7.5
Seth Portenlanger and Amanda Pascali Reviewed
June 26, 2025
Seth Portenlanger – Hiroshima Lollipop
What’s the last truly great folk song that’s been written, and who sang it? While some might be subscribed to the Jesse Welles folk-news account, most others will shrug to tell you to buy a very early Bob Dylan album and…
Hadnot Creek and Real Ones Reviewed
June 16, 2025
Hadnot Creek – Sailor
Writers who spend years trying to come up with a great, colossally innovative idea are just wasting their time, or that of their patrons. All the good ones are taken. But don’t despair. They’ve always been taken.
Indeed, realistically…
Skies Unfold and Trevor Sensor Reviewed
June 16, 2025
Skies Unfold – Bombed
What do you get for all your sorrows? Regular folks like us just get a bunch of headaches, stress and, if left untreated, some nasty stomach ulcers. That in itself is enough to convince you to embrace tools that make you feel…
MARK NEVIN and Bicentennial Drug Lord Reviewed
June 11, 2025
MARK NEVIN – Shining On The Hill
Oh, how easy it is to hate musicians, and, for that matter, artists of all types nowadays! It comes, especially easily, if the person doing the mud-slinging happens to live in a place where hard work, toil and stressing over problems…
Jess Kerber – Carry My Home
How far do you hope that your music will be able to travel? That’s a question that every aspiring songwriter should ask themselves and try to answer truthfully. There is no shame in wanting to spread songs to every corner of the…
Meret Ester - “Taken by Surprise” Review
June 2, 2025
What’s life but a series of dreams that we can never fully comprehend, and who could possibly stand it if it were anything other than that? But dreams can only be found among cliffs and at the bottom of the oceans. There’s no easy way to reach them. You’ll need a guide…
There’s always an exception to the rule. And, we, as music collectors, hope that it’s the store, the streaming service or the critic that will reveal it to us. When they fail to locate it on our behalf, our instinct tends to be to blame the evil music biz bosses and…
Todd Adelman and Star Moles Reviewed
May 20, 2025
Todd Adelman – Another Bloody Mary Morning
We pay good money for our rock stars to be better than ourselves. We want to see confident people on stage who are able to do and say the things that we cannot. And, we’d prefer them to lead the kinds of lives of which we…
Dipsea Flower and Pat Hatt Reviewed
May 16, 2025
Dipsea Flower – Kiss The Sky
Reality’s got a wicked sense of humour and a way of stopping things before their time. The great young athlete gets injured before they can earn a trophy. The preacher who’s going to change the world gets shot by accident. The…