Album Reviews

As four oversized, stage-style letter B’s come into focus in the first few frames of “Beaming Right Up,” the new video from Makes My Blood Dance, a swaggering guitar riff comes slithering in alongside them with a ferociousness that knows no boundaries. With a menacing slide across the fretboard, we …

Liz Kennedy is back this summer with an amazing new single by the name of “Hike Up Your Socks” which mixes a little jazz swing with some contemporary pop elegance, folk-tinged Americana and her signature velvet-soft vocal to bring us into the heart and soul of she and her late …

Like a vampire rising from their coffins, another Hollywood Vampires album has descended from the heavens…or at least from the supergroup featuring the likes of Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, and Johnny Depp. As it has been 4 years since their debut record, there’s a lot to be expected from Rise, …

The advent of technology and social media have led to an entirely different definition of what a music scene is in the last ten years, and in that sense, geography is no longer a factor in defining an erupting movement in pop. Demola, a Nigeria-born singer and songwriter who mixes …

In the opening verse of The Stifftones’ debut single, the spellbinding “Midwestern Town,” listeners are throttled with a soft-spoken, dual vocal attack that is as brilliantly brooding as it is sharp and evocative. The echo of an ancient Americana is inescapable in this track, and yet the drawl of its …

Catastrophic bursts of percussive thunder are met with gargantuan basslines, strutting string melodies and a smoky lead vocal that will entrap anything that comes within its reach in Initial Mass ‘s Bending Light, an album that I find best described as a sonic journey  with as many raging riffs as …

Back in 2018, Jakarta-based indie rock outfit Grow Rich’s debut EP, Senen Lempuyangan, reached astounding heights, both in its rising international recognition, and in eventually becoming one of Bandcamp’s best-selling Indonesian releases for that year. The DIY-fueled project’s main proprietor is Abdur Rahim Latada (also known as Oyi), who contributes …

Out Passed Nowhere, the new album from Oliver Ray, starts off in with a subtle swagger in the string arrangement comprising “Ol’ Coyote,” one of the record’s star singles, and doesn’t hesitate to pile on the mammoth melodies, ever-so slowly, as it plods through its nine tenacious tracks. An achy …

A review on Gold & Grey, the final entry of chromatic albums from Baroness. Baroness is an American heavy metal band from Savannah, Georgia whose original members grew up together in Lexington, Virginia. Gold & Grey is the upcoming fifth studio album by Philadelphia-based heavy metal band Baroness, due to …

Bright, bold and beautiful – the opening bars of “Steel Bird,” the first track in W.C. Beck’s new album First Flight, are studded with gilded keys and a strumming guitar that melds folk melodies with a bombastic country groove. The march of the percussion kicks off a carnival of harmonies …

A review on Widow’s Weeds, the fifth studio album from Silversun Pickups. Silversun Pickups is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles that was formed in 2000. The band is composed of Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao, and Joe Lester.

Lacy, lush and light as a feather – the vocal track adorning the soft percussive pulsating in Bridal Party’s “Too Much” is right there, waiting to spellbind us with its magnetizing melody at the onset of this all-new track from the acclaimed indie five-piece, and it’s only a small sampling …