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…
Mystery and misery: walt and Robert Connelly Farr reviewed
December 18, 2020
walt – anon. #11
walt is an interesting musical project, and one difficult to pin down. But, being that this is a music review, this is precisely what we’ll be attempting. Our disclaimer, however, is that this is by no means an exhaustive definition of what…
No retreat, no surrender: Dear Misses and Volk reviewed
December 14, 2020
VOLK – Welcome to Cashville
It almost feels like all the ideas that make it through on VOLK’s Welcome to Cashville have been pre-approved by the Commission to Save Rock n’ Roll. And, if worth saving, then rock should remain quirky, loud, humorous. These are…