The beats that adorn every stitch of audio we find in the Toronto Tabla Ensemble’s “Dream Symposium” are exotic to no end, but their most endearing qualities come from their sensuous arrangement and not from the worldly stylization of their tone. Right out of the gate, we’re hypnotized by the …

A vivacious acoustic guitar springs the first few chords of Caroline Blind’s “God Damn the Sun” to life with an opulent melodicism that will become all the more powerful as we press on in this excellent cover of the Swans song of the same name. Blind begins to sing, and …

The Sweet Kill have been setting 2019 on fire with their one of a kind beats and sensationally sharp electronic pop melodies, but in the shocking and seductive new video for their single “Night Terror Creeper,” they issue what is perhaps their most haunting work of art yet. Brilliantly directed …

  Colors fusing together just as quickly as they spread apart into fine lines of light-drenched vitality. They mirror the beat of a distant percussive element, but at the same time they create a mood and an energy all their own. We are at once transported to another reality while …

The Cold Stares’ new album Ways is a varied and smoldering thirteen song collection jumping out of the speakers. Chris Tapp and Brian Mullins are a decade in to their time together under this banner and still sound every bit as invigorated with this new collection despite the miles and previous releases …

Flat River Band are releasing “Go Tell It On The Mountain” to radio. Songs from “Christmas Time” appeared in a 2018 movie with Duane Allen (Oak Ridge Boys). “Christmas Time’ is destined to be an American Christmas classic…this is everything Christmas should be all about: down-home simplicity, family, faith, and …

Colorado’s Rich Hall and Portugal’s Pedro Almeida have released “Bring Me Peace.” It’s the follow-up to their airplay chart single, “Fear No Evil.” “The song is mid-tempo, edgy and liberating. It is extremely radio-friendly, and its lyrics are pure poetry. **** ” – Markos Papadatos, Digital Journal “They managed to …

Swigga Geovanni’s new single “DMLY (Daddy Mi Love You)” opens with a smattering of chiming guitar seemingly broadcast through a transistor radio before expanding in full. There is a strong hip hop influence present from the first, but it runs parallel with a rousing reggae-like delivery in Geovanni’s voice. Despite …

Like a long-legged spider slowly creeping out of the shadows, the strings that greet us at the start of “Luv U Girl,” the first single from Jon Patrick Walker’s new record Welcome to the Edge Times, are hypnotizing and yet subtly threatening. Over the next ninety seconds of play, we’ll become …

I am a fan of the early 80’s European/British New Wave bands that TLA seem to be aping with their EP release New Language so this brief release has an early hold on me. Subsequent listens reveal the depth of the material this unit has put together for this EP and, as …

In Manuel Aspidi’s latest single, “Let out This Light,” the acclaimed Tuscan vocalist incorporates colorful influences into what is inarguably an already iconic sound. At the onset of the song, a gentle piano melody awakens the treasure chest of tones that will form a sonic backdrop for Aspidi’s magnetizing vocal, …

Pulsating grooves are woven into an elegant swing in “Hush Hush,” and though they render a hard rock rhythm into something far more balladic in nature than what we hear in “Only American in the Room,” the emotion in the former song is as obvious and transcendent as it is …