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Top 100 Greatest Bassists of All Time (In My Opinion)

The most underrated member of a band is, almost without fault, the bass player. Then again, the reason why a band’s sound works or not will typically be the ability of the bass player. Hidden behind the greater crowd-pleasers of a band, the singers, lead guitarists…
8.0
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Clamsterdam and The Overjoyed Reviewed

Clamsterdam – Radiator There was little in this whole big world quite like the Ramones when they started out. And, quite famously, all they could rely on was the same chord played across the guitar neck and their strangely wired imagination about circus freaks, gay…
8.3
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Jonivan Jones and Afton Wolfe Reviewed

Jonivan Jones – Midnight Mosey There’s more that regular people admire about the true bohemians, other than their colourful scarves, their filterless cigarettes, and their ability to follow their own muse wherever that may take them. Yeah, those things…
Album Reviews

Nick Andrea- “Ve*hic*u*lar” Review

What if your favourite singer, somehow, never got around to recording the type of music that they should have? What if some great God of pop-rock would simply take the most talented musicians in the world and rearrange them into styles based on some equation that we cannot…
7.8
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Clint Frost and Lucas Delacroix Reviewed

Clint Frost – (Interlude) The way that pop music has been sold and consumed over the years has made us instinctively feel about the people making our favourite songs in the same way that we feel about friends. But we’re wrong! Most of the greatest songwriters…
8.5
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A-Mar and Funhouse Mirrors Reviewed

A-Mar – Hey Betty It’s all bubblegum. Every single pop record, the great and the terrible ones, is that way. And, I, somebody who has spent more time writing about them than phoning my family, am aware and alright with this.  But there are people who find it…
8.0
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Lindsey Buck and John DeNicola Reviewed

Lindsey Buck – Devil Inside Me There’s something that makes you want to test the credibility of the claims made by black metal bands or hardcore artists when they talk about the Devil as someone that they serve, like, or merely want to emulate.  If all that is…
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Justin Garcia - “Luz De La Luna” Review

What are the common fantasies of regular folks nowadays? Apart from marrying a Hollywood celebrity, most will mention a vague desire to live by the ocean. Some of them will say that they’ll buy a remote house on top of a mountain when they hit the big time. And there are…
Alternative History

Top 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time (In My Opinion)

The greatest drummers of all time are musicians blessed with impeccable timing who are diligently studied by those who want to play like them. Still, I suppose that if you go by Spinal Tap standards, they’re the folks in whose biographies bizarre gardening accidents…