"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. " -- Groucho Marx.
Matt White is a singer-songwriter and he isn’t. He writes and sings all his own music; he plays the guitar and piano and even sings his own backing vocals. However he doesn’t sound like a singer-songwriter usually does. Maybe his hard-to-peg-down sound comes from his history. His father is a musician, […]
Sons Of William make the kind of rock you want to hear when you’re slumming it in a saw-dust-on-the-floor bar, in the deep-south, sitting, feet-up on a table, drinking bourbon. As you watch, the band slowly enthrals the rancorous audience into silence with a rich tapestry of music that is bluesy, funky and always horny. […]
Recently a friend asked me what I thought of Colbie Caillat, and at the mere mention of her name I was flooded with the feelings of girlish pleasure I used to experience every time I listened to her song “Bubbly” on her MySpace page. Colbie Caillat is one of the new generation of MySpace […]
Cary Brothers music has been featured on TV and in film, most notably Scrubs and Garden State. His music is not what some people may expect if the first song they hear is Brothers first and biggest hit, “Blue Eyes” from the Garden State Soundtrack. Where “Blue Eyes” is a singer/songwriter, folk pop […]
Six months ago I profiled the Texas based band Green River Ordinance (GRO) for BC Magazine's Band of the Week series. At the time of that interview, they had not long-past released their debut full length album The Beauty Of Letting Go, an album which is sincere, and dynamic, sumptuously layered with rich, warm […]
Steve Carlson makes music that is a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, with a splash of funk, some R&B, and a lot of soul. His music is a fabulously crafted tapestry of genres knitted together with Steve’s honeyed, passionately emotive, deeply textured voice and phenomenal musicianship. His new album Groovin On […]
We all have them, songs that seem to touch a secret place in your soul – sometimes secret even from you. They can grow and occasionally fester like an open wound, or they can fill you up, inspire you and occasionally even heal you. Sometimes they don’t even reflect your musical tastes. […]
What I know about R&B and hip-hop can be summed up with the following words: “it’s not my thing really.” So when my friend, Calum, forced his ear phones on me and made me listen to the current single “Umbrella”, from Rihanna’s third album Good Girl Gone Bad (GGGB), I was surprised to find […]
Have you ever known the pleasure of a good tip? You know that warm glow that you get when you realise that someone steered you right? It might be a hot tip on a “sure thing” at 20 to 1 or big money for good service; it could even be just good advice […]
Throwback Suburbia are the archetypal power-pop band, with intelligent lyrics, hooky arrangements, and melodies galore. They blend their pop sensibilities with a rock & roll attitude and create fun, energetic, and contagious music. Throwback’s neo power-pop sound has attracted a lot of attention, since their first live gig, and the near simultaneous release […]