Echo Strike – Dirty Clean Sexy Mean – Album Review Interesting band! You can hear right off the drop as “Bad Intentions” begins that Echo Strike is largely gonna go their own way with a highly versatile & vibrant sound, which they’ll certainly go on to reveal throughout this lineup of fifteen tracks on their new […]Read More
Todd Underwood – Upside Down – Album Review Starting out his brand-new record with the longest cut you’ll find on it, Todd Underwood instantly starts to reveal the depth & definition you’ll find in the tone & technique in his production & performance – and the intricate ability he has when it comes to creating […]Read More
no sky can blind us – This Is Not For You – Album Review Tisk, tisk, tisk…ye olde submission through the backdoor…the ol’ “single” review…yet you’ll see right there in the description that comes along with This Is Not For You that this is indeed, an album. Can you imagine my surprise at finding out this […]Read More
Mimi Novic & Edmond Fokker – Seven Prayers Of Love – Album Review What an absolutely fantastic & fascinating combination of talents in this collaborative effort. Every so often, I recall a conversation I had with my influential Uncle Gary from back in the days of my youth, when I was staying at his place […]Read More
ALNA & Phil Sorrell – HEY YOU! – Album Review I’m cracking right into this one…ALNA & Phil have given us a plethora of reasons to listen & I’ve got lots to say as always! Suffice it to say here in this brief intro – I’ve found tons to love in this album HEY YOU! […]Read More
SMAIBLUE – Volume – Album Review You can be an acquired taste and a comforting sound at the same time – SMAIBLUE has been continual proof of that as I’ve listened throughout the past couple years or so. While I’ll attempt here in words once again to describe the experience of listening to one of […]Read More
Zygon – Earth And Sky – Album Review If there is anything I’ve learned throughout my years as a music-critic, it’s to write my intros last – because words cannot describe how truly fast things can change out there in our independent scene. For example…when I first started listening to this new internet-based band revolving […]Read More
Roam Like Ghosts – …To That Place You Call Home – Album Review Hearing that first remarkable dip downwards in the melody of the opening tune “Before We Began” captured my interest right away as I was listening to this new album by Roam Like Ghosts, a duo consisting of Matthew Daugherty singing for ya […]Read More
Leo Harmonay – Astoria – Album Review Rare to find authenticity like you’ll find in Leo Harmonay. I was probably about halfway through the first song on Leo’s new album Astoria called “We All Know,” maybe even less, before I realized we’ve got every bit as much of a poet here as we do a […]Read More
L T Balkin – 7 Years Too Late – Album Review Rumor has it this Aussie used to be a significant force in the Punk scene back in the day. That being said, if you tuned into the most recent episode of the SBS Podcast, you would have heard something entirely different from artist/producer/DJ L […]Read More
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