Album Reviews

  1. Toby Driver – They Are The Shield (Blood Music) Toby Driver is the mastermind of maudlin Of The Well and Kayo Dot, US avant-garde metal bands and “They Are The Shield” is his third solo album in thirteen years. Known for his unconventional writing, this album is based …

The theory of evolution teaches that a small set of molecules came together and, over a process of time, morphed into life as we know it today. The theory posits that there were multiple changes along the way, evolutions in creation that have led to what we see today. That …

The Sweet Kill – “Give It Up” is a mesmerizing new single featuring Russian singer, Lolita, with band leader and lead vocalist Pete Mills, and driven by the beat of Darren King (MUTEMATH). Together they rocked a total masterpiece with many layers of music to peel from an apple full …

Jenna Cunningham returns with a brand-new single, “Blood In the Water” from her forthcoming full-length CD, entitled – Seizing Self, Cunningham is an LA-based, Syracuse, NY born singer/songwriter, self-producer with mixing and mastering done by Jeremy Johnston. Her background includes having started out with piano and clarinet before moving onto …

On the fragile but determined strength of a light lap steel melody, Sarah Parker descends into “Sugartown,” the opening track of her new critically acclaimed LP Strawberry Moon. Like most of the songs that Strawberry Moon contains, “Sugartown” features a proliferated country swing that is understated and smothered under the weight of Parker’s …

Robert “Freightrain” Parker leads his eponymous super-group of dynamic players in the brilliant new album Outside Ourselves, which unties the seductive sway of soul music, the frustrating melancholy of blues, the blunt grooves of funk and just a touch of metallic rock n’ roll magma to make a sound that goes …

2018 had some great music in rock, metal, alternative, etc…but it was also a year full of mediocrity, shame and electronic beep-boops. Let’s talk about what stunk up this entire year!

SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/djvargo/sets/pre-release Admit it, you often wonder what the sidemen supporting your favorite artists enjoy playing in their spare time. Sure, they’re enthusiastic whenever playing a star’s various hit songs, but certainly many of them have more personal dreams of making their own songs just as famous. Dave Vargo, who …

A glistening piano comes reaching out of the silence alongside a simple finger snapping and suddenly a familiar swing makes contact with a bright melody radiating from none other than Kanisha K. She lays into the holiday standard “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” with a fragile ease that is both …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrm2nCV_Dm4&feature=youtu.be I found this one quite enjoyable from the first hearing. Ashley Delima’s earlier single “Stay in America” deeply impressed me with her bold stand on topical matters and the personal stakes for her in that performance as the children of illegal immigrants underscored her willingness to pursue …

URL: https://www.officialtrevordrury.com/about/ When the temperature drops and snow is blanketing everything outside in white this Christmas season, Trevor Drury wants to be there to warm our hearts with his new single (and cover of the classic Elvis song) “Blue Christmas.” As most of us are already aware, “Blue Christmas” is one of the …

URL: http://www.stephenwinstonmusic.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/stephenwinstonmusic/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/stephenwinston INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/stephenwinstonmusic Singer/songwriter fare can be a hit or miss proposition. The pages of music history and crates of dusty old records are chock full of shooting stars who, for one reason or another, couldn’t maintain their initial momentum or else were soon consigned …