SHARK-FIN AWARDS

It’s hard to determine just where to go with a third album. For bands concerned with making pop hits, albums never seem to matter, but for rock groups, honing in on a refined and artistically crafted discography can make or break your group’s trajectory. In the historic case of the …

Louis Siciliano and Mauro Salvatore’s MUMEx Duo has carved out a rather impressive global niche for themselves in modern jazz unlike any other. One often encounters this sort of language in reviews, however, and you can immediately pin it down as customary journalistic puffery that has little, if anything, to …

Springy and as bright as a rising sun, the opening salvo of string melodies that chime through the air after pressing play on the new single from Roots Asylum, “Shuckin’ in a Cornfield,” is a brief but meaningful introduction to a simple, barebones Americana tune fashioned with a deeply evocative …

Mike Montrey has been moving up and down the Eastern seaboard over the last decade and change delivering his personalized brand of bluesy R&B soul far and wide. The New Jersey-based Mike Montrey Band’s latest collection entitled Searching for My Soul is a seven song excursion through Montrey’s songwriting world …

Denmark’s Vinyl Floor is the personal project of brothers and songwriters Daniel and Thomas Charlie Pedersen. Their fifth full-length studio album Funhouse Mirror revisits the symphonic pop ambitions of earlier releases such as 2012’s Peninsula and Vaudeville (2014) while retaining the same individualistic songwriting bent. Working with producer Emil Isaksson and a small cast of musical …

The state of modern rock is in disarray as both fans and artists alike seemingly run in all directions, looking for inspiration and metaphorical gold rushes. There are undoubtedly successful artists still working within the mainstream rock genre, but for most to find success, there are only shadows of larger …

While it might flirt with certain synthetics just as a means of binding together its most sensuous angles, there’s something wholly organic about the main elements of “So Mysterious” that makes it clear just how invested in the music Noshows are this summer. FACEBOOK: https://m.facebook.com/noshowsofficial/ There are a lot of …

The work of Chris Cornelius is as inimitable as it is sprawling; from a lifelong love affair with music inspired by his own father’s career as a World War II Navy pilot/jazz keyboardist (who went on to perform on several tours after the war), Cornelius has a background most only …

If you listen to Joe Macre’s The Dream Is Free without reading any accompanying press about him, you may come away from an initial hearing envisioning Macre as a photogenic twenty-something singer/songwriter with a penchant for progressive music. It will startle such listeners to discover that Macre is, instead, a veteran musician …

Chicago-born Todd Christoffel wouldn’t have made a good Catholic choirboy. A love for mischief first sparked his musical imagination when the young boy began satirizing the lyrics of church hymns during Mass without other parishioners ever catching on. Those early flirtations with music weren’t all hijinks, however, as Christoffel remembers …