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!
Evin Gibson – “Instant Fire” & “Alarm” – Singles Review Evin Gibson is definitely onto something here… Checking into his latest single, “Instant Fire” – I think I might have just discovered one of today’s future songwriters in the R&B/Soul/Pop section of our lives. The song embodies a familiar style of modern soul, almost bringing in […]Read More
Big City Love Affair – Atlantis – Album Review Warning: If you’re one of them…you know…music-purists who believes no remix is capable of holding ground to an original version…you might wanna grab a snack and busy yourselves while the rest of us get our collective-awesome on and start shaking things up with the new tunes from […]Read More
Professor Oak – Planet X – Pre-Release Review There are some incredible sounds cooking up in Professor Oak’s musical-laboratory. With sounds and beats from all kinds of styles & textures, the music is hypnotic in the best of ways; it really holds your attention as the songs display a true range of dynamics as they drift […]Read More
Tommy West – Frequencies Of The Sun – Album Review You can’t fool me Tommy…I know what I’m in for here… Loading up the official website of Tommy West at biggreenuniverse.com will not only take you to the music…but to a very telling background accompanying it. Look at that beast of a guitar! Brightly colored in a […]Read More
Jason Knapp – In January – Album Review There were two things that hit me when I was completing my first listen through Jason Knapp’s new album In January; the first was an instantly feeling of ‘man – this guys has listened to a lot of Todd Rundgren throughout his life,’ and the second was […]Read More
Andy Sizemore – Soundcloud Page Review Cool! It’s not too often you get to review a music collective as opposed to the scores of albums, EPs and single reviews this particular indie-journalist goes through. After talking briefly with the creator behind these new sounds – I got a real sense that Andy is looking towards that next […]Read More
Race Against Fate – Singles Review Henry Rollins once described an over-emotional state he was going through as his “White Squall Moment,” which came to him from watching the film White Squall and bursting unexpectedly into tears. Whether he was over-tired, hungry, emotional…whatever it was came spilling out during the minutes of this movie, seemingly out […]Read More
Gary Carey – What’s Not To Like? – Album Review Some of my readers out there are certainly expecting this… After spending days in the dark with our new good friend Chris Romans of The Last Surrealist, many of you out there probably put your money on the fact that I’d switch it up quickly […]Read More
The Last Surrealist – Post Life Music – Album Review Right on. In a rare journalistic opportunity, I get to take the recent interview we did with recently with Chris Romans of The Last Surrealist and take it a little further by dissecting his latest album, Post Life Music, here in review today. If you’ve read […]Read More
Red Monday – Red Monday – Album Review Sometimes I look around rather viciously at articles written by my peers. When we review independent music, often those albums you see on our pages pop up in other corners of the internet…and quite often I find myself cursing out the writers writing them. As a community, and a […]Read More
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