Lamb of God just finished up The Omens Tour which took them across North America and they brought a healthy dose of heavy metal bands with them. Killswitch Engage accompanied them throughout the entire trek and on this particular night Animals As Leaders and Fit For An Autopsy opened the …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: The Bay Strikes Back Tour with in Ventura, CA (10.12.2022)
The Bay Strikes Back Tour cruised through Ventura, CA at The Majestic Ventura Theater on October 12th and gave metal fans a healthy dose of Bay Area thrash metal for the entire night. Theses 3 bands on the bill are on top of the thrash metal world and each could have done their …
Read More »Album Review: The King James Boys “Walk On Faith”
The King James Boys didn’t intend to ever be touring and making albums for the faithful or plain music fans. Their five-piece performances began as church-only affairs with zero intention of ever moving their talents beyond that sphere. The obvious chemistry they shared as musicians and fellow believers, however, led …
Read More »Album Review: Diver Through “All Nighter”
Diver Through’s third album release All Nighter is the next natural development in a musical story that songwriter/singer/guitarist Michael Baynes kicked off in 2013. The project has transformed some since those fledgling beginnings almost ten years ago and the latest offering boasts a three-member configuration serving up intelligent alternative rock. The power …
Read More »Album Review: Vinyl Floor “Funhouse Mirror”
Thomas Charlie and Daniel Pedersen long ago set the bar high for their songwriting collaboration and their latest release under the Vinyl Floor moniker, Funhouse Mirror, raises the stakes without sending them creatively off-course. This fifth full-length studio collection finds the brothers looking back, a bit, to the songwriting direction defining …
Read More »Album Review: Sisteria “Dark Matter”
Oklahoma has never been known for its heavy rock scene, but that might change if the likes of Sisteria have their way this fall, and it’s all because of their new album Dark Matter. Dark Matter is getting some seriously positive feedback from rock critics and serious fans the same, …
Read More »Album Review: Marcus King “Young Blood”
Holed up in Dan Auerbach’s studio in early 2021, 26-year-old blues rock phenom Marcus King cut his fifth studio album in just six days. Young Blood, King’s second solo effort after the success of his first project, The Marcus King Band, is the musician’s testimonial to the core of his …
Read More »Album Review: Coco O’Connor – Big Reveal
Coco O’Connor’s crowd-sourced fifth album release Big Reveal demonstrates the sort of consistent grassroots support niche music communities are relying on to remain viable. You can’t really place the ten tracks of this album in a comfortable classic or retro country niche. It shares common ground with those songs, but it also …
Read More »Album Review: “Midnight Choir” The Long & Short of It
Hailing from Down Under hasn’t been any sort of problem for The Long & Short of It to compose and play convincing American country music. They are far from purists. There’s an ample blues sound present in the duo’s music, but David Baird and Patsy Toop’s long collaboration under this …
Read More »Album Review: Kimberly Morgan York’s “Keep On Goin’” (LP)
If you browse around the underground at the moment, you’re going to find a lot of melancholic Americana just about everywhere you look and listen. The aesthetic has been influencing just about every scene in the country lately, and with all of the rather self-aware songwriting coming out of local …
Read More »Album Review: See Your Shadow “From His Mind”
See Your Shadow Songwriting and their helmsman Michael Coleman are a distinguished set of musicians. As a whole, they’re a project dedicated to producing a delectable variety of songs and art of various mediums. They’ve been around for a long while now, making incredibly captivating music and experimenting in many …
Read More »Album Review: George Mallas “Unscathed”
George Mallas’ 2018 sophomore release unscathed is an eleven-song collection that finds the New York-based singer/songwriter in fine form. It’s illuminating to look at this album in light of the recent release of Mallas’ third album Let the Day Decide as it shows his songwriting development over the last four years. This is pre-pandemic …
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