Jonah Leatherman, the enigmatic sonic craftsman hailing from the heartland of Indiana, has unveiled his latest creation Ensuring My Uncertainty. The very title of this record serves as a poignant harbinger of the emotional terrain we are about to traverse. Leatherman’s offering beckons us to grapple with the ineffable uncertainties that pervade …
Read More »Album Review: Rob Equiza – Refugees
Rob Equiza is currently touring in support of his latest release, Refugees, having just now completed the second gig of a three-night stint in Calbayog City, Samar. Since debuting in 2006, Equiza’s brand of rough-hewn, melodic indie rock, strewn across a wealth of band, solo, and collaborative efforts, has earned …
Read More »Single Review: The Dead Daisies – “Make Some Noise”
Erupting like a stadium rocker in the style of classic chest-beating bands like Led Zeppelin but quickly shaped into something too grungy and disobedient to live by the disciplined rules of metal, it’s obvious from the first couple of seconds we hear in The Dead Daisies’ “Make Some Noise” forward …
Read More »Album Review: The One Eighties – Minefields
In what feels like an AOTY-worthy moment for indie rock fans everywhere, The One Eighties deliver a new record this summer that has left me on the edge of my seat from my very first spin. Appropriately named Minefields, The One Eighties’ most recent affair is hardly another entry in a …
Read More »Album Review: Carla Patullo “So She Howls” (LP)
Carla Patullo’s So She Howls is a lot of things. The nine songs comprising the album are neo-classical, ambient, and cinematic in scope. It’s really quite unclassifiable as one thing. It defies easy labels. Listening to these performances suggests that the creative outburst producing this material likely took a year to write, …
Read More »Single Review: Clash Bowley – “Warm and Fuzzy”
Massachusetts-based Clash Bowley continues his prolific ways with yet another new collection entitled Warm and Fuzzy. His idiosyncratic songwriting bears no ready comparison with his peers and contemporaries; much of this is due to the nature of the recordings, DIY affairs laid down in his home studio setting, but there’s more …
Read More »Single Review: Makes My Blood Dance – “Heaven Collides”
There aren’t many sacrifices in this world that can compare to that which a group of musicians makes when they give their soul over to the audience for nothing more than a round of applause, and in the new single “Heaven Collides” by Makes My Blood Dance, the up and …
Read More »Single Review: Andon – “Love Language”
2023 has been a banner year for new pop music, and among the talent that I’ve had the pleasure of listening to this summer, few stand out as much as R&B crooner Andon does. Andon’s new single “Love Language” is a fiery groove number that puts a lot of stock …
Read More »Single Review: Kēvens – “Legal Dreamers”
In his new single “Legal Dreamers,” singer Kēvens continues what he started with his debut in establishing himself as one of the hardest-hitting young players to come out of the underground in recent times. Right from the first beat forward, “Legal Dreamers” presses us with its muscularity whilst adhering to …
Read More »Album Review: Bearings “The Best Part About Being Human”
Ottawa-based pop-punk band, Bearings, have returned with their exhilarating third LP, The Best Part About Being Human. Released on August 18th via Pure Noise Records, and produced by Sam Guiana (Silverstein, Between You & Me,) this offering shamelessly serves the end-of-summer angst we didn’t know we needed. Comprised of vocalist …
Read More »Single Review: Smilez – “Coffee Queen”
Hip-hop’s international stage is bigger than ever and still growing, and if you look at the success and buzz surrounding players Texas’ own Smilez, it’s easy to see what all of the fuss is about. Smilez’s style of rapping blends the melodic with the charismatically aggressive, and in his new …
Read More »Single Review: Petit Biscuit – “Sunset Lover (Orchestral)”
Petit Biscuit has a lot on his mind, and he’s hashing it all out in the song “Sunset Lover (Orchestral),” his new single dropped just this past July. In what amounts to some of the smartest alternative remixing I’ve heard this month, Petit Biscuit doesn’t hold back in the introspective …
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