorry, Venezuelan singer Victor Drija released its own version of the single in Spanish, which is called…
Taylor Swift
We are so stupid
I really don’t like to talk negatively about anyone. I aim to inspire and use the opportunity I get to write about music, to talk about the…
Boosie Badazz
“I’m My Generation’s Tupac” Says Boosie BadAzz
Though he has been dead for over 20 years it seems Tupac’s influence over hip hop is still alive and well. People often compare themselves or strive…
Randy Hall
R&B Single A New Way of Love Destined to be Randy Hall’s Greatest Hit on Spotify and YouTube
Randy Hall takes a risk (that has paid off big time!) as he incorporates R&B influences in his newest release, A New Way of Love, now…
Taylor Swift
Swiftly changing again
Taylor Swift is a master of reinvention, and even more so in creating a buzz. That sweet little girl that told the world a love story has turned into…
Russian Tsarlag
Russian Tsarlag
Romance is in the air. I wanna talk to a rabbit making fire in the middle of my room. I wanna sample this rabbit and play it looped on and on. Sampled…
Future
Future Makes History With HNDRXX
The music industry has different strata of fame. In the current hierarchy the likes of Beyonce, Rihanna, Adele, Taylor Swift and Drake are in the…
Queen
The Show must go on, but…
I have a confession to make: I am probably even less a fan of the latest Adam Lambert-Brian May-Roger Taylor new Queen’s adaptation than…
Weezer
Weezer Debuts Song “Feels Like Summer”
Weezer is a band of Californian alternative rock that takes 25 years in the world music scene. In his career they have made 10 studio albums, 6 EP…
Samy Hawk
Samy Hawk makes everyone dance with his new song
Samy Hawk gives us a very moved and that surely will issue more than one dance. This is My Doctor fairly easy pace and with the participation of…
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias wins 5 awards at the Latin AMAs!
Today the majestic Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California the first installment of The Latin American Music Awards where Enrique Iglesias won five…
CNBLUE
Blue Moon in Manila: A dream come true
I thought I'd go down memory lane and relive one of the best KPOP concerts I've attended. ~CN BLUE Live in Manila~ I’m proud to…
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen to reissue The River album
American singer - songwriter of 66 years old, will release a deluxe box with the reissue of his album The River published in 1980, being one of the…
John Williams
Theme From Schindler’s List for Soprano Sax and Wind Ensemble
This particular version of the main Theme From Schindler’s List is a fabulous and wondrous. I have always loved music with a soprano saxophone or an…
Aerosmith
Aerosmith: Latin America for goodbye
The legendary American rock band, Aerosmith, says goodbye. After 46 years together and millions of records sold, the Boston native group will bid…
Sam Outlaw
Sam Outlaw’s Country Love Affair: The Buddy & Jim Show Recap
Sam Outlaw’s career is at an inflection point and he knows it. It’s the moment, the singer says, when you realize that more than just your friends are…
Elton John
Elton John makes an international call to fight against AIDS.
British singer Elton John on Monday urged the international community to include all sexual orientations in the fight against AIDS community and…
Willie Nelson
Alive and kicking
Not many musicians actually retire. Most can't stop what they've been doing their entire life. When you've never really been in one place…
Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen ‘We Go Home’ – Album Review
Adam Cohen’s most successful record to date was 2011’s ‘Like A Man’, his fourth studio release and an album that delved into his arguably biggest USP…
Jonas Sanche
Interview with: Jonas Sanche, Lil Supa' and Ríal Guawankó
During the recent visitita to Chile Venezuelan rappers Kennys Santiago, (RIAL Guawankó) and Marlon Morales (Lil Supa ') participate in a…
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal
Life after Eternal
We often hear stories of artists slipping down the slippery slopes of addictions or other hardship after their brush with fame, but…
Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne announces new album after three years of hiatus
Canadian rock singer Avril Lavigne, 32, announced today the release of a new album after a three-year hiatus due to illness. It's been a…
Andrew Liles
Andrew Liles
I Touch Myself What a wonderful day it is if you write a short essay about Andrew Liles! Life is beautiful and each moment is perfect when you can sit…
Maná
Nicky Jam and Maná are a success!
