Category: Reviews

Guided by a righteous and prominent swing but never the central draw of the track or its video by any

Music videos can serve several purposes for an artist, from marketing a new sound to rebelling against the standards set

While there are a lot of pop vocalists who let the hook put the finishing touch on an emotional point

Seductive but controlled to the extent of never sounding even slightly overindulgent beside the other melodic components in the song,

Swirling around us in a colorful display of power and aesthetical hybridity, the melody in Najjah Calibur’s new single and

Melody-focused ambient pop music has always been among my favorite strains of alternative music, and although I would stop short

In 2022, Kit Vale has been quietly establishing herself as one of the new rock players to watch out of

Dirty hard rock is absolutely a thing in 2022, and if you didn’t already know this, a video like Spider

In his latest official single and music video, titled “Pandora,” the sensuous Sonarpilot revs the engine on big beats and

Religious statements seem to come every once in a while in powerful pop music, but in Jacob Agar’s “Avinu Malkeinu,”

You can always tell when an artist is truly invested in the music they’re making, and after giving “Side Effects”

Slickly delivered but, much like the other elements in both the song and the lyric video made to support its

In his new single “Lady Laces,” Bosco is far less concerned with the indulgence of rock than he is about

If there is one thing The High Plains Drifters aren’t interested in right now, it’s contemporary synthetics as they apply

In his new single and music video “Keeper of the Mood,” The Sound of Monday’s Dave Jay Gerstein shows off

2022 has been a really good year for funk and soul revivalists around the globe – so much so that

The cities of Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas have always been host to two of the most underrated music scenes

The best bands to come out of Colorado tend to be a bit all over the place. For the millennial

The problem that I, and a lot of other critics, have with modern electropop doesn’t have anything to do with

“Some call it a conscience, maybe you wonder where yours went, you’re lost in the darkness, don’t you wonder where