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 Vanilla Milkshakes – How To Ruin Friendships And Influence Douche Bags – Album Review Denver, Colorado…is this what you sound like these days? Well. Right-fuckin-on! Raw, energetic and full of grungy-hooks – The Vanilla Milkshakes have assembled a full album rooted in the old-school of the 90’s and boy did they stumble onto EXACTLY […]Read More
Arkane – Darkness – Album Review This is definitely an experience. Hunter Dollar, aka the musical-mind-of-mayhem behind the music of Arkane has jumped right off the deep-end…and I love it. This new album he’s about to release here in the Spring of 2015, Darkness, is full of dark-electro mixes and forays into dubstep and whatever […]Read More
Stocatta – “My Love Leave” – Single Review My love is staying. Apparently Stocatta’s is leaving. But if you’re anything like me…the instant love you’ll feel for Stocatta’s music will keep you intoxicated on their new single “My Love Leave” for long, long after you hear it for the first and twentieth time. Here’s something […]Read More
Alex Engstrom – “Paraletic Nights” – Single Review Brilliant – I mean that in every sense of the word. Sparklingly-perfect electro combination coming out in this new single from Alex Engstrom; addicting in every sound he’s chosen to include. Love the vocalist he’s found in Sofie Eng…wonderful sound there in her voice and she fits […]Read More
Antone – V2.5 – Album Review The internet is such a powerfully understated tool for music, even with as many of us being online as we are. So is timing, as ‘they’ continue to tell us…that much of our destiny when it comes to music exists on a timeline beyond our control which we may/may […]Read More
Snoop Dukk & MCW – Back In The House – EP Review You know…sometimes I swear…one of these days someone out there I know is going to attempt to ‘punk’ me with something that is going to sound very similar to this. If it wasn’t for some pretty damn spectacular ideas here…I might have assumed […]Read More
Vince LuPone – Embers Of Ares – Album Review This comes straight at you instantly. Madly intense drumbeats come flying out, guitar scales and solo-work instantly leaps out hard from your speakers; and with perfect precision, Embers Of Ares starts off with an explosion of a song in “Panic.” This is progressively edged rock/metal made […]Read More
Custom – Flat Out Fast – Album Review For those of you hoping that this was the mid-90’s laid-back band known as Custom…move yourselves along please…laid-back is definitely not the case on Flat Out Fast, the new album from Seattle’s version of Custom, born over a decade ago in the middle of 2002. Keep in […]Read More
Pyramids On Mars – “Battle For Rome” – Single Review Well…I mean all I’m saying is you just go ahead and TRY to find me music that sounds more like pyramids on Mars than Pyramids On Mars do! I’m also fully willing to admit I’ve never really heard the sounds of ANY pyramid before…or seen […]Read More
The Jimi Newton Project – 3.0: Uptown Funk – Album Review The first and most immediate reaction I had to the opening track “Make A Better Place” and sounds of The Jimi Newton Project resulted in a massive smile across my face. What a pleasant and moving sound; it’s a soft-side funk/electro with a heavy […]Read More
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