Belle And Sebastian What To Look For In Summer Matador Records Those that did not have the chance to see Belle and Sebastian live might question how both [...]
Coco Reilly Coco Reilly Golden Wheel Records The number of current artists trying to channel music from the bygone years of rock grows by the day. In most cases, they try to [...]
Smudge All Stars Smudge All Stars Pegdoll Records Back in the ‘90s, an Australian rock band called Smudge, was raved about by Lemonheads main man Evan Dando. Frankly, [...]
Luca Wilding Luca Wilding Abbey Records Another new day, another singer/songwriter, another debut EP. Sounds too familiar? In most cases, yes. In others, however, you sense [...]
The War On Drugs Live Drugs Super High Quality Records When The War On Drugs released their rightfully acclaimed Lost In a Dream album back in 2014, they were confirmed as [...]
JORDAN REYES SAND LIKE STARDUST American Dreams Records Ambient country might be a relatively new category for some, and it seems to be developing in popularity. After [...]
Billie Holiday Billie: The Original Soundtrack Verve Records What can you say that has not already been said about Billie Holiday, one of the best–if [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Eleventh Trip RidingEasy Records There could be a few reasons why RidingEasy Records have had 11 runs with their ‘Brown Acid’ [...]
Stephen Becker Nothing Sun Under The New NNA Tapes The so-called bedroom artists are becoming ‘dime-a-dozen’ these days. After all, quite a few are stuck in [...]
Melody Gardot Sunset In The Blue Verve Records Some music reviewers try to be critical and stay polite at the same time. One of the ways to do so is to lump together [...]
Palace Winter …Keep Dreaming Buddy Tambourhinoceros Electronic music these days has been used and abused. Unfortunately, more the latter than the former. That is [...]
Dex Wolfe Lightness Independent Usually, there is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde side to musical polymaths. They are certainly extremely talented people, but often, with all their [...]
Garcia Peoples Nightcap At Wits’ End Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Have you been hiding all those faves you have from the psych/prog era, particularly those that have [...]
Anne Malin Waiting Song Independent How does a combination of Cowboy Junkies and Coco Rosie, both at their most imaginative, sound to you? If the answer to that question is an [...]
Bendrix Littleton Deep Dark South NNA Tapes Initially, many music fans didn’t realize what kind of a gap was left when late great Sparklehorse, aka Mark Linkous, left [...]
Télépopmusik Everybody Breaks The Line Warm Music So, you think electro pop music has nothing substantial to offer? Have you forgotten LCD Soundsystem, or any of [...]
Ian Wayne Risking Illness Whatever’s Clever Getting over sad times sometimes requires sad music. Still, for such music to work you need to not only feel it in yourself as [...]
Mines Falls Mines Falls Independent Saying that something sounds ‘cinematic’ can mean 1001 things to 1001 different people. Still, most would agree, that a rock sound that leads [...]
Social Gravy A Different Kind Independent If you have any grievances with quality pop/rock akin to Coldplay or say, even Dawes, you may freely skip this review. You see, [...]
Oh Susanna Sleepy Little Sailor (Deluxe Edition) MVKA Deception can be an art, and sometimes, that is for the best. This is particularly true of those [...]
