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See Your Shadow Songwriting and their helmsman Michael Coleman are a distinguished set of musicians. As a whole, they’re a project dedicated to producing a delectable variety of songs and art of various mediums. They’ve been around for a long while now, making incredibly captivating music and experimenting in many …

George Mallas’ 2018 sophomore release unscathed is an eleven-song collection that finds the New York-based singer/songwriter in fine form. It’s illuminating to look at this album in light of the recent release of Mallas’ third album Let the Day Decide as it shows his songwriting development over the last four years. This is pre-pandemic …

Running a combined eight and a half minutes in total length, the one-two punch “American Man” and “My Mother and Me” sets us up for a slew of potent poeticisms that are par for the course in Laura Sumner’s new record Red Clay Blue Sky. While the former is a bit …

New York City and its five boroughs are arguably one of the most-condensed cultural hotspots in the world, let alone the United States. To sit down and catalog the amount of history-changing events, people, and inventions that have spawned from this single city would take a week, or a week …

Singer/songwriter Mark Henry Ham captures pure joy on his new album Casper. By blending the atmospheric nature of Americana with modern influences Ham carves a spot for himself in the rock world. With vibrant melodies and detailed lyrics every song on Casper tells a story. Ham uses his eclectic taste …

Circus No. 9 refuses to be pinned down. You certainly can’t label them a traditional bluegrass outfit as several of the songs on their new self-titled album utilize instruments familiar to the style in decidedly non-traditional ways. You can’t say, however, that they aren’t a bluegrass band. They are. They …

Finnish raconteur Ville Kiviniemi’s muse is restless, to say the least. His muse has found a home in London during the 1990’s performing as The Urban Peasant. Kiviniemi moved on from there to find audiences in New York City’s lower East Side “anti-folk” scene and self-released two collections entitled Toilet and Coffee. His …

Phoenix, Arizona quintet Electric Sol have returned with Lucky Day, the much-anticipated full-length follow up to 2020’s City Tonight EP. Since its release back in mid-May, Lucky Day has been earning considerable reception through streaming services thanks to initial buzz from previous singles, and consistent features on numerous playlists worldwide. …

Rock doesn’t always have to come with a bombastic beat and a lot of indulgent lyrical themes – it can be both melodic and discordant at the same time, skewing traditional verses with more tonally communicative elements often dismissed as being too avant-garde for most rock n’ roll singles. A …

A Fragile Tomorrow imbues their powerful sound with politically charged lyrics on “It’s Better That Way”. With the departure of one of their original founding members Dominic Kelly who is pursuing a career in political activism, they reflect the importance of standing up to large, menacing organizations whose very existence …

Crash Taylor was raised around musicians and became one himself. His album Retired Outlaw, however, is his actual recording debut years after the fact.. Capturing a lifetime of personal and artistic experiences within ten songs looks like a tall order but, in this reviewer’s estimation, Taylor’s reached that lofty peak. Retired Outlaw’s …

They might not be the most central point of communication in the tracklist of Ghost Party, but there’s no denying the importance of the role beats have when Monsoon is in charge of the control in their all-new studio album this spring. Ghost Party is comprised of eleven songs that each exists well …