Heavy AmericA – “Pray For Me” – Single Review If you’re a fan of hard-rock done right, I feel like you’re on solid ground in selecting this new track from Heavy AmericA called “Pray For Me” – this should be something you dig. I am…hmm…I suppose these days less and less of a fan of […]Read More
One of the most dedicated & focused records of the year bar-none – Convey released their EP Speed Dial, a set of seven songs that absolutely blew the mind, led by an advance single of the same name. Even a killer video to support the release of “Speed Dial” as a song – and quite […]Read More
In a great year like this year was for independent music…my shortlist for this year’s top-10 was already bursting at the seams by the time it came time to add The Affectionates to it. I am very guarded when it comes to the most recent releases that make a list like this, whether or not […]Read More
Clyde Robinson – “R.I.P Clyde” – Single/Video Release There’s never any telling how far an imaginative project/video can take an artist in today’s world; having a defined style, image or point of view could blast you from living an everyday life into the spotlight overnight with the right viral approach or idea. No matter which […]Read More
Sometimes you stumble across an artist and in their music you can hear the sound of true authenticity…you know, those real songwriter-types out there that have been the poets of generations of history…’the real deal,’ as they say… One such artist in my humble opinion, is without a doubt, Joseph Tonelli, whose album Dust And […]Read More
Caramel Snow – “Sweet And Cynical”/”A Cold Dark Autumn” – Singles Review I’m not naïve! It’s impossible to have a look at the cover of a record and not get a first impression of what the music on it might be like…and I swear if you’ve written as many of these reviews as I have, […]Read More
If you were one of the fine people that checked into last night’s episode of the SBS Podcast – today’s nomination is no surprise to you! Within an entire list of bands/artists that made the year extraordinarily tough to select a final top-10…I decided to also sneak in today’s nomination into the lineup. Alright alright…wasn’t […]Read More
On today’s show we honor those that came just shy of making our official top-ten for this year’s SBS reader-voted quest for Best New Sound 2016…all bands/artists in this episode made even making a list at all an impossible task due to the incredible year it’s been for independent music. So let’s celebrate that and […]Read More
Some of the year’s most powerful, socially-aware and boldly-expressive tunes came directly from A Truth Called Nothing. We got the opportunity to review this band a couple times throughout 2016, at first for their incredible album Sluggerhand and then for their EP – the politically well-timed set of songs on The Orange Orangutan’s Revenge. A […]Read More
The Gangsta Rabbi – The King Of Jewish Punk #30 & #68 – Album Review The Gangsta Rabbi is all the proof you need that some people truly want to be heard. How each person chooses to go about that pursuit as a musician is of course an individual thing…there are many approaches…and if you […]Read More
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