DJANGO DJANGO, Born Under The Buzz Don't be mistaken. Django Django isn't a gypsy cover band. Based in London, they are a cool indie pop rock band that has an obvious melodic talent. The quartet just released their second album, “Born Under...
Brazilian KDU COSTA emerges from midtempo to trip-hop Features which connects the Brazilian electronic music to traditional elements, like forró or bossa nova, is increasingly seen as fallacy. When a simple computer connect you with the world, all barriers...
CAT POWER reaches for the Sun In 2012, indie lo-fi folk artist Cat Power stunned her fans with an album that was more upbeat than anything she had ever done - by far! Nowhere in her 8 previous albums could we have detected any sign that...
TOM WAITS on Letterman, one last time On May 14th, Tom Waits will make his 10th and final appearance on Late Show with David Letterman with an unreleased song. Tom first appeared with Letterman on December 21, 1983, when Dave had Late Night on...
BRONCHO – Just Enough Hip To Play Divan Orange This 10th May, the cool kids in town stayed home with their mums it seems. BRONCHO, the Oklahoma indie songsters who wrote one of last year's catchiest songs, Class Historian, were the only people standing...
FRANCOUVERTES. sorry for the swearing. «Je vais me claquer les tunes de Richard Séguin esti. Pas besoin de ça.» whispered my friend as we were watching perform Charles-Antoine Gosselin. Many of my friends will diss francophone music because...
The Best COMEBACK albums of all times Some bands take breaks after a few successful years. Either to resource themselves, write new songs, or take care of personal issues. And sometimes, this hiatus can take years before the band rejoins together...
DEBBIE TEBBS’ catchy new wave tunes Montreal-born musician Debbie Tebbs produced a few months ago a pretty cool album with catchy electro pop songs (like Up!) with a little help from friends like Misteur Valaire.... There is a lot of energy...
When SINGERS Get Nude… 20 sexy videos Pop music always has been somewhat of a competition among sexy female singers. Who is the sexiest, who will show a bit more the next time, who will leave almost nothing to the imagination… Does it help their...
WAND : 8-miles high What a great stoner rock album "Golem" is! The LA based band Wand has the ability to create slow, thick and heavy stoner rock on one song (like the opener Unexplored Map) and then throw an energic song that...
Top 10 Albums of 2015… UP TO HERE! Since January 1st of this year, RREVERB’s staff received over 650 albums in all genres, from a wide variety of labels (majors to independents). It’s quite a task (but a fun one!) to try to find the best...
Your Travel Guide to World Music pt 3: ANOUSHKA SHANKAR’s travels (Here is the 3rd installment of Galileo's Travel Guide to World Music series) The music of India is quite possibly one of the most famous sub-genres of world music. Thanks to the increasing popularity of...
TV ON THE RADIO: about being heartbroken I remember buying Tv On The Radio's 3rd album, “Return to Cookie Mountain”, after reading a comment from David Bowie saying it was one of the best new bands he had heard. As I've always admired the Thin...
FATHER JOHN MISTY’s Heart-Shaped World Father John Misty presents a lovely, alternate version of the title track of his latest album, I Love You, Honeybear, along with a new, exclusive B-side, truthfully-entitled “I’ve Never Been a Woman,” on...
MILK & BONE – To New York, and beyond! While I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front lately, there has been one standout album on my Last.fm most listened stats. Milk & Bone is an electro-pop duo from Montreal, they have been much...
BOB MARLEY and PETER TOSH’s Reggae World The purist passion in music that connects me to the most positive vibes of life is for certain reggae. Without any hesitation for that matter. If I am in a funk or any sort of emotion other than an upbeat...
The invasion of SUUNS + JERUSALEM IN MY HEART Three years ago, Montreal band Suuns (Ben Shemie, Liam O'Neill, Max Henry and Joseph Yarmush) and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh that goes by the name Jerusalem In My Heart hooked up together and jammed on...
VOGUE DOTS reaches the brain’s soft spot Every once in a while a pop artist that comes up with a great album that gets (almost) universal praise. 2013 was Lorde's, 2009 was all about La Roux. We could go back to excellent albums by Blondie,...
CONNIE CONVERSE, the unknown great folk singer Back in the 40's, there wasn't that many female folk singers. Connie Converse was one of the great musicians that preceded Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. And when we listen to her music 70 years after it was...
SARAH BETHE NELSON’s Impossible Love Singer-songwriter Sarah Bethe Nelson explores the dark 60s garage folk rock style with her debut album, published on Burger Records. Alike Kandle, she delivers great catchy songs that have a somber twist, like...
