When I first heard Fiona Silver sing, I was taken aback by how rich and velvety her voice sounds. Watching it emanate from such a petite and girlish frame I was certain it was an affectation, like successfully imitating the…
The Horrors released their fifth album ‘V’ last week on Wolftone/Caroline – their first new release in three years. Recorded in London with Grammy and Academy Award-winning producer Paul Epworth (fka twigs, Lorde, Rihanna, Adele), ‘V’ feels synthy, refined and…
Thelvanguage/The Textiles A cold Saturday night in February, and I’d turned the corner onto Ludlow. Once past the black clad, gorilla doormen insisting they’d reached capacity and a fickle crowd of pre-gaming college types, I made it to the showroom…
A new rock/alternative band caught our attention recently. Based in Cyprus, they are named The smallest Creature and released their first single “Reboot” out of the full-length album whose name is yet to be announced. The group is the…
On a Wednesday night I headed from my Harlem apartment to Rough Trade in Brooklyn to check Eureka The Butcher, The Dead Ships and Le Butcherettes. It was my first time in the venue and I was pleasantly surprised.…
I was never a Bowie fan (Sacrilege, I know). I didn’t dislike the guy; it’s just that nothing about his involvement in the worlds of high fashion or movies or synth-pop endeared him to me, and the latter was his…
“The David Bowie songs I’ve played on repeat through my life varied, I was also finding new songs, new albums, new b-sides… It’s very hard to choose a favorite David Bowie song, but I’m especially fond of “Five Years”. I…
No, for real – Spanish folk rockers Stormy Mondays recently won NASA’s space rock contest, ensuring their music would be played in space on board the Endeavor Space Shuttle. How cool is that to start with! Anyway, I’m bringing Stormy…
London-based 4 piece band Staring Out The Sun creates high powered and somehow anthemic music, although fun and easy to listen. Hard hitting drums and huge guitars are mixed with sonorous vocals in SOTS’ debut EP “Break The Silence” produced…
Today I found a new band I really like. It’s original, the songs are diverse and dealing with complicated topics like science, religion, television… The band is called The Great Game and they just released a self-titled debut album, that…
