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The Criticals’ Mimosa Hygiene packs quite a punch despite featuring only six tracks. It is a testament to how quick Cole Shugart and Parker Forbes established a shared language for their songwriting as The Criticals; these tracks play with all the confidence of a far more traditionally established unit than a neophyte band marking their debut release. […]
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Sociallusions – by And The Black Feathers, contains four songs that deal with the optics of society and the illusions it produces, but it’s done in a fun manner by seasoned musicians from the Denver area, playing music influenced by the 60s and 70s when MC5 ruled and you could actually be seen and heard […]
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The guitar parts in the debut album from Sarah Lee Langford, Two Hearted Rounder, aren’t necessarily the only reason why I would recommend that audiophiles check out the ten-track LP this November, but they’re undeniably just as much of a centerpiece as Langford’s own sensuous serenades are in songs like “Watch Me,” “Bar Stool” and “Coattails.” […]
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Strings as soft as silk form a delicate, colorful harmony as “The Legendary Fist of Takinawa,” one of nine songs found of Jeremy Rice’s Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa, takes shape before us, but there’s a cloud of hesitation that follows its reverberating warmth. The fragile landscape is quickly shattered with the appearance […]
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URL: www.chrismardinimusic.com In his debut single “Retrospective Outlook,” teenage up and comer Chris Mardini delivers a multilayered melodic treat inside of a mere three minutes and change. Driven by a stadium-quaking bassline and a cutting lead vocal from Mardini himself, “Retrospective Outlook” is a very ambitious composition for any singer to undertake, and yet this […]
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One second they’re slinking around in the background like a thief in the night, the next they’re in our face and punishing any melodic element that dare enter their path with a forceful grind as evocative as any of the harmonies surrounding it are. Grooves the size of skyscrapers are everywhere we look, but they’re […]
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A cathartic strum that is as freeing a sound as you’ll hear on a new album this year stokes the first flames of a burning-hot melody in “This Moment On,” the first song that we hear on Dave Vargo’s new album Spaces in Between. It’s simple strumming and it’s easily one of the most evocative and […]
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A cathartic strum that is as freeing a sound as you’ll hear on a new album this year stokes the first flames of a burning-hot melody in “This Moment On,” the first song that we hear on Dave Vargo’s new album Spaces in Between. It’s simple strumming and it’s easily one of the most evocative and […]
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In his latest album, titled Welcome to the Edge Times, Jon Patrick Walker gets back to basics and explores his depth as a lyricist in a way that he never has before, and to describe the results of his efforts as quite sterling would be an understatement to say the least. In songs like the title […]
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Chances are, you are already ruining your potential to succeed in the music industry because you believe in one or more music career myths. How do I know? I am sent e-mail messages on a constant basis by tons of musicians (all seeking the answers to the WRONG questions). These are questions that may seem […]
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