MISTERWIVES: Life can be sunny and simple In the "great pop" alley of the music market, you can find some pretty cool and catchy music. At RREVERB, we don't snob pop music. We don't approve it all, but we can recognize the best one among the sea of...
FRANZ FERDINAND to share the mic with SPARKS FFS - the collaboration between Glasgow-based quartet Franz Ferdinand and seminal Los Angeles duo Sparks - have announced details of the release of their self-titled album on June 9 on Domino. The first...
DOLDRUMS : Trouble in Paradise What seemed to be leaning towards heavy groovy dance floor beats (the catchy Loops) takes a sharp turn in direction of industrial offbeat psycho-killer ambiance. Yes, that's what Doldrums latest album, "The...
THE HELIO SEQUENCE is shifting The eponymous album by the Portland, Oregon band The Helio Sequence is one of my favorites of the first three months of 2015. Their perfect blend of dreamy vocals and upbeat guitars makes me relax without...
Your travel guide to world music pt 2: Norway’s ANNBJORG LIEN (Here is the 2nd article of Galileo's Travel Guide serie) It's often a general rule that extreme conditions breed fantastic music. Scandinavia's dark and dismal winters, followed by its too-short summers,...
Is DICK DIVER a hit-and-run type of band? Dick Diver is one of the latest "flavors of the month" in the indie rock scene. We'll see if they'll make their way and have a long-term career in music, or just be a hit-and-run type of band. But in the...
PJ HARVEY: the “Almost There” album In 1998, English rocker PJ Harvey released her 4th album, entitled "Is This Desire?". At the time, it was perceived as a record where experimentation was less raw (vs her duet album with longtime friend and...
No more sparkle in MADONNA’s voice Unlike millions of people around the world, I've never been a fan of Madonna's music. Mostly because I've always found that her success was in large part due to her sexiness more than her music. What would...
Your travel guide to world music pt.1: ALI FARKA TOURÉ and TOUMANI DIABATÉ It often still amazes me just how many different styles of music there are to listen to and how music varies from country to country. When you think about how many variants of scales you find and look at just...
PACIFIC GOLD expresses just that The great movement of soft indie pop from the West Coast has a new militant: Pacific Gold. This band, composed of Torry Anderson (keys), Brian Hibbard (guitar), Dan Koch (vocals), David Stuart (drums) and John...
The B-52’s KATE PIERSON has made her arrival As a young kid growing up with siblings that were 15/16 years my senior it became very apparent that I was in the midst of musical fulfillment. So as a 5 year old I would frequent their bedrooms for musical...
SISKIYOU’s curious sound Siskiyou hasn't released an album since 2011’s “Keep Away The Dead”. During those silent years, the singer and songwriter Colin Huebert had been diagnosed with hyperacusis. A health condition which...
Free download for TAME IMPALA’s new song: Let It Happen If you are a long-time music lover, you sometimes, but pretty rarely get heartstruck. This happened to me yesterday with Let It Happen, the new track to Tame Impala's yet-to-be-announced new album. They...
CECILE DOO-KINGUÉ is the real thing Cecile Doo-Kingué wants "to be your bitch". And she wants somebody to "fuck the devil out of me!" Yes, shocking indeed! That's how the first song of Cecile Doo-Kingué's third album opens. The folk singer...
BEASTIE BOYS’s Paul’s Boutique continues to WOW the music industry I am starting off by stating that the Beastie Boys have been an absolute staple of my musical life. Easily in my Top 5 of the ranking system. Even after the premature death of my favorite B-Boy Adam Yauch...
WHITEHORSE. Holy moly x 2 Didn’t know what to expect as I arrived at L’Astral yesterday evening to see Whitehorse in concert. I was dumbfounded by the mandatory coat check and the four chairs per table rule. Guess this is not the...
Blown away by Em Pompa’s BELLFLOWER "The Lotus Factor” is an album that I keep pressing play whenever I want to escape from my lovely jazz world. Blown away by the feelings of this magnificent first album, Em Pompa and her band mates...
ROCK MUSIC died in the mid-seventies… My new music friend Rich Kretschmer made us discover New York City in 1977, his birth year, in his maiden article for RREVERB, on February 9. Popular music was at a turning point of its history with new...
ARIEL PINK – We Are All Weird - Hi A hesitant hand comes to meet my handshake... "Hi" - So I heard you had a tough journey - Yup - Are you up for the gig? - I'll do it. - Great - looking forward to it. - Do you have a cigarette? -...
Brooklyn’s own… Rush Midnight!!! I have been listening to Rush Midnight at a feverish pitch. Rush Midnight made up of Russ Manning hails from Brooklyn NY and truly makes great music that people can enjoy for it's melodic vocals intertwined...