It’s a great time to be making music, and a great time to be listening to music, too. Interview with Lawrence McCluskey.

Lawrence McCluskey is the brilliant mind behind Strawberry Whiplash and Bubblegum Lemonade. While Strawberry Whiplash is an indie pop band hailing from Glasgow Scotland, with Sandra McCluskey on vocals and Lawrence on instruments (10 albums with his label, Matinee Records, among LPs, EPs and collaborations), Bubblegum Lemonade is his own personal project (14 albums, among […]

Abysmal Thoughts. The Drums

⭐️⭐️ The return of The Drums after 3 years is not the return of The Drums: all the original band members have quit and just remain only Jonny Pierce. “When Jacob left the band, I had about thirty seconds where I felt like “oh shit, now what?” and then very quickly, I started feeling almost […]

We need more filters to find the very special music

Nowadays is easier than ever for an artist release an album: through a label (one of the three major labels, their subsidiaries or an independent label), release founded by crowdfunding as Kickstarted, release directly through Bandcamp or Soundcloud, or even release their music via YouTube. While in the old times the first filter was the […]

I See You. The xx

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The long awaited return of The xx is better than we were expecting. After exploring several ways of writing lyrics and music while Jamie Smith was recording his album “In Colour” and did “a five day-road trip down the West Coast to Los Angeles with Pawson and Rodaidh McDonald, who co-produced the new album […]

Rave Sound of the Month. The Raveonettes

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This year the last album of The Raveonettes was released in the form of one song by month, and it was called Rave Sound of the Month. In their website, the group said that “every month throughout 2016, we’ll be dropping a freshly recorded track. Taking you on a ride, potentially schizophrenic & disjointed, […]

Dreamless. Crocodiles

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This year, Crocodiles (Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell) released their sixth album studio, recorded in Mexico City. This new album, innovative like the other albums of the Crocodiles, is different from their usual style. In interview with The Echo Music, Brandon Welchez defined this album as “Stylistically it’s probably our weirdest album to date. […]

Merry Christmas Mr. Fields. Michael Angelakos

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is not another album of christmas music. This is an interesting mix between music of 1940’s, the talent of Michael Angelakos, frontman of Passion Pit, and the co work with Brent Katz (Harlem Shakes) and the director Hana Haley. Described as a “World War II Christmas musical”, this album was created as a […]

The death of the rock?

“Woke up this morning with the strangest feeling/I had a nightmare, but I wasn’t dreaming/I ran outside to see, it’s not 2003/Turned on the radio it’s so confusing/Rappers were singing/And rockers DJ’ing/There’s no guitars on the songs that they’re playing (…)”. Those are the lyrics of “40 oz. Dream”, a song of Good Charlotte, the […]

Our vision is to become the next standard format. Interview with Bruce Pavitt and Adam Farish, founders of 8Stem.

Bruce Pavitt is well known as one of the founders of Sub Pop, an alternative label which in 1980s kickstarted the success of grunge bands as Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney. By the other hand, Adam Farish, is musician, producer, sound engineer, and tech entrepreneur. Both, have created 8Stem, which according to their web page is […]

On Hold. The xx

The past week was released the first single of The xx in four years. And the reception for this song was incredible, everybody were talking about it, but… it’s really a song by The xx? The xx is a British band formed in 2005 by Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith aka Jamie […]