The iTunes chart-topper from Canada edited his latest music video on an iPhone 8. The single is from his forthcoming album, “A Recipe For Perpetual Spring.” With the international success of Ed Roman’s award-winning animated opus, “Red Omen,” the Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist cemented himself among the most innovative music video artists …
Read More »Single Review: Joey Phantom “Joint And A Juicebox”
Anyone who said adrenaline is required to produce a genuine indie hip-hop hit clearly wasn’t prepared for Joey Phantom to come out of the woodwork with “Joint and a Juicebox” this autumn, particularly as it’s currently garnering critical acclaim some of its mainstream counterparts have failed to achieve on their …
Read More »Single Review: MaxKaella “Money Dance”
Sleek, stylish and riddled with a cosmopolitan edge that isn’t as common in pop as it should be in 2020, MaxKaella’s “Money Dance” has all the right ingredients to turn an underground sensation into a true superstar this fall. In the music video for her second official single, MaxKaella turns …
Read More »Single Review: Justina Valentine “Lucky You”
When you’re in the mood to move your body to a hot beat, there’s not much that can beat a groove that comes outfitted with a smoldering harmony seemingly fitting of the mood its wicked tempo will inevitably produce, and whether you’ve had contact with this feeling in a while …
Read More »Single Review: Lauren Hulbert “Gone In One”
Drifting into focus with a staggering beat that at first struggles to find some synchronicity with the shards of string play in the backdrop, there’s an uneven groove that is absolutely spellbinding in Lauren Hulbert’s “Gone In One,” and whether you pay attention to its detailed strut or not, it …
Read More »Italian Alt Metal Band Sonic Crush Interview
Sonic Crush is an alternative metal band from Italy, formed in 2016 near Manfredonia (south of Italy). They play groove and power music with melodic singing. The band is composed of 4 musicians: Miro – lead voice/guitar Smoke – solo guitar/vocals Athlos – drum Caine – bass guitar Sonic Crush is …
Read More »Single Review: Papi Shiitake – “Enjoy the View”
Anyone who ever said you couldn’t be urgent and slow-rolling in your delivery of a sensuous groove clearly didn’t see Papi Shiitake or his new single “Enjoy the View” coming out of the woodwork this autumn, and if you ask me, a song like this couldn’t be arriving at a …
Read More »Single Review: Crast “Swimming”
There’s a somewhat dry reverb that we find joined to the scattered melodies dotting the intro in Crast’s “Swimming” single and music video this October, but while this element influences the psychedelic vibe of the song’s first act, it won’t be the most surreal intricacy we hear in the next …
Read More »B-CU ALUM AND FORMER BANKER, KINO INK, RELEASES DEBUT RAP SINGLE
Aquino Cole, aka “Kino Ink” is releasing his debut single, “Write A Way” to launch his career as a rap musician. Kino Ink is a graduate of Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona Beach) with a degree in Business & Entrepreneurship. “I felt it was important to finish my degree, become an entrepreneur …
Read More »Single Review: Moon Fever “Undertaker”
Crushingly heavy but constructed with enough of an attention paid to melodicism that we don’t start sweating as the ascent towards the chorus reaches its fever pitch, Moon Fever’s “Undertaker” could be their most calculated single to see widespread release thus far. https://www.facebook.com/moonfeverofficial/ There are so many elements in this …
Read More »Canadian Guitar God Releases New Album
Darren Michael Boyd returns with his second full-length album, the follow-up to his 2019 release, “Lifting The Curse.” Boyd is a 2020 Josie Music Award nominee. “Wonders of the Invisible World” is a 1693 book recounting the Salem Witch Trials. The author, Cotton Mather, espoused the belief that the prosecutions …
Read More »Single Review: Ray Lugar And The Collective Force “Paper Cha$e”
Lumbering out of the speakers with a heaviness that I wouldn’t normally anticipate out of a contemporary hip-hop release, there’s no telling just what Ray Lugar and The Collective Force are going to smash through in their new single and music video “Paper Cha$e;” if you’re wise, you’ll simply get …
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