Album Reviews

Steve Wheeler releases EP SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/stevewheelermusic/sets/terminal-velocity-ep Nine minutes and fifty five seconds. That’s how long it will take for you to become addicted to Steve Wheeler’s music. Terminal Velocity, his first solo EP, is an instrumental juggernaut that starts out strong and finishes in a misty haze of surrealism, but don’t …

Captain Ledge Band – Rumors of the Great White Skunk BANDCAMP: https://thecaptainledgeband.bandcamp.com/album/rumours-of-the-great-white-skunk The third album from Southwestern based outfit the Captain Ledge Band, Rumors of the Great White Skunk, is a ten song release adding a particularly colorful feather in the musical cap of a band that works hard and writes …

Kicking – Us Against BANDCAMP: https://kicking.bandcamp.com/ The doomgaze genre in music is built around downcast instrumental drone and reflective, atmospheric performances that never obscure the inherent talent evident in the songwriting. Hailing out of the deep southern United States, Kicking might come off as an unlikely member of this stylistic …

Mark Huff – “Stars for Eyes” SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/mark-huff-678341851/sets/stars-for-eyes A thunderous storm of the guitar strumming is accompanied by the grinding sound of a synthesized harmony, and we’re transported to the internal cellblock where singer/songwriter Mark Huff is crooning his story, describing life from behind his “Prison Door” in the opening …

An album review on Vicious, the fourth full album from Halestorm. Halestorm is an American rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Lzzy Hale, her brother drummer and percussionist Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bassist Josh Smith. The group’s self-titled debut album was released on April 28, 2009, through Atlantic Records. Their second …

Listening to the new album from Fitzsimon and Brogan, “Big Blue World”, nostalgia strikes with memories of friends sitting around the table at the local coffee shop, sharing dreams and fears. The light pop music of the day playing in the background, with all its innocence and careless abandon mixed …

Colorado’s Reve Kalell has fostered thematic relevance as one of his foremost assets. The Denver-based rapper/singer thrusted onto the hip hop scene last year with his debut album, the appropriately titled Crashed in Denver. Combining a multi-genre sound with unabashedly blunt lyrical sensibilities, Kalell managed to earn, nonetheless maintain, a …

Brown Kid – Rusty Strings SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/brown_kid_music/sets/rusty-strings Brown Kid’s third studio release and first EP Rusty Strings lays the foundation for the next lap of this talented Peruvian singer/songwriter’s artistic development. The six song collection arrives with a smattering of press describing the “island” qualities of Brown Kid’s music, but his musical …

“Losing Me” by Lauria URL: https://www.lauria-music.com/ “Losing Me” is the debut single from Montreal’s Florie-Laure “Lauria” Zadigue Dubé. Her words, her voice, her essence permeate and captivate your imagination. This impressive song is just the more heightened by Lauria’s intriguing delivery and smooth aura. The current student at Concordia University …

Crack of Dawn – Spotlight URL: https://crackofdawnband.com/ Originally formed in Jamaica and relocated to the Toronto, Canada area in the mid 1970’s, Crack of Dawn’s story is one of promise nearly realized and revisited again. The talented young band soon found themselves a hot property and made history as the …

I met this band by chance at Pistoia Blues 2018 and it impressed me . A true revelation I decided to review their album. Quintet of Pisa, composed of musicians with important experiences: in just 5 years a considerable baggage was built. That’s why this debut sounds mature and stylistically …

Balloon Ride Fantasy – BRF (EP) TWITTER: https://twitter.com/brfband?lang=en Like the harmonizing of a thousand angelic voices uniting together to create one single spellbinding force to be reckoned with, “Welcoming Party” invites us directly into the insular, unforgivingly atmospheric universe of space age tones and ethereal cries of war and peace …