Album Reviews

Tedi Brunetti has been an unrelenting force in the music industry for many years, pushing limits with each subsequent project she gets involved with. On “The Queen of Pittsburgh”, Brunetti’s sophomore solo release, she crowns herself with a title that fans and critics believe she aptly deserves. Having fallen in love with …

Against the enthralling backdrop of a boundless natural environment, Kailee Spark is getting back to the basics of her songcraft in the new music video for her single “Passageways,” released just last week, and sounding like one of the more adept singer/songwriters in her class in the process. Experimenting with …

Jack Rayner is a musician in the truest sense of the word. When he plays, we’re listening to more than notes making merry with one another in an arranged display of melodic fireworks; we’re connecting with a soulfulness in his songcraft that is neither easily described nor simply appreciated. In …

FreeWorld are on an important mission in their new single and music video “D-Up (Here’s to Diversity)” this spring, and it’s got a lot more to do with reflection than it even does revolution. As its name indicates, “D-Up (Here’s to Diversity)” is all about waving a flag for the …

A little too top-heavy to be considered a straight dance track, yet still swing-filled in the right spots and melodically soulful beyond expectations, all the right ingredients are present to make Hi Love’s recipe for allure impossible to resist in her new single “Queen & Slim” and its music video. …

HeIstheArtist’s latest, “If I Were A Virgin Again” is a simple song with a clear and powerful message. The song captures the listener’s attention from the beginning, as the lyrics go, “she got pregnant at 16”. This is something that a lot of people can relate to, and therefore, a …

It’s late, too much liquor has been consumed and getting home sounds like an impossible feat no one could accomplish without a little assistance. Practically all of us have been there before, and in the single/video combo “Drunk Mess” from Kooly Bros and Young Thug, we’re given a humbling look …

There have been a lot of smart slow jams coming out in the last two years, but if you haven’t heard the single “Easy” from crooner Sparkle, you’ve yet to indulge in some of the best melodicism the underground has to offer today. Sparkle issues a formidable lead vocal performance …

In “Trouble,” the latest single from acclaimed Arizonan rockers Jane n’ the Jungle, the pummeling of the percussion and the electrifying howl of the guitar are no match for the majestic singing of the band’s frontwoman, whose every word is burned into the riff beneath it in an instant after …

“Say that we’ll stay friends / Say this won’t be the end / But tell me that the feeling’s gone,” we’re told in the chorus of Kelsey Coleman’s new single “Break Mine,” the singer/songwriter channeling the sentiments of a concluding relationship with a painful realism some might not be expecting …

Classical music touches us in a way that nothing else in the aural spectrum can; through the divinity of its most powerful arrangements and the players who would seek to make them their very own, we connect with an iconic medium within human artistry as ancient as culture itself. Raphaël …

Thrusting synthesized harmonies upon us with the strength of a thousand soldiers marching in perfect synchronicity, Me and My Nightmare aren’t stingy with the melodic intensity they’re unleashing in their debut single, “Mad World.” Although very much a cover of the iconic ‘80s alternative rock classic, there’s nothing about the …