Album Reviews

A glistening piano comes reaching out of the silence alongside a simple finger snapping and suddenly a familiar swing makes contact with a bright melody radiating from none other than Kanisha K. She lays into the holiday standard “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” with a fragile ease that is both …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrm2nCV_Dm4&feature=youtu.be I found this one quite enjoyable from the first hearing. Ashley Delima’s earlier single “Stay in America” deeply impressed me with her bold stand on topical matters and the personal stakes for her in that performance as the children of illegal immigrants underscored her willingness to pursue …

URL: https://www.officialtrevordrury.com/about/ When the temperature drops and snow is blanketing everything outside in white this Christmas season, Trevor Drury wants to be there to warm our hearts with his new single (and cover of the classic Elvis song) “Blue Christmas.” As most of us are already aware, “Blue Christmas” is one of the …

URL: http://www.stephenwinstonmusic.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/stephenwinstonmusic/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/stephenwinston INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/stephenwinstonmusic Singer/songwriter fare can be a hit or miss proposition. The pages of music history and crates of dusty old records are chock full of shooting stars who, for one reason or another, couldn’t maintain their initial momentum or else were soon consigned …

Pop has been getting very surreal lately on either side of the mainstream, but few acts in or outside of the American underground have been able to capture the bright, uncaged tonality of contemporary postmodernist rock music the way Hemhora and the Glass Band have in their all new EP Helix …

A review on Damned If You Do, the twelfth studio album from Metal Church. Metal Church is an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 before relocating to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name Shrapnel. Their self titled debut album was released in 1984. Damned If You Do is the twelfth studio album …

In his over three-decade career, Warrel Dane led the bands Sanctuary and Nevermore to modest, but enduring stature. The Seattle-bred vocalist initially based his tonality on a commonly-utilized operatic British style in the mid-80s, before steadily moving toward a distinct baritone the following decade onward. Dane would further expand that …

Golden synthesized melodies meet gritty and provocatively stylized lyricism in Paul Jacks’ debut solo album Defractor, which hits record stores and streaming sites internationally this November 30th. Jacks wastes no time laying giant melodies on us in the opening track “Laid to Rest,” a suffocating, heavy slice of indie pop saturated …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/stoplookingatmexuan/ A buxom little percussive part slinks around in stereo sound as we enter the opening bars of “Big Blue Ocean,” just one of twelve all new songs offered on rising popstar Xuan’s new album Have Some Fun. It’s punctuated by a glistening vocal from Xuan, who elegantly commands the …

URL: https://www.beckyblasband.com/here/ Few albums are able to capture the identity of an artist as well as Rebecca Blasband’s Here does. Released mid-November of this year, Here is an anthological, wide-reaching LP from an artist who wowed critics and audiences 20 years ago with her first album RAPT and left an indelible imprint on indie rock as …

As time goes by, it seems that less and less people are focusing on making real, straight-out Rock and Roll. However, there are those out there that are focused on keeping the style alive. No matter how far and wide you need to look, you can find real Rock and …

It’s no secret that one of my absolute favorite bands is AFI. Having said that, of course I absolutely jumped at the opportunity to review their new EP The Missing Man set to release on December 7th. The California-based quartet have been making waves in the rock music scene since …