Album Reviews

The Brooklyn, NYC based four piece Hard Nips are brimming with playfulness and attitude. Never assume, however, that because they treat their songs and music with a certain degree of irreverence that their latest album Master Cat appeals to the lowest common denominator. There’s intelligence bristling from each of Master Car’s eight …

Hailing from Cagliari, Italy, MPM Producer is a modern musician who produces and mixes his own work.  His latest effort, the eight track album London Chronicles was released today. Let’s break it down track by track, shall we?   1. Venom The album starts with “Venom”, and more specifically starts with …

America’s Got Talent has brought forth many incredible stories over the years, but if there’s one you really need to hear for yourself today, it’s Kechi’s. What she’s survived is unimaginable to most of us, as someone who lived through what could only be described as an impossibly brutal plane crash, …

Too many recording artists struggle with taking themselves too seriously, and while a lot of people would just as soon chalk it up to ego, there’s often more to it than that. As big a problem as this can be in pop, it’s luckily not something cowpunks deluxe Jesse & …

Led by Michael “The Metropolitan Cowboy” Coleman, See Your Shadow’s “It Starts With Hello” is a straightforward country and western track that anyone can enjoy while spending time outdoors. Following the success of their dance club music, and work in film and television, See Your Shadow re-branded and switched its …

Jeff Coffey gives me the vibe that he would cite music as one of the only things in life that truly made sense to him, and I’d be hastened to agree. The influence a song can have on a person’s mood is something deeply profound and yet hardly explored. Coffey …

With 2020 essentially devoid of the typical festival activity so many of us have come to appreciate over the years largely for the new music they introduce us to, 2021 was bound to be feature a couple of intriguing comps – and in OIM Records’ Shared Secrets: Wave, we might have …

She can be described as Eartha Kitt meets Marilyn Monroe with a homespun, country twist. Those were my first thoughts when I first heard (and saw) Lady Redneck. Considering her California-esque, platinum blonde beauty, some might say she doesn’t look the part of a country songstress. However, those same people …

Politics, art, pop culture in general; it all seems relative until it’s presented to us in terms as simple and moving as those we find in the music video for “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” from The Private Language this May, and whether you loved the spirit of this …

“I’ll shout it from rooftops / I’m alive” wails Tom Tikka on his latest fist-pumping anthem ‘Heart’s On Fire’. After a year where life has become incredibly frustrating, enclosed, and in many cases tragic, Tikka is no longer resting on his laurels and waiting for his chance to come, for …

Pittsburgh music veteran John Vento has dropped his new single, “Let God Drive,” a rootsy gospel track that’s introspective and steeped in religious faith. John Vento himself isn’t new to any of this, he’s well known as one of the best musical story tellers in Pittsburgh, and this has been …

What do the words ‘soulful’ and ‘femme’ mean to you? To me, these words evoke the strength, wisdom, and vision of seminal female artists like Nina Simeone, Erykah Badu, Tina Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Roberta Flack; this lineage is precisely what blues/funk/jazz fusion duo Soulful Femme channel with their …