Eliza Edens We’ll Become The Flowers Independent Since Nick Drake’s enigmatic artistic figure left us too early, many other singer/songwriters, both male and female, were compared to his entirely individual musical and lyrical [...]
Stephen Becker A Calm That Shifts NNA Tapes Sometimes, artists hit it right on the nose when they come up with an album title, but often that is not the case, particularly when debut albums are concerned. Yet, here is a debut album that does [...]
Barrett Davis The Ballad Of Aesop Fin Independent Being an artist that wants to explore all the aspects of a certain genre that very often operates within strict rules and music formulas can be a tall order even for seasoned musicians, let alone [...]
Ev Bird Puff Piece Royal Mountain Records If you are an artist/musician based in Montreal, you may be tempted to retreat indoors when the winter takes its hold. One of those is take an extensive listen to your record collection, something that [...]
Various Artists Listen To The Red Rock Vast Horizons Music Inc. Gigi Love, the key artist behind this compilation, is from Utah herself, so it is no wonder that she knows exactly why she needed to organize a group of like-minded artists to [...]
Chico Romano Vol. 5 Ramp Local It seems to be a fact that artists who change their monikers once in a while have very wide musical taste and interests, and want to keep those tastes and interests distinct. Yet, very often, thy merge and seep [...]
HamsandwicH Magnify Route 109 Picking up cues in pop music is seemingly easy, you find an artist or artists, remodel, combine, and presto you’ve got your song or set of songs. For some pop that indeed does not have to be hard, if you know how to [...]
Kolb Tyrannical Vibes Ramp Local What do you do if you are a classically trained opera singer that has serious love for sophisticated pop that is a cross between Fleetwood Mac and latter-day Doobie Brothers, sprinkled with touches of Steely Dan [...]
Office Culture Big Time Things Northern Spy Trying to swim in the waters of complex, sophisticated pop that spreads into rock, jazz, and elsewhere is something quite a few artists with good musical taste will try, but not that many will succeed [...]
Izzy Oram Brown Mess Independent The influence late Elliott Smith left on quite a number of artists that started out after him seems to be much greater than can be gauged just by cursory listen. Often, it is just closely following in [...]
DAVID LEAF – GOD ONLY KNOWS: THE STORY OF BRIAN WILSON, THE BEACH BOYS & THE CALIFORNIA MYTH OMNIBUS PRESS BOOK REVIEW BY: LJUBINKO ZIVKOVIC There’s rarely a band around which has more things written about it than The Beach Boys. [...]
Dan Lyons & The Tenants Shuttered Dreams Shaker Records Margate is one of those English seaside towns that really comes alive when the summer season is on with musicians confined to themselves most of the time and being able to either work [...]
Creedence Clearwater Revival Creedence Clearwater Revival At The Royal Albert Hall Craft Recordings It turns out that revival was always the key word with Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty, the band’s mastermind. And it is not [...]
Maeve Steele Overland Independent The number of artists doing their music the way they want is growing exponentially, which makes it exponentially hard for them to reach a wider audience, without something to make them stand out. Very often, [...]
Reuben And The Dark In Lieu Of Light Arts & Crafts Reuben Bullock and his band, aka Reuben And The Dark, have slowly been building a reputation as one of the more refined purveyors of what can be dubbed as intelligent rock, working in the [...]
Sparky’s Magic Piano Never Twice The Same Colour Independent There was rarely a middle ground with something that was labelled Britpop. That includes more or less anything that came out of UK from the late 80s up to mid-90s, either some [...]
The Afghan Whigs How Do You Burn? Royal Cream/BMG When Greg Dulli and his The Afghan Whigs started out in the nineties they were dubbed as one of the progenitors of grunge. Yet, throughout their career, Dulli and his bandmates always had the [...]
Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears Curation Records The debate on what constitutes Americana music, whether there are any connected genres (like Canadiana) and what else should be included and what not is still [...]
Julia Jacklin Pre Pleasure Polyvinyl/Universal Music Canada Australian singer songwriter Julia Jacklin has had no problems with words so far. It didn’t matter whether it was her lyrics, album and song titles, or interviews. No problem in [...]
Dendrons 5-3-8 Innovative Leisure Would you like to refresh your memory of the first phase Talking Heads combined with the mid-period Pavement, all brushed up for more current trends? Well, then, you don’t have to look much further than [...]
Tiffany Williams All Those Days of Drinking Dust Blue Redbird If you think All Those Days of Drinking Dust, the title of the debut album by Eastern Kentucky singer songwriter Tiffany Williams sounds like a possible title of a novel or a [...]
Emily Elbert Woven Together Independent You have not have heard of Emily Elbert as a solo artist before, but there is quite a good chance you have heard her music. Elbert is quite a sought-out songwriter and guitarist who has already a series of [...]
Elaine Howley The Distance Between Heart And Mouth Touch Sensitive Records When singer songwriters decide to turn their written or recorded diaries into music, they are actually undertaking a very risky tactic. The results can be quite boring [...]
Ciao! Scary Haha Independent Usually, when an artist takes on a working alias, the public still gets a chance to learn his birth given name. At least, at some point. Still, New York artist Ciao! has decided to remain otherwise anonymous for his [...]
