MUSIC REVIEWS

Compared to how it was just ten years ago, there’s just not the kind of emphasis on guitar in rock music as there used to be, but that isn’t preventing artists like Jordan Wolfe from using the six-string as a catalyst for charismatic songcraft this winter at all. Contrarily, Wolfe’s …

Self-aware but prepared to acknowledge his faults through the beauty of his lyricism, Eric Colville brings us into the opening track and title cut of his new album Philadelphia with arms wide open, seemingly ready to greet anyone at the door with a melodic magic that comes in second to none this …

Ezra Vancil knows about turning lemons into lemonade. The Texan singer/songwriter persevered against the odds and earned his living as a working musician and songwriter before the ongoing pandemic shattered live music and creative opportunities. Vancil absorbed this devastating blow as well as possible given that The Family Songbook, his then …

There are a lot of rock bands trying to get as spacey as the surreal pop movement has been getting on both sides of the dial in the past couple of years, but others like Winchester Revival have been more dedicated to getting straightforward and efficient with everything they produce. …

Reeya Banerjee has a story that spans, nearly every corner of the U.S. Interestingly enough, she is actually of Indian heritage. The child of two New Delhi Immigrants, Reeya is also a second generation musician. Her Mother, a classically trained violinist, and her father, a pianist,  the former would introduce …

In the past couple of years, there’s been nowhere to turn but inward. Inside the house, inside your heart, emotions much like COVID numbers have been on a rollercoaster in the 2020s leading a lot of critics to start calling this decade the dawn of post-romantic surrealism, and listening to …

It’s been an interesting couple of years in Canadian music. Aside from the impact of a global pandemic, the underground has been turning out incredible talent the likes of which the American circuit has struggled to keep up with, and while he’s only started gaining traction since the release of …

“I’ll Be Right Back” from New York’s three piece The Dream Logic is the latest single from this rising force in the fusion/jam band vein. They don’t overwhelm listeners with batteries of sonic power, but you hear plenty of muscle throughout this track. Much of it comes from Camille Gainer’s on point drumming …

I admire how Dave Isaacs reins in the instrumental breaks for his new song “I Like What I See”. He gives us just enough of a taste from the tantalizing secondary musicians he’s working with that we understand even better how much the material means to him and, no less …

Many popular music fans of a certain age will think of Jethro Tull when they think of flute in a song. It’s a statement that probably dates me, but I don’t care. Steve Markoff and Patricia Lazzara’s flute driven duet “(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight” doesn’t recall the …