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Germany’s Rob Georg sings what’s it like being a professional cowboy. The grit. The bloody and blistered hands. You could say the same thing about learning to play a guitar and even writing a song. He does ‘em both in the packed 15-song album Radio Cowboy. Relying more on strong storytelling then over-the-top music beds, Georg’s […]
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Mike Donello & the New Essentials simply have no time for the fluff that a lot of other pop groups would employ when making a debut record in their self-titled EP and its five lush tracks – on the contrary, theirs is a rookie offering that rejects the very notion of putting filler where genuinely […]
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Enormous melodies dressed as metallic daggers confront us with formidable strength in “The Earth is B flat.” The overdrive gets turned down while the tempo gets twisted in “This song won’t get played on the radio.” Darren Michael Boyd gets his funk on in “Was it something I said?” with just as much passion as […]
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Both aficionados and casual observers of rock have been vocalizing their desire to hear more vitality from the genre for a long while now, and in that spirit, the Florida underground’s Kings County are answering the call with a shot of life in the form of their new single “All That I Want,” a prime […]
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Las Vegas headquartered six piece Forgotten Door’s SELF-TITLED EP certainly pays tribute to iconic acts like Stevie Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac, among others, but there’s much more going on here. Their original compositions boast identifiable reference points without lapsing into outright imitation; it is as if Forgotten Door’s songwriting absorbed those lessons and transformed them through […]
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Full of as much ache as the vocal is, the glare of the harmonica’s melody at the start of Jonathan Emile’s new single “Moses” sets the tone for the entire song soon to follow in quite the Dylan-esque fashion. Charged with emotion and a raw vulnerability that isn’t common among the mainstream side of pop […]
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In his second record, titled Incendiary Heart, Andy Michaels throws out the rulebook when it comes to making a sophomore album and focuses solely on getting back to the basics of songwriting, and though this approach could rightly be described as somewhat minimalistic compared to what he did in Revisited, his 2018 debut, it’s an aesthetic that […]
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Guitars sizzle with just the slightest bit of electrified overdrive in “In Another World.” A gentle string section dances around us in a simple strut in “John R. Brinkley.” Melodies rumble with a menacing melodicism in “Wings of a Rumor.” “Beauty Amongst the Trees” calls out to us with its unrealized catharsis just as “Every […]
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Reverend Doctor! Thank you for your time today. We loved your single Dance Warrior, so we have to ask – do you have plans to release new music soon? Anytime! And thank you for the kind words! I’m glad you’re enjoying. I have lots of new music coming down the pipe. My next single, “Better […]
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In a violent stomp that sets the tone for all of the melodic carnage soon to follow, a fiery riff lays out a rhythm for Jupiter in Velvet’s “Forever & a Day” within moments of pressing play on this fifth song in the tracklist of Anthems 2 Love, Jupiter in Velvet’s latest EP. “Forever & […]
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