Album Reviews

A crowing raven leads us beyond the blazing gates and into a carnival of lust and excess like no other you’re going to find in 2020 in the new music video for The Dead Daisies’ “Bustle and Flow,” but if you think this band is out to max-out the melodic …

There’s a dissonance tucked beneath the layers of lush melodicism in the new single “Playing Both Sides” from Dom Rivers, and while it could be chocked up to the brilliant aesthetical friction his performance yields beside that of his collaborator in Demon Marcus, I think it’s a little more complicated …

Evocative language and insightful lyricism have been the hallmark of Bill Abernathy’s music in recent years, and his latest single, “More than meets the eye”, is no exception. After a highly successful No. 1 Roots Music Charts single “Goodbye Will Never Come Again” and his politically charged “Cry-Wolf”, the Kansas-based …

Jeremy Parsons is a singer/songwriter born in San Antonio, Texas. As a child he experienced the music in the dancehalls of Lone Star State and became a big fan. But it wasn’t till his later high school years that he taught himself guitar, then eventually began writing and performing music. …

From the subtle accent of a breathtaking acoustic guitar part to the fierce lash of the synthetic melody dominating the frontend of the mix and every bass, percussive and vocal texture emitted in between, to say there are a lot of components to the new single and music video “Streets” …

Amidst a crushing vocal harmony that is evocative even without discerning its words from the fabric of its melody, we find a pair of verses – “And that peaceful, easy feeling has got a hold on me / It’s reminding me to breathe.” These words aren’t even the heaviest to …

From the haunting “La Pérdida” to the brash title track and the stealth-like “El Fruto”, the 15 tracks from Rubio on the thrilling Mango Negro ignite futuristic tones over embellished classical string movements. Rubio’s, sophomore outing is a nonstop emotional bucket that pulls from a wealth of sonic bliss and …

Kenny Alvarez is an emerging hip hop artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Under the name I.K.P. (Infamous King of Positivity), Alvarez has released four full-length albums, each centering around his path toward triumph amidst various life struggles. Following a steady output of singles this year, Alvarez has returned with …

When you’ve got a voice like the one that we find skulking about in the shadows of the new single and music video “Naked Love” by The Orange Apples., you don’t put anything in front of it – no synthetics, no guitar solos, and definitely no heavy trap beats – …

Set to a beat that rolls forth from the silence with an almost angry wallop of strings right behind it, Stacy Gabel’s “Stir Crazy” might not start off with a lot of fireworks, but it quickly finds a way to turn white-hot before hitting the sixty-second mark. Whether consumed in …

The iTunes chart-topper from Canada edited his latest music video on an iPhone 8. The single is from his forthcoming album, “A Recipe For Perpetual Spring.” With the international success of Ed Roman’s award-winning animated opus, “Red Omen,” the Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist cemented himself among the most innovative music video artists …

Anyone who said adrenaline is required to produce a genuine indie hip-hop hit clearly wasn’t prepared for Joey Phantom to come out of the woodwork with “Joint and a Juicebox” this autumn, particularly as it’s currently garnering critical acclaim some of its mainstream counterparts have failed to achieve on their …