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...
Read MoreROCK/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...
Read MoreROCK/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...
Read MoreROCK/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...
Read MoreROCK/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...
Read MoreROCK/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...
Read MoreROCK/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...
Read MoreROCK/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...
Read MoreROCK/Review ESTRADA Music Project– I love when you see through my eyes
There is a certain disarming quality about total honesty in music and ESTRADA Music Projects I love when you see through my eyes has none of the pretense in it. It is not a song meant to impress with clever wordplay or a complex arrangement–it is a man speaking to...
Read MoreROCK/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,...
Read MoreROCK/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,...
Read MoreMETAL/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...
Read More