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Kai Tak x Draag and Orange Element Reviewed
January 6, 2024
Orange Element – Don’t Leave Easy
Similar artists: Radiohead, Wunderhorse, The Black Keys, The Smashing Pumpkins
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
No matter how hard things ever get in life, remember that there is likely a recipe for your problems.
WATERBODY and Red Scarves Reviewed
December 28, 2023
WATERBODY – Sinking Road
Similar artists: Wye Oak, The Cure, Blonde Redhead
Genre: Post-Rock
Words do often get in the way, as the great poet Richard Ashcroft of The Verve, so poignantly claimed. In few places, is that clearer than in politics and in rock n’…
Shrimp Olympics and hesitant Reviewed
December 28, 2023
Shrimp Olympics – big planes (that i’m in)
Similar artists: Elliott Smith, The Beatles, R. Stevie Moore
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Just what it takes to turn pro? In music, as in most other businesses, the rules seem to be the same. There’s a focus on…
Alberta & The Dead Eyes and Mike B & the Universe Reviewed
December 28, 2023
Alberta & The Dead Eyes – Bundled Up Blues
Similar artists: Billie Holiday, Skip James, Feist
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock, Alt Pop
It’s a wonderful thing to consider you might not be the starring character in your story but rather an episodic one…
Elle Shea and Forrest Of FangHorn Reviewed
December 28, 2023
Elle Shea – Capitalist Christmas
Genre: Jazz Fusion, Alternative Rock
One voice asks, “What do you want for Christmas?” Another voice replies, “I just want it to pass as quickly as possible.” I suspect that this is how a good deal of conversations about…
22 HERTZ and Beach Blues Reviewed
December 21, 2023
22 HERTZ – Wrong
Similar artists: Nine Inch Nails, Stabbing Westward
Genre: Pop Rock, Alternative Rock. Alt Pop
Fan fiction is a relatively new phenomenon and entirely different from mere imitation. The former suggests such a deep love and understanding of…
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…
Islands and allblacktemples Reviewed
December 19, 2023
Islands – Headlines
Similar artists: The Unicorns, Father John Misty, The Shins, Vampire Weekend
Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Dream Pop
Commercial artists nowadays know that time can be their greatest ally or worst enemy. Without exception, every artist…
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…