Although the Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Nicky Jam and Mexican rock band Maná received a barrage of criticism on social networks following the…
The Beach Boys
Giving off Good Vibrations
Creators of lush songs described as teenage symphonies to God and one of the most innovative bands ever, the Beach Boys invented California rock.…
Tribalistas
Brazilian trio Tribalistas release their second album after 15 years
The Brazilian trio Tribalistas, a worldwide music phenomenon in the early 2000s, today released the second album of its history, 15 years after its…
Jillian Jacqueline
Introducing Jillian Jacqueline: The Dark Horse of 2015
What first struck me about Jillian Jacqueline is her voice, but her beauty was what made me do a double take. Now I am the first to criticize folks…
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…
Christina Grimmie
Former 'The Voice' contestant shot to death
Christina Grimmie, participant of the reality show The Voice in its sixth season, was killed by several gunshots in the city of Orlando after being…
Shovels & Rope
Botched Execution
We are just two weeks away from the release of the new album, Little Seeds, from Shovels & Rope and earlier today the duo premiered their…
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,…
J Balvin
Everything ready for the Premio Lo Nuestro 2017
And they were announced the nominees for the Premio Lo Nuestro Latin Music awards 2017. The event delivers the best Latin musicians of the year and…
Joe Budden
Joe Budden Ready To Drop 4th Album – ‘Rage & The Machine’
As of late Joe Budden has been making headlines for the controversy that surrounds him - most notably his beef with Drake. Being embroiled in so much…
Fergie
Fergie doubles her chances
Last year, it looked like Fergie was really coming back. She dropped “M.I.L.F.$” and a couple of trailers. There were reports of her filming videos…
Maurice Ravel
Dafnis et Cloe--A Choreographic Symphony
Ravel’s seemingly most famous work Dafnes and Cloe is very mind-blowing. I love the whole-tone scales combined with the detailed imagery of birds…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto Number Two
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is probably one of the most instantly recognizable concertos in all of concert literature. It may also…
Gustav Mahler
Mahler’s Symphony of A Thousand
After the fallout from the previous symphony number 7, Mahler brings things back to top form in Symphony Number 8, or the Symphony of A Thousand. It…
Papá Humbertico
New 'How I feel' by Papa Humbertico
Dad Humbertico born Humberto Joel Cabreras Santana in 1985. He grew up on the outskirts of Havana in Guanabacoa, in the house that now serves as a…
Ms. Lauryn Hill
A Diva's Diaspora Calling
She is a musical artist that is talented in various genres of music. I think of her as the singer-slash-rapper of my generation. When I…
Kurt Vile
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett release the first single from their joint album
Over Everything is the name of the first single from the joint album of two of today's most representative indie rock artists, Courtney…
Lana Del Rey
Young and Beautiful Lana Del Rey
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant , famously known as “Lana Del Rey” wrote the original song Young and Beautiful for The Great Gatsby…
Charles Kelley
Charles Kelley Goes Solo
Charles Kelley is one of the three vocalists in the group Lady Antebellum, but he now has had a solo album out for a couple of months. It’s…
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey teams up with A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti
American singer Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, better known by her stage name as Lana Del Rey, released a new single along with the vocal collaboration…
My Chemical Romance
Celebrating 10 years of ''The Black Parade''
A few days ago, the American band My Chemical Romance surprised his followers after a tweet that made rumorar about his possible return. However, a…
Prince Royce
An overdose killed Prince
more than a month ago the world of music had to face the hard loss of great Pop icon Prince. After several reports and police investigations they…
Major Lazer
Major Lazer Drops New Single Featuring Justin Bieber
Today, the Canadian singer Justin Bieber joined Major Lazer electronics to release a new single, entitled Cold Water. The lyrics of Cold Water is to…
Justin Bieber
The list of the most viewed videos of 2016 was revealed
Surely you were part in this statistic, because ultimately were revealed the most watched videos on YouTube and Vevo. The list was…
Japan
Daisuck & Prostitute
Imagine a chicken walking the streets of Tokyo. A big and cocky chicken in a black suit and a top hat. It walks and talks to strangers, drinks beer…
Joss Stone
An artist without borders
Before Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Adele were all held responsible for bringing back real soul vocals and soul music, Joss Stone was on the same mission.…
Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters emerged from the ashes of Nirvana, but the band's true roots lay in the years of personal recordings made by leader Dave Grohl.…
Bun B
Rappers Who’ve Released Trilogy Albums…or More
Prodigy – “H.N.I.C.” Prodigy is most known as half of the iconic New York rap group Mobb Deep. The duo released a series of highly acclaimed and…
Lawrence watson
Lawrence Watson Releases new album Prescriptions
Lawrence Watson releases new CD Prescriptions I have known Larry for many years, collaborating and …
Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades thus said goodbye.
