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!
Franki Love – “Walking Wounded” – Single Review Much has changed in the life of Franki Love since we last reviewed her music and examined her single, song-writing & singing on her previous release “Lullaby.” Though we had only first uncovered her music just about 5-6 months back, in the process of listening we discovered […]Read More
Shadows & Mirrors – Dangerous – EP Review Some pretty inventive stuff coming out of the speakers this morning due to the dark-art & mischevious-music of Rockford, Illionois’ industrial/goth/electro/rock band Shadows & Mirrors. A set of rhythmic-grooves that pulse wildly like the beginning spurts of a jugular-stabbing; the music still has a ton of life […]Read More
Shelita Burke – Transfixed – EP Review Shelita Burke has put together a wonderful, mystical set of rhythms and melodies on her latest EP, Transfixed. Right from the drop as it opens – this lady stole my heart with an absolutely inspiring performance through her vocals…jazzy in the sound…there’s a lot of style and grace […]Read More
Sevencore – Collide – Album Review Well now! So far so GOOD! I gotta admit…seeing the name ‘seven’-anything makes me instantly cringe at the thought of the world possibly having given birth to another version of the band Sevendust, or Seven Mary Three while I was asleep on watch…and what a terrible tragedy that would […]Read More
Paint In Motion – Crush Love Heartbreak – EP Review You know something…these guys really get themselves. In reading the write-up for Paint In Motion, I noticed they took the time to mention that they’re songs are ‘reminiscent of 1990’s rock radio’ – and honestly I don’t think I could possibly agree more. And that’s […]Read More
Jason Daniels – Cinematic Dreams – EP Review Well…either the blues are defined by the aspect of a song containing a slide-guitar part…or I’ve got some strangely-labelled MP3’s here that definitely led me to believe I’d be listening to something that sounds a lot different than what I started hearing on Cinematic Dreams by Jason […]Read More
RhythmRug – “Near Or Far” – Single Review After having been introduced to the music of RhythmRug a couple months back through the single-review of the song “The Giver” – it was fair to still not quite have an idea as to what to fully expect when getting my hands on the new-single called “Near […]Read More
DWARF – It’s About Time – Album Review If the sound of the lead-tune on It’s About Time by DWARF is any indication of what’s about to come at me here in my late-night listening…I’m about to fuckin LOVE LIFE. The opening-cut, “Misinformed” is nothing short of brilliant alt-indie/pop-rock bliss…there are no overly-rounded edges that […]Read More
Charming Timur – Funhouse – EP Review We’ve interacted with Santeri Lohi and his music-mayhem several times throughout the past couple years and have reviewed the Charming Timur albums of the past, along with a review on his side-project TwelveOfConfusion and even as a guest already on our most recent efforts in audio through the […]Read More
Hailey Simone – Visions – EP Review Within the first minute of Hailey Simone’s new Visions EP you get a solid dose of the talented lyricism that will continue on to be one of the defining-aspects of what Hailey Simone has brought to the Hip-Hop genre with this new release. Using a range of talented […]Read More
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