Album Reviews

For the past decade, legendary guitar hero Slash has been working nonstop within his various projects in the music and entertainment industry. Between getting back together with Gun N’ Roses, producing horror films and finding time to advance his solo career, it seems like the top hat wearing man never …

Fitzsimon and Brogan are a pop-rock duo based in London. After two successful albums, featuring celebrity guest musicians such as Dave Bronze, Tobias Boshell, and The Art Of Noise, they are back with a new release, a fifteen-tracks LP called The Girl Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the …

Jesh Yancey is piling the bluesy grit, countrified swing and rock n’ roll tenacity on pretty thick in his record Maybe It’s The Drugs, but one thing he’s stopping short of in this all-new, five-track slab of Americana is overindulgence. In songs like “Ridin’ High” and “When in Rome,” Yancey exhibits …

A confident beat melts into a mild organ melody in the opening bars of Greg Roensch’s “Don’t Forget to Pack Your Hand Grenade,” one of the four songs on his new self-titled EP (all of which, I should add, can be found on What’s in the Meaning of That Cloud in …

The last time Iggy Pop released an album (2016’s Post Pop Depression), it was promoted as the punk rock godfather’s last studio album. After nearly fifty years of recording, performing, and touring, Iggy was throwing in the towel and calling it a career. So the context of the previous album …

Though her presence and her name may be new to so many, her voice has a reckoning to it. Part old-timey and part siren, Northern California’s Rosy Nolan seems to possess years of artistry woven into a beautiful, angelic voice. Banjo in tow, her nod to yesteryear should be celebrated …

The Goo Goo Dolls have been a consistent player in the pop rock game since their formation in 1986. Their 1998 single “Iris” catapulted the band into the mainstream, and alternative rock radio will play that song till the end of time. Unfortunately, twelve albums into their career, Johnny Rzeznik …

Sweet and sour; the balance of these two conflicting flavors are what Boston alternative rock legends Pixies have been perfecting since frontman Black Francis and guitarist Joey Santiago formed the band back in 1986. The band’s blend of metal, punk, and pop resulted in the band becoming one of the …

The Nothing is Korn’s newest album. It’s their 13th album and crazy enough, was released on Friday, September 13th. The title describes the setting where Jonathan wrote this album. He lost his wife August of 2018. The Nothing is an emotional, deep, and what the grieving process sounds like after somebody …

  Texan singer/songwriter Jeff McMullen began his recording career not long after the turn of the century. His art has prospered for a little under twenty years in the public eye and each new recording has found him further refining and honing his songwriting craft without ever losing the initial …

Maxime Boublil is a singer-songwriter from Paris, France. Both of Boublil’s parents had been deeply involved in musical theater during his childhood years, his father having written Miss Saigon and Les Miserables, while his mother portrayed the first Cosette in the latter’s local production. After over a decade of classical …

  The ninth studio release from UK four piece Diesel Park West, Let It Melt, opens with the title song. It has a rollicking Rolling Stones-like groove and biting lyrics guitarist, singer, and songwriter John Butler delivers with equal parts sneer and swagger. Butler and second guitarist Rich Barton is a …