MUSIC REVIEWS

The music video for “Some Girls” by Penelope Robin opens in darkness, fading into a scene where Robin is playfully dancing in a park in a picturesque city. A melodic piano strikes away at glassy keys, and she starts to sing in her trademark velvet-soft voice. “Some girls want everything” …

Bursting at the seams with a colorful resonance just dying to penetrate the speakers and impart unto listeners its natural warmth, a delicate set of guitar strings piece together a melody that wraps around us and doesn’t let go for anything. It’s joined by a blustery bassline, aching vocals and …

FACEBOOK: https://m.facebook.com/Scatter-Swept-302057330669284/ In Modern Remains, an all-new collaborative album from post-punk practitioners Brookhaven & Scatter Swept, atonal white noise finds itself fused with studded harmonies and gripping grooves that seem intent on stirring a reaction out of us. Songs like “Centerform” and “Already Moving Away” break through the speakers with an …

URL: http://gotimeband.com/ Drums explode out of the silence and come to life before our very ears in “Hard to Pull the Trigger,” the first of nineteen tracks in Go Time!’s incredible album Midway, out this winter everywhere indie music is sold. The white noise of the amplifiers is manipulated and forged …

URL: https://www.stephanierosemusic.com/ I loved Stephanie Rose’s Sprout from first listen. Rose has a lot of nuance, but she’s thankfully the sort of songwriter and singer who shows her cards from the start and doesn’t traffic in much, if any, artifice. The EP has an assuming sound on some songs, leaning heavily on …

If you’ve been hanging around the Seattle music scene as of late or keeping tabs on its burgeoning underground R&B community, you’ve likely caught word of the rising star that is Ronnue, whose music combines elements of R&B, soul, funk and pop to bring an energy of the old guard …

BANDCAMP: https://toymoonmusic.bandcamp.com/ When it comes to making music that adheres to a no-rules philosophy, few bands rise to the task with the spirit and passion that experimental noise rock trio Protovulcan do, as they demonstrate in their new record Life is Twigs/Psychic Pinball. Divided into two distinct sections and consisting of …

URL: https://www.terryohms.com/ Terry Ohms’ Terryfirma boldly goes where few alternative rock albums are will to go anymore – beyond the limitations of contemporary pop and into uncharted sonic territory – in what is arguably the most robustly arranged collection of songs that 2019 has seen so far. Terryfirma isn’t your run of the mill …

Dizzy Box Nine returns to the stage with Pop Fantasy, the follow up to their 2017 debut Electric Illusion. This is a full-length LP with a ton of musical style and creativity on the offering. The group is led by Randy Ludwig, who himself is a bit of a musical …

Sexy melodies and muscular rhythms meet blistering, raw tonality in the brand new EP Cal-Island: Season 1, from California’s own Sex People. Sex People are a new arrival on the scene but have anything but an amateurish vibe to their agile, tightly wound music. Cal-Island wastes no time sinking its urbane teeth into …