HEMI HEMINGWAY WINGS OF DESIRE PNKSLM New Zealand artists often tend to make musical combinations that on paper might seem quite incongruous, but when you listen to them, sound like they always belong together. In this specific case, we are [...]
MIRAH DEDICATION DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY RECORDS Mirah, or more precisely, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, is no newcomer and it shows. Her latest album, simply titled Dedication, is her seventh release, and all the experience she has gathered so far as an [...]
MAX HOFFMAN LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT INDEPENDENT What can you expect from a singer-songwriter who wrote his first song at the age of six? Well, at least to show that there is talent there and the ability to craft songs that will pique interest [...]
WRABEL UP ABOVE NETTWERK Being a long time on the music scene can often keep you in the shadows, or like in the case of Wrabel, it can gain you a serious following, as the singer songwriter so far has some 4 billion views on various streaming [...]
BOY GOLDEN BEST OF OUR POSSIBLE LIVES SIX SHOOTER RECORDS Cowboy hats and colorful shirts can be a deceiving thing for musicians. For a general set of listeners that rely on musical snippets it would immediately indicate that who they have in [...]
ALICE COSTELLOE MOVE ON WITH THE YEAR MOSHI MOSHI RECORDS As is the case sometimes with solo debut albums, the key just might lie with that solo tag. It is usually a case of an artist that has already been in a band or has worked undercover, so [...]
MARTA DEL GRANDI DREAM LIFE FIRE RECORDS Some singer-songwriters stick to all the defined lines, if you could call them that of this broadly-defined genre (and they are quite good at it), while there are not so many of them that try to bring in [...]
KIM MOBERG ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS INDEPENDENT You don’t essentially need to be an innovator that breaks boundaries to come up with good music that could reach quite a number of listeners. As a solo artist, you do need a hefty dose of [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS CBGB – A NEW YORK CITY SOUNDTRACK 1975-1986 CHERRY RED RECORDS This is a music collector’s perfect combination—an extensive compilation (box set, effectively) on one of the best labels around that can handle such a [...]
T. GOLD LIFE IS A WONDER AND IT’S CRUEL SLEEPY CAT RECORDS No, this is not a somewhat melancholic, soul-inflected singer songwriter behind a name or a moniker of T. Gold, but a core duo of Saman Khoujinian and Gabe Anderson, supported by a [...]
DELANEY BAILEY CONCAVE AWAL These days the term singer songwriter has grown in its scope from just a solo artist with an acoustic instrument and introspective lyrics to a solo artist that basically has a mind of their own and goes anywhere where [...]
JULIANNA BARWICK & MARY LATTIMORE TRAGIC MAGIC INFINÉ RECORDS It seems to be the time for the successful combination of modern classical and other modern (or not so modern) musical forms, and Tragic Magic, a debut joint album by [...]
ALEV LENZ 4 IN A CYCLE OF THIRDS INDEPENDENT If you think it is a straightforward process to combine a song form with classical music compositional structure, you could be way off, with so many such experiments, remaining just that – [...]
MICHAEL PAUL BINZ LET ME BE BINZ RECORDS LLC Very often, the independent road in music has many more thorns than roses. You can come up with music that deserves to be heard, but reaching a wider audience needs time, patience and strong will. And [...]
THE CRIBS SELLING A VIBE PLAY IT AGAIN SAM Twenty years on the music scene as a band, you are bound to have both ups and downs, and Gary, Ryan and Ross Jarman, trio of brother collectivelly known as The Cribs, have certainly had quite a few of [...]
CLÉMENTINE MARCH POWDER KEG PRAH RECORDINGS Clémentine March is a French British singer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, and if a first thing that comes to your mind is a possible connection to Stereolab, formally there isn’t [...]
DIANE COLL STRANGELY IN TUNE INDEPENDENT So far, Atlanta-based singer songwriter Diane Coll has been making music under the motto “therapy through music.” Quite a few songwriters have a similar idea, for some it works, for others, not so [...]
JUSTFOLK BEST OF JUSTFOLK 2012-2025 INDEPENDENT You can be on the scene for a while, get a solid fan base, but not get the full recognition your music really deserves, particularly if you take the independent way and don’t care much about [...]
I’M WITH HER SONGS FROM THE STAGE: KANSAS CITY (HI RES) ROUNDER Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins made a name for themselves both as solo artists and as a trio that goes under the banner, I’m With Her. Their album Wild and [...]
NICK & JUNE NEW YEAR’S FACE INDEPENDENT It has been something like two years since we last heard from Berlin duo Nick & June. This time, they have gone to the United States to record an album, one that adds new touches to their [...]
KIRA METCALF LESSONS IN MAJESTIC HUMILIATION SYMPHONIC Has the singer-songwriter categorization, as a genre, lost its meaning? If you think of it solely in the sense of its origins (a solo artist with an acoustic instrument, such as an acoustic [...]
SINGER. MATTRESS. CAT. SUBTROPICAL PERSONALITY INDEPENDENT There’s one question that might be looming among the melody-oriented indie rock fans; is bedroom pop a dying breed, or are they going into a sort of merger? If you ask Australian [...]
NICOLA CONTE VIAGGIO BLUE NOTE/SCHEMA/FAR OUT RECORDINGS With compilations, particularly curated ones, there’s almost never a middle ground; they are either great or they are simply bad. To come up with a great one is a painstaking [...]
ÁRNÝ MARGRÉT I MISS YOU, I DO: THE SJÁUMST EDITION ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS Excellent artists from Iceland—or anywhere else that is not U.S. or U.K.—are no big surprise for decades now, so neither was the fact that Iceland’s Árný [...]
