ROCK/Review Tom Minor– Next Stop Brixton

ROCK/Review Tom Minor– Next Stop Brixton

There is a certain irresistible power in music that turns a mundane train ride into the epic tale of redemption and Tom Minor captures that power in his “Next Stop Brixton” with the energy and emotional depth that are altogether surprising. This songwriter/singer has created an upbeat indie rock song...

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ROCK/Review Social Gravy– A Different Kind

ROCK/Review Social Gravy– A Different Kind

Los Angeles duo Social Gravy are something special indeed, and the EP A Different Kind proves that, and shows why Brad Kohn and Vee Bordukov have deserved their reputation as romantic rockin-rollers with content. The four songs of this release portray their capability to walk the line between commercial and...

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ROCK/Review Remit– Questions Unanswered

ROCK/Review Remit– Questions Unanswered

Melbourne trio Remit has produced something truly unnerving with their debut album Questions Unanswered and I mean that in the best way possible. This is not music that tries to soothe, it is art that wants you to face the uneasy truths of our divided world. The album was Written...

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ROCK/Review Solum– Circles

ROCK/Review Solum– Circles

The new single, Circles, is a strong exploration of the turbulent waters of the unhealthy relationship that demonstrates the further development of the UK artist. With the foundations of his midlands background and several years of genre exploration, Solum has created something truly powerful here, a track that is at...

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ROCK/Review John Lebanon– Mizuri

ROCK/Review John Lebanon– Mizuri

It is something particularly special to see a group grow in front of your eyes and John Lebanon’s “Mizuri” is a song that feels like you have made it just in time to see a band at its very peak. This Boston indie band has made something that walks that...

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ROCK/Review Love Ghost– Car Crash

ROCK/Review Love Ghost– Car Crash

At times the best music occurs when artists take everything away and leave their most fragile selves, and Love Ghost does just that in their song, Car Crash. This piano ballad sees Finnegan Bell moving a long way out of his usual style of eclecticism to create something that is...

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ROCK/Review Jane N' The Jungle– Parasite

ROCK/Review Jane N’ The Jungle– Parasite

Phoenix rockers Jane N The Jungle have hit the bulls-eye with parasite, a raging suggestion that gets the pulse of our technology-drenching culture, and the effects it has on us. The new song displays all the things that make the band so vital to today’s modern rock market. The first...

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ROCK/Review New Laconia– Journey to the Past

ROCK/Review New Laconia– Journey to the Past

There is something intensely touching about a music that has the audacity to act as both a personal confession as well as a universal experience and New Laconia manages to get that balance so right with their song Journey to the past. It is an experimental project by Ukrainians who...

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ROCK/Review Fiona Amaka– Cowards and Shadows

ROCK/Review Fiona Amaka– Cowards and Shadows

I was not ready how emotionally heavy of a song that Cowards and Shadows would be. There is something about how Fiona Amaka takes you through the specific pangs of being ghosted that made me stop everything I was doing and just listen. Being there, we have all been there,...

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ROCK/Review Haus of Sound– Madness

ROCK/Review Haus of Sound– Madness

There is something intoxicating about a song that captures exactly that feeling of being pulled back to something you know is bad for you and Haus of Sound does that with stunning accuracy in their song, Madness. The Seattle group has come up with their most compelling song to date,...

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METAL/Review Nordstahl– Das Geisterschiff

METAL/Review Nordstahl– Das Geisterschiff

The music of Nordstahl, Das Geisterschiff, cuts through the clatter of contemporary music like a specter-haunted ship rising out of the ocean gloom of nautical mysticism. This piece of work in German does not merely narrate, but rather haunts you with its narration, and makes the ancient mythos of the...

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