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A clean, full-bodied Tuesday

Quite a hefty load for a Monday

Week 41, 2026 (another biggie)

Week 41, 2026 (huge, as usual)

Friday's pre-weekend bonanza never disappoints

LENE 3000 GREATEST SWAMP HITS 10K PROJECTS Lene 3000 is the moniker of Norwegian witch house singer songwriter Lene Talgø, who is just releasing her debut album with a grand title of Greatest Swamp Hits. For the uninitiated, according to Wikipedia’s definition, witch house is a microgenre of electronic music that is musically characterized by high-pitched keyboard effects, heavily […]

VACATIONS PURSUIT OF ANYTHING NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP What is it with Australians and well too perfectly crafted sophisticated (pop) rock? Is it something in the water, tradition or something else? The number of such bands/artists from Down Under has been steadily growing, and it is enough just to mention The Go-Betweens, Apartments, The Triffids, the […]

BRANDON WOLFE SCOTT PRESSED FLOWERS VICTORY POOL RECORDS Those familiar with the band that goes by as Yukon Blonde will surely be familiar with Vancouver’s Brandon Wolfe Scott, a member of the band wh...

A plentiful Thursday is becoming a standard

A mid-week slump? Not here

THE KLITTENS HAVE A HEART THK/CARGO RECORDS How do you combine together as a relatively new artis/band so many strands of rock and still give it some sort of a unifying character? This might be an ete...

Today, Julia Jacklin leads the way

Monday's ease into a working week set

Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos and MP3s

Week 40, 2026 (a bit smaller, only a bit)

Week 40 2026, (getting huge, again)

The real Friday bonanza

KATHERINE PERKINS HELPLESS LOVE TWELVE | EIGHT RECORDS Maine’s Katherine Perkins is not the first and surely will not be the last singer and songwriter who is also a painter. In most cases, one artistic side takes a dominance over the other, but with Perkins there seems to be quite a balance there, as on […]

COCOLAROSA THE VALLEY OF TONGUES INDEPENDENT Ok, if you follow the singer songwriter scene closely, you might have noticed that recently there have not been that many so to say ‘classic’ singer songwriters, those that sit (or stand) with their acoustic instrument and essentially rely on what they have to say with their lyrics and […]

THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES TRUE LOVE DAYDREAM FIRE RECORDS San Francisco’s Glenn Donaldson and his Reds, Pinks and Purples, have not only been around for a while, but their releases have been coming in a steady succession, enabling Donaldson and the band to build quite a solid reputation. Yet that reputation didn’t simply come […]

THE COMPANY CAR THE RETURN OF INDEPENDENT If you know that a band is located in Nashville and that their music is characterized as psychedelia, there is quite some certainty there that it will be some...

Toning it down (a bit), but just in numbers

No letup in quality around here

Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos and MP3s

Tuesday is on the run...

STARLING PLEXUS BROKE RECORDS Just recently, music critics are starting to confirm that shoegaze in all of its shapes and forms is stronger that ever, and L.A. four-piece Starling are here to confirm ...

Ease into a new working week material

Week 39, 2026 (as big as pt. 1)

Week 39, 2026 (the huge one)

Friday's pre-weekend bonanza is becoming a regular thing

Friday's pre-weekend bonanza is becoming a regular thing

TOKYO TEA ROOM FEEL FOREVER NICE GUY RECORDS No matter what anybody says, creating well crafted (or better) pop is an art in itself, particularly if you are able to abide by the rules and regulations, or more simply put, formulas that good, great or excellent pop demands, as well as which pop elements you […]

DAVID MYHR EVERYTHING IS ALL ABOUT YOU OGLIO ENTERTAINMENT It has now become a sort of tradition for artists from Sweden to come up with some high-quality to excellent power pop and pop rock. Is it so...

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Mid-week special? Every mid-week should be.