Album Reviews

There are musicians that play to their strengths and this can very useful in the music business: better to do the simple stuff right than the fancy things wrong. This is something that Kristen Karma understands very well and her latest single, Party Heroes, shows her doing what she does …

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/track/3HrWQkjt40OlJjWftJtTkn Enter Zuma Beach, California on an overcast afternoon in spring and you’ll likely find the same wondrous view that Sonja Midtune is joined by in her new music video for the single “My Light,” which itself is as beautiful as the landscape featured in the video. Gilded guitar strings come apart …

Across The Board releases “Wild Ones” on March 22nd, 2019 Rock band, Across The Board releases their fifth album, “Wild Ones.” Compiling a collection of songs celebrating autonomy and uniqueness, “Wild Ones” is Across The Board’s fourth original project and studio album. “Using the analogy of the ‘lone wolf’ who …

BANDCAMP: https://poorxcuse.bandcamp.com/track/miss-you-babe The earth shakes beneath our feet as Poorxcuse drop a bass-heavy hammer in their brand new single “Miss You Babe.” In the video for the song, we look on as the band passionately warms up a cramped studio with their white hot tonality and tube-amplified riffs, and though …

URL: https://www.melissaruthmusic.co An exotic, blustery melody penetrates our speakers and is soon met with a whimsical percussive beat that is full of vibrancy but, nevertheless, finds itself contained by a growing bassline simmering just beneath the surface of the master mix. The tension builds as the drums find their stride …

DEEZER: https://www.deezer.com/us/track/556919502?autoplay=true Reverberating rhythm that fills the atmosphere around us with its buoyancy. Acoustic guitars that are as bold and stunning as the electrified basslines that accompany them. Vocals as sweet as honey dispensing illustrious lyricism. Even in healthy samples of songs like “Mardi Gras,” “Wheel in My Hand” and …

URL: https://www.DerekWoodsBand.com With a swaggering crash of the drums, the Derek Woods Band opens up their new album From Now Until Then with the jazzy “Fall of the Cards,” which will spend no less than four and a half minutes smothering us in opulent tonality and striking grooves that will lead us …

Alabama’s Shallow Side is a hearty combination of rock hooks and personable pop anecdotes. Nearly a decade on the scene, that formula has earned the Cullman quartet exceptional success on active rock radio. The singles from their last EP, One – including the million-streamed “Rebel” and “Renegade,” and a cover …

Diehard country music fans would do well to give the new single from Amanda Barret a spin this spring, if for no other reason than to get an early look at a songwriter who critics are already championing as a second coming for Canadian roots rock. In “Where I Stand,” …

The Meat Puppets’ story begins with three kids, enamored of music and immersed in the psychedelic drug culture of Arizona in the ’70s, who find their way to punk rock and painstakingly become one of the most important bands of the American underground.  “We began to make such a hellacious …

Searing electric guitar tonality is flanked with ethereal R&B and synthesized melodies in the latest single from Dan Rico, “Dre@m Vaca$ion.” Right from the jump, we’re entranced by the rich texture that is yielded from the central harmony between Rico’s vocal and the background instrumentation, which levels an evocative beat …

A keyboard ignites a firestorm of synthesized grooves as we enter “Never Ever,” the all-new single from up and coming pop singer/songwriter Szandra Mayer, but it’s soon joined by a feverish vocal from the star of the show that is much more supple and understated than the blistering music coming …