BANDCAMP: https://straightsixrocks.bandcamp.com/releases Life operates in what often feels like circular patterns, with trends coming in and then ushering themselves out to give sway to the next “new” thing before swirling back around again some time later when its retro status declares it cool again. Music is a perfect example of this and the shift over […]
URL: https://freightrainband.com/ Buffalo, New York’s Robert “Freightrain” Parker returns with a nine song studio release entitled Outside Ourselves highlighting why this powerful musician has built such a following as one of the best “roots” artists working in American music today. Few artists of any standing would be so bold as to open their release with […]
URL: http://www.stephenwinstonmusic.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/stephenwinstonmusic/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/stephenwinston Unresolved’s nine songs are accompanied by rich and pleasurable arrangements, the instruments played with spot on skill, but the content of Stephen Winston’s songs will emotionally challenge you. It isn’t an exhausting experience, however, but an affirmative one instead. Winston turned to his art as a singer/songwriter to help […]
URL: https://www.buenosdiazmusic.com/ “Give Me One Chance”, the first single from Austin, Texas trio Buenos Diaz’s fifth album Gringos Novelas II, should thrust Nick Diaz and his band further into a much deserved spotlight. Despite surely being labeled by many as “indie rock”, the tag has little meaning with a song like this. There’s no ragged but right […]
Brooke Josephson’s new single, “Mr. Fix It (Rocky G Remix)” reminds me a lot of the city that she’s based in. Born in Warsaw, Indiana, Josephson’s life and career have taken her to various parts of the country, but she eventually ended up in the City of Angels amongst all of the other young stars […]
“Here we sit and have a conversation…” Rebecca Blasband serenades in the title track of her new album Here, and the very nature of the verse itself summarizes the tone of the record quite exquisitely. Here is a treasure chest of conversations that Blasband has with her audience, who have patiently waited for a release of this magnitude […]
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/3bTofvPL4FA3R4jX29uoJ6?si=6XdO4FULQ-yeUKyKxjU_oA With a flurry of gilded piano notes to guide her, New York City-based pop singer Severine sings of an impossible kind of love in her song “Lose Myself,” one of the highlights from her new album Feel the Rain. She poetically croons to us that she wants to get lost in the abyss that […]
The Chordaes’ new single “Venus” is an indulgent and atmospheric pop song in the style of post-rock, but don’t think for a minute that it observes any other set of ethics than the bold one championed by the New York based foursome thus far. Structured around a simplistic, ultra-trimmed down composition that dabbles in existentialism […]
URL: https://www.billabernathy.com/ The opening bars of “Can’t Go Back,” the first track of Bill Abernathy’s new album Crossing Willow Creek, welcomes us into the Kansas City singer/songwriter’s soul with a warm embrace, washing us in rich tonality and country-style twang. A message of holding onto your memories whilst letting go of the past is imparted to […]
This luxuriously mid tempo single “Angel Music Lover” will likely, to fully appreciate it, need to be heard in the context of its larger whole, a musical screenplay entitled Finding David, but is still quite enjoyable on its own. Davie Simmons, Andy Camp, and Esa Lehti collaborated in the 1960’s, didn’t find the much ballyhooed fame […]