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Santa Cruz by Rivers Garcia is a timepiece made of his own doing where he wrote and arranged everything, as well as played every instrument, produced, and engineered himself at his home near Toronto. But it is an Americana-based album about being on the open road in America, and tells stories of how he fell […]
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With a hearty swing and a vibrant, string-born melody to grab our attention right out of the gate, Johnny Riley wastes no time bring the smoky sounds of Texas blues home to us in “Johnny’s Boogie,” one of the thirteen songs occupying the tracklist of Riley’s new record Live At the Bluesberry Café. In tunes like […]
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“Sometimes loneliness can hurt,” Tom Tikka begins to explain in the first line of his song “Sweet Sugar” from the EP Insane, and as true as these words are on paper, they’re all the more cutting when presented against the sonic backdrop we find them in here. Insane features a Tom Tikka & The Missing Hubcaps who […]
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The Collect Pond have a fascinating EP entitled In The Garden. But there is a story to tell and it’s not all just about the music on the EP, but about the artist behind The Collect Pond and how this EP came to form and ultimately be released. It is the latest songwriting vehicle for […]
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Though they don’t play as big a part here as they have in other iconic rock songs, the guitars that lace 308 Ghost Train’s “Bleed Over Me” with sizzle are undeniably just as integral to the single’s chill-factor as any of the other elements in the music are. If you haven’t already heard their work […]
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Ominously drifting into focus, there isn’t much time between the introduction of the melody in “Jungle” and the arrival of its venomous verses from Rich Lindo, but in these brief moments we’re given special access into a world of darkness that will become all too difficult to escape in the next three minutes. In both […]
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“There might have been loud music / Lots of alcohol / I think it was that tequila shot that started it all” sings Russ Still through a foggy hangover in the new single “Cancun” recorded with his band the Moonshiners and out everywhere this coming July 30th. In this track, Still and the Moonshiners are […]
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Loud and monstrous, though consistently melodic throughout its running time, the new single and music video “Some Gave All” from metal’s Broken Past is as sonically profound as it is lyrically moving. A sludgy, riff-based composition that leaves all of the fluff and unwanted fat on the sidelines, “Some Gave All” is an instrumental beast, […]
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Intimidatingly slothful in “Run From Terror to Bring It Closer,” oddly seductive and ascending in “Keeps Getting Up,” the grooves that we hear in the new album Death of the First Person by Cinemartyr are never conventional, but they define the very backbone of this record and its most cathartic moments without question. Employed as a channel […]
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Whatever we can say about Impresario, he really means everything he sings. The passion and sincerity are the first hook that draws you in. The album art shows us a Closed Road, but Impresario takes small personal moments experienced during a home lock-down and paints them in a universal way. Is Whatsoever You Do about […]
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