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Ye olde Haggis will give you a lot of different looks, kind of like Jordan creeping down in the post. He may scoop under you, he may go over you, but either way…you know you’re getting posterized.  Being no different, Haggis can hit you with a Celtic beat, break you down with a fiddle, or drive you home with a little rock ‘n’ roll. Read the rest of this entry »

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Feathers…breeze…sunshine…scissors.  You can find it all in this one, as this instrumental paints a good portrait of the California artist, Dan Eyde.  Although Barber’s Scissors doesn’t showcase all of Dan’s instrument mastery (he plays mandolin, bouzouki, piano, & dulcimer as well)…it isn’t missed or needed.  His smooth fingerwork on the acoustic let’s you know that this song is in the hand of a master craftsman and makes it perfect for wine country drives or a cold Guinness on the back porch.  In short: this is traditional folk music that could be floating out of the mountains themselves.

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Don’t you just love it when you know after about 30 seconds of a song that you’ve got a winner. It’s even better when you come across a song like Gravity and Henry’s ‘Lullaby’ that keeps getting better as the song goes along. Jangly, droning guitars that create interplay with the vocals and the odd time of the song help to make this a memorable 4 minutes of brit-pop pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »

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Poppy & bright, Vaquero’s ‘All Day Dreamer’ has the sound that’s just right to serve on a soundtrack to the spring that’s beginning to open up around us. And it’s also got handclaps. I love me some handclaps. You have no idea how many near-traffic accidents hand claps in songs have caused. Read the rest of this entry »

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It’s amazing the quality of songs being churned out by artists on their own without the support of a label. Not the songwriting, but in the production. Take Dave Keat’s ‘The Spectator’, for example. I mean… wow. Just… wow. It’s perfect. There is nothing in this song that should keep it from reaching all over the radio and selling a bajillion copies, just like it is. It’s a chunk of pop-rock perfection and it’s a crime that you probably haven’t heard it until now. Read the rest of this entry »

I realize that Matt is probably going to beat me for posting this on his website because given that the sole purpose of Gigatracks is to promote and help sell the cuts of independent artists, putting an article up about a rock goddess of the mainstream could be pretty incriminating. Nevertheless, Matt is tall and lanky, has been since birth, and therefore…I think I can probably take him. So here goes…

Before I say anything else, let’s get the obvious out there. Sheryl Crow is going to have a long road ahead of her. There it is, spread out along the table like spilt gravy or a tub of Country Crock. Having not quite reached the finish line with her beau, Lance Armstrong, she is going to become very cheap fodder (or should I say streamlined expensive fodder) for the tabloids and talk shows. No doubt the relationship weight itself is crushing her and the celebrity piled on top of it will only cause her knees to bend that much more. But the thing is…for fans…there could be one small light on the other side, despite what Sheryl may or may not be running through right now. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ladies & Gentlemen, Paul Simon has been reincarnated. His knack for expressing the subtleties of life and pulling you into storylines with his soft melodies that sit so easily on the listeners ears that you swear that you know this song by heart. He has come back to life as an artist known as Teitur. What’s that? Paul Simon’s not dead yet? Hmm… well…. crap. Sorry about that Paul. Read the rest of this entry »