The Panamanian artist Rubén Blades has moved the hips to the near 4,000 spectators that congregated in the annex of the Stadium of Gran Canaria…
Paul McCartney
Argentina prepares to receive Paul McCartney
Legendary as few, the former Beatle, Paul McCartney will return to South America, this time to Argentina, where he is worshiped and no visit from…
Led Zeppelin
Was “Stairway To Heaven” plagiarized?
An acoustic and subtle sound grows gradually to become a strong and enigmatic mix of electronic beats, reaching her vocal climax with the refrain:…
Wolf Alice
Why Aren't You Listening to Wolf Alice?
Wolf Alice are Theo Ellis, Joff Oddie, Ellie Roswell and Joel Amey. Their debut album My Love is Cool recently peaked at number 2 in the charts (held…
Mateo y Las Manos Pesadas
The Show-Stopping Debut Album 48 by Mateo y Las Manos Pesadas
Mateo y Las Manos Pesadas is a folk/rock project and brain child of Matt Craddock. Though based in Colorado he has spent an extensive amount of time…
Baby Alpaca
A Psychedelic Inner Wilderness
Baby Alpaca is a psych-folk duo that consists of lead singer Chris Kittrell (who also designs a hand-painted knitwear line called Beautiful…
Bryan McPherson
Bryan McPherson ‘Wedgewood’ - Album Review
Some experiences can have a direct and profound impact on an artist. When folk-punk troubadour Bryan McPherson was immersed in Occupy Oakland in 2011,…
Jey M
Play for Real Madrid and also sing Reggaeton!
And there are several artists who try their luck in the music industry when stand out in other areas; just to mention some examples we find the…
Naturally 7
Fixing you with smooth vocals
Because my previous blog was about a popular song to cover, I thought I’d stay on-topic and also talk about “Fix You”, originally by Coldplay. This…
50 Cent
50 Cent Proves He’s Still The Man; Gets His First Gold Single In 4 Years
The entertainment industry is a fickle one and most people don’t get more than their 15 seconds of fame. Rap music in particular is a difficult genre…
Future Blondes
Future Blondes
Feathered electronics and industrial sounds made of honey, huh? Soft whispers and steel flies in a black swamp of viscous drone, what about that? Sky…
Irie Love
Beautiful Fusion of R&B and Reggae
Hawaiian reggae and R&B is a fusion that Irie Love definitely combines with passion and style. I have listened to her many times on the local…
The Beach Boys
Beach Boys: Sunflower
In 1970, the Beach Boys were still trying to figure out what the Beach Boys were supposed to sound like. Brian Wilson had previously been most of…
Juaninacka
'Juan Nobody' by Juaninacka
Juaninacka is the artistic pseudonym of Juan Ignacio Guerrero Moreno born in 1978, it is a Spanish emcee proveniete of Gerona, Sevilla. Juaninacka…
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinead O’Connor’s Cry For Help: Musicians and Mental Health
Haciendo una excepción a mi habitual blog de críticas de álbumes, actualizaciones de canciones y alertas de artistas - hoy me gustar&#…
Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters drummer spoke about the band's next album
Taylor Hawkins, drummer of Foo Fighters, launched just makes his first solo effort, KOTA, which was recently talking about it with NME, where to…
Miles Davis
The Life Of Miles Davis as An Improvisation
In the mid-70s of the past century, the biggest jazz trumpeter of all times, Miles Davis, was a ruin. Physically and mentally exhausted, with the…
Simon Kouskounis
about Simon Kouskounis
Simon Kouskounis (born 5 December 1961) is an established Greek composer , arranger , producer and musician from Athens. This year he celebrates 25…
Tammy J
C&C Factory of modern era : Introducing Tammy J
Stop right here. I will let you get sucked into this amazing time wrap of the 90`s golden draft to just start off right and warm-up your senses...…
