The Delines – The Sea Drift: Album Review
The Delines third album is equal parts short films, short stories and Suburban Country Music. Sundance, SXSW Austin music festival and John Steinbeck in four minute vignettes. Read Rev Orange Peel’s review.
The Delines third album is equal parts short films, short stories and Suburban Country Music. Sundance, SXSW Austin music festival and John Steinbeck in four minute vignettes. Read Rev Orange Peel’s review.
Spoon are the perfect band for musical obsessives and close to the thirty-year mark comes their tenth studio album Lucifer On The Sofa. Being regarded as a critic’s band can be a curse but back the perpetually morphing outfit come. Here, there and everywhere.
Mitski is a relatively new and exciting Pop artist running hot as an ingenue singer-songwriter, and she blooms with darker material on Laurel Hell.
The Temptations are the foundation group from which Soul music was defined. Of course, there are others, but for laying down the blueprint and then to be at the forefront of innovation over a long haul, they are the Emperors of Soul.
Forenzics is Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner who, along with a few friends, have sieved through classic Split Enz tunes and created 14 new tracks that are incredibly fresh and vibrant sounding.
Greensky Bluegrass are Bluegrass practitioners in a parallel world from which they seem to have become a Grateful Dead hybrid. The core trio, Paul Hoffman mandolin, Dave Bruzza guitar and Michael Bont banjo came together in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2000. Essentially an American string band, they honed their craft through countless open mike sessions. At […]
Eels practice Extreme Witchcraft on this, their 14th studio album. For this one Mr. E is back working with his Souljacker co-producer John Parish.
North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail This album appealed to me from the get-go having lived in the Mississippi hill country when I was 17. It’s a rolling landscape of pine trees, occasional cotton fields, muddy slow-moving rivers and tangles of kudzu vines. And a fraught history. The North Mississippi Allstars invoke this country in […]
Grace Cummings is a Folk singer from Melbourne, and with her sophomore album Storm Queen she will slay you with her vocal power. Freakish deep tones of Helen Shapiro combined with the angry passion of Odetta. She has a softer side and can rise up into high soprano in a flash. Joni Mitchell’s presence of […]
Sit Down In Front are an energetic young Punk band from Gisborne, New Zealand who play Old Skool Punk with a souped-up reconditioned motor. They sound great as they hit top gear in a heartbeat and slam their way through their third long playing release in just as many years.