MUSIC REVIEWS

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 …

No matter your talent or your name recognition in the industry, it’s pretty hard to put a unique stamp on a song like “O Holy Night.” It’s material that just about everyone on the planet has covered at least once it seems like, and worse yet, it’s the sort of …

Pop reached a point of stagnation once more about two years ago that has seen some of its best players experimenting with the parameters of their own sound in the time since, and in this spirit, Christopher Watson’s “Truth Is” delivers perhaps the perfectly progressive R&B experience to suit the …

From dusk ‘till dawn, the streets to the rooftops, Neff Nuffsed is on a mission to unleash high grade trap vibes in his new single “Stranger Things” with Mr L-BO and Mic B, and although the video for the track is rather elaborate, it lives up to the energy of …

Christmas music isn’t as easy to make as you might think. The classics are, well, the classics, while new content can be polarizing for the very reason that it hasn’t been playing in the background of every family Christmas for the past fifty years; however, in the new single/video combo …

You don’t need a lot of lyrical substance with a groove that is plenty communicative in its own right, and if there’s one track proving this beyond a reasonable doubt right now, it’s the new single “Hold On” from Qvntro. From the moment that we meet the sturdy bassline at …

We’re four minutes into the music video for the fifth installment in Sonarpilot’s The Mirage Project, titled “Cathedral,” and it’s as though a symphonic string section is overtaking the speakers with an electropop dynamic literally born in the heavens. There’s so much that we’ve already experienced in this song by now, …