Album Reviews

Swirling around us in a psychedelic deluge in “Not Enough.” Slipping in and out of focus like a fading sunset in “Home.” Defining a mood with buoyant bands of distortion, reminiscent of both Dinosaur Jr. and a more contemporary noise-rock movement. Whether hazy or seamlessly harmony-oriented in tone, there’s no …

They’re slinking around to a sluggish but ultimately enrapturing electric groove in “Red Crimes.” Bashing us in the face with eruptive riffs in “The Foreigner.” Smothering the air with carnal beats in “Pieces.” The energy is both adrenaline-laced in “5000 Years” and anxiety-inducing in “Uomo Moderno.” The intensity is inescapable …

Right when you thought you had heard his best, Jeremy Parsons is back with a single that has song of the summer written all over it! Releasing this Friday (July 17th), “Good Ole Days,” is a feel-good ballad about growing up but not growing old. With the polish of a …

With decades being a singer, songwriter, actor, activist and overall Colombian icon, Carlos Vives continues to expand his already global reach with his latest album Cumbiana. In Cumbiana, Carlos Vives’ goal of expressing a love letter of cumbia’s small origins to the masses is embodied with eclectic and innovative collaborations …

Static-X new album, Project Regeneration Vol 1. , is nothing short of amazing. To hear Wayne Static‘s voice is amazing. I will be perfectly transparent here, when I heard of his passing in 2014, it me hard. Static-X was one of the first bands I got into when I started …

Maturing and finding your voice is one of the most important parts of the artistic process. For a singer and songwriter like Brandon Agustus, recognizing this process and embracing it, has made a world of difference in his music. In his new record Days of Wasted Youth, Agustus inserts his …

From the anthemic title track to the gut punch “Romantic As Hell” track, Sprockets’ EP Self Made is reflection of self-determination and self-awareness. The art, of course, comes in when the listener gets to break into that fiery space in their soul, and use just as much elbow grease to …

Protest music, as its own genre within the pop music lexicon, can take on many different forms, from the rage of Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing to the understated angst of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, but in the new single and music video “NWAYE” from the incomparable Malou Beauvoir, the …

Melodically soft and rather innocent in its placement beside the ebb and flow of an impeccable instrumentation, don’t be fooled by the fragile tone of IVEEN’s lead vocal in the new single and music video “Orion;” for her voice is more than capable of dishing out poetry that can move …

As quiet as a summer breeze, if not a little quieter, JamLive’s “Stay” comes to life with a delicate guitar melody that will soon forge the backbone of the track’s signature sound. “Stay” starts off quite pendulously, but it doesn’t take us very long to get hypnotized by its slowly-unfolding …

A little bouncy and supremely catchy from the start, the beat in Kolette’s new single “Change My Life” is definitely a sexy one, but it’s not the focal point of this lovely track/video combo. That title belongs to Kolette’s pipes, which unleash a deluge of decadent melodicism that is among …

Strumming to life with an acoustic melody alongside bittersweet piano keys, Dos Floris gets her incredible new single and music video “All in It Together” started with a level of panache that immediately lets us know that something big is about to happen. What exactly the event will consist of …