MUSIC REVIEWS

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 Coming Home’s title track than its guitar part, this doesn’t make its intro any less spellbinding. In this first …

We never stop growing, even when we think we’re done. Take rapper Cliz of his hit new drop “Find Myself.” He’s gone on record as saying that early on, he wasn’t the biggest fan of Rap or Hip Hop because he hadn’t really been exposed to anything that truly connected …

John McDonough’s new LP, Second Chances, is a stellar extension of his already full body of work. An entirely acoustic project, McDonough strips down his sound, to deliver an emboldened and impassioned performance. Sporting 10 tracks in all, Second Chances, features acoustic versions of select choices from McDonough’s previous efforts. …

There is a subtle air of mystique, surrounding R&B artist, Vianchi. His sound is easily categorized, but his persona isn’t as transparent. Hailing from Springfield, MA, he seems relatively new to the industry. We don’t have much material to go off, but his new single “Die [Alone]” shows a great …

Suffocating and inescapable. Surprisingly melodic and yet entirely focused on the intensity of its lyrical dispatches. There’s nothing but streamlined efficiency behind the venomous lash of DawgGoneDavis’ new single “Clean Slate,” and for those who have been fans of her previous work, a renewed sense of integrity on the part …

Simmering beneath the surface in a fuzzy hue, we discover the outlandish melodic tones that will serve as the centerpiece for “Tumbleweed Tornado,” one of the ten tracks to be heard on Bloom’s Taxonomy’s Foley Age this late winter season. Though the structure of the song quickly lends itself over to synthesized …

Your mama is your mama, but your daddy ain’t me, croons rising country star Hazel McQuade with experienced fervor. His voice wavers with an appropriate intensity but never reaches a crescendo that insults the other musical elements of the track. Like many artists stepping into the limelight during the post …

Jenson David is amongst a rising number of entertainers in the independent music sector officially having a moment. Ironically thanks to the pandemic, everything has turned digital – a playing field that has yet to equal the unevenness of the typical entertainment circulatory hierarchies. Aside from those achieving fame and …

The title of Ivan Comar and Gabriele Saro’s new release “Beautiful Stranger” reminds me of a Leonard Cohen song. Comar and Saro’s collaboration, however far removed from the often bleak wintery landscapes of the aforementioned Cohen, does share with the Canadian’s music undoubted intelligence that invokes a wealth of emotion. …

In his new single, a cover of Janis Ian’s “From Me to You,” Mark Newman dives surprisingly deep into previously unexplored layers of his own artistry through the lens of a classic songstress. The results of this experiment? Some of the more relevant and pointedly self-aware melodic statements I’ve heard …