Becca Stevens is one of the leading Americana musicians of today and her fourth album ‘Regina’ is a culmination of her solo career so far. Her last…

Feist’s Metals is one of my favourite albums. Let me tell you why. The first few bars of the opening song, The Bad in Each Other, set the album apart…

In two years, The National are going to celebrate two decades of their existence and judging by their tempo of releasing albums, we might get another…

Some people can’t sleep because they are thinking about their dreams. Some people dream when they are awake. Some bands are like dreams.…

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…

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…

Surprise! This is another Americana folk review, as it seems that music within this genre makes love and gives birth to new babies every day. Julie…

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

Four guys from Liverpool sound more confident, mature and powerful on their second full-length album, just as the frontman Keiran Shudall wanted and…

Somebody listening for the first time to Duke Garwood would probably react by saying that he sounds a lot like Mark Lanegan. Very late night Mark…

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…

The name of the band is Kikagaku Moyo, or for those who do not know Japanese, like me, Geometric Patterns. Luckily, judging by this, their third album…

Mark Eitzel, the man with probably most biting, sometimes even cynical, but always with a human line seeping through is back. The former…

Many bands and singer/songwriters these days are following the path taken by Jeff Tweedy, solo or with Wilco. While most of them are quite enjoyable…

When you get caught into a music style (or quite a few of them) when you’re younger, they seem to stay with you forever. Psychedelic pop,…

Saying that Prarie Cat’s new album Is Cary Pratt is actually light as a feather can really go two ways - that it is so light that it will slip by…

I certainly don’t know the answer to the question from the title, but I’ m not even bound to try. Doesn’t sound too appetizing. But what I did try out…

It must be something in the water. Australian drinking water. Otherwise, how would acclaimed psych, garage, blues, alternative singers like Nick Cave,…

What should be more fit to be given an Americana treatment (with quite a twist, though) than America itself? Paul Messinger who hails from North…

 The Head And The Heart is a young band from Seattle who got recognized with their self-titled debut due to its irresistible sensitive…

After falling head over heels in love with Merival’s Soda Island collaboration with Izzard, I scoured the internet to find more of Merival’s honeyish…

PledgeMusic has been a resource many a musician has been using recently to make sure that their work sees the light of day and then promoted further.…

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

Minimalistic indie folk is the future of the alternative scene. Berlin based group Susie Asado (named by Gertrude Stein’s song) is one of…

Let’s turn on our time machines and go back to the release of  Florence and The Machine’s debut. Remember when you played Lungs for the very…

Jake Bugg became famous at the age of 18, and he is an independent artist ever since. I don’t remember he was ever related with some popular…

After ambitious art phases, run by gut and fueled by and emotion, artistic process usually comes to the point of homeostasis. It is not a bad phase…

Mention Thomas Dybdahl’s name in his native Norway and everybody’ will know who you’re talking about. After all, his first solo album from about…

  If someone asked me who is the most brilliant female singer in the world right now, few names would pop in my mind. The following review…

After twenty years and absolutely brilliant “Untune The Sky” mini-lp and “Instinct” album from early to mid- Nineties, Richard Davies, another among…

The Dears, or shall we say, Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak and whoever’s in Montreal at the time, have been around for a while, actually, as…

RPA & The United Nations of Sound fue, obviamente, sólo un nombre para un álbum de Richard Ashcroft, porque él decidió…

Autumn and spring are moderate seasons. Both are some sort of foreplay for winter/summer, which means they are not extreme. On the other hands, our…

The hype sisters who make the band Haim got in 2013 was not seen in a long time. Fortunately, they did not failed anyone expectations with the release…

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

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…

When you start asking yourself what has happened to a certain band, missing their music, you can be certain that they have come up with something…