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 [...]
JAMES JONATHAN CLANCY SPRECATO MAPLE DEATH RECORDS There are not that many nominally called singer songwriters that have the stamina and inventiveness to both run a record label that goes beyond their own work and record their own music. [...]
MOL SULLIVAN GOOSE INDEPENDENT Cincinnati singer-songwriter Mol Sullivan gave a very succinct description of her debut album Goose: “long exposure photograph.” One of the reasons she considers it as such might lie in the fact that it took her 15 [...]
STRANGE PILGRIM STRANGE PILGRIM ROYAL OAKIE Strange Pilgrim is Oregon-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Josh Barnhart who already made a bit of a name for himself as a drummer for Port O’Brien, and a number of other West [...]
CONCHÚR WHITE SWIRLING VIOLETS BELLA UNION There’s always some sort of giveaway with artists, as far as their experience and background. With Northern Irish singer songwriter Conchúr White, it is his lyrics on his latest and second album [...]
MAEVE STEELE HONEYLAND INDEPENDENT Some artists need a few albums to establish their artistic presence. Others, such as Maeve Steele, just a single and two EPs is quite enough. As far as this LA-based singer-songwriter is concerned, her latest [...]
CLAY PARKER AND JODI JAMES YOUR VERY OWN DREAM INDEPENDENT There’s this relaxed, free-flowing stream in Americana music today picking up and refining the pieces singer-songwriters picked up from Americana itself back in the 70s and its [...]
PACKS MELT THE HONEY FIRE TALK Although Toronto’s Madeline Link is the person that operates as PACKS, the moniker actually covers a full band which includes Dexter Nash on guitar, Noah O’Neil on bass, and Shane Hooper on drums. [...]
DIANE COLL OLD GHOSTS INDEPENDENT Words are quite important to Diane Coll, after all in the other part of her life, she is a mental health therapist. And yes, Coll is approaching her music as some sort of personal therapy. Maybe that is one of [...]
BILL RYDER-JONES IECHYD DA DOMINO RECORDING COMPANY Artists don’t always get the attention or recognition they truly deserve. So far, Bill Ryder-Jones has received some cult fandom, first as The Coral guitarist, then as a solo artist. Yet [...]
MARIKA HACKMAN BIG SIGH CHRYSALIS RECORDS Taking a road less travelled is not a path you would expect from an artist that loosely falls within the singer-songwriter category. Such a road takes not only artistic courage, but the ample ability to [...]
HAZLETT GOODBYE TO THE VALLEY LOW NETTWERK When Justin Vernon and Bon Iver came up with his debut For Emma, Forever Ago back in 2007, we not only got a classic alt-folk album, but music that definitely influenced a set of upcoming artists that [...]
ALL THE BEES ALL THE BEES HOBOPOP RECORDINGS Artists weaned on the so-called ‘old’ folk music, the one that originated decades, or even centuries ago, very often tend to stick to the originals as much as they can. On the other hand, [...]
VALENTINA ALL ARE LOST INDEPENDENT Valentina (Pappalardo), Italian singer songwriter based in London, doesn’t seem to be a big fan of social media, but on the evidence of her latest six song EP All Are Lost she doesn’t need to be. [...]
FROG GROG INDEPENDENT To many ardent indie rock followers, Frog, consisting of brothers Danny and Steve Bateman, is hanging in the memory somewhere as one of those cult artists that has done something that earned them status. The reason why the [...]
LOW WATER BRIDGE BAND BACK TO THE VALLEY INDEPENDENT Low Water Bridge Band, is a relatively fresh force on the Americana music scene, as the band started back in 2020. The Virginia sextet consists of Logan Moore (guitar, vocals), Alex Kerns [...]
JULIE BYRNE JULIE BYRNE WITH LAUGH CRY LAUGH GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL How many songs on a release do you need to realize that an artist is doing the right thing? For some, a double album is not enough, for others, like Julie Byrne, who are brimming [...]
DAFT PUNK RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES (DRUMLESS EDITION) SONY MUSIC It has been 10 years now since French electro-pop masters Daft Punk released their seminal album Random Access Memories. As time went by, it became quite obvious that the album [...]
ABIGAIL LAPELL LULLABIES OUTSIDE MUSIC No hidden meanings or double entendres with the album title here – Abigail Lapell’s Lullabies is exactly that – eight lullabies from across the world. These songs should make you, your [...]
DAVID HOLMES BLIND ON A GALLOPING HORSE HEAVENLY RECORDINGS David Holmes is a name that often lingers in the minds of listeners, either as a DJ or as a member of Unloved, but even more so as the man behind quite a number of modern film [...]
ROSIE H SULLIVAN IN MY NATURE NETTWERK We often speak of what detriments Spotify poses to artists, but sometimes, artists do have benefits from that streaming service. Let’s take here the example of Scottish singer-songwriter Rosie H [...]
IN THE PINES PAINTING BY NUMBERS INDEPENDENT Working on the edges of indie rock while crossing over into Americana one moment and post-grunge and psych (and elsewhere) on the other, is not new but is not easy to do well. Sure, there are [...]
TALsounds SHIFT NNA TAPES Natalie Chami, who works under the moniker of TALsounds ,refers to herself as “a proud Canadian-born Lebanese American” a description that is something for the listeners to uncover through her work so far, [...]
