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The Versions and Tom DiCillo Reviewed
September 21, 2024
The Versions – Wake Up
The magic of strange worlds is always just a dream away. If tock music can still teach us anything in the age of the ultra-real, it is that. In fact, maybe it’s vital that we learn. In a time when every piece of news gets instantly filtered…
Top 11 Rainbow Songs: When Ritchie Blackmore Finally Got His Way
September 21, 2024
Rainbow was the brainchild of guitar magus Ritchie Blackmore and unapologetically an attempt to gatecrash the charts. With the side project active for more than two decades, Rainbow did manage to secure hits and, what’s more, to incorporate trends that varied wildly…
David Bowie - “Hunky Dory” Reviewed & Revisited
September 10, 2024
David Bowie, among his numerous and considerable talents, was a great archivist. Chiefly, he documented his life and interests. All major moments are represented. There is a haunting music video, “Lazarus,” shot just before his death. There are recordings and pictures of…
The Meaning of the Lyrics of Deep Purple's Classic Rock Anthem, "Smoke on the Water"
September 6, 2024
“Smoke on the Water” may benefit from featuring one of the most famous guitar riffs in the history of music, whose popularity even Ludwig van Beethoven might have envied. But the song is also a piece of mysterious storytelling.
No, it is not as I imagined…
Certain Death and Chapel of Roses Reviewed
August 23, 2024
Certain Death – Paranoid
It’s hard not to smirk a little bit when hearing all the internet personalities advertising a lifestyle where a greater quantity of fruits and whole grains are consumed. Surely, these people are Luddites. What’s next? Do I have to show…
Joy and the Wildfire and Velvet Dos Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Joy and the Wildfire – Tears in Brooklyn
Forget about AI and start embracing your artists before it’s too late! Embrace your artists because they are the best of what any society has! Any society that goes without artists, without creativity, without people gifted…
Constant Follower and MacGregor Burns Reviewed
August 19, 2024
Constant Follower – Whole Be
The history of rock music, and, by consequence, all of the styles that have sprouted from it, is, really, the history of instrument amplification. It’s the story of people fighting to make instruments sound louder, to make singers be…
Jimmy Mallia and Tyler Ballgame Reviewed
August 15, 2024
Jimmy Mallia – Had Em All
Humour is one of the elements that, fortunately, creeps into alternative music all the time. It helps the music feel as if it’s coming out of the left field as if the people responsible for making it have a greater vision than any of us…
Crones and Coydog Reviewed
August 5, 2024
Crones – Vegas Years
Everyone has a past. But for most people that involves having sat in a tiny room for years and years doing math exercises, or answering phones. For most people, their past is a series of endless, boring days which helped them get to where…