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!
Haphazard – The Product – Album Review You know what I always tell ya…if I haven’t heard it, then it’s still new music to me! Listening to The Product by Haphazard was the audio equivalent of cracking open a time capsule. Little, if anything, is known about when the four motherfuckers that made it did […]Read More
Happy Curmudgeons – 2nd Chances – Album Review These dudes have been workin’ on this record for a minute or two! If you’ve been following along with our pages and postings, you’d have seen the first singles from this record pop up as Happy Curmudgeons continued to shape the album in the background. Tracks like […]Read More
Mark Baughman’s Working Theory – The Distance – Album Review Awesome to have this band back in the mix! I say band…it’s largely all Mark Baughman at the core of it, but he’s got the occasional guest along with him & such…you get it. I mean, he’s not just calling it Mark Baughman and leaving […]Read More
The Afro Nick – “Get There Before Noon (LA Mix)” – Single Review Alrighty y’all, we’ve got the one, the only, The Afro Nick in review here today! It’s okay if that name is brand-new to you, it was new to me too. In fact, as far as I can tell, “Get There Before Noon […]Read More
Ronald J. Fontenot – Black American Bard – Album Review While there’s always the possibility that just about anything will end up in my inbox and my speakers at any given point in time, I will completely admit that the Fantasy/Modern Medieval genres are still likely to be the least expected. It does occasionally happen, […]Read More
Root Cellar Xtract – “A London Rain” – Single Review Straight outta the root cellar and into our speakers…here we go. Admittedly, it took me a second or two for me to decide what I really thought about the sound of Root Cellar Xtract, because you really just don’t find a whole lot of this […]Read More
Fabio Cicala – “The Words I Didn’t Say” – Single Review For sure…I’m interested in this. There’s something very unique about the way that Fabio has composed this new single of his, “The Words I Didn’t Say,” and the only thing I might like better than how he’s written it, is the way he plays […]Read More
Marc Biala – “Te Enterré (Y No Volverá)” – Single Review I mean, hey, it’s definitely not a bad time to have been learning Spanish if you’re making music. In general, the cross-cultural vibes the Spanish sound creates has been taking over the globe and totally dominating the charts out there, so for sure, if […]Read More
Steve Markoff & Patricia Lazzara – “Stairway To Heaven” Feat. Dave Malyszko – Single Review There are so very few rules in music, and though most of them are unspoken even still – we all know what they are. Number one on that list? THOU SHALT NOT COVER STAIRWAY, NOT NOW, NOT EVER. And yet […]Read More
JJ Rane – Back Into The River – EP Review All the way over in Victoria, BC, you say? I’ve taken that ferry ride just a few hundred times myself! Rockin’ with that ‘Pacific Northwest’ sound according to JJ Rane’s bio online. For a second there, I was like, wait…is that really a thing? Aren’t […]Read More
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