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 »Mockingbird (single) by Modern Crusoe
In his latest single, the melodic dream “Mockingbird,” the singer and songwriter known as Modern Crusoe balances enigmas with elegance, postmodernity with pop prowess, and most prominently, the bucolic with the boisterous, in what is best described as his most assertive and emotional ballad released to us thus far. A …
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 »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 »Live Review + Gallery: Death Angel at Playstation Theater New York, NY (05.10.19)
On Friday evening or “afternoon” as frontman Mark Osegueda would refer to the bands early set time, the Bay Area thrashers Death Angel took the stage in front of the New York City crowd for the first time ever together with their long time veteran east coast thrash heavy weights …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Life Of Agony at Playstation Theater New York, NY (05.10.19)
In 1992 Life Of Agony toured with Over Kill, and once again Brooklyn’s very own Life Of Agony would join the veteran thrash metal heavy weights Over Kill along with Death Angel and Mothership for a special one night only show in New York City. Though Life Of Agony aren’t …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Overkill at Playstation Theater New York, NY (05.10.19)
Still hot off the recent release of their 19th studio album The Wings of War, New Jersey’s very own thrash metal veterans Over Kill flew through the gutters of The Garden State across the river to New York City’s Times Square. Met by the thunderous roar of the sold out …
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 »“It’s Natural” (single) by Little Galaxies
URL: https://littlegalaxiesband.com/ A rollicking rhythm and a decidedly swanky string play are all that it takes for Little Galaxies to entice us into the melodic web of songcraft that is their new single “It’s Natural.” The guitars patiently strut across the first few bars in the song with a swagger …
Read More »The Sweet Kill drop EP
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheSweetKill/ The Sweet Kill flanks paralyzing industrial grooves with lush melodicism of the most erudite variety in his latest release, the stunning Love & Death, a six-song extended play that presents listeners with a sleekly-mixed collection of dirges and devastatingly cathartic electro-power ballads alike. In songs like the brooding …
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