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“Computer vs. Banjo” is a duo, Johnny Mann was a jazz studies major before playing guitar for Gran Torino; while Beau Stapleton taught himself, focusing on roots music before playing the mandolin for Blue Merle. So lets agree that these are a tad different as backrounds go.  They met in Nashville and “Computer vs. Banjo” [...]

Ant Neely was featured on NPR’s Second Stage Podcast a week or so back and I was really taken with the “Scratch Redux” piece of his new album, it’s a really bright poppy song that belts along at a good pace, great beat, really nice slide guitar and just perfect vocals by Lisa Moore, it’s [...]

The Morrighan are great, no two ways about it. I stumbled across them last year and was totally blown away by the energy this band develops. But, lets start this review somewhere back in our childhoods… Remember the buzz you got at Christmas when you discovered the biggest package under the chrissie tree had your [...]

I have to say Andy Moor is nothing less than eclectic. His tastes roam further out than mine. Yep you guessed it, it’s Hard Listening” time. How hard I hear you ask? Well over at “Unsound Records” (great name by the by) there is a piece called “Ugandan Fly“. It’s basically a relentless guitar riff [...]

With a name like “Highland” I think I could be forgiven for not expecting a German electronica hip hop band. Add to the country of origin, they rap in english and sing in english, italian and latin. No lack of confusion there – hip hop meets Europop. What is clear though is that they are [...]

Time for a little electonica I think, and I have a Norwegian band called 120 Days who will fit the bill quite nicely. Now don’t panic, these guys just can’t but help exude rock hookiness and finish it off with layers of melody. Yeah there are the fashionable electronics and samples but it is such [...]

OK, this is another of the “how did I miss this one” pieces. Here’s the deal, an anonymous musician takes on a  persona, a cartoon bear and then commits to release a brand new new electronic song via podcast three times a week for an entire calendar year. Cool huh?  I mean this so works [...]