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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…
Petunia & The Vipers and Ronjo V Reviewed
July 29, 2024
Petunia & The Vipers – Bible Preacher
The past is frightening, and I’m not talking about no Dark Ages either. We all tremble at some of the things that make the news today. But we feel this way because we know what we left behind not long ago. If you care to…
Greg Loftus and ASCOLT DERY Reviewed
July 20, 2024
Greg Loftus – I Don’t Want to Die in San Antone
It’s not just the people who earned so much from the record sales that they could afford to buy mansions and install gold-plated swimming pools in them, who were saved by making music, or any other art for that…
timothy e. cooney jr and O KANENAS Reviewed
July 8, 2024
timothy e. cooney jr – mountain blues (pleaded to go)
Any serious movement tells disciples to live in silence. It’s only natural that they would. Some movements do it because silent followers are also followers who don’t complain too much. Other clubs genuinely…
Colton Cerny and Old Pup Reviewed
June 27, 2024
Colton Cerny – The Fist Fighter
The world’s a safer place for many but also a much less truthful place. People won’t admit their feelings for each other, especially when revealing their thoughts, which would mean having to tell someone else just how much they…
Mama Juke and Chris Costalupes Reviewed
June 16, 2024
Mama Juke – Magnolia Skies
If you muster the patience and spend enough time on the plays of Shakespeare, the paintings of Chagall, or the music of the Grateful Dead, you begin to get what they’re about. Anyone who says that the works of these artists attracted…
The Low Flying Moons and Walk Me Home Reviewed
May 16, 2024
The Low Flying Moons – This Moment
Similar artists: Big Thief, Lomelda, Bonnie Prince Billy
Genre: Alt Country, Lo-fi Rock, Indie Rock
The biggest lie that the majority of rock bands tell their audience is that the good times will last forever. The biggest…
Isaiah Breedlove and GLIMTVIS Reviewed
April 24, 2024
Isaiah Breedlove – Existential Ache
Similar artists: John Moreland, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Genre: Folk Rock, Alt-Country
Jean-Paul Sartre once declined the Nobel Prize for Literature, saying it went against his beliefs to accept such an award.
Jonivan Jones and Andrew Savage Reviewed
April 13, 2024
Jonivan Jones – Runaway Main
Genre: Alt Country, Folk Rock
It’s not unusual for new band members to congregate aroun a bottle and discuss what their sngs will be about. Once enough of the bottle has been downed, the really good ideas start being spit out. Write…