
It's coming on 2012, and all around us, bloggers tout their 2011 taste, jostling to be the best and first match for your own preferences, inviting debate over position in the ranks. And so, as we do every year as the calendar comes to a close, we struggle with the conceit of The Year In Review, surveying a year's worth of posts, writing a never-ending series of half-hearted drafts, flinching every time we approach the task, yet feeling guilt every time we put it down. My reluctance to pass judgement isn't a cop-out. [...]
Sonar 5/1/2011. Download 1. XTC - No Thugs In Our House 2. Young Circles - Hellhound Sights 3. Jay Retard - Pull Down The Shades 4. Mudhoney - Six Two One 5. TV Resistori - Huomisen Otsikot 6. Blackman Akeeb Kareem - Tomorrow 7. Dominique A - Hasta Que El Curepo Aguante 8. Jon Spencer - Full Grown 9. The Churchills - Open Up [...]
The new album by veteran troubadour Ralph McTell, brings back my belief in the idea that it's all about good songwriting. There you got a mega-respected singer/songwriter, who'd written one of the most classic 60's songs (Streets Of London), who is considered to be one of the best singer/songwriters ever – and you probably didn't [...]
Bert Janch and John Renbourn were the swinging London singer/songwriter movement ambassadors to the world. Hanging around the London Soho and playing constantly in the leading folk club of the time – Les Cousins, they gained reputation as admirable icons of acoustic guitar players and stunning songwriting. They both released couple of albums and built [...]

Canadian folksinger Bonnie Dobson made her mark in the early 60s with the song 'Morning Dew', covered throughout the decade by artists as diverse as Fred Neil , the Grateful Dead and the Jeff Beck Group , among others. In 1968, after a four-year hiatus, a CBC radio session secured her a deal with RCA and became her third, self-titled LP as she entered her own majestic, groovy, acid-folked space as a recording artist. [...]