Album Reviews

There’s plenty to be said about the charm of the underground scenes in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle the same, but there’s really no other city with a music community quite as provocative and vibrant through good times and bad as Chicago’s. One of the windy city’s brightest …

In her new collaboration with 20 Fingers titled “You Make Me Say,” pop singer Cecy Santana flirts with eroticized beats and steamy harmonies, but it’s her own vocal delivery that tends to garner the most interest from listeners. There’s a flawlessness to the delicate tones she weaves together with the …

When The Killers announced last summer that their seventh studio album Pressure Machine would come less than a year after 2020’s Imploding The Mirage, the expectations for such a quick album turnaround weren’t necessarily high. While fans were excited, there remained questions about why the band needed to release new …

Tornado will likely finish 2021 as one of the year’s best releases. Let’s hope as many people as possible hear about but, I’m willing to confess, they are more likely to hear countless other heavily promoted efforts emerging in the wake of 2020. This review will do what it can to …

When a relationship reaches an impasse, hearts and humility are on the line, and the desire to avoid a head-on crash both parties see coming a mile away can be enough to table whatever problems might exist today. Wolf Rd explore this story with a much greater poetic license than …

A lot of people have been calling C.K. Marion ‘futuristic hip-hop,’ and I tend to agree with them. Her new single and music video “Dreamer” doesn’t fit in with the contemporary, and the little it takes from the past isn’t exactly what I would call mainstream, then or now. The …

New York’s very own HeIsTheArtist has returned with another single off his latest project The Book of Mary.  “What Did I Do” is also the “A-Side” of his single, “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” Right off the bat the two most apparent aspects of the record are the …

The video for Neil Nathan’s single “You’re My Lady” undeniably lies somewhere between Enemy Mine and a vaporwave comp video you fall asleep to on YouTube, but in today’s increasingly eclectic pop spectrum, it’s one of the more fetching visual documents of its kind out this summer. Nathan is a …

Rather than employing the stereotypical sonic fireworks most bands do when trying to get our blood pumping in a rock song, Gold Souls are intent on delivering something a little more chills-inducing in their debut single “Heavy Lies the Crown” – and will do whatever they can to make it …

Rock has needed some new revolutionaries for a while now, and this summer, Mercury Messiah is out to prove they’ve got what it takes to bring on a new renaissance the genre needs to survive. Their debut single “Sunlight Surfing” is slated for release this coming August 20th, and while …

Electronic music without vocals has become the classical music of our time. Musicians are favoring keyboards and drum machines over violins and cellos, but the end result is the same. They are able to invoke emotion and create a moment without language. Bloomfield Machine’s new 4-track EP, “Units of Uncertainty,” …

Alone in the shadows with her piano, we find Joyann Parker looking every bit the part of the complex singer/songwriter in the music video for her new single “Out of the Dark,” which is currently out and streaming online this July. Parker’s demeanor is quite serious, but her tonal presence …