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!
David Omlor – Entropy – Album Review On solid ground & shaky emotional terrain! And ya get’em both – all in one! Right here in this first impression of David’s music, if you’re like myself and haven’t heard it before this record Entropy here, that’ll likely be what hits you instantly – it’s really well-assembled […]Read More
Brad Byrd – “State Line” – Single Review I don’t know exactly what I was expecting outta you Mr. Brad Byrd, but this certainly wasn’t it! This was so much better than any hopes I could have had, no matter what they could have been prior to listening. I sometimes forget how much that ‘Alt’ […]Read More
Merit Maker – Judgement Calls – Album Review Fun related fact for ya…the debate over whether or not it’s spelled ‘judgment’ or ‘judgement’ is one of the hottest grammar battles you can have with wordsmiths out there on the internet today…just sayin.’ Technically-speaking, both are considered to be correct…but I’m not even kidding, look it […]Read More
Souleye – Hunting Teardrops – Album Review You know him, you love him, and hell, so do we, clearly – this is our sixth review on Souleye’s music in as many years! We hinted pretty loudly about this record dropping back in February with the release of his single & video for “Ghost Steps” – […]Read More
JC Lane – Automatic – EP Review Alrighty…technically, this EP is SO NEW, that it’s still pretty much under wraps for now. As far as I’ve been informed, outside of their producer, I’m the only dude out there that’s heard this stuff at the moment…though the savviest among us will have noticed JC Lane’s lead-single […]Read More
Galliano Sommavilla – “Homeward Bound” – Single Review What a truly gifted musician this guy is…he’s connection to melody can be downright uncanny. So! Here we are…back again to discuss the music of Mr. Galliano Sommavilla, currently based out of Australia, and according to all reports, is still healthy and on the right side of […]Read More
Galliano Sommavilla – “Space Travel” – Single Review Hey now…there’s a name I always love to find on my playlist. Many of you likely remember us getting right into the music of Galliano Sommavilla last year in a whole variety of ways, up to & including his eventual appearance in our annual top-ten list of […]Read More
Lounge Act Jam – Everything I Cherish Easily Disintegrates Into Dust At The Lightest Touch – EP Review Now THAT is a record title I can get behind. Think about it…not only does it sound cool, but if I can somehow put Everything I Cherish Easily Disintegrates Into Dust At The Lightest Touch EP in […]Read More
Ashton Martin – Growth 4 – EP Review The man and his attitude ARE the hooks y’all. Lemme explain. For the vast majority of my time spinning through the new Growth 4 EP by Ashton Martin coming out on the 26th this month with my advance copy over here, he’s given me plenty of reasons […]Read More
Sebastian Azul – Singles Review Sebastian Azul is gettin’ his Quincy Jones on here. At first I had thought I was reviewing an album until I had a look over the set-list and noticed it had all the songs listed in alphabetical order…which doesn’t happen all that often. Then I searched for an album title […]Read More
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