MUSIC REVIEWS

URL: http://patientlyawaitingthemeteorite.band/ For those of us who live for progressive music that dexterously pushes us to reexamine the structure of sound and artistry itself, Canadian rockers Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite have gifted us an album for the ages in Canyon Diablo, their spellbinding debut LP out everywhere this year. PATM invoke …

URL: http://www.garydouglasband.com/ The single “River Road” is what got me hooked on the Gary Douglas Band, and the album from which it was spawned, Deep in the Water. Deep in the Water might as well be a greatest hits disc encapsulating every great country song that should have been released between 2008 and …

AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Absent-Without-Love-Awol/dp/B079TLDVS3 Saint Jaimz’s “AWOL (Absent Without Love)” exhibits some obvious musical debts, but they are never so heavy handed that Jaimz’s music sounds beholden to his influences. He mixes a variety of approaches with his latest single release, but the bedrock sound is retro-styled R&B with a silky soulful …

LAST FM: https://www.last.fm/music/Abby+Zotz/Local+Honey Walking down the sidewalk of a green neighborhood street, Abby Zotz’ new video “Good Bones” starts off the way any other day would in Zotz life; a guitar strung over her back, a smile on her face and a song in her heart just waiting to be …

URL: http://www.cindygbluegrass.com/ The subtle chicken pickin’ of a guitar greets us in the opening seconds of the title track of Moonshiner’s Daughter, the inspiring new bluegrass album from none other than Pennsylvania’s very own Cindy G. She passionately sings “I’m nothing more than a Moonshiner’s Daughter,” and her words echo through the …

URL: http://www.elsewhere-band.com/ As a music journalist, a big part of my job is finding the appropriate labels and defining terms to attach to bands and solo artists so that audiences can have an easier time finding what they want to listen to. Classification is essential to categorization, but even though …

I-TUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1412981639?ls=1&app=itunes This is a punchy, feisty new single from Nashville based Kanisha K, a powerful new singer and promising songwriter building a reputation as one of modern country music’s premier young performers. She is sure to increase her public attention with the new single “Talk is Cheap”, a passionate …

URL: http://www.extremeflute.com/ The results are in; The Silent Wish – Bill McBirnie with Bernie Senensky is being called the most important jazz flute record of the late 2010s, and it only takes a casual listen of its twelve sterling songs to see why critics from Toronto to London can’t stop talking about …

BANDCAMP: https://alberta.bandcamp.com/ Alberta is the brainchild of singer/songwriter and Detroit native David Boone and his new album MMMMM, self-released, is an eleven song collection attesting to his idiosyncratic artistic nature. Describing his newest release as the explosion of a single thought overall with the individual songs representing shards of shrapnel, it’s …

URL: https://www.sarahclanton.com/ Medicine and law may well be noble professions, but I would argue that no calling is more emotionally taxing and demanding than music is. For fans like most of us, a good song can be the soundtrack to our daily lives; it can be there for our greatest …