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Thrash metal legends Anthrax gave us a second helping of their 40th Anniversary Tour and stopped by the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, CA on February 17, 2023. Tour mates from the first leg and heavy metal royalty, Black Label Society, joined them again while fellow thrash metal giants Exodus …

Experimental rocker Harry Cloud shows off an expansive imagination and musical range on The Cyst, released February 7 via Kitten Robot Records. The multi-genre album is the Georgia native’s sixteenth project and weaves through a hodgepodge of absurdist concepts and storylines. Each song is a vignette of situations ranging from …

Confidence can make or break any album, and in iconic indie rockers The Veldt’s new offering Entropy is the Mainline to God, it’s the catalyst for some of the record’s most profound moments, such as the otherwise poetically heart-wrenching “Red Flagz” and uncompromisingly rocking “Electric Revolution.” The Veldt doesn’t want to …

Preoccupied with the melodies that guide its signature harmony from the moment we hit the play button, DEVORA’s “Wild West” is as close to a signature track as her new record God is Dead contains outside of its title cut, but its cosmetics aren’t the only reason why. A vocal-driven but still …

It’s not everyday you hear a song that stops you dead in your tracks. In the musical musings of singer-songwriter Samia, this is a phenomenon that happens frequently. With the extraordinary success of her debut album The Baby, and supplementary EP releases Scout and Before the Baby, the Nashville-based artist consistently …

Boston based musician and songwriter Clash Bowley initially plied his trade during the halcyon days of the 1970’s before dropping out of the music world. He pursued a different path divorced from the music scene for the next three decades before buying a guitar in 2016.   Relearning his art …

It’s hard to hear the opening riff in the song “Black Smoke” without thinking of the casual pop/rock of the Beatles, but as Pant will prove over the next few minutes – and across the whole of their new album Diner Pets – they’re a lot heavier than any throwback pop act …

To call Preston Rowley an enigma is likely an oversimplification, but it will have to do under these circumstances. At only 19 years old, the TX native is both a critic’s dream and a daunting task. What he has achieved with little more than a keyboard, an acoustic guitar, a …

Essa Rowena’s sophomore release Untelling is a seven-track collection following up her 2021 self-titled debut EP. The Melbourne, Australia native is an artistic veteran, however, and a former member of Melbourne shoegaze band Snowblind during the 1990s, a forerunner of the later band Motor Ace who scored an Australian number 1 album. …

Rap has come a long way since its late seventies birth on the street corners and in the community centres of the South Bronx. But one thing that unites music being made in that genre today with those early pioneers: is the music’s reliance on deft world play and innovative …

Breaking up is hard to do, according to Neil Sedaka. This is a song that Daphne Parker Powell probably felt all too deeply, as she composed her 6th studio offering; The Starter Wife (Pleasure Loves Company.) Having reached the finality of what she now sees as something of a doomed …

Music such as that made by Stuart Ross Carlson reminds us just how close the worlds of classical and contemporary music are. There have been iconic figures of the past, such as Bartok, Grieg, and especially Vaughn Williams, who have been keen collectors of the folk music of their respective …