Sweet Baboo is essentially Stephen Black, although he cites a host of colleagues who assisted in creating this second album, following on from 2008’s The Mighty Baboo. Black’s vocals are the strength here, oozing good old English character and, whilst it is easy to draw analogy with Sam Duckworth’s Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, there’s [...]

THE ANNUAL 2010
It’s been a brilliant album release year and one I thought lacked great dance music. Perhaps it’s that we just don’t receive much dance music to review, because when I listened to this compilation I started to feel pangs of regret…
In fact the width and depth of dance music on this beautifully presented Ministry [...]

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CATHERINE MACLELLAN WINS SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR AT THE CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS
NEW ALBUM ‘WATER IN THE GROUND’ WITH BONUS ALBUM ‘DARK DREAM MIDNIGHT’
A young Catherine MacLellan did not have to look far for inspiration and insight into the creative process. She’s the daughter of Canadian music legend, singer/songwriter Gene MacLellan, the [...]

LUNA TURISTA is Available Now on Free World Records (via Amazon)
Oh Eileen, and where have you been in 2009? Answer: Writing and recording the best God-damned record of her life, that’s where.
Recorded in her adopted home town of Nashville, TN, and in Berlin, it features her band The Holy Wreck - guitar and pedal steel [...]

So where do you start with a new Weezer record? I honestly just don’t know. The first two records were brilliant, the next two nearly as good and much bigger sounding, and the latest three confusingly nothing really. Weezer are the band who refuse to grow up as people and, more disappointingly, refuse to grow [...]

The Antlers are an indie rock band currently based in Brooklyn, New York, fronted by Peter Silberman. Initially, The Antlers was a solo project created by vocalist and guitarist Peter Silberman immediately after he had moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 2007 where he had isolated himself from family and friends. Silberman wrote the first [...]