Ida Maria is a Norwegian alternative rock musician. She’s currently 26 years old and has gained some notoriety from her dating and drinking habits, as well as the fact that she suffers from synesthesia, which causes her to see colors when she hears music. She released her first album, “Fortress Round My Heart” in 2008. [...]

If I’m going to review an album, I don’t want to review something everyone’s heard of or writing about. I’m going to focus on something from the fringes that has caught my attention and earned a place in my music collection. That’s the case with this review of Therion’s “Sitra Ahra,” released at the end [...]

Today I’m writing about C.C. Adcock’s album, “Lafayette Marquis,” neither of which I expect you to have heard about. The album is by no means new, having been released in 2004, nor is it popular. Information about Adcock is sparse. He doesn’t have his own website, the one fan site devoted to him has been [...]

Nick Cave in The Birthday Party Nick Cave is an Australian musician whose first band was a post-punk group called The Birthday Party. They operated from ’76 to ’83 with little commercial success, but in hindsight have been lauded as one of the best post-punk groups of the era. When The Birthday Party disbanded, Cave [...]