MUSIC REVIEWS

2019 was a landmark year for independent music on multiple fronts, and while there have been no shortage of intriguing trends to follow in the last twelve months, certain movements – surreal pop, the reprisal of melodic hip-hop and self-aware country music among them – were simply impossible to ignore. …

Living up to its title and then some, Ronnue’s epic LP Introduction 2 Retro-Funk was a runaway candidate for Indieshark’s Album of the Year Award right out of the gate, combining a plethora of influences from across the pop music spectrum to form a uniquely melodic effort from a one …

With a fiddle’s excited cry, “Something About A Train Sound” starts off Irene Kelley’s Benny’s TV Repair with a swinging optimism set to a bluegrass harmony unlike any other we’ll hear in the other ten songs on the album. At the end of this track, we immediately jump into the simplistic strut …

Hunting Memories, the 20 song album by Visual Artist Tahiti Pehrson, is everything is would seem to be once you’ve been through the entire track list to find a cool album worth recommending. ABOUT TAHITI PEHRSON: http://www.tahitipehrson.com/ “Smoke Screen” is an instrumental track with some tasty guitar and keyboard interplay …

I knew I was hearing something special and individual only a minute in. Griffin Holtby’s single “Overgrown” isn’t a song that grows on you. I think it is a track that speaks to you on its first go-around because it contains such emotion and melodic style that you can’t resist …

Anthems 2 Love, the latest record from Jupiter in Velvet, starts amidst waves crashing on a deserted beach somewhere in “A Cooler Shade of Mad,” hinting at the distant surrealism that will be a theme throughout the next five tracks that come after this opening cut. A fuzzy guitar and …

The third album release from Kerry Pastine and The Crime Scene, City of Love, promises to be a transformative addition to Pastine’s growing discography. Pastine rates as one of the best vocalists today, regardless of genre or gender, and her commanding presence throughout the album’s title track and first single elevates …

Brimming with fresh pop color but as strong a rock n’ roll force as one would expect them to be, the powerhouse guitar parts found in The Inoculated Canaries’ new single “Donna” are laced with adrenaline and spiked with just a dash of polished swing as to get anyone listening …

In “The Statement is the Answer,” the opening salvo of guitar-driven sonic devilry forced out of the speakers by Parker Longbough essentially sets the tone for all of the violent melodies that will soon follow its four minute introduction to Green and Gold/Drink the Hemlock, Longbough’s latest release. A kaleidoscopic new …

Alone at first, a piano stumbles into the opening of “When You Think No One Loves You” like a lonesome drunkard looking to find some solace in the loving arms of a local pub, but only a few seconds into this new track from David Leask, Leask himself enters the …