Reviews

Keyvous really doesn’t mind breaking off something substantially more melodic and elaborate in tone than most rappers can these days, his words echoing the emotion in his [...]

Pristine chords materialize in slow motion, conjuring a decadent melody in their wake. Their existence isn’t synthesized, yet it isn’t quite real – at least not until [...]

With beefy guitars, angst-ridden lead vocals, and percussive thunder that quakes the floorboards beneath your feet, you don’t need much else to release a rock n’ roll [...]

With razor-sharp precision but enough distortion to drown any silence within the zip code at the right volume, Battle Tapes’ “Brand New” begins to envelop us in the [...]

Drifting out from behind the clouds of an atmospheric melody that precludes all of the lyrical daggers soon to come raining down on us in the next few minutes of [...]

You’d likely be unable to guess as much from the first few moments of the song, but Honey and Blue’s new single “All in My Head” is a harmony storm [...]

Dirty Shine is the third album released by blues shouter, musician, and songwriter ZZ Ward, but you can’t stop by just referring to her affinity for blues music. I [...]

From a lyrical perspective, Wreckless Strangers’ “Fast Girls” isn’t all that elaborate – in fact, it’s simple when juxtaposed with what this band has released [...]

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 recent years that packs the same high-velocity punch [...]

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

Creating and solidifying an identity as a songwriter doesn’t usually happen early on in a career, but instead over a more studious period. James Robert Webb is a rare [...]

In a gentle caress, a melody ushers us into the glow of “Time on My Hands,” its keys intimately introducing us to the instrumental framework of what will become one [...]

Pop music doesn’t always come to us with the most striking of messages, but that’s not the case in the profound work of Vineet, whose last record Nine. (9 Thrilling [...]

Let’s be grateful that each year behind the scenes music world movers and shakers such as Evan “Kidd” Bogart, Melissa Warner, and Peter Wade come together under the [...]

David Shawn Cook has released a new single entitled “In the Spirit” and his individualistic brand of Christian music should find appeal extending far past the believer [...]

The Thom Kurtz-led outfit Friends to the End returns with a new single entitled “Soap Creek Saloon” steeped in the iconography of 1970’s “outlaw” country. The title [...]

In folk music, the vocal tends to be the star of the show, and it’s in this regard exclusively that the new EP though the world will tell me so, vol. [...]

Brian Seymour has been around the world and back again. The source of his creativity, however, lies in the American experience and his first studio release in a [...]

Steamy beats come slipping through a wall of bass punctuated by an elasticized electric guitar in the first few bars of “The Soul or the Skin,” the brand-new single from [...]

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