MUSIC REVIEWS

The new single from Emodulari, “Craniotomy,” is probably pretty close to what you expect it to be with the artist name and song title. Or conversely, you may not know what to expect at all. What we get is a little over 4 minutes of madness, hyper-focus, deficit, and even …

The vibrant sound of King Cole’s “The Mean Season” grabs me from the first and doesn’t let go. Having a sparkling vocalist such as J. Buck helps the song’s cause a great deal, but Cole’s long songwriting experience plays an important role. Cole knows how to construct a pop song …

They say everything human is finite and there is nothing new under the sun. Others say we live in an exhausted world; genuine inspiration, individual creativity, and a willingness to push the envelope are scant and, instead, it’s everyone for themselves, man the lifeboats, the end is nigh. It is …

The Damnedest Thing  is the 20 Year Anniversary reissue of The pulls 2000 LP. Yet it feels as relatively fresh as it probably did, two decades ago. The Pulls are a self-described Pop Punk outfit, but their initial impressions tend to lean towards the latter. Though the album boasts seventeen …

How do we define what is cool in 2021? AV Super Sunshine has an answer to that question, and he’s ready to share it with the World. AV’s new single, “Super Cool” is as figurative as it sounds, but he seems to be at least somewhat, literal. One could argue, …

Have you ever found something you wrote a long time ago and thought “oh man, this is not good” and no longer indicative of who you are as a person? Tom Tikka can’t relate with the debut of his masterful EP That’s What Winston Churchill Said. Across six tracks written …

Nashville talent Jeremy Parsons takes a comfortable step backwards with his new album Things to Come. It’s an ironic sentiment for sure, and in no way is it a regressive artistic movement, but I will say that something about this album doesn’t quite spark the same way his last album …

“Love At First Sight” from singer/songwriter Andre Mayon is riding a second wind. Released in mid 2020, Mayon capitalizes on the song’s success with a companion music video out now. No doubt drawing inspiration from the song’s sensitive inner thoughts, Mayon’s classy video is yet another reminder that this Naperville, …

When David Bowie released his final album Blackstar, it was heralded as his finest work in ages especially since his nearly two decade absence. Many of the critics at the time were taken aback by the lack of powerhouse glam inspired or funk tracks in favor of a more stripped …

2020 was a year of immense change and hybridity within the alternative rock genre, and not just because of the culture that grew out of political and pandemic discord early on. From top to bottom, the alternative lexicon has been getting a makeover thanks to the insurgent efforts of a …