MUSIC REVIEWS

In a short, simple country song like “Tiki Bar on the Beach,” it really doesn’t take more than just a couple of seconds into the track for listeners to immediately get a feel for what the music is all about – and in this case, the material is everything its …

There’s a new normal taking the music industry by storm, partially thanks to the last year being such an abnormal one; young artists are using their insider knowledge in regards to social media being so finicky and intricate in its usage, and the knowledge they have is giving them more …

I am a firm fan of Melanie Rogers’ latest single “R.U.O.K”. Her previous single release “Fever” played like a fresh breath of musical air during the pandemic and announced the arrival of a major new songwriting talent. I predict Rogers will not toil for long in semi-obscurity and will, with …

Long Island singer/songwriter Joe Piket has earned a variety of well-meaning labels over the years but defies them all. His idiosyncratic songwriting shares a common frame of reference with older performers such as Billy Joel, among others, but his album Everything is Different feels more like a wholly personal release than his …

Led by its ethereal melody, entirely synthetic in substance and yet capable of drawing us closer in the same way an acoustic instrument would, “What This Means” has all the guts and glory of a lead single like “Little Waves” or “When the Lights Go Down,” but as a deep …

Bill Abernathy’s new EP release Who Are You, Who Am I? is a four song collection continuing in the same vein as his past two releases 2017’s Find a Way and its follow-up Crossing Willow Creek. His preceding efforts have experienced considerable commercial success charting on the Roots Music Report Traditional Folk category, winning December …

The standard of living in Finland really does seem like it’s the best. Seriously, look at the fact that it’s been voted the happiest country in the world for four consecutive years. Even when faced with the daunting aspect of six months of winter and darkness, there’s a heartfelt community …

It’s said that the only constant in life is change. For Rohan Solomon, his patience is being tested. With his new single, “We Demand Change,” Rohan Solomon puts racism on blast, and does so with a combination of sorrow and zeal. “We Demand Change” is a song that is demanding …

Raine Mara has fronted several bands in the Texas indie punk scene for almost twenty years and, when her last band MeanGirls broke up in 2019, Mara saw an opportunity to pursue long-deferred solo aspirations. She spent the bulk of the COVID-19 pandemic writing, producing, and performing her debut solo …

Jeff Lake & Cellophane Flowers “Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows” The chaos of the instruments. The raspy melodic cry of the vocal. The incomparable thrust of the percussion in the backdrop. Yes, these are the most recognizable traits one thinks of when recalling the rich listening experience …