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Breezy the band and Parallel Reviewed
July 5, 2024
Breezy the band – Telemaster
If you live in a smallish city or in one that is reduced to being a cultural wasteland, you should look after some artists, as they were albino tigers. Make sure that they are careful crossing the road, careful with what they eat, and…
Mayflower Madame and closebye Reviewed
July 1, 2024
Mayflower Madame – Paint It All in Blue
Music is a great way to focus on things and pinpoint problems. It doesn’t even matter when the things being put into focus are terrible, saddening, or grotesque. In fact, it helps. Life happens to be much less predictable…
Long Distances and Nicole Marxen Reviewed
June 16, 2024
Long Distances – Lovesong for an Apocalypse
Can you imagine how much work must go into fashioning a world-class athlete? Think about all of the hours of training, visualization, and mental strengthening. And is that not just something that the athlete has to do?
Sunset & Plankton and King Whisker Reviewed
June 11, 2024
Sunset & Plankton – Smoked Eyes
New blood is vital for every music genre’s survival. Art movements are just like vampires. They must constantly be stimulated by youthful bodies willing to give themselves. In this case, it is a cause for which hopeful artists…
Aura Bora – Sour Skittles
Similar artists: Cub, Tiger Trap, Charly Bliss, Chumped, Martha
Genre: Punk, Pop Punk
Bands nowadays tend to resemble a bride dressed all in white that’s been forced to walk all the way to the supermarket after a rain storm.
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys and Pamphlets Reviewed
April 13, 2024
Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys – The Whale Song
Similar artists: Jungstötter, Hendrik Otremba, PJ Harvey, A.A. Williams, Emma Ruth Rundle
Genre: Gothic / Dark Wave, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Has the world ever truly needed poetry or their words? Yes!
Touching and Slower Avenue Reviewed
April 12, 2024
Touching – Cauldron
Similar artists: Trent Reznor, TV On The Radio
Genre: Gothic / Dark Wave, Indietronica, Indie Rock
Pop music can only talk about a few things. And pop audiences know this. It’s why when a pop singer dares to try and stretch out, they…
Lol Tolhurst co-founded the legendary goth/alternative-rock band The Cure with his friend, future frontman Robert Smith. By 1989, however, relationships between Tolhurst and the rest of the band had soured, and the musician was fired from the band.
Coming undone…
What is the Mysterious Meaning Behind The Cure's The Hanging Garden?
September 12, 2023
The Cure dug deep into themes of alienation and depression for their 1982 album “Pornography,” and “The Hanging Garden” is one of the album’s best-known songs. Today I’m looking at the making of the song and the assumed meaning behind it.