S.G. Goodman Teeth Marks Verve Forecast One of the key reasons many listeners shy away from singer songwriters as a general music genre is lack of variation. The mention that, usually, it is just the artist and her/his guitar or piano, voice and [...]
Stars From Capelton Hill Last Gang Records OK. Montreal’s Stars are a pop band. They say it so themselves. Loud and clear. Those listeners having issues with pop music may just as well forget about Stars. Yet, if you don’t [...]
John Jody Crooked Star Ramp Local How many monikers can you take on as an artist/musician? Well, probably as many as you need to express your concept(s). That is exactly what one John Jody is doing, as this is his new moniker, previously working [...]
Jo Schornikow Altar Keeled Scales Whenever Nashville is mentioned along with the name of a musician/artist, listeners immediately get notions of country, or a bit more ‘daring’ epithet of an Americana singer. In the case of Jo [...]
Tess Parks And Those Who Were Seen Dancing Fuzz Club/Hand Drawn Dracula Tess Parks’ debut Blood Hot really created some critical waves when it was released back in 2013, and rightly so. Yet, we haven’t heard much from Parks since [...]
Thomas Dollbaum Wellswood Big Legal Mess “I grew up in a small town between nowhere and nothing. By reputation, people move to Florida to run away from their problems, but instead of leaving them behind they bring the same problems with them. [...]
Em Spel The Carillon Towers Independent Em Spel, or Chicago artist Emma Hospelhorn doesn’t seem to be a big fan of social media. Whether this will have an impact on the word spreading out about her debut solo album The Carillon Towers, [...]
Avi Kaplan Floating On A Dream Fantasy Records One thing singer-songwriters can impress their potential audience with is their vocals. It can be any specific characteristic, from striking to weird, as long as it draws attention to their music [...]
Various Artists Pay It All Back Vol. 8 On-U Sound Master producer/songwriter/artist Adrian Sherwood has been behind all things On-U Sound since 1979, and since then he and the artists he has worked with have been on the cutting edge of [...]
Say Sue Me The Last Thing Left Damnably Sumi Choi (vocalist, guitarist) and her band Say Sue Me are from Busan, Korea. If that tells you that you would be in for some K-pop on their latest album The Last Thing Left, you’d be right in one [...]
John Inghram John Inghram CD Baby John Inghram built a name for himself as a musician’s musician, particularly among artist that try to get the gist of the music that has anything to do with roots, folk, country, Americana, however you [...]
Diatom Deli Time~Lapse Nature RVNG International Artist PR’s can really go to extremes, from bare facts to wordy gibberish that praises the artists to heaven with no substantial music behind those words. Having read the press release [...]
Love & Pain It Comes In Waves Independent Many artists have both many differing (or not so differing) musical interests and try to cover as much ground as they possibly could. Very often, it has quite a bit to do with their inventiveness and [...]
Market The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong Western Vinyl At some point you reach a stage when some mellow, subdued, harmony vocal pop rock with intelligent lyrics just fits the bill perfectly. In the late 90s and at the turn of the millennium, [...]
Georgia Harmer Stay In Touch Arts & Crafts You really have to have an impressive set of songs, a truly great voice and some stellar musical backing to come up with a debut album that should really matter. Toronto’s Georgia Harmer [...]
Abigail Lapell Stolen Time Outside Music What do you usually expect from a subdued singer-songwriter album? A voice and a single instrument? An interesting track or two and a bit of monotony? Sure, that is a problem many singer-songwriters face [...]
Various Artists Brown Acid: The Fourteenth Trip RidingEasy Records Have six months already passed by? Well, that surely means it is time for the new Brown Acid The Fourteenth Trip proto hard/heavy compilation from yesteryear and artists and [...]
Clara Engel Their Invisible Hands Independent Don’t be fooled by the list of ‘thank you’ names Clara Engel dedicates on the album page of her latest album ‘Their Invisible Hands,’ some thirty or so names. [...]
1969 Collective 1969 Independent Suddenly, music projects appear out of nowhere to wow music listeners. For the artists involved, it is more a painstaking process of hours, days, months, sometimes years, of often meticulous work to put [...]
King Garbage Heavy Metal Greasy Love Ipecac Recordings You think you haven’t heard of King Garbage before? Well, maybe you should think again. Behind that moniker, under which the band is releasing it second album, Heavy Metal Greasy Love, [...]
Rumpistol Isola Raske Plader Danish producer, film composer, electronic musician and pianist Jens B. Christiansen (aka Rumpistol) has quite a few fans among fellow musicians and music industry plaudits, and rightfully so. His seventh solo album [...]
Your Crush Strawberry Sheets Independent Even the most hardened fans of what they consider complex music have some sort of a soft spot for some sort of, what some would call ‘pop confection.’ It could be anything – from an old [...]
Telefís a hAon Dimple Discs Calling your new project television using the English language would definitely imply you are copying the Tom Verlaine and co. legendary outfit, even though the project is made up of two quite well-known artists. So, [...]
Jerry Leger Nothing Pressing Latent Recordings It could be something in the water or having too much time to spend alone when it gets really cold so you can’t do much else but come up with some music, yet it seems that Toronto very often [...]
