BUTCH BASTARD DEATH VALLEY BUTCHIE BABY Butch Bastard is really Ian Murray, former member of Poor Moon and now a solo artist based in Los Angeles. Death Valley is his third full length studio and his first since 2023’s Las Vegas Salvation. Once [...]
BARBARA LYNCH WHERE DID YOU GO INDEPENDENT I am pretty sure that Barbara Lynch heard that question a lot over the last few years, because where did you go is the first album from this incredibly talented artist since 2008 (In The Nickelodeon). [...]
ENVY OF NONE STYGIAN WAVZ KSCOPE Since the 2000s, there have been many fantastic rock supergroups, such as A Perfect Circle, Audioslave, The Dead Weather, Them Crooked Vultures, and Velvet Revolver. These bands shattered expectations and have [...]
DAWN BROTHERS CRY ALONE EXCELSIOR RECORDINGS How do you feel about a run through all that comprises roots rock – from classic rock to soul, R&B and Americana and what not, but comes from over the Atlantic, or to be more precise the [...]
JERRY LEGER LUCKY STREAK (LATENT LOUNGE – LIVE FROM THE HANGAR) LATENT RECORDINGS There is a through line that cuts across the world of roots and rock singer-songwriters. That line passes alongside the likes of Buddy Holly and Del Shannon. It [...]
JEFFREY LEWIS THE EVEN MORE FREEWHEELIN’ JEFFREY LEWIS BLANG RECORDS/DON GIOVANNI For somebody who was at one point lauded as a progenitor of anti-folk, Jeffrey Lewis seems to have no problem at following one of the key folk music [...]
NICO PAULO INTERVAL_O FORWARD MUSIC GROUP Canadian/Portuguese singer songwriter Nico Paulo has one of those mesmerizing voices that strikes within the first notes she starts singing. Yet, the St. John’s, NL-based songwriter works within a middle [...]
LUCY LIYOU EVERY VIDEO WITHOUT YOUR FACE, EVERY SOUND WITHOUT YOUR NAME ORANGE MILK Although the Bandcamp page for Los Angeles’ Korean/American artist Lucy Liyou lists a number of her releases, her album Every Video Without Your Face, [...]
