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 [...]
Roy Shakked Throwback Groove Gravy Records Since Steely Dan appeared in full force me 50 years ago, many other artists have tried to reach their almost inaccessible heights. They have sat with their combination of truly sophisticated infusion of [...]
Frances Chang Support Your Local Nihilist Independent It might be quite a task to locate New York artist Frances Chang on social media. One of the reasons might be that she is not a big fan of it. The other that so far, Chang has assumed and [...]
Maya Lucia miss girl world Independent New York via Minneapolis artist Maya Lucia has an attitude. It is an attitude that makes her garage-fuelled pop rock truly work, so easily heard on her latest, seven-song EP miss girl world. Some might [...]
iskwē And Tom Wilson Mother Love iskwē Music Inc Mother Love is the first long-awaited collaborative album released by award winning artists iskwē | ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (Cree Métis from Treaty One Territory ) and Tom Wilson | Tehoh’ahake (Mohawk). Here, [...]
Ally Cribb Unbroken Independent Let’s be clear about Ally Cribb and her latest EP Unbroken – it is pop, pure and simple. Now there’s three facts about pop to keep in mind here. It has to follow a set formula of being either [...]
Queen Kwong Couples Only Sonic Ritual The moment The Cure stepped on the scene with their dark, gothic pop rock, that dark sound just kept on going, even when it was not fully in vogue. These days, such dark music seems to be in full favour [...]
Rich Jacques Everything Must Change Cousteau Records A note that an artist is a Grammy-winner should be sign of quality, but that sign might have lost its significance in recent years. L.A artist, singer-songwriter, and producer Rich Jacques is [...]
Mush Down Tools Memphis Industries Since their first release three years ago, Leeds quartet Mush have been pushing it hard, coming up with three albums in as many years, having just released Down Tools, being that third one. At the same time, [...]
Nate Paladino Drown With Me Independent If Drown with Me sounds like a bit of a dark, bleak title for an album, you are actually on the right track with the latest album by Orange County, CA singer songwriter Nate Paladino. But what does sunny, [...]
The Eighty Six Seas This Is Just A Simple Song Independent Brooklyn singer songwriter Nick Stevens, the man behind The Eighty Six Seas moniker, tries quite a bit to make sure that This Is Just a Simple Song, the title of his debut, six-song EP [...]
Teddy And The Rough Riders Teddy And The Rough Riders Appalachia Record Co. There’s quite a number of artists these days trying to recreate and combine the West Coast sounds of the late 60s and early to mid-70s. Some do or did it with more [...]
Caleb Nichols Ramon Kill Rock Stars When the album starts with a song titled “Listen to The Beatles,” you can be sure which way things are going, at least, musically. And Caleb Nichols, a musician, writer, poet, and librarian [...]
Various Artists Through The Soil II Independent Any compilation, and particularly those that are set up as benefits, are always laced with good intentions, but not always with a fully satisfying set of songs. Listeners and potential supporters [...]
Praises In This Year: Hierophant Hand Drawn Dracula Praises, aka Jesse Crowe, caused quite a stir with Spill Magazine back in 2018 with their debut album In This Year: Ten of Swords. Four years on, and they’re back with yet another Tarot [...]
