Album Reviews

Moonray initially made a splash this year with their two singles, “Hand of Queens” and “Come Away,” both of which were warmly received for their textural, dreamlike synthpop structure. Recently, the husband-and-wife duo, consisting of Jonray and Barbara Higginbotham, has successfully followed them up with their third single, “No Stranger …

Amid a stampede of strings that comes at us from both directions in “Dixieland or Bust,” Jeff Parker sings “On a bus or a train or a big airplane / I’m leaving this city in the dust / You can’t stop me now, let the wind blow south / It’s …

Pennsylvania’s The Retinas are an emerging trio from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over the course of their career, the band has gained traction for their cathartic lyrical approach, as well as for their closely channeling the alternative boom of the 90s and garage rock revival of the 2000s. Following the success of …

The Ohio Country Music Hall of Famer and founder of the Love Tattoo Foundation was honored for his support of veterans, farmers and barn preservation. Country music singer-songwriter Richard Lynch has been awarded many accolades for his music over the years. From his induction into the Independent Country Music Hall …

Pittsburgh-based country artist Gary Burk III’s debut single with MTS Records, “Friday Night” stormed into the iTunes Country Songs chart Top 20 (Canada) with its infectious groove and “good time” lyrics. The track received more than 50,000 Spotify streams, while the lyric video has surpassed 18,000 Youtube views. While the …

Melodies like laser beams assault us from every angle in “Down.” They smack us with enormous basslines in “Beef in D Minor,” psychedelic grooves in “Dream Valley” and fierce, cutting harmonies in “Venus Feels Like That.” Traditional EDM arrangements are skewed with contemporary experimentations in “Freaks and Lovers” and “New …

Denver’s And The Black Feathers bring back the soulful garage sounds of bands like Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels on their EP – Sociallusions. And it’s all about what you’d expect from a title involving social solutions, which positively helps as much as music can to cope with the …

“Good Lookin’” opens The Criticals’ debut EP Mimosa Hygiene with rock muscle as tight as the crack of a whip and clipped inspired lyrics conveying much despite their abbreviated structure. The Criticals are obviously focusing on creating visceral and intelligent rock music that dispenses with the genre’s usual clichés and the opener …

They aren’t forceful, but they certainly aren’t hesitant. They’re countrified folk melody-makers and poets without any ability to actually speak. They are the strings that forge a harmony with the lead vocal in Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite’s new single and music video “Devil’s In My Car,” and they produce something …

  Artist | Subshine Title | Easy Window Label | Apollon Records ‘Easy Window’, the debut album from newcomer Subshine, is a synth-pop delight.     Hailing from Norway, the combination of 80s-tinged synthesisers and shimmering pop hooks will burrow into your ears drums and refuse to leave.     Subshine is the work …

Artist: Tuff Sunshine Title: Dig Deeper, Peanut Label: Declared Goods Self-described as an “indie/rock/acoustic/garage/non-genre-restricted musical vehicle” (a description that instantly made me want to listed to it), “Dig Deeper, Peanut” is the new album from New York based band Tuff Sunshine. The 10 songs include on the recorded tell the story of …

Estelle California is an emerging singer-songwriter originally based in France. While learning piano at five years old, her ambitions were stunted due to childhood trauma; constant physical and mental familial abuse would cause her to temporarily lose her ability to speak. Despite this perturbing hurdle, she studied saxophone and dance …