EMMA FRANK, in a dark place Emma Frank is a Montreal jazz singer that doesn't choose the easy way to get into someone's mind. Her complex melodies require the listener's full...
MARTIN GORE: The Dark Side of the Mode It's an intense, and very dark album that Depeche Mode keyboard player and guitarist Martin Gore just release as solo work, as MG, under Mute...
SCREAMING FEMALES Get Heard Screaming Females is fronted by a female singer. Marissa Paternoster doesn't scream all the time, but she sure gets her voice heard. The New Jersey...
JAAKKO EINO KALEVI: Rainy Days Sleepless Nights The new album from Finnish musician Jaakko Eino Kalevi is perfect for rainy days, sleepless nights with its atmospheric mood and heavy...
DU BLONDE, The New Hole. Or is it? Tough not to think of Courtney Love and Hole when listening to Du Blonde's new album, "Welcome Back to Milk" (what?!). The blonde singer, close to...
HOT CHIP’s Hot Proposals Half the Time The electro pop band Hot Chip is back with its catchy - almost disco-esque - beats that made them famous in recent years with hits like Ready For The...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FATHER JOHN MISTY – I Love You, Honeybear Father John Misty is the alter ego of Joshua Tillman, a prolific songwriter and musician: at 33 years old, he has 10 albums under his belt and has...
MARK RONSON – Uptown (Not So) Special I really wanted to like this album. I really did, because the first single, Uptown Funk, got us all up and dancing at the beginning of winter, when...
HARRY MANX: Grow Old with Me There's something nice about growing old(er). Yes, the body is less performant. Some parts hurt. But experience and knowledge adds up through the...
VIET CONG… a step up from Women Last week, I missed Viet Cong playing at Montreal's Ritz PDB to a sold out crowd. I wish I hadn't. That day, I had just started listening to their...
WINDHAND’s beautifully controlled distortion I was recently listening to good old Mudhoney albums (see my review of "Every Boy Deserves Fudge" here) and was missing the heavy fuzzy stoner rock...
SLEATER-KINNEY, The Girls Are Back In Town We often hear about The Go-Go's and The Bangles as "influential and important" to the female rock scene, as they were somehow successful in the pop...
THE DECEMBERISTS : back to folk The Decemberists, with their songwriter leader Colin Meloy on the front line, had created one of the best albums of 2009, with the epic rock opera...
