Album Reviews

“Call Me” is one of those instantly recognizable classic rock songs that can rile up a crowd and get everyone singing along. MR.Slade delivers a potent rendition of the song, owning every moment and matching Debbie Harry and Blondie’s power and energy. The track is full of all the things …

Doug Ferony croons his way through his cover of “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face,” a soft, jazzy love song from the incredibly popular 1956 musical My Fair Lady. He sounds like he was plucked right out of the 50’s, holding onto that velvet voice that made people like Frank …

If the new song “Sugar Sugar Summertime” from New Jersey’s America’s Sweethearts were a candy flavor, it would indeed be the candied sweet tarts. A confectionary-pop-tune with Beach Boys-leaning escapes, America’s Sweethearts dazzles with both sides of its grooving coin. There are moments when the guitar riffs are dark, as …

Jerrica White is a woman who has had enough. She isn’t taking any more of the abuse, the adultery, the inauthentic promises a poor lover would offer her, and in the new video for her single “I Don’t Know Who You Are,” she makes it known in no uncertain terms …

There’s nothing worse than a rapper who can swing sizeable beats only to drop a lot of noise on us when it comes to putting up a meaningful verse, and something tells me that Bruce Lii agrees with me on this point. His new single, “The Promised Land,” isn’t lyrically …

Indebted to the reggae and a strain of synthetic dancehall ala The Knife that seems all the more fashionable in 2021 than it did a decade ago, Triple Island’s “Flatbush Jungle” has instrumental qualities that instantly endear it to the melody lover in all of us. There’s something really soulful …

As soon as I click play into the Pandemic-laden world of the video “Start Making Sense,” I leap with great exuberance, feeling hope and victory over those dark times of 2020. The composers of this work are the brilliant tandem of Ryan Smith and Kathie Hixon-Smith, calling themselves Ryan and …

Orlando, Florida metal outfit Fabricate has independently released their debut album Welcome Home. “The album is about you never know what happens behind close doors,” explains the band. “We want to have the same energy of the albums we love and grew up on.”  Fabricate come out swinging on their debut, an album …

When the band is playing and the chemistry between musicians is reaching a fever pitch, a special moment is born. There’s nothing to get between artists and medium in this moment, and the purest of sonic climaxes can be attained. The music video for Greg Hoy’s new single “Highway 101” …

“I can feel them watching, don’t think we can side with love again / I think the world wants us to blow up ourselves and try again / I know we can be strong / I know we can be animals,” croons a mildly hesitant Eddie Cohn in the first …

A throbbing bassline nudges volatile fretwork into place as Lords and Liars lay out the groove in their new video “Killdozer,” and while the visuals are striking, they’re not nearly as enthralling a display of strength as the music is on its own. Lords and Liars are taking a pinch …

Glaring with such a strong, synthetic melodicism right off the bat, Robert White’s “Candy” is at once sugary and sour in a way that lives true to the song’s title, but I wouldn’t say it’s an exercise in pure indulgence exclusively. On the contrary, the rhythm of the instruments alone …