Denver’s And The Black Feathers bring back the soulful garage sounds of bands like Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels on their EP – Sociallusions. And it’s all about what you’d expect from a title involving social solutions, which positively helps as much as music can to cope with the …

“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 …

They aren’t forceful, but they certainly aren’t hesitant. They’re countrified folk melody-makers and poets without any ability to actually speak. They are the strings that forge a harmony with the lead vocal in Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite’s new single and music video “Devil’s In My Car,” and they produce something …

Nickie Conley is a mainstay of the Nashville, TN, music scene with over 30 years of experience. She has sung background vocals live and in studio for rock artists to jazz and everything in between. Now she’s venturing out on her own with a track you should definitely have as …

The power trio concept has been coming back in a really big way this year, and in The Turnback’s new single “You Kill Me,” we essentially learn why – efficiency. By keeping things limited to the guitar-bass-drums formula in “You Kill Me,” a band like The Turnback are able to …

We look upon a messy living room in the first few frames of the new video for The Bobbleheads’ “Joey,” eventually finding the eponymous Joey spread out on the couch with that dreaded, grimacing look of unemployment painted on his face. His girlfriend’s had it with his lack of initiative, …

A ghostly harmony comes sliding out of the silence in the title track of Sarah Lee Langford’s Two Hearted Rounder as though it were rising from the ashes of a long-forgotten American songbook. Spackled in twang and saturated with self-aware lyrics from Ms. Langford, “Two Hearted Rounder” sets the tone for the …

Jeremy Rice’s latest release Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa opens with the pensive mid-tempo march of “Johnny Rogers”. It’s an excellent opening curtain for the release highlighting the textured manner of Rice’s compositional talents and his nasal yet expressive vocals. There’s no other track on the album that’s …

“I ain’t tryin’ to start a class war” pleads Josef McManus, the mastermind behind White Owl Red, in the new single “Working Class Heroes,” the latest release from his critically acclaimed solo project. White Owl Red gets back to the basics of red, white and blue melodies adorned with smart, …

Some people refer to alternative rock as the last great revolution in the rock genre but we are far away from its birth in the late 80’s-early 90’s. Despite being two decades plus on from those halcyon days, young musicians of every ilk are still picking up guitars and turning …

Canadian melodic roots-rocker Cory M. Coons has released “Love Will Fire The Flame.” It is the fifth single from his album, “The Long Road Home.” “You don’t normally hear the word ‘epic’ thrown around in country rock albums, but then you hear the song ‘Love Will Fire the Flame,’ and …

“Coming Home” is a previously unreleased Veterans Day tribute from international rock duo, Follow No One. Many rock and metal fans know that Follow No One’s Rich Hall possesses one of the most impressive vocal ranges of recent memory. What is not widely known is that Rich is a two-tour …