URL: http://www.brotherreverend.com/ Employing a more sensitive take on rip roaring American garage rock, Brother Reverend have unleashed a sonic juggernaut in their new album The Tables Turn Too Often, which is available everywhere this September 28th. The Tables Turn Too Often sees Brother Reverend expanding on their trademark sound, which fuses elements from …
Read More »The Fibs release Self-Titled LP
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 …
Read More »Nate Smith – Some Kind of Dancing
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, …
Read More »Jonathon Zemek releases Hillcrest
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 …
Read More »Lord & Lady release “No Ghost” EP
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 …
Read More »The Gary Douglas Band – Nothing Ever Goes as Planned (single)
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 …
Read More »Champ de Mars – Rancho Seco Victory
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 …
Read More »Oberon Rose – “No Stranger” (single)
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 …
Read More »DawgGonDavis releases EP
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 …
Read More »Ben Millburn releases Sunglass Moustache
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 …
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