MUSIC REVIEWS

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 …

Strings and synthesizers dance in a decadent synchronicity. They’ve got a swing in their step and a bounce in the beats that they’re forging out of thin air. The percussion kicks in, and Demola’s soft serenade comes into focus next to a honeysweet violin melody that is surreal, airy and …

URL: https://www.richardlynchband.com/ The latest album from Richard Lynch, titled Think I’ll Carry It On, starts off in red, white and blue-painted grandiosity with “We’re American Proud,” a countrified American anthem that sets the tone for the eleven erudite tracks that will follow it. The hustle and bustle of this opening …

Pop music has been a boring follow for a lot of us in the last couple of years, but outside of the mainstream, the underground has been producing some really rousing content courtesy of artists like Matthew John, whose new record The Best of Matthew John is hitting record stores …

“Beaming Right Up,” the debut music video from Makes My Blood Dance, mixes old Hollywood class, dirty hard rock grit, erratic grooves that swing harder than most and some simple, band-centric shots that don’t waste our time with a lot of needless frills but manage to leave us on the …

Derek Davis has demonstrated the rare ability for moving between various musical styles and delivering his artistic vision convincingly in each form. His quarter century association with hard rock band Babylon A.D. has produced an impressive body of guitar driven work, but Davis’ interests reach into other areas like soul, …

There aren’t many singer/songwriters alive today who have the same depth of emotion in their work that Lauren Crosby does, and her capabilities as a composer and crooner are on full display in her latest record, the unapologetically stylish I Said Take Me to the Water, which is due out …