MUSIC REVIEWS

URL: www.rwroldan.com Making an album that can stand the test of time and continue to connect with audiences is no easy feat, even for the most decorated and sought after poets and lyricists among pop music. It isn’t easy to compose something that people will be able to relate to …

John De Freitas – Qué Alegría Qué Gozo YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1B4TtMggNye54d40Fa3Sqg In his brand-new album Qué Alegría Qué Gozo (or simply Walk in Love in English), singer and songwriter John De Freitas translates the word of the scripture using the international language of music to create what is undeniably one of the most harmonious …

URL: https://darrenjessee.com/ Like many albums, Darren Jessee’s first solo album The Jane Room 217 began life as a series of demos and you can still hear much of that original spirit throughout the recording. The foundation of the release is Jessee’s softly emotional voice and his acoustic guitar, but transforming the recording …

Water and Man – Phantasie URL: https://www.waterandman.com/ Music is a pastime, a lifestyle, a career and a means of therapy. Through music we find ways to express things to each other when we just can’t find the words to do the job. Recorded music often provides us a with a …

URL: http://www.streakingintongues.com/ When life is good, music is there to soundtrack all of our celebrations, our pride and our success. When life is not so good, music is there to lament alongside us, to grieve our losses and get us through the toughest of situations. America needs music really badly …

BANDCAMP: https://theeyebrows.bandcamp.com/album/volume The Eyebrows, of Charlotte, NC, debut with – Volume, the first album to come out of the ashes of The Temperance League, which they feature two original members of in Jay Carrigan and Shawn Lynch. Volume is a high-quality produced record, with Mitch Easter, from REM, twiddling the …

Lord & Lady release “The Lift” SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/37fJ2QD1jR5zJcru9GZsJr While some artists might be content in trying to sell you something that you already bought from someone else, the prismatic twosome that is the pop band Lord & Ladyaren’t looking to rob you blind. They’re not looking to make a record that prides itself …

Conceptz – Splash FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/DaRealConceptz/ Conceptz came together in 2011 when brothers Short Fuze (aka Fuze 4 Short) and Highrowglyphfix (aka HRGF) decided to realize their musical dreams and they since further broadened their ambitions while still putting out a succession of tasty single releases. Each new cut solidifies their …

Daisy Hicks “I Choose You” and “Upside” URL: https://www.daisyhicks.com/ We’re living in a new era of music as we know it. Gone are the days of the stringently categorized; the labels and boundaries of genre that once restricted artists and both capped their financial potential as well as their creative …

Second Before Landing – Trio: Volume 1 (EP) BANDCAMP: https://secondsbeforelanding.bandcamp.com/album/trio-volume-1 The late 2010’s have seen a magnificent rebirth for art rock in the King Crimson tradition, and while there has been a plethora of talented artists to emerge in this new era of progressive music, one band has consistently stood …