This album has a loose confident swagger throughout, irrespective of whether we are listening to the more rootsy tracks, the ballads or strutting our dance steps to Samba Rock. Released in Europe through Proper Distribution in 2008.

To understand the romantic sweep and swaggering musical ambition that define Bruce Springsteen’s first album of the Obama era, you have to go all the way back to an artifact of the Ford administration: 1975′s Born to Run. In those days, Springsteen was driving the E Street Band without a seat belt, staying up all night piling on overdubs: glockenspiel, surf guitar, violins, motorcycle noises.

Indie rock band, The Heys, have released their debut album ‘youngbored&broke’. The UK band has maintained an indie sound by building their own recording studio in a basement. Their studio also keeps the the four guys and their music less corporately connected and away from the dogmatic industry producers.

Charmed and Strange, the debut from one-man band Yoav, is a simple album with a big sound. Like Tori Amos, with whom he recently toured, Yoav wrings maximum sound out of the simplest of instruments.