Everything you want is the latest release from rock band Forty Days of Rain. Maintaining the band’s alternative rock slant, the band’s second single is certainly a strong follow-up to the band’s 2014 debut single Strings left to fray. Despite having only played a relatively small number of gigs to date, among them appearances at the 2014 Malta International Tattoo Expo and last year’s CampusFest, Forty Days of Rain are well on the way to becoming a household name among local

Simple Life is the title of the latest single from local band RiSE. The song, which is also accompanied by a music video, marks the band's first recorded output in quite a while, although it must be said their public profile was still quite upfront thanks to regular live performances. Recorded and produced by guitarist Conrad Dimech at Blacklight Studios, Simple Life, like the band's previous singles, is rooted firmly in pop-rock territory, an area that RiSE are clearly very

The vintage Robert Palmer hit Addicted to love was the first thing that came to my mind when I gave Mary Jane, the latest single from The Crowns, its first spin. The semblance of course, is absolutely not to do with the music, but rather with the theme behind Mary Jane. The song more or less focuses on a relationship in which the subject, a woman in this case, is described as the singer’s drug, ‘his cocaine, his Mary Jane’, with the text basically highlighting the romance’s a

Photo by Peter Twigt 2014 was a very busy year Maltese singer-songwriter Alex Alden, and rightfully so. After moving to the Netherlands in 2013 soon after releasing her debut EP The Curious Child, last year she relocated from Utrecht to Rotterdam. Describing the move as a bit awkward, "in the sense that it was a drawn out 'in-between' phase of moving from one city and lifestyle to another completely different one", she admits it was a spontaneous decision, quickly adding howe

Despite being released in March 2013, Ira Losco’s latest album The Fire continues to be a vital reference point in terms of the Maltese pop artist’s ongoing activity and presence in the Maltese music scene. So much so, that her latest single Dead or Alive is in fact the sixth track to be singled out from the album for radio release. Naturally, the release comes with an accompanying music video, which at the time of going to print, has already clocked up almost 13,000 views. S

A mainstay on the local music scene ever since it stepped onstage to give its first live gig back in 2007, Maltese alternative rock band nosnow/noalps recently took on a new challenge by relocating to Copenhagen. The new chapter in the band’s history comes after a series of line-up changes. The band’s current formation, temporarily based in two countries, now features vocalist and guitarist Nick Morales, bassist Alan Portelli and drummer Benji Cachia, who are based in the Dan