Based out of a remote mountain village in Italy, Cristian Bergoglio, who writes and performs his songs under the moniker Mr. Occhio (and sometimes Mr. Occhio & His Imaginary Friends Band), has just self-released his first full-length album as a […]
For singular intensity of feverish vision, the undiluted nature of the solo performance can’t be beat. -Andrew Goldfarb (The Slow Poisoner) American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Phillip Roebuck has long been an outsider of the music world. Even in the one-man […]
For this particular piece we will have to take a considerable step away from the harsh distortion, out-of-tune guitars, frantic drumbeats, and wild vocals that many of the underground one-man bands typically employ, as we will be dealing with the […]
Voodoo Rhythm Records has just released the Dead Brothers’ fifth studio album, “5th Sin-Phonie.” With a combination of gypsy folk, death blues, gothic country, and dark roots, this Geneva-based outfit of remarkably talented musicians and songwriters has been creating and […]
One of the more standout presences in the obscure music world today is the Montreal-based one-man band Bloodshot Bill. When it comes to this rockabilly wild man, it is pretty safe to say that he is an exception to what […]
Just in time for the end of the gloomy season, the folks at Devil’s Ruin Records are preparing to release their continuation of the Dark Roots Music compilation series, with not one but three more volumes: II. Rodentagogue, III. Rodenticide, […]
For some, rock’n’roll is a pastime, while for others it is a lifestyle. But for Swiss singer/songwriter and one-man band act Reverend Beat-Man it is nothing short of a religion. With one foot planted firmly on each side of the […]
Here we go again! Sin City’s roots rockers the Yeller Bellies have returned with a new album titled “Here to Suffer” to follow up their 2008 debut, “Boys will be Boys.” I was thrown for a loop, as it were, […]
History has shown us time and again that it takes a very potent recipe of events to spawn a movement. More often than not, a mixture of economic, political, and social factors influence the birth of new ideas and practices. […]
