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!
Thy Veils – “Upstream” – Single Review Hopefully…with the degree of my ranting and raving about Thy Veils last year while reviewing singles like “Influx” and “Lina Luna,” there are at least a few more of ya out there familiar with the name of this stunningly innovative Electro art-music project. In the event that the […]Read More
Garage T. Rashington III – Inauthentic Slop – Album Review Gather around the fire kiddies…lemme tell ya a story about a man that never was… It was way past late on a windy night in Oregon and the bar had just belched the finality of its contents onto the street, sending its blur of passionate […]Read More
The Real J Israel – Glass Half Full – EP Review What I can’t tell you about, is how things were working out when The Real J Israel was rocking within a more traditional type of Gospel music…all I can really vouch for is the path I hear he’s on now. If I had to […]Read More
Simon Safhalter – One Level Deeper Than The Rest – Album Review A musical shape-shifter, he most certainly is. By Simon’s own admission on his social media pages, he’s basically creating all kinds of tunes that range from “pop, rap, punk, rock, j-rock, electronic, anime, video game and film music.” Did he leave anything out? […]Read More
Pakco F. “B75571 (Wave Runner)” – Single Review Ahhhh music-scene, I tell ya…every time I think I’ve seen or heard it all, you prove that I haven’t. We rappin’ bout shoes here Pakco F.? Is that what we’re doin’ here? I get more curious than most people in my field do. When I don’t know […]Read More
Simple Stone – Through This Dark – Album Review Coming out of the gate swinging harder than hard, Australia’s own Simple Stone gets the energy racing at a fever pitch from the very first moments you’ll hear on Through This Dark with their opening track “Secrets.” Somewhere in the realm of Alt-Rock-meets-Hard-Rock with a touch […]Read More
MELØ – “Don’t Change” – Single Review Great to hear things working out this well for MELØ, I dig this dude. It’s crazy though y’all…I gotta admit, I love how little I know about music sometimes. I think us critic-types tend to get to a point where we think we’ve heard it all, or even […]Read More
Becoming Human – “Goodbye To When” – Single Review I remember towards the end of last year when I stumbled across this kickass solo-project from artist Jordan Barney, called Becoming Human and a single he’d released called “Scars.” Having a listen to that track was not only one of my favorite finds of last year, […]Read More
Neon Radiation – Future TV Themes – Music Review Super cool! I’ve heard many Neon Radiation tunes to this point, but this is the first experience I’ve had with the Gary Blake project going all-instrumental for the specific purpose of shoppin’ these cuts on over to the suits & ties of TV-land to see what […]Read More
Brannon – Heartbreak Is Misery – Album Review We might have a tale of two halves here… For an album called Heartbreak Is Misery, it sure starts on an uplifting track called “We Are Powerful.” If you were expecting something that resembled the kind of “Misery” something like Soul Asylum produced back in the day, […]Read More
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