Americana

Going out on a limb as an artist is part of the job if you want to stand out, and Idiot Grins delivered in spades on their latest LP, Thoughts & Prayers. Instead of drafting in an obscure collaborator or involving left-of-field…

Kevin West is an LA-based songwriter with the better part of 15 years in the music industry under his belt. Back in 2006, West won the American Songwriter Magazine’s lyric contest. His topic of choice? Raw, honest life experiences: “My…

Seneko’s Soul Numbers is EP #4 in three years for the Americana/soul artist. Each release has lent him ample opportunity to develop his voice. Now, it all culminates in an EP that has Seneko sounding more refined and confident than ever.…

Kansas City native, and pop/folk singer-songwriter, Todd Warner Moore has released Love and Change. The new record is a follow up to his critically acclaimed release, Spark, from last year. The geographic backdrop to his music continues to…

Vancouver singer/songwriter Geoff Gibbons new single, ‘Rollin’ Free’, embodies the classic 70s Americana/soft rock blend that dominated the airwaves once upon a time. It’s smooth and breezy,  though strikingly bland lyrically, yet for…

In recent years, we’ve seen more British filmmakers journeying across the pond to point their incisive camera lenses at the American experience. Bringing their distinctly homegrown approach offers an interesting outsider’s perspective to a…

Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift mid-speech at the 2009 VMA’s is one of the most iconic cultural moments of the 21st century thus far. This may appear to some as a complete over exaggeration yet there’s so much more to this…

Mumford & Sons Wilder Mind Is it fashionable to think that Mumford & Sons are rubbish or are they simply worthy of scorn? You might say they're easy to slag off but an album as violently anaemic and cloying as Wilder Mind offers…

Released in 1972, Van Morrison's sixth studio album would gift a song that stands to this day as a great example of the stream of consciousness style that runs through the majority of his work. Taken from the record of the same name, 'Saint…

"The Kinks, The Riff, The Road: The Story" As the lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist of one of the greatest bands of all time, The Kinks, Ray Davies' has always had a unique and interesting take when it comes to his…