Our in-depth album-reviews reflect the sincere passion in the way we listen to the music of the independent-scene. Representing genres of all-kinds and offering honest insight into what we hear in effort to do our part to assist artists/bands in the evolution of their sound – we do our best to highlight the positives and offer objective constructive-criticism with added personality and quality you can truly see. Your music deserves it!
Phantom Of Pop – “Unbreakable” / “Find The Light” – Singles Review Now…I don’t wanna break the mystique behind our hero the Phantom Of Pop here, because the dude is quite happy to remain an unsolved mystery & such…but I will tell ya that if the music we’re hearing is indeed being written by just […]Read More
DocFell & Co. – Frequencies And Vibrations – Album Review That’s a pretty steady clip there DocFell & Co. – Frequencies And Vibrations is the 5th studio album from the band in about nine years or so…a mighty impressive average of 1.8 years for every record, nice work. Even if “Summer’s Gone,” and I’m writing […]Read More
Carquake – Shit’s Fucked – EP Review More than five years ago, when I started listening to a band called Lounge Act Jam, I knew I was listening to something severely special in the music Alan Yang was making. He’d go on to make more of it, which only confirmed I was right, and then […]Read More
mentalEscape – Big Bang – Album Review Hellllllllll yeah! I ain’t gonna lie, I get super apprehensive when I get two records submitted in fairly close two, and even more-so when I really dig the first one I end up reviewing. Similarly as to how it’s practically impossible to follow your best song on an […]Read More
Jah-Femi Telewa – “Swollen Beast” / “GOOD Man” – Singles Review For sure, I’m interested. I’ll tell you this with complete certainty though…I don’t think in my twenty-five years of music journalism that I’ve ever come across a song that’s barely over ninety-seconds in total length that comes with like, two pages of information to […]Read More
Zimmira – “Tik Tock” – Single Review Pop and its many sub-genres has definitely been enjoying a very strong start to 2025 so far. Add Zimmira to the growing list of artists contributing to that – I really dig what I’m hearing on her brand-new single “Tik Tock.” She has an absolutely stellar voice, radiates […]Read More
TSAX – “Amen” – Single Review Testify! I love saxophone. If there’s one thing I might love even more than saxophone, it’s saxophone paired with piano. So heck yeah, you had me at hello with this new single of yours TSAX, without a doubt. As for the rest of the stuff you’ll find in the […]Read More
Michael Raven – “Bends It Like A Guitar String” – Single Review Country…you’re such a weird genre these days. I guess that’s what we’re supposed to call this track? I dunno…I don’t really feel like just going with what I’m told by hype or by press releases…especially when my ears tell me something totally different. […]Read More
Southern Avenue – “Found A Friend In You” – Single Review To be honest, I don’t think these titans really need a stamp of approval from the likes of yours truly, though they’ll certainly get one. I actually ended up watching a live performance from Southern Avenue before I heard the recorded version of their […]Read More
Alwyn Morrison – “The City” – Single Review Ayyy! Why not pair a nice upbeat vibe with devastating lyrical misery? I ain’t saying that it’s not insightful – I’m sure Alwyn Morrison would know better than I would. I’m way over here in Canada listening to his impression of what it’s like to live in […]Read More
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