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!
Bradley Gillis – “Santa Claus Is Rockin” – Single Review You wouldn’t have even believed the look on my face in realizing that in this ONE day, Christmas has been declared apparently…as I’m currently about to review my second Christmastime song of the day while it has yet to pass by Halloween or even start […]Read More
Bad Mary – Killing Dinosaurs – EP Review Credit to this band…when I started up the Killing Dinosaurs EP by Bad Mary my first thoughts of comparison drifted right to the stylistic New York punk-scene…and as it turns out, that’s exactly where this four-piece band is plugging-in on the regular and base their music from. […]Read More
Chainflower – The Broken & Lovely – EP Review Big riffs and distant-drums echo throughout the first tune on the two-song EP from L.A.’s rock-band Chainflower, “Lewd Blues.” With just as much in common with classic-rock as it has with modern-day relevance, “Lewd Blues” stands-out for its combination of blues & rock wrapped into an […]Read More
The Fox & The Hounds – Peachy Keen – EP Review I had to look this one up despite being sure I hadn’t heard the music of The Fox & The Hounds…I wasn’t entirely sure we hadn’t come across them in the past somehow… As it turns out, I did look it up…and no, we […]Read More
The Last Surrealist – Hypogean Blood Fractals For A Hypnagogic Sleep – Album Review Happy birthday to our man Chris Romans of The Last Surrealist, the singular musical-mind responsible for the music made in his project; I say happy birthday sincerely…but I make sure to say it twice as the odds are, this might be […]Read More
Rev. Peter Unger – “Christmas Cards” – Single Review Here’s the thing…I’m just going to toss this warning out there to the entire independent community towards the end of October, which seems entirely too early for me to be doing so, yet the situation has already reared its carolling-head towards me…so I shall continue; make […]Read More
School Friends – Coma – Album Review I’ve been waiting to get to this one for a while now! Something about the cover of the School Friends album and the laundry-list of players on the album gave me the suspicion that this was something I was going to potentially enjoy very, very much. No one […]Read More
Chemical Refugee – “Therapy Song” – Single Review Much like the band we reviewed earlier today when uncovering the music of Shobocon, Sydney Australia’s latest offering in the psychedelic/music combination, Chemical Refugee, are amping up the excitement and putting everything they have into their music right now. Releasing a song per month until their album […]Read More
Shobocon – Shobocon – Album Review If my eyes don’t completely deceive me…I think we’ve actually got our hands on a band from Duncan, B.C. Canada…I haven’t been able to find any hard evidence of that other than a familiar area-code to the phone number listed in their contact information – but if that is […]Read More
B.O.Y. – Be Only You – EP Review There is a discernable amount of distinct talent within the all-female, R&B-meets-Trip-hop group B.O.Y. on their smooth sounding EP, Be Only You. The chilled-out vibe in the pulse of the music contrasts with the empowering & seize-the-moment sentiment of much of the lyrical content, making for a […]Read More
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