MUSIC REVIEWS

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheFibsOfficial/ A singer/songwriter/musician who says they wrote the lyrics for their new album while reading famed poet Lorca might draw a slightly arched eyebrow from those with antenna raised for possible pretension. The Fibs’ front man, Preston Newberry, isn’t some hipster dilettante however. The self titled second album from his …

Anchored by the riveting single “A Girl Named America,” Nate Smith’s new album Some Kind of Dancing is a poetic slice of viciously dark Americana as imagined by one of our generation’s most provocative songwriters. Smith’s last album, Around and Around, captivated critics including myself with its delicate prose amidst stern social commentary, …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsXTKpDY3Y If it weren’t already enough to construct a brilliant concept album the likes of which his generation hasn’t seen before, Jonathon Zemek wanted his new record to be an experience that would engage his audience on every possible level; audiological, visual and physical. With the help of …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZwuz2Idyo Like a painter carefully applying a brush to a canvas, singer/songwriters Rachel Panchal and Scott Oatley artfully contribute one stroke of colorful tonality after another inNo Ghost, their brand new EP hitting record stores this summer, and their painstaking attention to detail is devastatingly moving in every …

URL: http://www.garydouglasband.com/ There’s a steady turning-like effect to the new single from The Gary Douglas Band, “Nothing Ever Goes as Planned”, which has an almost chiming like sound at the start. The hypnotic sway of the song is lightly applied, never too overwrought, and the delicacy of the song’s acoustic …

URL: https://www.champdemars.net/ “Forlorn Cowboys of Nuclear Winter” opens Champ de Mars’ first full length studio album Rancho Seco Victory. In a bit of evocative misdirection setting a tone for everything following, the first track kicks off with moody sonic misdirection before settling into an airy, melancholy groove. The offbeat nature of …

INSTAGRAM: https://insta-stalker.com/profile/oberonrose/ A grinding organ gives way to the coarse and violent strumming of a haunting guitar. At once all of our emotions are bottled into a singular container and shaken like soda pop; the frothing fizz leaks out and spills onto our hi-fi with an uncompromising scowl that can …

REVERBNATION: https://www.reverbnation.com/dawggonedavis During the nine to five, she’s rocking the IT world managing the day to day workings of corporate America. But when she’s off the clock she takes on another identity – one of the Midwest’s most intriguing rappers and philanthropists. She is DawgGonDavis, and her new EP Anthem Pandemonium is …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/BenMillburn/ Ben Millburn’s Sunglass Moustache has confidence radiating from each of the album’s eleven songs. Millburn wrote and arranged all of the songs, but some of the tracks are shaped by improve rather than laying out a composition for a band to follow. If you don’t know, it’s impossible to tell …

THE ALBUM: https://open.spotify.com/album/10y9nciKuBaNJnnmKihbuN Del Suelo’s new album The Musician’s Compass: A 12 Step Programme has rocketed its way into the title of most anticipated record of the year, and having just given it a listen over the weekend it isn’t hard to see the reasons why. In an era where charlatanism has …