Bay Area, California Rockers Strange Culprits have released Smith’s Creek, a two-track EP, as a follow-up to 2018’s self-titled debut. While two tracks might not seem like much to get to know a band, and as a listener understand their vision, just a few listens to these tracks and one …
Read More »The Criticals’ debut EP Mimosa Hygiene
“Good Lookin’” opens The Criticals’ debut EP Mimosa Hygiene with rock muscle as tight as the crack of a whip and clipped inspired lyrics conveying much despite their abbreviated structure. The Criticals are obviously focusing on creating visceral and intelligent rock music that dispenses with the genre’s usual clichés and the opener …
Read More »EP Review: RIIV – All Night
Joseph Riverson is an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, originally from Haiti and based in Connecticut. Under the artist name RIIV, Riverson has overcome numerous odds to make it in music, an effort that has steadily paid off since his initial pursuit back in 2015. Following the success of last year’s single, “Beautiful,” …
Read More »The Lost Millions release EP
A guttural guitar’s howl greets us in the instrumental introduction to “Wisdom of the Mad Priest,” one of the five songs comprising The Lost Millions’ new record Novellas Dantes, and although it’s not quite as stadium-shaking as some of the other opening salvos on this EP , it’s still one of …
Read More »The Teledynes’ new self-titled EP
The Teledynes’ new self-titled EP, opens thunderously with the midcentury rockabilly bruiser “Crazy Train,” but its fusion of physicality and raw melodic moxie is only getting warmed up in this first track. It isn’t until the throttling beat of “Callin’ on the Devil” comes into focus that the band starts …
Read More »The Brothers Union “Silhouettes”
In their new EP, an advance on upcoming cd titled Silhouettes, The Brothers Union expand on the blueprint put forth by their previous releases Paper Hearts and Little Blue Room by diving as deep into the experimental side of their songwriting as possible and they emerge from the studio with …
Read More »Charlie Marie Releases Self-titled EP
URL: https://www.charliemariemusic.com/ A lot of country’s longtime disciples have been straying away from the genre as of late, but I don’t think it has as much to do with a collective exodus towards the alternative model as some of my critical peers seem to. While some artists have grown complacent …
Read More »Kingdom of Birds’ Release EP
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kobbandtoronto/ A playful set of guitar strings waste no time before slicing their way through the darkness and clearing out a pocket of space for a honeysweet vocal to capture our focus with its endearing drawl in “Dotted Lines,” track one in Kingdom of Birds’ all-new extended play Glitz, …
Read More »Casey Ahern – He Was Summer (EP)
URL: https://www.caseyahern.com/ While it’s the goal of every aspiring singer/songwriter to convey the deepest of emotions through little more than a major key melody and a homespun harmony to complement it, few artists are able to do what Casey Ahern does in her all new EP He Was Summer – which is …
Read More »This Is DR King’s New EP “It’s My Life”
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/1stc6RmpcWwkIb2bkDQGV7 Bumping basslines waging war with a moaning organ. A grizzly guitar riff that is brutally subdued by a vocal that knows nothing of the boundaries that a stereophonic recording would usually create for a melody. Harmonies that rise like a tidal wave and crash into a pulsating percussion. …
Read More »Album Review: Slaves – Revision EP
On January 18th, Californian post-hardcore band, Slaves released an EP full of their acoustic renditions of some songs from their 3 studio albums, plus 2 new songs. On January 24th, the band announced that singer Jonny Craig will be leaving the band due to him wanting to focus on his …
Read More »Frontman For Top 5 iTunes Glam Rock Band Strips Down For Valentine’s Day Solo EP
Aaron Hart’s Solo EP “Valentine” Drops On February 14th Aaron Hart, lead singer for Denver glam rock band, Love Stallion, releases a 3-song acoustic piano EP on February 14th, “Valentine.” I’m excited to share this original version…just in time for Valentine’s Day.”— Aaron Hart, lead singer of Love Stallion Fresh …
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