I can honestly say I had never seen a hand sewn cd cover until today. They had me at plaid. That was all it took for me to load this EP into the iPod and take a listen. Ohio (I know firsthand) is not known for producing very many musical...

Portland natives Ryan Dobrowski and Israel Nebeke make up the super new band, Blind Pilot.  And let me just say, the band’s debut album 3 Rounds and a Sound, is the best new indie folk music that I’ve heard in a long time. As cheesy as it sounds, I have to...

South Africa is not the usual breeding ground for experimental musicians weaving the traditional set of instruments with odd ones like kalimbas (a small “hand piano” percussion instrument) and coke bottles (I’m assuming the old fashioned glass ones) with glockenspiels (somewhat like a xylophone) and baritone saxophones (normal for a...

Sometimes a genre definition is just not good enough. Controlled Bleeding was described to me as an industrial band, but what they offer up on Before the Quiet is not so much an example of a single musical style as it is the very definition of experimental avant-garde music. Just...

Dizmas has been at it for awhile, since 1998, actually, when bros. Zack and Josh Zegan originally formed the Christian guitar-rock band. Chances are that you have heard them as well, without even knowing it; they’ve had music featured on an episode of the second season of...

It really is the influence of those around us that propels us forward.  I was elated when I found out I was going to get to review this album.  When I got said albums in my hands, I thought ‘What did I get myself into?’  I felt a bit more...

Made-for-mainstream radio music just irks me. I used to go out of my way to find a way to blast it, but now I no longer have the time or patience to do so. Genuine Sun, hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, is a group that plays right into the stereotypes of...

Great Big Sea is a Canadian folk-rock band, hailing from Newfoundland and Labrador. They officially began in 1993, and haven't looked back since. Fortune's Favour is their 9th album - with heavy expectations after having already produced several multi-platinum records including 1995's Up, 1999's Turn,...

Disco. No, I mean it, disco. Andy Butler and Antony Hegarty are bringing you brand spankin’ new disco album. I thought disco quietly folded into the New Wave movement around 1982. I thought disco went the way of the roller derby, mirror balls from the ceiling, and puffy chest...

Jaguar Love rose out of the ashes of two great bands that never attained the commercial success they deserved. Vocalist Johnny Whitney and guitarist Cody Votolato were members of the Blood Brothers, while multi-instrumentalist J Clark was a guiding force of and behind Pretty Girls Make Graves....