A band that got it right but arrived just too late
Fanfarlo are a prime example of a band that got it right but arrived just too late. Their sincere and mathematical indie pop gained a real following as the band began to emerge, but their debut was received with luke warm reactions from much of the music world and many critics.
The band launched their first album Reservoir after a huge number of aspirational bands, and indeed well established artists, had thrown their efforts into creating the melodic and orchestral sound …

Heads up, gather round, there’s a brand new force in town!
This is my second review for this awesome music blog, Hopefully you all enjoyed my first review about Metallica’s Beyond Magnetic EP! Well, in the wake of any larger releases coming our way within the rock world, until the new Van Halen album drops in I thought I’d take the time to spread the word about the all-conquering, world-enslaving, ‘any-woman-within-a-10-mile-radius-is-now-pregnant’ Black Spiders!
These guys have been on the go since 2008, landing a supporting slot with the mighty Airbourne for the …

This album is low-fi noise rock at it’s absolute best
As usual for the guys our lovely editor sends my way, I knew absolutely nothing about East-Ra before I started this review, and perhaps this is for the best. Certainly, it frees any ideas of pretension or previous successes or failures give you a path to listen and concentrate on the music. I’m going to say right now, this album, Substitute 3, is incredible. I’m shocked, with my sort of tastes, that I haven’t heard of these guys. In fact, not very …

If you follow this blog, you might have noticed that the great me, is in love with Italy. I can never emphasize enough what an amazing culture this country has, and its people have style, and let’s not get started about Italian food. Everyone and every other country looks up to Italy. La bella vita. It’s all what Italy is about. Being a happy go lucky civilization, what would you expect from a three women band from Italy? An album you’ve never expected to hear? Happy go lucky music?
Shootin’ Stars, …

You know that feeling you get when you hear a track that makes you stop and think, “I can see this artist is destined for big things”? Well for me, Ben Howard manages to do just this on his earlier release titled ‘The Wolves’.
Its release was a follow up to his debut ‘Old Pine’, and came prior to ‘Keep Your Head Up’; the track that was recognized and praised by DJ’s and fans alike.
‘Keep Your Head Up‘ made Radio 1 DJ Greg James’ record of the week only just a …

Life is full of surprises. Be it is the weather, the girl sleeping next to you looks ugly this morning, not like she did last night because you were drunk, etc. This morning I was surprised to hear that Paradise Lost’s guitarist, Gregor Mackintosh started a new band, VallenFyre.
One would wonder why I am surprised, because isn’t it normal that these artists typically have side projects? Correct but what surprised me is that Gregor Mackintosh is a vocalist. I guess everyone is so used to see him playing a guitar; …

Open the envelope and smell two brand new digipacks, Death and Rebirth from Afterlife Parade! I don’t understand how people can download MP3′s, and not buy a hard copy of an album. Most people I know don’t backup their data, so in case of hardware failure, all MP’3 are gone. Having a hard copy of an album, smelling it, feeling it, is different. How can you read the credit list? Following the usual routine, I’ve spun a CD into the CD player, sat on my sofa, and like a kid …

England’s got a good track record for electronic music. It’s got the father of ambient music: Brian Eno. It’s got the most soulful dubstep out there: Burial. It’s got one a guy that Philip Glass covered: Aphex Twin. And it’s got James Blake, apparently a peddler of something called ‘post-dubstep’. What links these artists together, apart from the Englishness? They’re all mixed together in a man from Bristol, by the name of Joseph Parsons. In a project called Poltergeists, he has recently released his debut album ‘Movements’. Another step in …

After more than a decade and a half of listening to music, I started thinking that nothing would surprise me anymore, wrong! People say that life is full of surprises, and I couldn’t agree anymore. Since I’ve started Muzikablog music blog, I’ve been in touch with many bands and it helped in broadening my musical horizons. From time to time, there is a band that passes by and retwinkles that candle light, pleases your ears and shakes the boat for you.
Lately I’ve received a digital copy (go green guys!) of …

While Bottle Rockets is one of those rare albums that I can (and usually do) listen to from beginning to end, there are some standout tracks like the Anti Neo-Rebel anthem “Wave That Flag” (that good old boy wavin’ the stars and bars/It’s a red, white and blue flag, but it ain’t ours). The album then moves into the melancholy “Kerosene” about a family that dies in a trailer fire by using gasoline in a kerosene heater, an all too common tragedy here in the southern Midwest. The up-tempo rockers …