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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…

When you have sixteen albums in your discography, three Grammys and records that shaped a generation of listeners, no one expects you to deliver…

Through the 5+1 solo albums he has made so far, Greg Ashley has shown that if you are to fit into the shoes of guys like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou…

Eleanor Friedberger is known as a vocalist of the band The Fiery Furnaces. The band released eight albums that were pretty successful in American…

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…

“The song is a sci-fi narrative about a woman who falls in love with a robot. In the video she hallucinates on rocket fuel and tears apart…

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

When I first saw the cover of the new The Wave Pictures album (and there is quite a few of them), something kept nagging at me it seemed so familiar…

When I first encountered the music of Yo La Tengo, sometime in the first half of the 00s, they were already had a reputation of one of the most…

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

There is a standard tendency with rock critics, old and new - bring them up and then slam them down. I guess they take that critic word in…

The guy who recorded an album alone in the woods. This line might end up on Justin Vernon's tombstone. There's something irresistible about…

I got drawn to listen to Julie Byrne’s “Not Even Happiness” album after a series of articles, posts, whatnot about it. The simple stark black and…

It's been a long time since the bass sounded this good in the music of The Killers. They give the best of themselves in the first seconds of dense…

These days it ahem there is a proliferation of singer/songwriters inspired by a similar generation from the Seventies. Like then, today’s batch can be…

I would like to introduce if you haven’t heard yet of course, one of my favorite psychedelic and indie rock band named “Noah and…

When the term Americana crops up in a conversation among music fans, usually the first things that come up to mind are any country music variations,…

What would you like to listen for breakfast? If you have nothing on your mind, I suggest you digest Japanese Breakfast. Behind the name Japanese…

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…

“I can’t be without, I just need it here” This lyric in the first track on the album on Not Disappear, New Ways,…

Some people have superpowers, and some people have supergroups. I love me some supergroups. All of my music expectations have a form of a supergroup.…

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

Bedroom, or shall we be more precise and say home recording musicians seem to be a very common instance these days. Most of them rarely catch the eye…

Irish band Walking on Cars is the band I have been waiting for. First of all, the music talent runs through their veins. Without any pretentious…

Consider following review as a double review, rather than a battle between two EPs. There are not easy to compare, anyway. No Joy  Series…

Even with names like Zita Swoon being tossed around among music critics, the current Belgian music scene seems to be somewhat an unknown quantity to…