Category: Reviews

Dirty Shine is the third album released by blues shouter, musician, and songwriter ZZ Ward, but you can’t stop by just

I’m grateful that OF LIMBO do what they do and do it so well. I can’t recall another hard rock outfit emerging in

Greatness sometimes slips up on you unexpectedly. Silent Skies proves that. You may go into this album expecting a gossamer-thin song cycle that

Creating and solidifying an identity as a songwriter doesn’t usually happen early on in a career, but instead over a

In a gentle caress, a melody ushers us into the glow of “Time on My Hands,” its keys intimately introducing

Pop music doesn’t always come to us with the most striking of messages, but that’s not the case in the

Let’s be grateful that each year behind the scenes music world movers and shakers such as Evan “Kidd” Bogart, Melissa

David Shawn Cook has released a new single entitled “In the Spirit” and his individualistic brand of Christian music should

The Thom Kurtz-led outfit Friends to the End returns with a new single entitled “Soap Creek Saloon” steeped in the

In folk music, the vocal tends to be the star of the show, and it’s in this regard exclusively that

Brian Seymour has been around the world and back again. The source of his creativity, however, lies in the American experience and

Steamy beats come slipping through a wall of bass punctuated by an elasticized electric guitar in the first few bars

Personal songwriting, unfortunately, often takes the form of navel-gazing. Self-absorbed songwriting with a strong autobiographical tilt is the dominant style.

Critically acclaimed is a term that gets used a lot to describe bands that are on the up and up,

Metal has always been about celebrating intensity of all varieties, and in this sense, the new single “Heaven Collides” from

In his new single “Legal Dreamers,” Kēvens establishes his brand as being both beat-focused and profoundly harmonious when it counts,

A pulsating but distant guitar. Synthetic percussive thrusts push us to the edge of our seats every time they pounce

Using rhythm as a tool for communication falls under the modus operandi of most modern rappers; that said, when Smilez

Chugging out of the silence with a lusty charge that is rooted in classical aggression, the deluge of strings that

The last seven months of 2023 have been unpredictable on all fronts, particularly in the music world. Despite all of