Elkhorn Elkhorn, Envy The West, Happy Sadness, somesurprises Music – what would we do without it? As always I am thankful for all those musicians out there who present us with their hard work, their innermost thoughts and the beautiful results. Today I would like to draw your attention to new releases by
Indie Introducing Lemonade Kid, Oblong, Lusterlit Three very different artists on the blog with new releases today or rather tonight – but all of them involved in music with the sheer joy and dedication that you would expect from any musicians but would not find so often in the fodder that
Black Needle Noise Waiting for spring to come Is this blog hibernating? Not at all (too many cups of tea). The author of the blog is patiently waiting for spring in the northern hemisphere. In the world of music spring has already come – tours being announced, new releases galore and the festival
Indie The Trouble With Templeton, Richard Osborn & New Apostles On Offbeat’s turntable in January you’ll find a bit of everything. What the songs have in common is that they provide heart and soul with much needed warmth. Offbeat Music Blog introduces new releases to you: The Trouble With Templeton, Richard Osborn
blog Album review: First Tiger - Dedicated Happy New Year to you all! I know – what is it but a fracture of time that divides the new from the old in some parts of the world only.
Bic Runga An interview with Bic Runga Regard this as a little holidays present from Offbeat Music Blog: An interview with Bic Runga! The first time I heard one of Bic Runga’s songs was way back
album and book Kristin Hersh: Wyatt At The Coyote Palace This year has seen and heard a lot of brilliant new releases (not to mention the loss of many artists that will leave a hole for generations to come). Amongst
Eyes On The Lines Steve Gunn & The Outliners Interview November 2016 Dear blog reader, I can almost feel you doubling back in sheer horror at the length of this post. Wait now, something good is coming or would you think that
Efterklang Heather Woods Broderick Interview Offbeat Music Blog presents to you what was a long time coming: A Heather Woods Broderick Interview! Heather Woods Broderick hails from Maine/USA and you must have come across
At Swim Lisa Hannigan Interview November 2016 Lisa Hannigan released her third album “At Swim” to much critical acclaim a couple of weeks ago. Currently she presents her new and some old songs on tour in Europe
blog Minor Victories Interview Collaborations you would find many in the music scene. The best are naturally those that were not initiated for commercial reasons but because of the incentive of the musicians themselves.
Indie Red Eye, XAD, Twilight Fields On this dreary Sunday (let’s not complain – we had an outrageously hot September here so far), it is time to dig into the blog again. I have some fine new three releases for you, covering a wide spectrum of the often unfairly put-
Audiodeluxe Vibrissae, Audiodeluxe, Prana Crafter - listen now! As you will notice, this blog features interviews with the well-known artists of the music scene (well-known to you, dear reader, if your musical interest lead you to this page) as, shall we say, a by-product of my radio shows. Initially
gig review Kevin Morby Interview And Gig Review - Support: Jess Williamson So we are off again to the best venue in the area, Reflektor in Liège, Belgium. I won’t harp about it yet again, trust me, it is the perfect
Brigid Mae Power Indian Summer New Releases I hope you had a lovely summer so far. Where I am, it was not much of a summer really and we are all waiting for an Indian summer. The nights are already getting quite cool. This is the time to settle down with
Dark Narrows On The Turntable In Summer As the world is going mad and it never ceases raining here, it seems, I am in dire need of music. I don’t know about you. So, before I
Indie Shearwater Interview To celebrate the end of one tour, Shearwater from Austin, Texas, started another one. Believe it or not, they graced our wee town with a performance which might have spooked
Cologne The Chills: Gig review, Cologne 2016 Martin Phillipps kindly gave me an interview ahead of The Chills‘ only gig in Germany, May 30th, Gebäude 9 in Cologne. Read all about it here. So what was the
Dunedin The Chills - European tour! Interview! Sic! Billy Connolly, the Scottish comedian, said that the Scottish emigrants to New Zealand did not find it southern enough on first arrival or rather the weather still too clement and
Helix Pulsar Helix Pulsar, The CracKers, Maths And The Moon Time to savour some new music from the neverending well of Offbeat Music Blog. First up I would like to introduce you to Helix Pulsar, a French electro rock synth pop band, they have released their debut EP (with 12 tracks!) “Beyond The Wall”
Belgium Marble Sounds & Precious Few Gig Review Marble Sounds from Belgium are currently on tour mostly presenting songs from their new album “Tautou”. If you want to know more about the history of Marble Sounds and “the
At The Dam Mary Lattimore gig review Mary Lattimore from Philadelphia travelled our shores with Great Lake Swimmers after the release of her new album “At The Dam” (Ghostly International) that is spinning in the Offbeat household
blog. A Forest Of Arms Great Lake Swimmers @Muziekgieterij & interview In one of the past blog posts I had posted an interview that Great Lake Swimmers‘ Tony Dekker kindly gave me and also highly recommended you to go see them
dream pop From Russia with love - Sounds of Sputnik If you are partial to the sound of post-rock, shoegaze and in particular dreampop, I will have very good news for you today: There is a band out there
A Forest Of Arms Interview with Great Lake Swimmers Be aware, Great Lake Swimmers might be somewhere near you right now. Offbeat music was kindly granted an interview with Great Lake Swimmers. Please see below and read about and
