PRISM SHORES OUT FROM UNDERNEATH MERITORIO RECORDS If you would want to characterize the state of interesting indie pop/rock at the start of 2025, you probably wouldn’t have to go further than Montreal’s Prism Shores and their new [...]
BLUE LAKE WEFT TOTAL UNION With modern instrumental music that relies on more subtle, gentler sounds there was always a line (a very thin one at that) between being excellent and aural wallpaper. Even the most careful and knowledgeable artists [...]
FLORA HIBBERD SWIRL 22TWENTY RECORDS New singer-songwriters seem to crop up in a single day, and the competition (if it really exists) for the attention of an audience is even stiffer. Some of these artists can show what they are made of on a [...]
GEOWULF THE CHILD NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP Australia’s Geowulf is an intriguing dream pop project driven by the songwriting and singing of one Star Kendrick with the help of her longtime friend and collaborator, Toma Banjanin. With a series of [...]
AVI C. ENGEL NOCTURNE (SOUNDTRACK FOR AN INVISIBLE FILM) ELEPHANT SHREW EDITIONS Toronto’s Avi C. Engel is on a serious release streak. They already have a serious set of singles, EPs and albums under their belt, and after the Bestiary EP [...]
LEON RAUM BASEMENT MEDITATION SONAR KOLLEKTIV It might be that Basement Meditation is Leon Raum’s official debut EP, but this prolific German producer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist has been around for a while and has worked with several [...]
SAINT ETIENNE THE NIGHT HEAVENLY RECORDINGS Saint Etienne, probably one of the best electro-pop bands around may have previously released 11 excellent albums, but as a band, they haven’t been heard of for a while. It seemed that Sarah [...]
CIAO MALZ SAFE THEN SORRY INDEPENDENT Ciao Malz is the moniker of Brooklyn-based Filipino American Malia DelaCruz, who has been releasing some subtle combination of bedroom and twee pop from 2022, releasing an EP and three singles, that showed [...]
JONO McCLEERY RECONCILE SONAR KOLLEKTIV It is a bit of a misnomer to label Jono McCleery as a singer/songwriter, at least in that traditional early-70S sense. McCleery, who has been around for a while now, seems to have only one [...]
AVI C. ENGEL BESTIARY ELEPHANT SHREW EDITIONS Checking out the Bandcamp page of Toronto’s Avi C. Engel, you realize they have a slew of releases, as some of them went under that C. that stands for Clara. They explain with their motto: [...]
ROSS GOLDSTEIN BLUNDERS ODD CAT RECORDS Going about it without any social media accounts as an artist/musician these days is like swimming upstream with a strong current coming your way, but that doesn’t seem to bother New York’s Ross [...]
JOE CARDAMONE QUARENTINA (EXPANDED) SONIC RITUAL RECORDINGS Joe Cardamone has been a fixture on the Los Angeles underground music scene for a while now, as he fronted for the post-punkers, The Icarus Line, for 17 years or so. His series of solo [...]
SUN ATOMS EVERYTHING FOREVER GLAMOUR GOWNS RECORDS Those following more closely The Spill’s video premieres might have already been grooving to Sun Atom’s “Ceiling Tiles” video. If that worked for you, the Portland band’s [...]
SARA LEW LOUD CLOUDLAND RECORDS Sara Lew, aka Sara Lewis Sørensen is a Danish songwriter, singer and guitarist that, after three initial singles presents her debut album Loud. The album title just might be a bit deceiving, as Lew’s jazzy [...]
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS AMERICAN BAND (DELUXE) ATO RECORDS Some albums (great or not so great) get deluxe, special, or whatever kind of reissue for a reason, or no reason at all. Usually it is an anniversary, ‘high demand’ as PR people [...]
CHARLIE KAPLAN ETERNAL REPEATER GLAMOUR GOWNS RECORDS Charlie Kaplan is one of those artists that leads a double music life. He plays bass for Office Culture, and has released a series of singles and three solo albums, the latest of which is [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE NINETEENTH TRIP RIDINGEASY RECORDS You may have been taking this trip into the seemingly endless depths of very very heavy psych rock, hard rock, and proto metal from the late ’60s and early ’70s, with [...]
QUEEN KWONG STRANGERS SONIC RITUAL For those unfamiliar with Queen Kwong, behind this moniker is one Carré Kwong Callaway, who has moved from L.A. to London to continue her creative endeavours. After her three albums and EPs which garnered [...]
LIV WADE RADIOS AND BUFFALOS MERILÄINEN MUSIC INC. Liv Wade is considered as one of the spearheads in what is called Indigenous Music Renaissance. Wade is of Metis and Scandinavian roots, her family originally came from the Red River Metis [...]
SEPHINE LLO DIAMOND FALL INDEPENDENT When composer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sephine Llo released her debut EP in 2014 and her debut album in 2017, she created quite a buzz with her unconventional music which ranged from 18th-century [...]
GEMZ SEE THE FUTURE INDEPENDENT As a relatively new setup, California duo GEMZ, comprised of singer songwriter Jen Wood and electronic musician and producer Ted Chen, have only three singles and See The Future, this EP under their belts. Yet, [...]
DUSTIN JAMES PAPER STAR INDEPENDENT Minneapolis-based songwriter Dustin James was the bassist for the acclaimed garage rock band Green/Blue, and the creative force behind the noisy shoegaze trio Waveless. Yet, on his latest solo project, Paper [...]
THE W LOVERS FOR A DAY OR A LIFETIME INDEPENDENT These are some heady days for the fans of roots-based music, as there are high-quality artists appearing in this musical realm practically every day. If those fans haven’t yet caught up with [...]
SHOWER CURTAIN WORDS FROM A WISHING WELL ANGEL TAPES/FIRE TALK It’s always quite comforting when you hear an indie band combine some fuzzy, lightly distorted guitars with gentle, subdued vocal harmonies, particularly if the songwriting is [...]
