Album Reviews

Much like the San Franciscan backdrop that greets us at the start of his music video for “What Really Matters,” Dan Ashley is approachable, warm and welcoming in this new song he released earlier on in 2019, and while his voice is but one of the working parts in what …

As enigmatic as any of the lyrics it croons to us so bitterly are, Neill Maclean’s vocal in the new single “Invite me Over” isn’t an easy component to interpret from a cosmetic point of view, but just beneath its surface-level angst there lies a certain charisma that is becoming …

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/griffinholtby/ Griffin Holtby has pursued his musical dreams from an early age as both an escape from stormy internal weather and as a way to give voice to those same emotions. His adopted father first turned him on to music’s potential after playing him Cream’s music and that initial …

Caroline Blind “Need To Say” is the second single from Blind’s anticipated February 2020 release, The Spell Between. It follows the previously released single, “God Damn The Sun”. Blind delivers a spellbinding, albeit, dark song in the engrossing “Need To Say”. Searching for the words to describe the final, precious …

Telemonster is a band based in Chattanooga, Tenn., by way of Iowa and New Mexico. Cousins Ben VanderHart (guitar and vocals) and Josh Barrett (drums) teamed up with bassist John-Michael Forman and pianist Dave Hess to create an EP in 2011 and followed up in 2012 with A Girl I …

The holiday season is sacred to many for the overwhelming love and time shared between family. There are no better gifts Flat River Band could deliver than the tracks that land on their latest seasonal album “Christmas Time.” The trio themselves are brothers who have seen great success in the …

Creeping out of the silence ever so slowly, the violin that triggers the first few strands of a melody in Steel Blossoms’ “Revenge” might not present us with very much at the onset of the song, but what it will create with the other components of this amazing new single …

Billy Droze’s new album, simply titled Renaissance, is powered by big strings and even bigger vocal melodies from Droze himself, and it doesn’t take much more than a cursory inspection of its opening track, “Coal Fed Train,” to get swept away by its chunky instrumental presence and slick serenades, which are …

  If you were looking for new metal music to fall in love with, then the debut album by Magg Dylan called Amethyst is right for you. This 10-tracks record is set to be released on February 21, 2020. The Virginia-Beach based alternative metal band has been around since 2017 …

Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene lead off their third release City of Love with the album’s title track as the first single. This, in and of itself, is a rather assertive statement. Listeners traditionally consider title songs centerpiece numbers on a release, definitive tracks of a sort, and leading the way …

Christmas isn’t just a time for shopping and vivid lights outside homes. It’s a time, as well, when musical acts of various styles feel the festive spirit as well and release songs and albums with a Yuletide theme. Dallas String Quartet, however, haven’t recorded your typical holiday release. The synthesis …

In his latest single, titled “When You Think No One Loves You,” Canada’s David Leask doesn’t really tell us anything that we already didn’t know about his personality as a performer, but you could make the argument that, at this stage in his career, he doesn’t really need to. With …