THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS THE WORLD IS TO DIG IDLEWILD RECORDINGS Two guys and an accordion walk into a Brooklyn apartment, and 24 albums later… Why did The World Is to Dig get the works? That’s nobody’s business but the dirt’s. The announcement of [...]
PRISM SHORES SOFTEST ATTACK MERITORIO RECORDS “Paperback Writer,” one of the greatest singles by The Beatles, never found its way one of their regular albums, but it did create one of the often underrated but at the same time greatly [...]
SWEET REINCARNATION METALVILLE By the 1980s, Sweet had gone from a glam band known as The Sweet in 1971, to a pop band. Then in 1974, they changed their name to just Sweet, when they became a straight up rock band. By the 1980s, with member [...]
KAELEY JADE THE GREAT UNKNOWN INDEPENDENT Country music used to be full of formulas that begged to be broken, and for a while now Americana and alternative country artists did a great job in doing so. Joining those ranks is Edmonton-based Métis [...]
RICHARD BARBIERI HAUNTINGS KSCOPE David Sylvian-led Japan became legends of ‘80s electronic music, and Sylvian himself had a renowned solo career with a series of more and more experimental releases. Yet quite a few fans of the genre sometimes [...]
SPARKLER GLIDEWINDER À LA CARTE RECORDS Longtime shoegaze fans and followers surely have certain sound combinations in their minds that they would love to hear, and one such a combination would probably involve My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive [...]
PRYMEK & SAGE SHELTER AKP RECORDINGS If somebody would mention ambient music at this very moment, the first thing that might come to mind would be meandering electronics sounds. Yet the variation and spectrum of ambient music these days has [...]
TIGERCUB NETS TO CATCH THE WIND LOOSEGROOVE RECORDS Alternative rock is a genre that has tons of history. Emerging from underground shoegaze and the uprising of grunge, alternative rock became mainstream around the 90s. Since then, the category [...]
