Album Reviews

OFFICIAL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiDTStbuLjQ “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” is going to please a lot of ears thanks to it being a superb adaptation of a song from one musical style to another. Black 9 has taken the sinewy classic rock vibe of Tom Petty’s original recording, revamped the number as …

Eclectic psychedelia finds itself skewed with raw eroticism, surreal visuals that draw inspiration from divine sources, and an ominous sonic undertow that is impossible to escape in the new single and music video for Being Dead’s “Apostles’ Prom.” “Apostles’ Prom” isn’t your typical alternative rock fodder, but rather a wickedly …

URL: http://www.patrickdoval.com/ It’s a brave new world for independent releases. The Internet age has usurped bygone gatekeepers of the industry, record company behemoths more concerned with artifice than art, and ushered in a democratization of music equivalent to the invention of the printing press. It really has been a paradigm …

A rollicking acoustic guitar comes sailing through rigid, mountainous drums crashing all around it. In a heated pursuit of some fleeting melody led by singer/songwriter David Anderson’s soft crooning, “Big Star” gallops toward the sunset without a care in the world, leaving the stress of everyday life in the rearview …

URL: http://rachelreesemusic.com/about/ Up and coming country singer Rachel Reese presents listeners with a sound that pushes the status quo in Nashville to its very brink in the all new single “Dozen Roses.” With “Dozen Roses,” Reese not only asserts herself as one of country’s premier young vocalists, whose raw talent …

Mix one part sultry contemporary vocals with another part swaggering beats straight out of the roaring 20’s and you’ll get something along the lines of the pure soulful gold that is “Lovers Lament,” the new single from critically acclaimed songstress Julia King. As many of us are already aware, King …

In a wallop of drums, screeching guitar and twice-cooked vocals that seep through the speakers like molasses, “Pine for You” emerges from the stereo with a threatening malice in its tone, hesitantly inviting us ever closer to the molten hot energy radiating from Life is Twigs/Psychic Pinball, the new extended play …

URL: https://www.kloeshinn.com/ Music videos are often meant to capture the spirit of a single, while other times their purpose is to convey a different side of the same narrative best illustrated through a visual medium. Kloë Shinn’s new song “My Own” somehow does both in a multidimensional smash hit that …

Like the crack of a whip, strings as bright as the sun slice through stampeding percussion and welcome us into “Fast as I Can,” the first of ten new songs that Roses & Cigarettes have compiled for us in their album Echoes and Silence, due out this February 22nd. The harmonies …

In both his new single “Something About U (The Retro-Funk Mix II)” and it’s originally-mixed version, Seattle-based R&B vocalist Ronnue details the pain and tragedy of loneliness in a way that can only be done through the somber tonality of funk at its most raw and unfiltered. If you’re not …

Papa Roach released their tenth studio album Who Do You Trust? They are known for changing their sound from nu-metal to pop rock and customizing to suit modern music, which is visible on this album as well. The album ironically starts with “The Ending,” a song with emotional verses, yet not …

In “Love is Everywhere,” Mark Ambuter returns with his latest spellbinding single and holds nothing back as he dispenses some of the most captivating lyricism and sly grooves he’s conjured up for us in some time. Comprised of a thick blanket of melodies that are sewn together with an exotic …