ALBUM REVIEW: V/A, “Soul Explosion”
What was created as a centerpiece of a “movement” was born out of necessity and urgency. Fifty years after its initial appearance, it’s a landmark of greatness, pure and simple.…
What was created as a centerpiece of a “movement” was born out of necessity and urgency. Fifty years after its initial appearance, it’s a landmark of greatness, pure and simple.…
Memphis’ Southern Avenue has just released their sophomore effort, Keep On and in a word, they do just that – they keep on. Their self-titled debut in 2017 turned a…
Jean-Michel Jarre’s sequel to the groundbreaking original Equinoxe (1978) is likable. That’s part of the problem. In the past ten years, electronic music has been crowned the king of all…
Maybe in our heads we can still move mountains, but our aches and pains reveal another truth.
The sophomore album from Brooklyn, New York’s Girls On Grass is an even bigger thrill than their debut; from the first beat and guitar notes, you know that this band…
There is a handful of bands that I actively look forward to new music from, but only a small subset of this will get the pre-order treatment. These have earned…
The music media has made a lot of Billie Eilish’s debut full-length album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, and for good reason. The 17-year-old, a Soundcloud…
I once wrote that Ron Anderson is the best kind of madman. Today, with Bestial, his trio PAK’s fourth LP, he again proves he’s worth all the breathless, rave reviews…
The Campfire Flies are a songwriter’s dream sextet, bringing together some of New Jersey’s most acclaimed indie-rock writers and performers: John and Toni Baumgartner and Ed Seifert (Speed The Plough),…
Bovio has long since established her status as a vocalist in progressive metal with Stream of Passion, Ayreon, and MaYaN. On Through Your Eyes, she welds the bombast of a…
What makes Pittsburgh quintessentially Pittsburgh? It’s a good question, one with an urgency the national media’s been mulling for more than a decade (and, in past iterations, for generations) now,…
If Rodan’s Rusty is the butterfly on its ripe-peach-hued cover, the newly released ’93 recordings are the budding chrysalis. And they are something to behold. So, first, a little back-story…