Reviews

A melody that is as soft as silk and yet stained with melancholic angst that doesn’t seem to ever go away welcomes us as we sink into the first minute [...]

Some might say it’s debatable, but from where I sit, America hasn’t been this musically active and engaged as a collective society in generations, and it’s in this [...]

Minimalistic in its prowl and yet tonally aggressive when and where it counts for something. Vocally driven when verses are accounting for passion, instrumentally focused in [...]

Aggressive bubblegum pop has been trending hard in the United States and abroad lately, and in her new single “In My Head,” Pigtails puts her own spin on the style [...]

Guided by a righteous and prominent swing but never the central draw of the track or its video by any means, the tempo in Gabriela’s “Most Wanted” is a tension-inducing [...]

Music videos can serve several purposes for an artist, from marketing a new sound to rebelling against the standards set forth by the preceding generation of musicians to [...]

While there are a lot of pop vocalists who let the hook put the finishing touch on an emotional point in a performance, Chloe J’s sound demands something a little [...]

Seductive but controlled to the extent of never sounding even slightly overindulgent beside the other melodic components in the song, the moderate harmony that powers Dude [...]

Swirling around us in a colorful display of power and aesthetical hybridity, the melody in Najjah Calibur’s new single and music video “Celebrate” could prove too [...]

Melody-focused ambient pop music has always been among my favorite strains of alternative music, and although I would stop short of calling Ready, Steady, Die! an [...]

In 2022, Kit Vale has been quietly establishing herself as one of the new rock players to watch out of the modern underground, and if you haven’t been listening to [...]

Dirty hard rock is absolutely a thing in 2022, and if you didn’t already know this, a video like Spider Rockets ’s “Casual Violence” is probably going to bring you [...]

In his latest official single and music video, titled “Pandora,” the sensuous Sonarpilot revs the engine on big beats and proves that he can use even the coldest of [...]

Religious statements seem to come every once in a while in powerful pop music, but in Jacob Agar’s “Avinu Malkeinu,” the sentiments represent more than a lyric – [...]

You can always tell when an artist is truly invested in the music they’re making, and after giving “Side Effects” a listen just this week, I think it’s obvious that [...]

Slickly delivered but, much like the other elements in both the song and the lyric video made to support its release, free of common artificialities found too frequently in [...]

In his new single “Lady Laces,” Bosco is far less concerned with the indulgence of rock than he is about the appropriation of its lustiest components, namely the [...]

If there is one thing The High Plains Drifters aren’t interested in right now, it’s contemporary synthetics as they apply to a hook, and if this wasn’t known to the [...]

In his new single and music video “Keeper of the Mood,” The Sound of Monday’s Dave Jay Gerstein shows off his diverse musical roots through the majesty of a songcraft [...]

2022 has been a really good year for funk and soul revivalists around the globe – so much so that a lot of folks took to calling it the rebirth [...]