Whether he’s electrifying his sound and revolutionizing rock and roll, taking things back down an acoustic notch or two to embrace his folk roots, or releasing a Christmas album to notoriously mixed reception, Bob Dylan has remained an unlikely trailblazer…
Radiohead return and steals the show. The band’s fans have never had to wait so long between album releases, yet this doesn’t mean the band members have been quiet. Jonny Greenwood has continued making ever more fascinating forays into classical…
There’s something wonderfully off kilter about Jenny Gillespie’s latest CD, Cure For Dreaming. Rather than being a cure it seems designed to send one’s imagination fluttering off in any number of different directions. Songs morph and meld in much the…
It’s impossible to listen to Thomas Cohen’s Bloom Forever with out mentioning the death of his wife, Peaches Geldof. The album, nine songs written between 2012 and 2015 are presented in chronological order with Geldof’s heroin overdose in 2014 being…
Though her musical career has been birthed from out of folk roots, Irish singer-songwriter Naomi Hamilton paints a much broader picture than any particular genre could dare to encapsulate in Jealous of the Birds’ Parma Violets. On Parma Violets, Hamilton…
Ex-Woods member Kevin Morby has revisited, upgraded and captured the essence of 70s folk pop music. This 9 track beauty is not only the perfect length for a record but is testament to why Morby felt the urge to leave…
Travis might be a one trick pony- the trick being catchy, jangly, perfect-as-a-backdrop-to-a-memory songs lasting no longer than three minutes and thirty seconds- but it’s a good trick. Sometimes, it’s nice to know what you can expect. Everything At Once…
The last place you’d expect to find an Australian band that combines folk, rock, heavy-metal, and prog, recording would be Daptone Studios in Brooklyn, but that’s where King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard recorded their first release of 2016, Nonagon…
Isaac Gracie – Songs from My Bedroom EP Gracie has had everyone in the music industry in a bit of a tizz. Scavengers, I hear you say? Well, there’s certainly something here to devour. ‘Terrified’ displays a young songwriter, heart…
Sturgill Simpson is on fire on his new record. This 9 track 40-minute record is brimming with confidence, with joy and with a funky country groove that is hard to believe at times. It’s like one giant party for the…