Like a vampire rising from their coffins, another Hollywood Vampires album has descended from the heavens…or at least from the supergroup featuring the likes of Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, and Johnny Depp. As it has been 4 years since their debut record, there’s a lot to be expected from Rise, …
Read More »Album Review: W.C. Beck – First Flight
Bright, bold and beautiful – the opening bars of “Steel Bird,” the first track in W.C. Beck’s new album First Flight, are studded with gilded keys and a strumming guitar that melds folk melodies with a bombastic country groove. The march of the percussion kicks off a carnival of harmonies …
Read More »Cataclysmos – the new LP by Ryne Ziemba
Cataclysmos – the new LP by Ryne Ziemba is an amazing collection of songs which are hard to attach to any particular-genre, crediting “Indie” as it were, and apparently leaving it to that. But it must cover quite the spectrum whatever it means in this instance, because the disc is …
Read More »Album Review: Derek Davis “Resonator Blues”
This may sound as a bit of a cliché, but not everyone can play the blues and that is something that it shows–you can tell with just listening when someone plays this genre and it’s not feeling. The blues is about feeling and is about swagger, which is something Derek …
Read More »Zero Frequency releases LP
In an unstoppable catchy stomp, the gigantic grooves in the opening riff of “Bondage Swan” emit a crushing muscularity that listeners can expect to find a whole lot more of throughout The Ocean’s End, Vol. 1, the new record from Zero Frequency that’s making a lot of noise this spring. Zero Frequency …
Read More »Last Surviving Son (LP) by David Gelman
Last Surviving Son, the new album from the one and only David Gelman, is chock full of more lyrical might than your average Americana-steeped country-folk record is, and in the songs “Feel Alright” and springy “Let It All Go,” listeners who have been craving something a little different this season …
Read More »Richard Lynch Releases New Album “Think I’ll Carry It On” Featuring Duets With Leona Williams And Ronnie McDowell
Richard Lynch’s “Think I’ll Carry It On” drops on May 25th, 2019 The worldwide release of the album is scheduled for May 25th, 2019. It contains no less than 4 Top 40 country singles, including “Keyboard Cowboy.” Make no mistake friend: this isn’t today’s ‘country. This is PURE country. TRUE …
Read More »Woongi releases Rip’s Cuts (LP)
Galloping grooves. Massive synth melodies. Basslines that threaten us with their physicality while embedding a subtle, textured emotionality into the rhythm. Drums that devastate, guitars saturated in a guttural flange, vocals that are velvet-soft but rife with a psychedelic bend that will haunt us long after their presence is no …
Read More »Alexis Keegan releases LP
URL: https://www.alexiskeegan.com/instagram In the last few of years, Alexis Keegan has turned out some soul-stirring material ranging from the freewheeling “Gospel” to the holiday harmonies of “It’s Christmas Everywhere” and a rollicking indie folk/pop hit in “Everything,” and this April she submits a lovely slice of R&B in the form …
Read More »White Owl Red release LP
A mischief-laden groove sparks the title track in White Owl Red’s Existential Frontiers to life, and on the whim of this romping rhythm, we enter the a realm of melodic Americana that is as classic as apple pie and yet still as refreshing as any of the new movements in popular …
Read More »Brooks Forsyth releases new music
URL: https://www.brooksforsyth.com/ Pulsating strings give way to muscular strands of melancholic melody in “So Much Beyond Us.” A slow-churning percussion opens up the door to a heroic swing in “Anna Lee.” “Girl from Caroline” aches with all of the yearning that a disheveled heart holds so close as it tries …
Read More »Review: Fitzsimon And Brogan (FaB) “The Girl Who Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World”
Fitzsimon and Brogan (FaB) is a very interesting project: it was founded by Neil Fitzsimon as the songwriter and Bee Brogan as the vocalist, keyboardist and drummer. Based in London, their goal with this project was to deliver quality pop of a very classy vent and they were backed by …
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