Album Reviews

The Gray is a rising Californian collective comprising vocalist Cameron Connor, guitarists Chris Boonyawan and W. Shane Saret, bassist Mark Mariano, and drummer Mike Koshiro. Formed in 2018, the Los Angeles metal quintet utilizes a trifecta of technical riffs, post-hardcore-inspired screams, and wailing feedback to bolster the resonant inevitability of …

Los Angeles’ Dante HH, a five piece band and rare hybrid of punk and blues music, returns with the latest single from their Gunblade Blues Vol. II album entitled “Arcane XIII”. Originally formed eight years ago in their native Colombia, they relocated to Los Angeles in 2017 and bring a variety of …

Taken from their newest album release The Darkest of Human Desires – Act II, Porn’s latest single “The Last of a Million” is a new benchmark in the French industrial goth four piece’s hard-hitting musical journey. Porn couples an uncompromising musical approach with a surprising artistic touch – this song is …

Few releases in my recent memory begin in such a memorable way as Being Dead opens their EP collection Fame Money Death by Drive By. “Red Drive” opens the studio release in such a way you may find yourself wondering if you are listening to a Dead Can Dance release by …

Few members of the hip-hop or R&B community give the level of attention to even the subtlest of details that Victor Pedro does in everything that he commits to master tape in the studio, and that’s part of the reason why his latest single “Call Me, I Miss Ya!” is …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNvvtsnwSKQvI5nNWAwEd2w Released last January to a positive reception from the Canadian press and certain outlets in the United States, “Heart of Gold” sees Midnight Shine getting back to their roots in more ways than one. On the one hand, the song itself is a tribute to one of …

URL: https://www.charliemariemusic.com/ A lot of country’s longtime disciples have been straying away from the genre as of late, but I don’t think it has as much to do with a collective exodus towards the alternative model as some of my critical peers seem to. While some artists have grown complacent …

The single “July” from Canadian multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter Dan English working under the moniker RV Farms solidifies his status as one of the more talented figures toiling in the indie music scene today. The track runs a little under four minutes and has a light disjointed feel thanks to …

Old is gold. The older the wine, the tastier it is and so is music. Talking about oldies, you may have been a fan of the Rolling Stones, and to date, you still shake your head to the rhythm of their songs. The Rolling Stones remain the greatest rock n’ …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kobbandtoronto/ A playful set of guitar strings waste no time before slicing their way through the darkness and clearing out a pocket of space for a honeysweet vocal to capture our focus with its endearing drawl in “Dotted Lines,” track one in Kingdom of Birds’ all-new extended play Glitz, …

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/track/2xX0LbETUirviOTOaRLC8y Piano keys gently awaken a textured vocal track from its slumber in the opening bars of “Losing Game,” the latest single from the one and only Kanisha K, but they’ll soon be joined by a rollicking string groove that will colorize every beat resonating from the drums. The …

URL: www.clevelandinternational.com The black and white tonality of an old Alan Freed broadcast awakens the ocean of testosterone and melodic mayhem waiting to come undone in Ian Hunter’s “Cleveland Rocks,” the title track of the forthcoming compilation from Cleveland International Records, but the chills that it induces are only a …