MUSIC REVIEWS

Suite Clarity “Duality” (LP)

Metal doesn’t have to be filled with a lot of excesses to win the attention of hardcore fans, but when it’s progressively stylized and given a powerful nucleus, there’s no debating how full-bodied a sound this genre’s best players can produce. In their new record Duality, rockers Suite Clarity aren’t pulling …

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Don Merckle “Alaska” (SINGLE)

The contemporary singer/songwriter movement has brought us a lot of different forms of magic in the past few years, but there hasn’t been nearly as much humility coming out of its underground as one might expect there should be. URL: https://www.donmerckle.com/ In a generation that has been as equally focused …

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Rising Force “A Force Rising” (LP)

From the moment the gargantuan riffage starts to come through our speakers with the opening track “Throw,” it’s more than obvious that we’re in for a thrashy rock n’ roll throw-down in the new album A Force Rising from Rising Force. Although there’s been some discussion of metal being somewhat irrelevant to …

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Haley Dreis “Cozy Christmas” (LP)

Some of the most iconic songs of our generation are Christmas songs; just ask Mariah Carey, who makes, I’m guessing, 95% of her net worth double every single December as “All I Want For Christmas” controls the airwaves for thirty-one days straight. URL: https://haleydreismusic.com/ There’s something incredibly lucrative about being …

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Daniel Andrews “Dirt Road Memories” (SINGLE)

Daniel Andrews is cut from a different cloth than the plethora of country performers you hear today. The Houston, Texas native has scored big with the single “You Make Loving Me Look Easy” and his follow-up “Dirt Road Memories” promises to further expand his growing audience. It’s the sort of …

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