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Toyesauce and Favourite Armchair Reviewed
April 20, 2026
Toyesauce – Good As It Gets Anymore
Just try to listen to all of the great music that we’ve lost through the years because people were just too afraid to dance. You can’t even imagine it, can you? You can’t picture hard-rock, punk or heavy metal bands of the…
Tryzlador and Monolith Ascension Collective Reviewed
March 9, 2026
Tryzlador – Dragon Days
The trick, if you’re trying to sell entertainment, is to make all of the people in attendance feel like the singers, movie actors and fashion models are just like their cousin who has returned from Summer Camp with a bunch of stories that…
Top 10 Songs by Curtis Mayfield
February 18, 2026
There was very little that Curtis Mayfield couldn’t musically do or wasn’t brave enough to attempt. A great singer, fantastic guitarist, and daring songwriter, Mayfield is one of the greatest musical artists of the last century.
Yet, sure, much of his work remains a…
“Scar Tissue” was released Red Hot Chili Peppers just as the group would reach new levels of fame, and just as they’d overcome several nearly successful acts of self-sabotage. John Frusciante’s soulful Stratocaster-lead guitar riff might help to make…
Red Hot Chili Peppers professed to be the band you called upon when you desired bone-crunching funk. By the time they recorded “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” however, they were a group ready to embrace more sounds than ever before and styles and even deliver a few slow…
Superfónicos and Photay Reviewed
July 9, 2024
Superfónicos – Renaceré
The people who have everything are the most likely to lose it all. Those who have nothing not only have to acquire what it is that they need but also, if they’ve acquired the wisdom for it, periodically shed away some of the weight of…
Elle Shea and Forrest Of FangHorn Reviewed
December 28, 2023
Elle Shea – Capitalist Christmas
Genre: Jazz Fusion, Alternative Rock
One voice asks, “What do you want for Christmas?” Another voice replies, “I just want it to pass as quickly as possible.” I suspect that this is how a good deal of conversations about…
In and Out of Time: Paper Anthem and High Fade Reviewed
August 2, 2023
High Fade – Burnt Toast & Coffee
Similar artists: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Vulfpeck, The Fearless Flyers, Cory Wong, Graham Central Station
Genre: Classic Rock
High Fade resort to retro funk-rock as a means to grab your attention, but the band has enough…
Modern discipline: Arswain and LUC reviewed
November 2, 2021
LUC – Glow
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
There are a few things that made the drum machines superior to any drummer one might hope to employ. First of all, they play with incredible precision the parts that a normal drummer would get bored of and start to…