Sweeping The Nation — Time to round off both this extended feature and this misbegotten year the way we've treated all the decade's, and previous four decade's, music - by picking out forty great tracks and putting them in the order they mix together best in. ... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Well, here we go again. Another tumultuous year has passed and passed on a series of albums which we've listened to, admired and eventually ranked. As always, direct from band/label buying links where applicable. 40 Haiku Salut - The General39 Go... more info

Sweeping The Nation — The round-up of the decade about to close reaches that most dread of years, 2016. You know, when Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, George Martin etc all died we were told by some in the press that as our heroes aged this would be happenin... more info

JamBase — Aaron "Neddy" Stein continues his look at recent releases featuring exceptional songcraft with profiles of records by Rose Elinor Dougall, Sweet Whirl, Rozi Plain and E.B. The Younger. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Rose Elinor Dougall's A New Illusion, Sun Kil Moon's I Also Want to Die in New Orleans, and Damien Jurado's In The Shape Of A Storm are the new releases I can recommend this week. Reissues include vinyl editions... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — This week: review of LPs by The Drums, Priests, Lawrence Arabia, Patio, Shana Cleveland (La Luz), Rose Elinor Dougall, and more. Continue reading… more info

Sweeping The Nation — This is the other part of our annual bonfire of the vanities - "other" tracks means those from albums that didn't quite make the top 50 of the year and those from artists that didn't put out an album this year at all. Last year, you may recal... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Listen to new songs by Bob Mould, Jay Rock + Tee Grizzley, TOY, Rose Elinor Dougall, Rina Sawayama, Michael Chapman, TEEN, Partner, and more. Continue reading… more info

Sweeping The Nation — Amaya Laucirica - Let It HappenIt's been a big year so far for Australian acts catching on overseas and Laucirica is at the upper end with Rituals, sumptuous, quietly multi-layered and open hearted dreampop rich with yearning and learning, like a... more info

Sweeping The Nation — So now we've covered the best tracks of the year so far on a month by month basis, let's move on to the longform stuff. Feel free to remind us of these come the end of the year when something else from these six months overtakes the lot. Algi... more info