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Grace & Honour The Shines – “Yahweh We Hail” – Single Review Okay…honestly, this is exceptional stuff. I kinda mean that by a couple of definitions when it comes right down to it. Exceptional, in the sense that it’s really, really good – and also exceptional, because it somewhat defies the rules in many ways. […]Read More
Todd Underwood – Outside – Album Review Ayyyy…whaddya call that stuff…symbolism? An appropriate match? A clever addition? Fitting? The opening track “Welcome To The Stage” starts out with crowd-noise cheering on the first track, and if that ain’t encouraging, I mean, what else could be? I just got back from a trip to the Sphere […]Read More
Sixty Miles Down – “This Is Me (Feeling Cold)” – Single Review Never forget y’all…when you get that moment of should-I or shouldn’t-I…that trepidation that tends to surround art or music that is unlike stuff you might have done in the past…that pang of fear that can strike you in the strangest way when you’re […]Read More
Sawyer – Happy Hour – EP Review And here we are, something like six years later after the first time I reviewed Sawyer’s music, starting out with three songs I’ve heard from’em before to open up their brand-new Happy Hour EP. Don’t get me wrong, it’d be hard to complain about a song like “You […]Read More
Paul Bibbins – Disenchantment At A Distance (REDUX) – Album Review Picture this with me…it’s 1969 at Christmastime…Paul Bibbins walks off the stage after rocking a stadium-sized crowd…gives Jimi a hi-five as they trade places…I mean…yeah…Paul’s still opening, because it’s Jimi-fucking-Hendrix y’all and even fantasies have limitations…but yeah…right at the time this sound would have […]Read More
Raw Soul – Journey // Destination – Album Review The new Raw Soul album opens with confidence and the strong voice you know at the helm as “Terra” gets things moving. With a series of verbal gymnastics being performed, where syllables are punched directly for emphasis bar after bar, “Terra” serves its purpose as the […]Read More
Marc Biala – Snowfall Serenade: A Christmas Celebration – Album Review All good things…as they say…come to an end… …but I was on a pretty incredible run, wasn’t I? I feel like I managed to escape the last two or three holiday seasons without any Christmas music being sent in at all…and if you look […]Read More
Guy Junior – “Love Me Again” – Single Review I’d definitely be encouraged to keep going if I was Guy Junior…there’s so much going right with his single “Love Me Again” that he could already teach some veterans of the game a thing or two, and considering that “Love Me Again” appears to be the […]Read More
Diamonds From Space – “Catch The Rainbow” – Single Review Highly impressive stuff from the mind of David Meixner in his new solo project Diamonds From Space – you don’t hear too many debut tunes come out sounding this complete. That being said, while it IS technically a debut single, let’s not forget the man’s […]Read More
Between Two Horse Pikes – Dome Sweet Dome/Nobody Cares – Volume 1 – Album Review I tell ya…sometimes it’s true, absence makes the heart grow fonder. It hasn’t even really been that long since we last had Between Two Horse Pikes on these pages of ours…it was only about a year & a half ago […]Read More
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