Reviews

Federico Balducci isn’t out to please, if his latest effort is any indication of the fact. Rather, if anything, he seems to want to turn any and all consumer expectations on their head. Therefore, Dans differé...

Swaggering and full of autumnal swing in “Galway City.” Exotic and rich with mystique in “Je Suis Coureur Des Bois.” Driven by chiming power pop melodies in “Best Friend Song.” Strutting to a familiar groove i...

In a midrange-spiked spoken word intro that feels more like voicemail than a standard prologue to a modern hip-hop album, donSMITH welcomes us into his new album Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, the ensuing slow-m...

Grinding out an electric beat that soon swells as big as our speakers will allow for, Jason Elm St.’s new single “God of Musik” starts off with a bang and only gets more invasive as we push forward. Bringing a...

When you bring together the likes of Chey De Los, Natalis, Damien Carter, the incomparable David Ruffin Jr., Michael Cassidy, J.D. Wesley and Toox into the studio for a collaborative piece like the cultural wa...

Lush but not quite atmospheric, the instrumental fabric Louis Miller sketches his poetic illustrations upon in the new single “Drop on the Leaf” is reason enough to give this song a close inspection this fall,...

In hip-hop, the strut of a beat - and a player’s verse - is arguably more important than the compositional intricacies someone in R&B or straight pop would put a lot of stock in, and for King Swigg, it’s t...

Greg Hoy begins his two part album with the 6-track EP – Cacophony 1, a solid collection of Power Pop cuts recorded in the summer of 2020, during what anyone would consider a tough time to even decide to relea...

Indie rock is finally at a crossroads amidst an industry becoming more and more centered on the needs and motivations of the artist, and given the circumstances, Fitzsimon and Brogan are taking advantage of mo...

While typically an essential element in any alternative pop/rock track, the complex relationship between Chris Mardini’s vocal and the texture of the guitar melodies he creates in the new single and music vide...

When it comes to making big jams, 2020 has shown us that Cristal Carrington is an artist who knows all the right moves when she gets into her element, and in the brand new single “Another Way of Life,” she con...

Bluegrass is a genre that has, and always will be, made for and by the people, and I think that the new documentary Like a Flowing River: A Bluegrass Passage regarding the life and career of singer/s...