MUSIC REVIEWS

Mesh fast n’ loud heavy metal with some danceable grooves tailored to the needs of an increasingly demanding generation of partiers and you’ll end up with something akin to the sound of Makes My Blood Dance, whose new single “Communion” is generating a lot of attention for the band this …

The Next Chapter is the new five-track collection from Evan Troop. Bulging with melodic rock guitar riffs, and a bevy of vulnerable lyrics, Troop champions his songs with a brazen voice laced with charms and natural melodies. From “Gone” to “Your Man” Troop tackles feelings of regret, self-doubt and even …

The video for &Friends’ “Let It Be” highlights all the positive attributes the musical collective exhibit on their debut single. DJ and producer Sean Thomas leads a project featuring the talents from different mediums – videographers, artists, musicians, and producers alike leave their mark on this song and video. Starting …

The easy strum of a guitar form a simple beat at the start of Nathan Harrington’s “Over the Mountain,” and despite the seemingly basic construction of the song transpiring before our very ears, there’s something very special taking place here that even the most novice of critics will be able …

The country sound of Water To Wine’s new single – ”Good Time’n” delivers a dash of freshness during the Covid lockdowns where music still thrives if you’re paying attention. The song gets into the whole subject in the lyrics as it brings its own remedy with it and that is …

When listening to the first thirty seconds of the new single “Holy Ground (Shake the Memory),” one thing becomes incredibly clear about The Dead Daisies – these are guys who take heavy guitar riffing more seriously than most anyone else in the game these days. There’s so much focus on …

Lyrics can do a lot for a good rock song, but when you’re working with the kind of muscle that a band like Tsunami of Sound are in their new single and music video “Motor Oil,” they’d only get in the way of the group’s mission. For Tsunami of Sound, …

In his new single “The Covid 19 Christmas Song,” David King Jones is taking on Christmas music in a different way than his peers and getting as real as it takes to breakdown the truth this holiday season. 2020 has been a year unlike any other in recent memory, mostly …

Imagine the heartache of losing a child – now take that pain and suppress it for decades. What would that song be like, would there be any joy? Alex VanTrue, a singer who tackles songwriter James Fairchild’s heavy, sorrowful memory in the moving “Replay” recalls what can’t be forgotten. A …

In his latest single and music video, titled “Can You Take It?,” rock singer/songwriter Greg Hoy is getting fast and loose with the foundations of his sound but hardly abandoning the ethic that has brought his career this far. Exploring the electrifyingly warm tube melodicism of a classic rock sound …