Australian trio Chook Race put out an impressive debut album in 2015. About Time was
the work of a band deeply in debt to the scrappy sound of early Flying Nun bands like the Clean and the Bats, the chiming ...
Like no other instrument, the reverberating and guttural overtones of the didjeridu have come to
signify the world music sound. In movie soundtracks and songs by such dissimilar world music groups as Trance Mission and Robert Mirabal, the telltale tones ...
Anyone who has followed Kasey Chambers' career in the nearly two decades since she released
her outstanding solo debut The Captain knows she's as willful as she is talented. In the grand tradition of Neil Young, whatever Chambers did last ...
Crowded House's greatest hit, Don't Dream It's Over, cemented them firmly into the collective American
consciousness as a mere highlight of a John Hughes soundtrack or momentary inhabitants of the mid-'80s college rock ghetto. Though they rose to highest U.S. ...
The band's first full-length album found the group starting to come into its own more
and more. While the various influences that can be referred to are still present, Died Pretty are starting to sound more like a group finding ...
Dirty Three have a gift for creating unforgettably emotive instrumental soundscapes, and Horse Stories demonstrates
this to great effect. The versatility of Warren Ellis' violin playing is what drives Horse Stories, but although the violin is the focal point, Mick ...