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Cliff Root and Drew Manchego Band Reviewed
September 9, 2025
Cliff Root – Holy Visions
You don’t need the misery, but it certainly helps. And, if your quest is to become a great artist, finding something to fight against is almost guaranteed to be a requirement. Kids imagining themselves playing big stages and having…
You Citizen and Max Rauch reviewed
August 31, 2025
You Citizen – A Hard Appeal
Developing a musical obsession early on in life and spending most of your waking hours worrying about this particular thing is the kind of energy that can sustain you throughout life. But you have to be smart about what you obsess…
Velvet Sun and Lenox Hills Reviewed
August 28, 2025
Velvet Sun – Empire
For the most part, rock’ n’ roll is an exercise in populism. It’s a game in “I not them,” and in “are you in, or are you out?” It only works if great groups of people congregate to praise it. Just like the political rallies or…
Katy Guillen & The Drive and Jeremy Serwer Reviewed
August 28, 2025
Katy Guillen & The Drive – Outcome
There’s a growing trend for movie streaming services to commission documentaries on old alternative rock bands, weirdo movie makers and misunderstood artists. All of them, without exception, are tearjerkers.
In these…
Jacob's Fall and AyoDylan Reviewed
August 28, 2025
Jacob’s Fall – Like the Leaves
What are your favourite rock stars doing this very instant? Don’t snicker! It’s probably nothing like what the movies taught you. Or, to be more accurate, it isn’t anymore. Those stories of debauchery are reserved for an…
Eduard Banulescu - "Things You Wouldn't Believe" Review
August 24, 2025
House wishing. What a hobby to have! What a way to spend the hours of the day! And it’s getting more and more popular with millions walking through fancy, ungated neighbourhoods, looking up at the residences of what they can only assume are people better off than they…
"Just" Meaning by Radiohead Explained
August 23, 2025
Radiohead was always set for art-rock immortality, right? Well, for a while, it looked like the English group was set for one-hit-wonder status instead. “Just,” one of the greatest rock singles of the ’90s and the songs from “The Bends” changed…
“Interstate Love Song” by Stone Temple Pilots is one of the truly great alternative rock songs of the ’90s. It was one of the first songs that the Scott Weiland-fronted band managed to deliver that was nearly universally liked.
Why were people so suspicious of…
Eduard Banulescu - “Winning Ticket” Review
August 20, 2025
There are winners in this world. There are losers. And then there are the people lucky enough to get to write about them. And, since very few of us get to be observers, let alone innocent bystanders, those who have been afforded this luxury had better give a lot of…