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Kenny Sharp and The Life on Mars Reviewed
January 9, 2026
Kenny Sharp – My Own Good
Punk may not be dead, as some of the kids still insist, but the blues is sure breathing heavily and coughing loudly. But how did we get to this? By killing it slowly and with kindness, for the most part, I suspect.
Most of the…
Ma Polaine's Great Decline and Ojahara Reviewed
December 11, 2025
Ma Polaine’s Great Decline – Gasoline Can
If you look at passers-by and try to guess their stories, if you’re conservative enough in your estimates, you’re going to be right nine out of ten times. But don’t flatter yourself! It’s not because you are an…
People in a room negotiating how much noise each of them can make is something that simply cannot be beat. But it’s not like many haven’t tried. Since the dawn of rock n’ roll, those in the business of selling music have tried to find easier-to-control, cheaper…
Afton Wolfe - “Ophiuchus” Review
December 1, 2025
It’s impossible that great artists doing their work with a guitar were just… people. We all know that Robert Johnson was given his powers by the Devil, George Harrison was a yogic teacher tasked with infiltrating the world’s biggest pop group and Bob Dylan is William…
Twin Dive and Sock Drawer Reviewed
November 25, 2025
Twin Dive – ievelė
Sure, there are numerous music fans who desperately just want things to stay the same. They’re the ones who used to send angry letters to bands’ management offices whenever their favourite group dared to embrace a new direction, and they’re…
Top 10 Songs by The J. Geils Band
November 15, 2025
The J. Geils Band was made up of mad, bad, and dangerous to know blues players who, by the 1980s, had become a successful pop group. Fans of either one or the other era were never quite able to reconcile the two extremes. Still, I believe that both are worth your time. The…
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…
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…
Bells Deep - “Fog” Review
October 22, 2025
Bells Deep makes music that makes you feel sorry about the state of the world and glad that you’re hearing about it from particular sources and closing your ears to all others. If, indeed, for all these years, you’d have trusted most of the pop stars anxious to give you…