PEIRSON ROSS & DOPAMINE DREAM HOMAGE TO LOVE: RECORDED LIVE @ KENSINGTON SOUND INDEPENDENT Intimate is a word that is used quite often in describing a musical event. However, it really is the only word to describe this live recording. [...]
WESTSIDE COWBOY IT GOES ON ISLAND RECORDS When a band of conservatory students from Manchester possesses the ability to channel the power-pop stylings of Teenage Fanclub, the soaring choruses of Travis, and the melodic warmth of Catatonia, it [...]
ALEX AMOR HEAVENLY BODIES VERO MUSIC Some rock critics who take themselves seriously (probably too seriously) shy away from any music that has an even a remote connection with modern forms of pop (pure pop even more so), particularly the pop [...]
TONY HANNAH LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT INDEPENDENT Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn (sadly, both gone now) left such a big legacy in what country music is today that for years (or even decades) it will be quite hard not to compare up and coming female [...]
ALEX DUPREE TALKING TO THE DOG SCISSOR TAIL RECORDS For those who follow all things folk/country/Americana in all shapes or forms the title of the new Alex Dupree album is no mystery – it is a quote from country music legend Hank Williams who [...]
THE AFGHAN WHIGS SOFT CONTROL THE ROYAL CREAM/BMG Whatever the alternative rock term was supposed to mean when it was coined, or what it means in today’s musical terms, makes no difference as far as Greg Dulli, The Afghan Whigs, and the [...]
THE TRAGICALLY HIP LIVE JULY 22 – AUGUST 20, 2016 UNIVERSAL MUSIC The Tragically Hip burst onto the music scene from Kingston, Ontario and very quickly ascended to rock royalty in Canada. There were many factors. Their music, their stage [...]
THE TREMOLO BEER GUT ASK NOT WHAT THE TREMOLO BEER GUT CAN DO FOR YOU… MUSICK RECORDINGS/NO-COUNT RECORDS The surf rock band from Denmark, The Tremolo Beer Gut, has just released their seventh album, Ask Not What The Tremolo Beer Gut Can [...]
