I’ve been wanting to experiment with guest blogs for a while now, especially since Ceci took over temporary site duties a little over a month ago. I’ve always wanted to do more album reviews, but since I’m terrible at them they don’t come out too frequently. Conveniently enough, Keath volunteered with a few reviews, killing [...]

I don’t make a habit of posting about things I don’t like. I realize some find that unforgivable, as we blog folk are supposed to be taking up the mantle of the print critics as their medium slowly fades amongst low circulation numbers and ever-shrinking attention spans. To be honest, I’ve never thought of myself [...]

If you’re going to remix an iconic, genre-defining (and genre-defying) artist like Johnny Cash, there are two mistakes you can make, in my estimation – 1)You can diminish the Cash attitude (let’s face it – the attitude was such an intrinsic part of his music it simply can’t be divorced from it without the music [...]

Elsiane is music for a relaxing evening at home, drinking Irish coffee & watching rain through the window. That seems like the most straight-forward way I can think of to describe them. At the same time, that might indicate to some that they create boring, overly ethereal music – and that’s simply not true.
It’s [...]

I’ll admit it, I didn’t really like ¡Forward, Russia!’s new album, Life Processes on first listen. I thought it might drift too closely into Screamo/Emo territory, and let me tell you – I don’t like Screamo (two of the band members are credited with ’shouts’ instead of ‘vocals’). The very mention of The Blood Brothers [...]

A perfectly layered, hypnotic and dizzying decent into the heart of darkness…

Track 9 (‘Predict The Day’) of Ladytron’s latest album begins with a whistle strangely reminiscent of the theme to the X-Files. That seems appropriate to me, because Ladytron have always seemed like the soundtrack to the best supernatural thriller I’ve never seen. There’s this [...]

Not that I’d want to paint the life of a music blogger as one of woe, but there are times when you forget why you’re doing it in the first place. Perhaps after weeks of receiving emails like ‘Hey! I noticed you posted a song by [Artist A]. You’ll find the music of [Artist B] [...]