Cut to the chase: this is excellent female-lead, keyboard-based pop, with horns and flute being invited out to play quite often. Meanwhile,...

Unwrap the cord to the headphones and loosen off the screws in your spine, as somewhere from between the spaces occupied by Piano Magic and...

The 18-minute opener sparked intrigue; what could these ace retro popsters be crafting? Would it restore the glory of '98s All Young in the...

Autechre's Skam label typically keeps things fairly hard breaking, and Team Doyobi is no exception. Knowing that is half the battle on this...

Mr Velcro are a couple Finnish guys both named Tatu. Instead of bringing the funk, they program analog robots to bring the funk. The job get...

Page one: start where the Number One Cup album Wrecked By Lions left off (sorry no guarantees on the spine tingling). Page two: If you've re...

Weddings would be so much more worthwhile if Yume Bitsu's "The Wedding Procession" could blare over the rented hall. The arresting beauty an...

The closest references we have are a folksy Will Oldham mixed with the Kings of Convenience, slowed down just a bit. Laurent Vaissiere is fo...

Admittedly, it is kind of confusing why a band whose members are all pushing 30 are so into '60s inspired girl-pop, but a quick listen displ...

An ambient duo from Spain, Mus have two EPs already out and there are other forthcoming projects, including something for Darla's Bliss Out...

What we have here is the difference between sounding like and being - and Ladytron are electro and synth harbingers, or more accurately put,...

It's the flavours, the titillating concoctions that make for such pleasant listening. The players must love their bossa, as it serves as the...

Instead of a band trying to sound like a cross between the heavy psychedelia of Hovercraft mixed with the organs and vocals of Stereolab, Sc...

Douglas Donovan is the pastor of the Church Steps, and he runs Dial Records so that we might know his word. Heretics beware, the Jewelry EP...

Not coincidentally, this band's best album is six years old, because their sound is too - post punk that was mastered by Pavement and rehash...

A great migration there won't be, but a rewarding pilgrimage for those inclined. An all-guy four-piece out of Indianapolis comprise the Shap...

The Love Dogs will no doubt get lumped in with the players in the now passé swing revival. But you'd be wrong if you did that. They're defin...

He's young, he's been around, he's hard working and so he's got something going for himself, but what Sean Tillmann really needs is a smack....

These guys are churning out some wicked wreck'n'roll, caught between Jon Spencer (sans posturing) and the Cows. Demented blues raunch that'l...

"Maybe I should go and see about you, collect some love, if you don't mind." Is anybody else out there spending a summer away from their bab...