MUSIC REVIEWS

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 …

With a heady rumble behind its beat, Wreckless Strangers’ “Sun State – Michael Herrick Remix” gets off with a bang and only swells in size and strength as we press on. The synths are as big as ocean tidal waves, and yet there’s something gentle about the melody they’re emitting …

Rising country star Christen Cooper has never been one to stay in one place too long as far as her sound as a musician is concerned. Starting her musical career at the age of ten and presently having crafted over four hundred tracks while working with Nashville producers, the very …

Rob Alexander has already established himself as a go-to medical mind and all-around knowledgeable pillar in the south Florida indie pop/rock community and in his new single “Merry Christmas in Heaven,” he adds the title of intriguing holiday composer to a growing list of talents few can compete with. Although …

2022 produced some really interesting, guitar-powered adult contemporary pop/rock, and if you were following the underground close to the conclusion of the year, there’s a good chance you heard a little of Dino Jag’s work as it continued to get attention underground. In “Shake a Leg Like Elvis,” Dino Jag …

The world was a different place five years ago. Can you even remember how it was twenty-five years ago? It was different and yet… mostly the same. Except for the parts that were super different, right? For acclaimed band Universal Dice, they were just getting their start with their debut album My …

Rachel Collis has been garnering a lot of well-deserved attention left of the dial in the last five years, and in her latest collection of studio tracks, titled Mayfly, she proves to be the skilled storyteller and songstress that many of us have been searching for in the latter half of …

Sometimes, a simple slew of guitar strings summarizes the tone of an entire composition long before lyrics ever enter the picture, and though it can certainly be said that there’s more to Watershed’s title track than its guitar part, this doesn’t make its intro any less spellbinding. In this first of …

After decades in the dark, grunge has been flexing some serious influence over contemporary rock and hip-hop in the last couple of years, and this influence is definitely heard in the new album Disease of the Mind by Staytus. URL: https://staytusmusic.com/ BANDCAMP: https://staytus.bandcamp.com/album/disease-of-the-mind Staytus doesn’t reflect any sense of confidence …

New Jacobin Club blends an unholy mix of horror movie imagery, Lovecraft-influenced subject matter, and hard rock ingenuity into a memorable ten song stew entitled Empire of Dis. It’s the band’s sixth album and their first in nearly a decade, but don’t let that mislead you. New Jacobin Club hasn’t lain …