LYD MARIE /LOVE GOES INDEPENDENT Lydia Froncek, aka Lyd Marie is one of those artists that seems to never be satisfied standing still. After all, she started her first band at the age of eight, she was a member of Austin, Texas’ all female world [...]
ACCEPT HUMANOID NAPALM RECORDS Accept can be considered one of the most legendary German heavy metal bands to have formed in 1976. Since their inception, they have not only become one of the most successful German acts, but they have also made a [...]
PERSONAL TRAINER WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE? INDEPENDENT Personal Trainer’s debut EP, What Was There Before?, is a display of what once was, mourning girlhood and grasping onto any hallucination of innocence that can be found in the “bottom of your [...]
STEPHEN SANCHEZ ANGEL FACE (CLUB DELUXE) MERCURY RECORDS/REPUBLIC RECORDS/UNIVERSAL MUSIC In 2023 I reviewed Stephen Sanchez’s debut album, Angel Face for Spill Magazine. Although I did not include it in the original review, I do recall thinking [...]
A CLOUD OF RAVENS LOST HYMNS (EXTENDED) METROPOLIS RECORDS/NEXILIS Lost Hymns, the third release by Brooklyn-based Goth duo A Cloud of Ravens, displays their great ability to innovate the genre with a hint of symphony, but fails to escape a [...]
THE LOSTINES MEET THE LOSTINES GAR HOLE RECORDS Picking up a sound from any of the past decades, a ‘blast from the past’, if you will, and then recreating that sound for modern times, is not as easy as it might seem. You have to know [...]
HOVVDY HOVVDY ARTS & CRAFTS Following the success of their 2022 EP billboard for my feelings, Texas duo Charlie Martin and Will Taylor, better known as Hovvdy, has returned with a new self-titled double album. The duo has found themselves on [...]
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE TIME IS GLASS DRAG CITY Ben Chasny, or Six Organs Of Admittance, was never an artist that could be pinned down, and his albums so far ran through a gamut of sounds, from pastoral folk to full-on, loud psychedelia or [...]
