Album Reviews

Honor By August – Four Sides URL: http://www.honorbyaugust.com/ Honor By August, the rock quartet from Washington DC, are on the fast lane to becoming the next big band from the East Coast, and with a name that means “earning honor by doing something admirable or awe-inspiring, they have certainly given …

Ryan Aderrey – “Breathe the World In” URL: http://www.ryanaderrey.com/ Record companies can fall, digital can overtake physical sales, but the big screen pop song with melody to burn always has a place at the table. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Clichés have driven the music …

Oakland’s metal kings High On Fire offer a new light to thrash metal fans and a new headache to crotchety old next door neighbors.

Marco Restrepo – Lonely Hearts Club URL: http://www.marcorestrepo.com/ Marco Restrepo’s homespun blend of roots rock, Americana, and Soul is captured in his new CD/album “Lonely Hearts Club.” With just the right mix of sweetness and grit, the music is packed with the lowdown, roots soul that will make you groove …

The Tod Hughes Project – Changin’ Gears https://www.reverbnation.com/todhughesproject While country music continues a contentious, but profitable, transformation from backwater musical genre into a cultural force openly courted in the mainstream, it’s easy to forget artists like Tod Hughes in the shuffle. This isn’t strictly country, but it certainly owes much …

Mayden Hollywood drops new single URL: http://www.maydenhollywood.com/ MAYDEN HOLLYWOOD is a British born American Producer; Rapper: Singer song Writer a former A&R from 1994 to 1997 for balance productions. a New York city based production company headed by Bob Waxmann and the late Donald Dee Bowden . in the early …

Sometimes you just need a little jazz in your life. Thankfully, when that time comes there is an extremely relaxing and elegant 4-song EP by Toronto based artist Delilah for the occasion. The dazzling collection of covers titled Delilah Sings Sarah +1 (A Tribute to Sarah Vaughn) showcases Delilah’s finely …

Mirage Box FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/MirageBoxOfficial Mirage Box is a “modern retro” creative collaboration between songwriter/lyricist Nick Coppola and multi-instrumentalist engineer/producer Chris Capozza. Based in Orlando, Florida, Mirage Box puts a modern spin on the classic rock era sound from the late 60’s and 70’s. Their recent EP release, “Contents Under Pressure,” …

Bunny Sigler – Bundino URL: http://www.bunnysigler.net/ Legends like Bunny Sigler often come at modern music with a wary eye, as if someone asked them to snatch up a snake from the ground without being bitten. The inherent distrust comes through in half-hearted music and songs that masquerade lack of inspiration …

Scott AF https://www.facebook.com/ScottA.F.Music Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Scott A.F., currently hailing from Oklahoma, has a great story about getting interested in singing by being forced into choir by his parents after falling into the wrong crowd and expressing what music means to him. Unfortunately, the interesting story starts to wane as you move …

London’s Young Guns get digital in 2015 and demonstrate their electric style in a rock world.

Kiss All the Bullies Goodbye – Sir Ivan URL: http://sirivan.com/kiss-all-the-bullies-goodbye/ Given the circumstances this particular track covers, bullying is a real problem; something that happens at schools, on the playground, a few feet from our house or within and in cyber space. So yes it is about time that a …