Album name: Memories Are Hunting Horns Artist name: Saredren Wells Genre: Folk-indie Released: 11 May 2010 Label: Rinehart Records ZME Rating: 6/10 Website: Myspace SCENE: A post-post-apocalyptic Earth – burgeoning cities arise next to arid wastelands, the human race who had for centuries abandoned this place having returned mere decades ago. As rugged off-road vehicles race along the desert trails, a passenger-carrying space cruiser glides past the screen, a child waving to camera from behind…
Models and music don’t usually make a good mix, but Jack White sure knows how to pick ’em, considering his wife, Karen Olsen, has some great set of legs pipes. Don’t believe me? Check out her first music video for the title track off her 12 songs debut album “The Ghost Who Walks”. Simple, yet strangely spooky, the video features Karen gently strumming her acoustic guitar unfolding a gentle ballad. The Ghost Who Walks was…
Album name: Good Mystery Artist name: Amber Rubarth Genre: Sweetness Released: 12 January 2010 Label: Unsigned, which is criminal ZME Rating: 8/10 Website: amberrubarth.com Much of this world passes me by with alarming speed and frequency. Trends, fads, fashions and vehicles alike all skim dangerously close to my face, while I remain the proverbial Captain Oblivious, wrapped up in a cocoon of cheerful obsolescence that fits me like an old, worn-out glove. This means I…
Phoenix, who delivered one of the best albums of 2009 once once with “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”, recently played an acoustic set for the German magazine Musikexpress, where, among other gems, they also played a really faithful cover of Bob Dylan’s “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” off his 1966 classic “Blond on Blond”. Great performance! [MP3] Phoenix – ‘Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ (Bob Dylan cover)
If you query “Poker Face cover” on YouTube, you’ll most undoubtedly find all kinds of peculiar renditions of the song delivered by mostly talent-ill teenagers, from bad, to worse to damn right excremental. The one I’m writing about today, however, is well beyond the above demographics – namely Igor Presnyakov’s acoustic take on Lady Gaga’s anthem, Poker Face. Why the very talented Russian guitarist chose the track is well beyond my comprehension, but what’s important…
Bill Nershi, String Cheese Incident front man and his acoustic duo Nershi-Law are making the final stop of their U.S. tour with rockers Van Ghost tomorrow November 25th at Chicago’s own Subterranean. And, this is not a show to miss! “Nershi-Law contemporizes the storytelling tradition while paying impressive homage to the genre. Featuring String Cheese Incident founder Bill Nershi and Melvin Seals collaborator Scott Law, Nershi-Law released the album Honkytonk Homeslice in 2005 and continue…
Pearse McGloughlin is a Sligo-born songwriter and musician, who served his time in a series of bands before deciding to fly it solo – taking in many locations along the way. Spells in Dublin, London, Canada and France have no doubt shaped his broad musical talents and acute observational lyrics, and with “Busy Whisper”, he has produced a perceptive and powerful debut that is sure to take him to many more far-flung destinations. This troubadour…
Are you ready to feel like a piece of shit? Gordon Gano was 19 when the Violent Femmes recorded their self-titled debut album. True story: the trio borrowed $10,000 from bassist Brian Ritchie’s old man and ground out one of the great American rock albums of the 1980’s, and certainly one of the most unmistakable. Gano’s age shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering how (sometimes disturbingly) well Violent Femmes encapsulates the iconic rage and frustration…
Pocketbooks is lately, probably the most appreciated British indie pop band, if we were to consider the different reviews and critical opinions it has received from various music websites and magazines (you’ll read about it in the interview). They come from London, they have released a 7″, an EP, a single and have recently released their debut album – “Flight Paths”. The album is available HERE for purchase! If you want to read about great…
The North Carolina bluegrass quartet The Avett Brothers recorded an incredible Daytrotter session a few months ago, during the bands stint at SXSW. Like always in their live performances, The Avett Brothers were simply incredible, shinning thanks to their rootsy, soulful approach to music. Sincere, from the heart music is hard to find during our contemporary vocal auto-tune money chasing times, such that these four live gems landed by the brothers should not go unnoticed….
Al Byrne
Tibi Puiu
Mary
Conor O' Brien
Tyler Sonic
Alex Petrache