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!
Music With Michele – “Gordon Blues” – Single Review Pfffff. I can’t eat this! I got all excited there for a second or two. Way back when I was a young lad, back before there were buildings, the first meal I can ever recall eating in a restaurant was cordon bleu. To this very day, […]Read More
Continua – “The Beauty Of Letting Go” / “Underrated” – Singles Review “The Beauty Of Letting Go” is honestly quite an interesting choice to have put out there as a single…it’s got a fairly anti-typical design to what we tend to associate with tracks that can often be the gateway into the rest of the […]Read More
t dot est – MAD – Album Review I suppose the question is – is it possible that MAD could be better than the MAGICICADA EP? Anything is possible, even if it seems improbable, right? I already felt like that was one of the better records I heard in 2024 after reviewing the set of […]Read More
Timeseven – “Without You” – Single Review Been quite the productive year for Timeseven… A good one too for that matter. “When You’re Home” would still definitely be up there with the better tracks I’ve heard this year, and the single we just reviewed a couple weeks back called “When We Were Young” was also […]Read More
Ray Bally – Crisscrossing Boundaries – Album Review It’s not often that you stumble across an album where the title track is only twenty-one seconds long! So let’s see here…it’s been about…hmm…looks like around five years since we last featured Ray’s music on these pages of ours. Time sure does fly, as they say. We […]Read More
Swill – We’re The Dancing Dead – Album Review Interesting! Last time around, when I reviewed Swill’s last record Turn The Lights Back On, they instantly reminded me of hearing the fiery energy of early R.E.M., which eventually went on to audibly define the whole freakin’ Alternative genre. When I pushed play on We’re The […]Read More
Good Spells – “All In” – Single Review There are very few artists and bands out there in the world that could rival the sheer amount of identity in what Good Spells creates. If we’re talkin’ about consistency, this dude personifies it. Whether it’s the work ethic, the steady production, or the sound itself, Good […]Read More
Jesus Saves – Climbing Mountains – Album Sampler/Singles Review Ohhhhh…what’s this? Jesus-based music even a heathen like myself might be interested in? Cool! Although, I do appreciate the irony that the first band that came to mind in comparison to listening to Jesus Saves as I first started up this sample set of songs from […]Read More
Big Sexy – “Pretty Girl Blues” – Single Review It can be a damn good thing when you find all the right pieces in all the right places. I was pretty damn impressed with the first single I’d heard from Big Sexy at the end of September, and if you’re asking me, I’d tell ya […]Read More
J Holmes – Blood – EP Review Ayyyy…it is always rad to check out what J has been up to! “Ashes In The Rain” starts out this solo effort from J Holmes out strong. Vibrant bass from Daniel Gardner goin’ on…steady & solid drums from Warren Van Wyk…excellent pairing of guitar talents in what J […]Read More
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