Roy Shakked Throwback Groove Gravy Records Since Steely Dan appeared in full force me 50 years ago, many other artists have tried to reach their almost inaccessible heights. They have sat with their combination of truly sophisticated infusion of [...]
Frances Chang Support Your Local Nihilist Independent It might be quite a task to locate New York artist Frances Chang on social media. One of the reasons might be that she is not a big fan of it. The other that so far, Chang has assumed and [...]
Maya Lucia miss girl world Independent New York via Minneapolis artist Maya Lucia has an attitude. It is an attitude that makes her garage-fuelled pop rock truly work, so easily heard on her latest, seven-song EP miss girl world. Some might [...]
iskwē And Tom Wilson Mother Love iskwē Music Inc Mother Love is the first long-awaited collaborative album released by award winning artists iskwē | ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (Cree Métis from Treaty One Territory ) and Tom Wilson | Tehoh’ahake (Mohawk). Here, [...]
Ally Cribb Unbroken Independent Let’s be clear about Ally Cribb and her latest EP Unbroken – it is pop, pure and simple. Now there’s three facts about pop to keep in mind here. It has to follow a set formula of being either [...]
Queen Kwong Couples Only Sonic Ritual The moment The Cure stepped on the scene with their dark, gothic pop rock, that dark sound just kept on going, even when it was not fully in vogue. These days, such dark music seems to be in full favour [...]
Rich Jacques Everything Must Change Cousteau Records A note that an artist is a Grammy-winner should be sign of quality, but that sign might have lost its significance in recent years. L.A artist, singer-songwriter, and producer Rich Jacques is [...]
Mush Down Tools Memphis Industries Since their first release three years ago, Leeds quartet Mush have been pushing it hard, coming up with three albums in as many years, having just released Down Tools, being that third one. At the same time, [...]
Nate Paladino Drown With Me Independent If Drown with Me sounds like a bit of a dark, bleak title for an album, you are actually on the right track with the latest album by Orange County, CA singer songwriter Nate Paladino. But what does sunny, [...]
The Eighty Six Seas This Is Just A Simple Song Independent Brooklyn singer songwriter Nick Stevens, the man behind The Eighty Six Seas moniker, tries quite a bit to make sure that This Is Just a Simple Song, the title of his debut, six-song EP [...]
Teddy And The Rough Riders Teddy And The Rough Riders Appalachia Record Co. There’s quite a number of artists these days trying to recreate and combine the West Coast sounds of the late 60s and early to mid-70s. Some do or did it with more [...]
Caleb Nichols Ramon Kill Rock Stars When the album starts with a song titled “Listen to The Beatles,” you can be sure which way things are going, at least, musically. And Caleb Nichols, a musician, writer, poet, and librarian [...]
Various Artists Through The Soil II Independent Any compilation, and particularly those that are set up as benefits, are always laced with good intentions, but not always with a fully satisfying set of songs. Listeners and potential supporters [...]
Praises In This Year: Hierophant Hand Drawn Dracula Praises, aka Jesse Crowe, caused quite a stir with Spill Magazine back in 2018 with their debut album In This Year: Ten of Swords. Four years on, and they’re back with yet another Tarot [...]
Dylan Moon Option Explore RVNG Intl. Anybody who had a chance to hear Dylan Moon’s initial album Only the Blues, from 2019 might be taken aback by what is in the grooves (or bits) of his follow-up, Option Explore. Instead of the Syd [...]
1st Base Runner Light Roars Independent Tim Husmann, aka 1st Base Runner has been on a hot streak for a few years now with his brand of dark, electronic modern gothic-oriented sounds, bringing the 80scool 40 years forward. Any changes on his [...]
The Dream Syndicate Ultraviolet Battle Hymns And True Confessions Fire Records The Dream Syndicate came, dropped a few brilliant modern psych albums (The Days of Wine and Roses, would be quite enough), including one of the best live albums [...]
S.G. Goodman Teeth Marks Verve Forecast One of the key reasons many listeners shy away from singer songwriters as a general music genre is lack of variation. The mention that, usually, it is just the artist and her/his guitar or piano, voice and [...]
Stars From Capelton Hill Last Gang Records OK. Montreal’s Stars are a pop band. They say it so themselves. Loud and clear. Those listeners having issues with pop music may just as well forget about Stars. Yet, if you don’t [...]
John Jody Crooked Star Ramp Local How many monikers can you take on as an artist/musician? Well, probably as many as you need to express your concept(s). That is exactly what one John Jody is doing, as this is his new moniker, previously working [...]
Jo Schornikow Altar Keeled Scales Whenever Nashville is mentioned along with the name of a musician/artist, listeners immediately get notions of country, or a bit more ‘daring’ epithet of an Americana singer. In the case of Jo [...]
Tess Parks And Those Who Were Seen Dancing Fuzz Club/Hand Drawn Dracula Tess Parks’ debut Blood Hot really created some critical waves when it was released back in 2013, and rightly so. Yet, we haven’t heard much from Parks since [...]
Thomas Dollbaum Wellswood Big Legal Mess “I grew up in a small town between nowhere and nothing. By reputation, people move to Florida to run away from their problems, but instead of leaving them behind they bring the same problems with them. [...]
Em Spel The Carillon Towers Independent Em Spel, or Chicago artist Emma Hospelhorn doesn’t seem to be a big fan of social media. Whether this will have an impact on the word spreading out about her debut solo album The Carillon Towers, [...]