Delia Derbyshire
White Noise
How does love sound? How does adoring sound? Of course, any sound in this Universe is a sound of love. Or, at least, any sound can be interpreted so,…
Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt ‘Montevallo’ – Album Review
On one level, Sam Hunt makes sense. He’s a continuation of bro-country, the leader of a fresh wave of influence that carries R&B, pop and EDM…
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…
Tom DeLonge
Tom DeLonge talks about Blink-182
Blink-182 is renewed and this time a new era without Tom DeLonge figure begins. Last week the band presented Bored To Death, the new issue has the…
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - a trip back in time
“Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats” is another one of those retro-sounding bands that know how to rock. Drawing influences from…
Belinda
Belinda: Ironic and Perfectionist
She is one of the most famous artists in the world of Mexican television, although of Spanish origin, her voice resonates leaving high Mexican talent…
Gente De Zona
People of the Zone want Something With You
The moment stuck Cuban group presented its new audiovisual production which has surprised all his fans. His new single Algo Contigo accompanied by a…
Herbie Hancock Trio
Jazz with a Master's Touch
It’s always a pleasure to relax and listen to master musicians, playing together with ease and enjoyment. This is a trio of superb musicians…
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber sings for DJ Snake's theme
On Aug. 5 was released the debut album by French DJ Snake, titled Encore. A disc with enough expectation, as they wanted to hear how it would work…
Lo Marie
Lo Marie Reveals The Gap
Lo Marie doesn’t hold back with this passionate new track. The singer from Tennessee recently put out the track “Gap,” her first release since a…
Kacey Musgraves
Why Calling Kacey Musgraves A Bitch Just Reflects Poorly On You
Normally I don’t comment too much on artists’ personalities and media personas, unless it’s directly relevant to the music on their record and makes…
Miles Davis
Hancock, Shorter, Williams, Carter and Roney - A Tribute To Miles Davis
Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet (as it is dubbed in jazz history) was perhaps the most exciting and groundbreaking jazz combos ever. They…
Crooks UK
Crooks ‘Wildfire’ - Album Review
Like The Statesboro Revue, Crooks are a band from Texas who refuse to live inside the narrow lines of what is considered Texas music, or even Texas…
Lauren Waller
Catching up with Lauren Waller
Lauren Waller is a show-stopping artist based in LA. She has released two brand new singles this year and we absolutely can't stop…
Adele
Adele leads the nominations for the British Awards
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, known simply as Adele, is leading the nominations for the British Awards (Brit Awards) 2016 with 3 nominations, like James…
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…
Justin Quiles
Justin Quiles made Caracas dance
Justin Puerto Rican Achilles arrived in Caracas on Dec. 15 with his 2016 tour Carpe Noctem straight to the Amphitheater Sambil CC to the delight of…
John Mayer
Still the same man with the same music
John Mayer fed the rumors about his never ending crush on Katy Perry, and their on-off relationship, with the release of his latest jam, “Still Feel…
Eminem
Eminem releases song against Trump
Rapper Eminem reappeared in showbiz with a new controversial song that strongly criticizes the Republican candidate Donald Trump, in addition to…
Lyrica Anderson
Lyrica answers back!
The woman behind the golden fame pen. She writes for Bey, Tinashe, Jason Derulo, J Hud to name a few, and if that does not impress…