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Mark Peters 24 Years Audio Heart Records Each artist who mixes pop, folk, and rock together has their own recipe. John Mayer favors the pop ingredient, Ben Howard’s focus is on being [...]
Paul Maged The Glass River Independent It won’t take long for listeners to pick out all of the ingredients in Paul Maged’s latest album, The Glass River. There’s a little bit [...]
Sam Levin I Am Clarence Productions Sam Levin has an infuriating amount of talent. At 16, he has the vocal range of a singer with decades of experience, he writes melodies which are as [...]
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Prawn Run Topshelf Records Emo is the most difficult genre of music to review. Once you look past the genre’s title which easily carries the most negative connotation in music and the [...]
Queens Of The Stone Age Villains Matador Records Queens of the Stone Age fans rejoice; the boys are back in tow! It has been nearly a four year musical drought for the Palm [...]
Papa Roach Crooked Teeth Sony Music To be a candidate for worst album of all time, the collection of songs needs to go beyond having lousy music. Anyone can put clashing noises [...]
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Willie Nelson God’s Problem Child Legacy Recordings There is nothing worse than musicians using the word “just” in describing their sound. “We’re just a rock [...]
Green Jellö Green Jellö Suxx Livë Blacktop Records Somewhere in the world, at this very moment, a class in modern art is taking place at a major university where a [...]
Aye Nako Silver Haze Don Giovanni Records The adjectives we use to describe punk typically have a strong affect on the noise. Pop punk, hardcore punk, folk punk, all have a [...]
Bill & Joel Plaskett Solidarity New Scotland Yard When attempting to make an album with your father, folk is the best choice of genre. It is one of the only types of [...]