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!
Underlined Passages – Tandi My Dicafi – Album Review A duo based out of Baltimore, Underlined Passages combines the talents of Michael Nestor on guitars & vocal duties and Jamaal Turner on the drums. With a brand-new album about to come out on September 15th of this year from the Mint 400 Records label, Tandi […]Read More
Adam Exler – You – Album Review Adam Exler seems like one heck of a nice guy. He’s got himself a shiny new record full of bright rhythms and passionate songs. He’s got a brand-new website and new videos to support the album. He’s also got supreme motivation and inspiration guiding him on the material […]Read More
Black Note Graffiti – “Such Is Art” – Single Review Yup. Thumbs-up to this. Black Note Graffiti have the kind of difference in their sound & approach to rock that makes all the difference in the world in setting them apart from the rest. The work, effort and focus is clearly being applied in massive […]Read More
Nate Utley – Infinite Potential – EP Review Dig the beard on this guy! All music aside for a brief moment, one bearded-brother to another, game gotta respect game you know what I’m sayin’? This guy grows a thick face bush! Nice work Nate. Anyhow…so…we’ve got Infinite Potential here eh? I’d say that’s pretty damn […]Read More
Hayley Lam – “Being Alive” – Single Review You know…I honestly don’t know exactly what I was expecting with the music of Hayley Lam…but I can sure tell you what came through my speakers moments after pressing play felt like an extraordinary surprise. Perhaps I was caught judging a book by its cover for a […]Read More
Kozie – “Fly”/”Life’s A Bitch” – Singles Review I’m positive that other music-reviewers like myself must go through similar moments. For those of us that are continuously listening to tunes day & night…not gonna lie to you…even as much as I personally enjoy it, after the years start to pass, sometimes you just want to […]Read More
Channel K – Super Queen – EP Review Alrighty then! I like stuff like this…a different side of rock. Channel K, based out of Houston, sounds like they burst onto the scene last year and have been found onstage playing live all over the place as they readied the material for their now-released Super Queen […]Read More
Copus – “We All Bleed Red” – Single Review And the message read simply: “Greetings! We are Copus from San Francisco CA. Copus is an acronym for Creation Of Peace Under Stars” – that was all it took for me to be interested in what I might hear from this new four-piece band…I dig that […]Read More
Cheena Black Monrow – Black 2 The Future – Mixtape Review I’m stoked to find out how this story of Cheena Black Monrow turned out; she teased us in 2015 with the Black 2 The Future Promo and I’ve been wondering what became of the full mixtape, and now here we are – Black 2 […]Read More
Black Astronaut Records – The Walrus, The Ninja, And The Gypsy From Sydney – EP Review As promised, the Black Astronaut Records project returns again this month – this time with a new EP. Charles Luck and his crew bring out some of their best for this release; it features vocalists InZane, Vedo and Gyro […]Read More
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