Death Castle – Crash Landing
Were the early years of rock n’ roll really part of much more innocent times? After all, here were musicians writing dance tunes for a world comprised of people that had just spent years trying to kill each in the deadliest…
Qwinn – Fall Down, Fall Up
In a bizarre twist, making music stores obsolete comes at just the right time to save you from emptying your wallet. While many people might be complaining about the lack of great, new music, I argue that there has never been as much good…
Ruff Majik – Who Keeps Score
OK, let’s face it. As fans of popular music, we tend to use originality as a criterion for valuing a group’s worth in the manner that best suits us. Greta van Fleet receives a lot of criticism for sounding a lot like a…
Bang Bang Jet Away – Long For This World
Bob Dylan arrived in the world of rock music as a fully fleshed-out character. With a fresh name, new identity, and a voice that seemed to come from the body of a 50-year-old gold prospector obsessed with Woody Guthrie, Dylan…
Soul powered: Ruber Taurus and Mal Hombre reviewed
March 17, 2021
Mal Hombre – Dig That Hole
If rock music is going to keep being scary, it will have to work really hard to compete with the truly frightening things that dominate the news and our everyday existence. Somebody with clown makeup on burning the flag is unlikely to have…
Summer Birds – Gutless
Here’s to the brave men and women making music their lives, but not necessarily making a living out of it. Here’s to their commitment and loyalty that borders on insanity. It is because of them that music moves forward and that we…
Classic modern: NO MONEY KIDS and Marcus Piña reviewed
February 15, 2021
Marcus Piña – Great Divide
If it is true that music is able to transmit what words fail to, then in these trying times, we need it more than ever to offer solace and some semblance of guidance. With the problems of the world many, and hard to define, it only seems…
Soul picking: The Grunion and Jonah Leatherman reviewed
January 16, 2021
Jonah Leatherman – Couldn’t Find Any Reason
Boogie music and Southern rock have acquired a pretty nasty reputation over the years. As someone not from the U.S.A. I can only assume why. However, I’d also like to state how surprising this feels when judging…
Storm is brewing: Crooked Spires and Bunko reviewed
January 16, 2021
Bunko – Angertainment
Everybody’s angry nowadays and interested in politics as if it was their own next of kin running for office. Never has the world been more divided. However, at the same time, never, or at least not in recent memory, has the world…