As each year gets close to its end, I start scavenging other people’s “best of” lists to find something I’ve not heard before, something to have for…

  It’s been three years since the talented group from England dropped their debut Sun Structures, an album that still stands as the gritty…

One thing is for sure when it comes to Irish people – they have an incredible sense for melody. They never sound like they are going to…

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…

I often find myself drawn to certain songs because of the mood that they create. Cigarettes After Sex is such a prime example of this in each of their…

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…

If you, like me (and many others), are disappointed that the singles from Justin Timberlake’s forthcoming Man of the Woods album did nothing…

The canadian musical group Grounders reference Jagwar Ma, Tame Impala and the Zombies; '60s sounds, psychedelic nostalgia, woozy and …

So, Hope Sandoval and her mystery are back with us again. It has been 26 years since she first appeared along with former Rain Parade co-leader David…

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

As of the early Nineties, Antwerp, Belgium emerged as one of the strongest rock scenes this side of La Manche Channel. And it has quite a lot to thank…

February is the month when cats make love (while sounding like crying babies), and I start to think that this is why all the great albums drop around…

Mark Olson, one of the original co-founders of The Jayhawks is back with a new album, and although he is credited as “the head of the bill”,…

It has been decades since Sweden has earned the trust of music fans worldwide to come up with something special (and yes, that does include ABBA,…

In the world of country music, prison was always one of the places from which an artist can develop perspective which would reflect in lyrics…

Show me on this beaver where Canada touched you. Jokes aside, Canada has a lot of great bands, especially on indie rock scene. One of them is, for…

As I’ve said before, it is the longevity of an album that shows its true worth. It is for this reason (and quite a few others) that I would…

Music magazines often use the term Wooden music when they want to describe the type of music that I am about to review. It stands for the following:…

We often have this story when an artist changes the style and then we don't like it me because that's not the same artist anymore. On the…

Making good music is not about putting notes together by simple, generic instructions like it is some kind of kinder egg toy. Boys from Oxford are…

Usually I perk up my ears for anything that comes out on the, what some people consider out there label, Sacred Bones.  Wymond Miles has…

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

Another little miracle from Sweden. Promise And The Monster is alter ego of Billie Lindahl, a girl who released her debut album Transparent Knife back…

If you are eco-conscuous, then you believe in recycling. But what happens when you are eco-conscious in your approach to music? Then you are an artist…

Anybody remember a Britpop luminary going by the name George Nigel Hoyle? No? Well, he was a member of the Britpop second-tier band Gay Dad, but who…

It seems the Australians and New Zealanders have a special knack for good, healthy, melodious rock, or power pop, or whatever you want to call it. As…

When I first saw Diane Birch in 2010, my first impression was that she is a hybrid of Pattie Smith and Diane Keaton who tries to play the piano as…

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…

William Merriman has been behind the quietly sophisticated Dublin band The Harvest Ministers for some thirty years now. Even though it doesn’t seem…

Only year and a half  after self-released V, and a little bit more since split-album No Life For Me, a collaboration with Cloud Nothings,…

  Fierce Mercy is the 13th album by an Australian musician Colin Hay. Wow, that sounds like a really prolific artist, doesn’t it? Still, it…

Ok, so I never heard of Tim Meskers before. So, a know all music site tells me that he might be known to discerning music fans from a band called…

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…

Saint Raymond is a 20 year old dude from Nottingham. This summer, he released his debut album called Young Blood. As many young authors, Saint Raymond…

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…

  James Mercer and his crew came back with the new material. I say crew on purpose as the members have completely changed since the last…

In 2014, Canadian alternative/indie band Tokyo Police Club released their latest album, Forcefield. So, how does it compare to their previous works,…