Shannon Wright dropped her 10th  album this year titled Division. This author from Atlanta creates forcefully and consistently,…

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…

Singer and main author of Fleet Foxes, Robin Pecknold, needed six years to write and shape the material for band's third studio album titled Crack…

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…

Londoner Daniel O’Sullivan seems to pop in and out of the scene in recent years. He made a studio and a live album in 2011 and a few other…

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 Ruby Suns can either be a shifting conglomerate or just Ryan McPhun, a guy around whom the whole band and its musical idea revolve around. That…

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…

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

Ever since Josh Tillman took a sarcastic alias Father John Misty, two great albums emerged from his psyche with love pains as major theme. On his…

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…

Texas power-poppers or harmony rockers (whichever you prefer) Cotton Mather and their main brain Robert Harrison (I guess the same last name with…

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…

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

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

You would have to search deep into the Seventies memorabilia to find the cover of the album that inspired the cover art Nashville’s The Paperhead used…

In case you haven’t heard already, Palace are the next big thing. Friends who met at school, they are Rupert Turner, Will Rhodes, Leo…

Trying to describe Lomelda's second album Thx, by the title gracing songs by Willie Nelson and Canned Heat is quite fitting as far as its…

In times before the Internet, it was so easy to miss a good band. You simply could not have heard of them, particularly if they went the independent…

As an artist, Mark Kozelek is in that phase of his creativity in which he is capable of saying anything that's on his mind without caring what…

Favorite Americana players, known for their dreamy sounds, are finally back. Seven years after releasing the Snowlake Midnight and Strange Attractor,…

Frightened Rabbit is a band from Scotland formed in 2003. Initially, it was a solo project of Scott Hutchison until it turned to band comprising of…

The moment the opening track, “Riverview Fog” starts, you get the feeling that you’ve heard all this before, but that the cards have been reshuffled…

Don’t call it plagiarism, call it a promiscious idea. Just because someone sounds like someone else, it doesn’t mean that they…

The moment you realize that somebody who’s from Athens Georgia has recorded all his three solo albums for a German specialist label, you begin to…

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…