Album Reviews

In his new single “Dance a Little,” Jason Walker drops a massive beat on us without batting an eye, ushering in a juggernaut of a track in the moments immediately following our pressing play. The music video for “Dance a Little” doesn’t hold back from us in any capacity – …

Rising from the silence like meteors suddenly dotting a blanket of the night sky just as twilight reaches its peak, we hear the opening bars of The Dead Daisies’ new single and music video “Face Your Fear” beginning to emerge from the darkness and fill the air around us with …

It’s hard to hear the opening riff in the song “Black Smoke” without thinking of the casual pop/rock of the Beatles, but as Pant will prove over the next few minutes – and across the whole of their new album Diner Pets – they’re a lot heavier than any throwback pop act …

Cleo Alexandra is an ambitious composer, but even at her most elaborate in the recording studio, she still knows when to say enough is enough with an indulgent aspect of her sound. There’s a lot of fuss being made over the excesses some of her rivals in the pop underground …

Clearly and definitely on the more cosmopolitan end of the pop spectrum, the beat in Done Wright’s “Aruba” is an undisputed focal point from the moment we first make contact with it forward. “Aruba” is a brawny hip-hop track, and while its bassline is no less a beast, the percussion …

Contemporary pop videos aren’t usually known for delivering very much on the wow meter, but between the soundtrack and the surreal subtext of the video for Mychael Gabriel’s new single “Let There Be Light,” we were bound to step away from this release feeling more stimulated than normal. Gabriel’s sexy …

A lot of artists have been looking to make their mark on the underground in incredibly creative ways lately – as is needed in a competitive culture – but if you’re looking for something reliably provocative and not as experimental as the stir-crazy crowd tends to get, Jazz From the …

Warm and as pulverizing as its name would imply it could be, the Intruder 424’s new single makes certain that the balance between vocal and instrumentation is always the focal point of the track, and in a work like “Make It Out Alive,” this is more than reason enough to …

It’s awfully hard to do anything in the hip-hop genre that hasn’t already been done before, but this isn’t stopping folks like Timothy Isaiah from trying their best to break new ground in a style of music as familiar to the planet as oxygen. Isaiah’s new single ”Ropes” is more …

Sisters J’s all-new song “Clearly” might not have been designed to reshape pop music as we know it within this duo’s scene, but that’s exactly what it feels like it has the potential to do. Coming out of a rather muted music scene, Sisters J has had to face some …

If you’ve followed alternative rock at all in the past five years on the underground level, you already know something about Of Limbo, whose reputation for distributing big riffs and killer beats alongside blue-collar vocal harmonies is building up a nice following on the left side of the dial. This …

To say it’s been an experimental year for the pop underground at home and abroad might not be doing it enough justice, and in few tracks is this theme captured as well as it is in the new single “Buttercup” from Little Hurt. Featuring The Ready Set in a credible …