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Swede and Skogen and Anthony Ruptak Reviewed
November 11, 2025
Swede and Skogen – Fly
You’re moving awfully fast there! You’re running through the crowd and not turning your head, regardless of who’s waiting to tap you on the shoulder. You know they want! Everyone wants to get you to stop long enough so that they can sell…
Nick Andrea- “Ve*hic*u*lar” Review
November 4, 2025
What if your favourite singer, somehow, never got around to recording the type of music that they should have? What if some great God of pop-rock would simply take the most talented musicians in the world and rearrange them into styles based on some equation that we cannot…
Elly Hopkins - “Animal” Review
November 4, 2025
How much would you entrust to a person who has been able to write the kind of song with which you’ve spent hours upon lonely hours? What would you let an artist who has hypnotised you with their works get away with? For most people, those who depend on talented, creative…
Billy Peake - “Manic Waves” Review
November 4, 2025
Billy Peake is now the artist who will make you look differently at the person parked next to you, that you see daily, driving their kids in an SUV to football practice. It’ll make you ask: “What kind of stories might they be hiding?” or “What secret plan might they…
Blue Tomorrows and oh, hooray Reviewed
November 4, 2025
Blue Tomorrows – Owl Creek Blues
Personally, I blame Joni Mitchell and all the Laurel Canyon songwriters. I’m sure that Bob Dylan, The Band, Eric Clapton and all the rock stars who professed to the benefits of moving to the country in order to record music there…
Gata Galactica and Mo Troper Reviewed
November 4, 2025
Gata Galactica – Arrópame (Manto de Luna)
The music magazines and websites that are still in business, and there aren’t many left, would like to convince you that every style of music is exactly equal in value to every other style. But that’s not true, nor are…
Buckaroo Banzaï and Southbound Snake Charmers Reviewed
November 4, 2025
Buckaroo Banzaï – Lost
Who are we leaving punk music to? That’s a question we should be asking ourselves whenever one or a few bands get successful on their own merits and a crowd of copycats piles in trying to steal some of the attention.
Sure, everyone…
Clint Frost and Lucas Delacroix Reviewed
November 4, 2025
Clint Frost – (Interlude)
The way that pop music has been sold and consumed over the years has made us instinctively feel about the people making our favourite songs in the same way that we feel about friends. But we’re wrong!
Most of the greatest songwriters…
From Atoms and Kyle Lacy Reviewed
November 4, 2025
From Atoms – Otherside
The rock music world used to be filled with shadowy figures who seemed to have accessed some kind of hidden underworld. There have been, let’s not fool ourselves, many artists who’ve written “Prince of Darkness” on their concert…