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I didn’t expect this. I haven’t heard The Bangles’ 80’s hit “Talk Like an Egyptian” in many years so I didn’t immediately read the title for Joe Piket’s new single “Talk Like a Musician” and think, oh, hey, Joe Piket does The Bangles? It’s far from a literal cover. Long Island, New York’s “edgier Billy […]
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The Florida woods sound of Once Great Estate is captured in full glory on Even The Undertaker, as it makes no secret about it from song to song. This amazing Folk group go from subtle to intense at every turn, without going over the top with out of period modern factors. Each track remains true […]
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Thick, riddled with smooth overdrive, and tonally resonating with the tube amp-worshiping classic rocker in all of us, there’s no stopping the charisma of the riffage you’re going to hear in the new single “Mr. Darkness” from Vicious Kitty this fall. Rather than hitting us with a barrage of indulgent noise right off the top […]
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Off Front Street has eight of the most unique songs you’ll hear in 2021. No one can claim Parker Longbough isn’t engaged with life. Finding songwriting inspiration in subjects as varied as a gorilla saving the life of a three year old, champion sledder Dallas Seavey’s dog doping controversy, and time-tested topics like love after divorce […]
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With so much experimentalism blowing up in the underground at the moment, there’s been a lot of debate among critics as to what constitutes smart compositional dabbling and what is merely a cheap recreation of Sonic Youth, but in the case of the new record Tides from The Transonics, I think the talent of the creators speaks […]
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Americana is an easy label to slap on Ben Bostick’s new album Grown Up Love but misses the larger picture. Bostick utilizes an assortment of traditional instruments seldom used in modern songwriting and his influences skew towards the blues/folk end of the spectrum but, more than anything else, these tracks are an auditory document, an autobiographical statement […]
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Brielle Brown calms the storm, unleashes the human spirit of connectivity amidst an endearing pop/adult contemporary standard in her new single “She’s Come To Sing”. The track, from Brown’s The Well, draws inspiration from the idea of renewal, hope, sparking community and most of all, the idea of love. Furthering her artistry and presentation is a […]
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It’s rest assured that the state of songs from the great American songbook are in safe hands when it comes to Hughie Mac. One of Philadelphia’s most beloved local singers, and a prolific one at that, his most recent collection of songs, Hughie Mac Sings Some Great Songs Part 4, continues his sonic journey of bringing […]
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We want to get to know more about the heart of the art! What has been your craziest experience when creating your album? Oh wow… There have been a few. This album “Fly Around” had a very disjunct path to its birth. One of the craziest experiences was the fact that people were actually willing […]
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We want to get to know more about the heart of the art! What has been your craziest experience when creating your album? For ‘Cacophony’, it was definitely right in the middle of quarantine in June 2020. We used the thermometer gun thingy so much it was credited on the album! Social distance is fairly easy […]
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