MUSIC REVIEWS

Rolling out of the darkness with a gust of distorted guitar venom, The Cutthroat Brothers’ “Psykik Chemist” opens in a haze of overdriven strings that are quickly met with a rollicking percussive beat which launches the bludgeoning bassline into the spacey atmosphere from where it was first plucked. There’s some …

Saddle of Southern Darkness, aka SOSD, is the brainchild of brothers Trent and Chase Williams, and they bring metal and country together like that of no other on the single “Killbilly” which is graphically depicted in the promo video, but the song itself is quite a twang-fest crossed with a …

Clipped, yet melodic, guitar work opens Integriti Reeves’ single “Eu Vim Da Bahia” (“I Came From Bahia”) with such finesse that I was a believer in this song seconds in. The unobtrusive shake of percussion enters the arrangement and Reeves herself comes in with the certainty of a singer who …

Good electronica uses textured beats to appeal to every one of our senses simultaneously, much in the same way that rock n’ roll provokes an instant reaction through its physical grooving and razor-sharp licks, and for listeners who are looking for a little of both in a new release, you …

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mariela.band/ Critics can’t seem to stop talking about the experimental sounds of the burgeoning American pop underground lately – and for good reason. Beneath the surface of mainstream commerciality, indie artists like Mariela are creating a brand new strain of alternative music that is as indebted to the surrealist …

Marching out of the darkness and into the light, a slick beat finds Jasmine Bleile ready to bring the house down in the new single from her Satellītes project titled “Love & Darkness,” which is out now everywhere that independent music is sold and streamed. The bass is shadier than …

Good music can be a lot like a time machine; it can transport us back to the era or place where we first discovered its melody just as often as it can evoke imagery of people and past celebrations us with its lyrics. In that spirit, Joseph Eid’s “Listening to …

“Take a walk / Around the block / Down the hill / And through the park” sings Liz Kennedy in the opening verses of her latest single, the patient and chilling “Hike Up Your Socks,” with a graceful groove shadowing her every utterance. Kennedy’s voice is dripping with a vulnerability …

Bulldozer riffing powers the opening track for Holy Beach’s full length debut All That Matters is This Matter. The churning trajectory of “Ships Off the Coast” pummels listeners without fail and the vocals maintain a balance between outright lung-busting screams and finessed contributions. There are atmospheric shifts in the song’s dynamics …

On the back of a brooding acoustic melody, Dane Maxwell croons with his heart on his sleeve as his new single, “Where I’m Seen,” begins to take shape before our very ears. The guitar aches with a yearning that is impossible for anything but unbridled love to satiate; in Maxwell’s …