Blue Moondust - Blue Moondust EP
December 21, 2023
Debut records are a lot like arranging the coup, throwing over the existing government and making it just in time for the prime hour at the national television station. Just what’s your first message going to be? Tying up the old generals and getting the president to sign…
Just Leila - just for me
December 17, 2023
The world out there is loud and desperately seeking to get your attention. It will stop at nothing to make you engage with it from the moment you wake up until when you’re ready to rest your head. What does it want with you? Is it anything so important that it should…
Reaven - Live Symphony Orchestra
December 17, 2023
Ever since Deep Purple’s Jon Lord wrote a number of rock numbers to be performed by bands and orchestras, songs written in the minutes right before taking the stage, playing rock tunes along with classical musicians has become something of a rite of passage.
Sure…
SWAN DIVE PITY PARTY - DOGDAD
December 16, 2023
Sitting through the final credits of a movie is exhausting. One would assume that only the people suffering from terminal boredom, or the feeble minded like to sit through it. Yet, we can all understand why those exist. Plenty of people have to work on a movie to get it…
Worth Lambert - “One or Zero”
November 30, 2023
It’s only relatively recently that the words “artist” and “commercial” could be placed together without sounding ridiculous. In the past, you either worked in the arts, serving the whims of a patron or were content to draw colorful pictures or write poems for your…
Paws on Ears - Hot Spoon, Cold Mango
November 26, 2023
If the old mythographers are right, then stories of heroes and villains are essentially the same. And, if that is true, it should mean that the same kind of stories told in pop music under its many guises must stay the same. Hot Spoon, Cold Mango avoids imitation on the new…
Beyond the Gloom: Best Doom Metal Albums of All Time
November 25, 2023
Doom metal is the slowed-down, pitched-down, doom-obsessed genre that worshippers of Black Sabbath nurtured and developed. It’s the soundtrack to the universe slowly grinding itself into dust. The genre quickly expanded beyond mere attention-grabbing formulas. Some of…
The Ram - The Ram’s Dead, Vol. 1
November 24, 2023
The great rock heroes were a lot like the American cowboys of the 19th Century. They were never in for their health, and the most that they got in exchange for their daring adventuring were a few legends told through song.
There’s every reason to feel a sense of…
Wonderfun - Wonderfun
November 24, 2023
People who can make you smile or genuinely laugh out until you cry aren’t many in this world unless you’re the kind of person easily amused by just about anything. In fact, there’s hardly anyone more important to add to your circle of friends than someone who can make…