Articles - Album Review
Shovels & Rope - By Blood
Halfway through the latest album "By Blood" from Shovels and Rope, Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst sing pleadingly, almost desperately, to each other, "Carry me home, I'm no good when...
John Shakespear - Spend Your Youth
John Shakespear’s first full-length solo album Spend Your Youth delivers a brightly atmospheric swell of nostalgia for childhood dreams and first romances – for simpler times. But Shakespear...
Silvertung - But At What Cost??!
Baltimore's Silvertung deal in a melodic but pummeling brand of modern hard rock with it's roots stretching back to mid-era thrash and late '90s nu-metal, but firmly accessible to rock radio...
Carsie Blanton - Buck Up
New Orleans conjures different images for everyone. Whether you’ve spent time there or not, odds are you’ve heard tell of the free-flowing libations, the Bourbon Street shenanigans, the colorful...
On a Mission by Bloody Times
Bloody Times is the brainchild of German metal musician Simon Pfundstein, a bassist and songwriter who has taken the blueprint Dave Grohl gave us in 2004 with his Probot project and ran with it; a group...
Dopamine Noir by Pain in the Yeahs
If you like music about isolation, blood and vampires, but still like to hoist a few with your friends, you will love Pain In The Yeahs new LP – Dopamine Noir. James K. Ultra started experimenting...
NOWthen by Rich Krueger
Rich Krueger’s earnest baritone voice, reminiscent of The Band’s Rick Danko, implores us to listen right from the beginning of his new album NOWThen. By day Krueger is a neonatologist at the...
"Late Bloomer" by Todd Morse
After more than two decades in the music business, Todd Morse is setting out to prove that age is truly nothing but a number with his debut album "Late Bloomer". Based out of Los Angeles, Morse...
Gasoline Gypsies - Vagabundos
All in their mid-20's and with a collective past of rock and bluegrass anchoring their sound, Port Huron, Michigan's Gasoline Gypsies are making the old seem new again. With a sound that's...
Sister Hazel "Wind"
Sister Hazel, for me, has always been about nostalgia. Looking back on the days of my youth, many were spent lounging around the public pool, "All For You" blasting over the poolside speakers...