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!
The Spice Lads with Blunt Objects – Minor Miners – Album Review “Enjoy at your own risk — your aural palate may never be quite the same…” Ohhhhhhhh you know a statement like that is gonna get my attention, yes indeed. And as “Icy Fingers” started up Minor Miners, I felt like I knew exactly […]Read More
LunariaN – Refined Anomalium – Album Review You don’t often run into stories like you’ll find in LunariaN, a four-piece Experimental Rock band based out of Jakarta, Indonesia. First of all, they’ve been on a hiatus for the past seven years. Secondly, they were around for at least five years before that if my math […]Read More
Blunt Objects – Blobjects – Album Review Always awesome to have this man in the mix once again…I’ve been having a great time listening to the music of Bill Owens in his various projects and bands throughout this year, and hopefully there’s a few of you out there that have been feeling the same way […]Read More
Merit Maker – Pick Ups And Put Downs – Album Review Well would ya look at that…it was already a couple of summers ago since I was last reviewing the music of Merit Maker…amazing how time flies. It’s a name I remember though, so credit where credit is due – this Punk project led by […]Read More
Shannon Shea – “Card Castle” – Single Review I tell ya folks…”Card Castle” might not be your typical debut tune or what you’d exactly consider to be part of the ol’ soundtrack of summer…but Shannon’s on solid enough ground for sure. In its own way, the timing of the release is as metaphorical as the […]Read More
Margarita Mantis – Ocean Of Life – EP Review As depicted by the artwork you see coming with this new EP by artist Margarita Mantis, the ol’ Ocean Of Life ain’t exactly easy to navigate. From what you’ll read in her biography online, she’s not exactly what you’d call a novice in the game of […]Read More
LAZORE – “Just Another Day” – Single Review Have yourself a year brother-man, go on! LAZORE has had no problem at all establishing his name in the game in 2023, and to be completely truthful with ya, it’s not at all tough to understand why that is. Some folks are fortunate enough to possess a […]Read More
Chris Chafin – Music Like Before – Album Review There are many aspects of the story behind the making of this record that made me wanna cheer for Chris Chafin. A ton of you out there will likely find it quite relatable yourself, and if you ever get the opportunity to check it out, I […]Read More
Digital Escort – “Dirty” – Single Review Well now…ain’t this interesting? Who said that DE was dead? It’s only been about SIX YEARS since Digital Escort was kickin’ out a series of hardcore Industrial jams – and yes…you can count me among the folks that started to assume they’d packed it in as a band. […]Read More
Dracliminal – “Summertime Sadness” (Drill Remix) – Single Review Call me crazy, but it just seemed like the most appropriate time to release this review was to wait until we were all officially in the summer season…because who doesn’t want a little sadness to go with the heat, am I right? Producer Dracliminal has been […]Read More
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