SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN MYSTIC HITS ROYAL OAKIE Sugar Candy Mountain’s Mystic Hits is an album that has been out of print for a while now (a decade or so), and in the meantime has earned that mystic tag from its title. Starting out as duo of [...]
ASHA JEFFERIES EGO RIDE NETTWERK If you are of the opinion that well-crafted, sophisticated pop is not worth your time, you just might as well move on and pass on Asha Jefferies’ new album Ego Ride. On the other hand, even if you do have [...]
JADE BIRD BURN THE HARD DRIVE GLASSNOTE RECORDS Expressing your personal life, feelings, and observations would be quite a double-edged sword for singer-songwriters. To make it work, the artists who take that route have to make a solid [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS UNDER THE BRIDGE 2 SKEP WAX RECORDS Sarah Records is one of those stories in pop that long-lasting fandom is made of. The artists recording for the label at the time it was active were dubbed twee, and the whole scene surrounding [...]
FLUNG ALL HEARTBEAT GET BETTER RECORDS With All Heartbeat, her third album, Kashika Kollaikal, aka Flung has just confirmed that she is currently one of the more inventive artists using electronic music elements in their music. She already [...]
PHILLIP LAMMONDS COWBOY THINGS CURB RECORDS The name of Phillip Lammonds might not be so familiar, even for some avid fans of Americana/country music, even though Lammonds has been on the scene for decades now. The reason for that might simply [...]
CREATION REBEL HIGH ABOVE HARLESDEN 1978-2023 ON-U SOUND After being quiet for a while, dub innovators Creation Rebel returned last year with a new set of dub delicacies, again under the helm of Adrian Sherwood and his On-U-Sound titled Hostile [...]
MAGANA TEETH AUDIO ANTIHERO For singer-songwriters, or any artist going solo, it has now almost become a must to step out of the standard expectations for the genre and go the way of introspective personal music with just a voice and a single, [...]
R.E. SERAPHIN FOOL’S MATE TAKE A TURN/SAFE SUBURBAN HOME RECORDS It feels a bit like power pop was in a bit of a doghouse after its second upsurge in the 90s, but with quite a new number of artists favoring the genre (or sub-genre, if you [...]
NAN MACMILLAN FROM BOTH EYES INDEPENDENT Some would say that these days that singer-songwriters are a dime a dozen. Of course, when releasing your music has become so easy without even having a record label, such proliferation is imminent. So [...]
ARSUN BABE I HEAR THUNDER IN YOUR HEART INDEPENDENT You can follow in the footsteps of a giant like Bob Dylan, but to come up with some credible music in such a manner you still have to have at least a modicum of your own personality, musical [...]
BREEZERS HIDEAWAY INDIE AM GOLD Breezers is yet another musical moniker and behind it is L.A.-based singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Evan apRoberts. apRoberts is essentially an L.A. scene veteran since he’s been on that scene [...]
THE TAJ MAHAL SEXTET SWINGIN’ LIVE AT THE CHURCH IN TULSA LIGHTNING ROD RECORDS For some musical masters, no matter what genre they are working within, it just might be hard to keep it at your best for decades. Even more so if they have [...]
TISH MELTON WHEN WE’RE OLDER CMND SHFT It seems Brandi Carlisle has an acute sense of where good musical values lie. A big name in her own right, she was recently involved in the revival of Joni Mitchell’s career, and is also working [...]
JULIEN CHANG HOME FOR THE MOMENT TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS No, this is not the fashion designer some might be familiar with, but a singer songwriter who has two quite solid album from 2019 and 2022 behind him, coming up with this relatively brief, [...]
HANNAH FRANCES KEEPER OF THE SHEPHERD RUINATION RECORD CO. From the moment “Bronwyn” opens up on Keeper of The Shepherd, the new album by Hannah Frances, you realize she has been immersed with music since she can probably remember. [...]
FUR TRADER EXECUTIONLAND INDEPENDENT Andrew Pelletier isn’t exactly a fur trader, although he uses that moniker to release his music. On the other hand, he just might be, if you are replacing real furs with some cozy, fuzzy, truly melodic [...]
FAYE WEBSTER UNDERDRESSED AT THE SYPHONY SECRETLY CANADIAN If you are yet to indulge into the joys of Faye Webster’s music, you have been missing quite a bit since her self-titled album back in 2017. Now, with her latest, Underdressed at [...]
THE DREAM ACADEMY RELIGION, REVOLUTION & RAILWAYS CHERRY RED RECORDS Having a huge, world-wide success with your first single can always be a blessing and a curse. For Dream Academy which includes singer/guitarist and songwriter Nick [...]
AL HARPER THE ANALEMMA OBSERVATION LEAGUE TAKE A TURN RECORDS How do you distinguish yourself from other artists that are working within the ‘standard’ folk/pop realm that is so prominent these days. Well, one way to do it is come up [...]
SHAINA HAYES KINDERGARTEN HEART BONSOUND When a singer-songwriter presents something quite individual and personal, without being self-centered, you simply cannot dismiss her or him as the ‘standard fare.’ That is exactly the [...]
DUCKS LTD. HARM’S WAY CARPARK RECORDS For some current artists, their favorite music style or styles don’t go away, and it just needs to always be here. For Toronto duo Ducks Ltd. that just might be the combination of power and [...]
PRETTY CRIMES EVERY MOMENT ALL AT ONCE INDEPENDENT Alternative rock and indie rock were such favorite terms back in the 90s, often attached to artists that actually combined a number of rock genres/styles within their music. These days, the use [...]
KULA SHAKER NATURAL MAGICK STRANGE F.O.L.K. After he burst onto the scene with his psych pop rock back in 1996, Crispian Mills and his Kula Shaker project recorded two well-received albums and, for whatever reason, went quiet for some eight [...]
