Field Hospitals and Batterfly Reviewed
February 8, 2025
Field Hospitals – Sister Jane
No great artist was, to begin with, an original. They all copied others. The trick in their eventual greatness is whether or not they decide to take on as masters and copy someone good. You can try and replicate Five Finger Death Punch…
Beware! Beware! and Dan Krochmal Reviewed
February 8, 2025
Beware! Beware! – Disco
People from the high life don’t write great novels, songs or paint wonderful paintings. Why would they put themselves to the grind of creating them? They must already have enough things to entertain them, including anecdotes from other…
Magana and Juno Dunes Reviewed
February 3, 2025
Magana – I’m Not Doing Anything
The modern music documentary has been a plight of several generations of would-be musicians and artists who have grown up enjoying them. We should all be familiar with the Behind the Music format that all docs now use. Act I…
Matt Maltese and Rose Hotel Reviewed
January 31, 2025
Matt Maltese – Anytime, Anyplace, Anyhow
You gotta force people to hunch in to listen real closely if you truly want them to hang on to your every word. You gotta say little and make every sentence count. And to do all of that, you may counter popular belief and…
Honeysucker and Mystery Friends Reviewed
January 31, 2025
Honeysucker – New Dust
Most people are looking for something to destroy them. But it’s a big decision, of course, and it’d better be worthwhile. There are many things that can turn your life upside down, have you counting stars in the daytime and make you walk…
Big Building and Mall Gag Reviewed
January 29, 2025
Big Building – Just Can’t Take It
Rock music, if it will survive, won’t do it on the power of nostalgia. And, it certainly won’t be offered any pity by all of the bedroom producers who have figured out how to create a club or even stadium-filling sound on…
B. Hamilton and Drew Friel Reviewed
January 29, 2025
B. Hamilton – Back in the Line
Show don’t tell! That’s the advice given to every aspiring writer. Yet, most of the songwriters crafting songs nowadays spend more time telling you what they think they did than letting you decide.
B. Hamilton is here to…
Eric Cannata - “Holding Onto The Holy” Review
January 29, 2025
The Boy Who Cried Wolf wasn’t ignored by his peers because they were shocked about what he’d told them or because the message was unfamiliar. People who had heard him before had simply gotten no joy. Facing a disaster may have brought them together. But with so many…
Mike B & the Universe and Famous Friend Reviewed
January 22, 2025
Mike B & the Universe – The Alamo
Do you talk all the way through listening to your favourite song? Do you call people on the phone and have full conversations while watching a great movie? And, I bet you don’t think about your grocery list in the moments when…