If you’ve ever pondered what mixing suffocating riffs, chugging harmonies, self-aware poetry and punishingly strong amounts of noise would sound like in a ten-track LP, Parker Longbough has an answer that you’d be wise to take note of in his latest album, the uncompromisingly heavy Green and Gold/Drink the Hemlock. Green and …
Read More »Final Reflections by Peter Ulrich
Peter Ulrich has a small but secure place in musical history. Ulrich played as drummer for Dead Can Dance during the band’s halcyon 1980’s period and, as such, helped contribute to their sound. He has since written, recorded, and released a number of solo efforts before founding The Peter Ulrich …
Read More »Jupiter in Velvet releases new LP “Anthems2Love”
Jupiter in Velvet has long since carved out his own unique niche in the modern music world as a purveyor of guitar fueled rock borrowing much from psychedelic predecessors like Hendrix, The Beatles, and more modern performers like Prince. Despite the obvious influences in his songwriting and visual presentation, Velvet …
Read More »B Fhukken Have releases “XIXXCI”
Creeping through the shadows like a thief in the night, we find an evocative melody suffocated by middle and bass at the onset of B Fhukken Have’s “XIXXCI” that will grow in size and strength in the next few minutes of play, though not without the leading vocal of B …
Read More »Donna Ulisse releases new LP
You don’t have to be the biggest bluegrass fan in the world to know that when Donna Ulisse enters the studio to make music, she means big business for the genre, but serious bluegrass aficionados are already aware of what her new album Time for Love means. Once again, Ulisse returns to …
Read More »EP Review: Piers Faccini ‘Hear My Voice’
Piers Faccini is a relentlessly busy man. If he’s not releasing music of his own (his back catalogue of albums and EPs is a treasure trove waiting to be uncovered), you’ll find him releasing music for other artists on his eclectic Beating Drum label. His new ‘Hear My Voice’ EP, …
Read More »Jeff Coffey’s album Origins
Jeff Coffey’s album Origins: Singers and Songs that Made Me feature fifteen songs covering everyone from Rod Stewart to Queen, among others. The onetime tenor vocalist for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Chicago has the necessary pipes to cover a wide musical gamut in convincing fashion and his love for the …
Read More »Album Review: St. Geo – Steam
St. Geo is an up-and-coming American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Having initially appeared back in March with the single “Electric Revival” under the name K.E. Saint-Geo, he has since expanded his musical scope – a combination of old school beats and current lyrical insight. His latest release is a mini-album …
Read More »Matt Zaddy releases LP
Amidst a backdrop of rollicking strings and a poignant piano’s purring melody, Matt Zaddy weaves together one stunning verse after another in his soft-spoken drawl in “A Dear Friend,” but what we hear in this track is only one-seventh of the charming content that anyone who picks up Zaddy’s new …
Read More »The Unbroken drop EP
Beautifully fragile and yet entirely menacing in every way a melody can be, The Unbroken waste no time in painting us a melancholic portrait in heavy metal hues in the title cut from their debut EP, Human Crown. There isn’t any gloss in this song – only a stone cold harmony …
Read More »Single Review: Moonray – “No Stranger to Love”
Moonray initially made a splash this year with their two singles, “Hand of Queens” and “Come Away,” both of which were warmly received for their textural, dreamlike synthpop structure. Recently, the husband-and-wife duo, consisting of Jonray and Barbara Higginbotham, has successfully followed them up with their third single, “No Stranger …
Read More »Jeff Parker & Company deliver a very credible listen
Amid a stampede of strings that comes at us from both directions in “Dixieland or Bust,” Jeff Parker sings “On a bus or a train or a big airplane / I’m leaving this city in the dust / You can’t stop me now, let the wind blow south / It’s …
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