Rick Shaffer – Jitterbug Shake – Album Review Considering I was bracing myself for something more akin to The Brian Setzer Orchestra…I’ve been breathing a steady sigh of relief listening to the music of Rick Shaffer’s latest album Jitterbug Shake, thankful that I’ve not been taken into the sounds of swing or anything ‘big-band.’ Something […]Read More
Jean-Philippe Tremblay – Magic Love – Album Review I feel a massive kinship with Jean-Philippe Tremblay…it’s been a while since I’ve stumbled across music that’s made in a similar fashion to my own band. Very much like the music that my old studio-partner Rob @ SBS and I still continue to make, long after the […]Read More
10 Waves Of You – Fields Of Venus – Album Review Here’s an artist with a method and approach you can certainly respect. The mind behind the music of 10 Waves Of You is Luca Crivellaro and the goal was an ambitious task; to be the creator of his music in entirety…to not have to […]Read More
October Rust – Black Rain – Album Review Concept album! Cool! I can never get enough of this style of an album…they just don’t happen nearly often enough. Involving mind-trickery, murder, love and loss…it’s a sonically-layered journey through some of the darker corners of our mind but also thought-provoking lyrics that make you question these […]Read More
Karen Crusher – Granite – Album Review I’ve gotta watch myself on this one and do my best to keep my objectivity here! I had the privilege of having my first encounter with Karen Crusher somewhere back in March or February of earlier this year…if memory serves me correctly we worked with her on a […]Read More
Paragon Theorem – Inkwell – Album Review Pardon my language…but fuuuuuuuuuucccck do these guys ever make a HUGE sound! Paragon Theorem comes to us today based out of Glastonbury, CT in the USA…and believe me my friends, if they continue to make these massive sounds work as extremely well as they do – it won’t […]Read More
Elmo Karjalainen – The Free Guitar Album – Album Review The album starts out HOT! Elmo Karjalainen comes out absolutely crushing the guitar licks on the opening of The Free Guitar Album with “Instrumetal.” Intense and mind-blowingly well-played – Elmo starts off this album with a masterpiece guitar epic that tears the place up from […]Read More
Audiopium – Boonie Mayfield Presents: It’s Audiopium – Album Review Some of you people out there outta be recognizing this name by now! We’ve spent a lot of time with Solomon Vaughn, aka Boonie Mayfield, a hip-hopster with a mad desire to take hold of his destiny and bring the beats to the people. In […]Read More
Solomon Vaughn – Vaughn Solo 1st Edition – Album Review If this guy is gonna keep putting music out, Ima keep findin’ ways to get my hands on it and try to get my head around everything Solomon Vaughn is rapping about – just sayin! We’ve just come out of reviewing one of his latest […]Read More
Chaz Hearne – The Legend Of Core Dynamo – Album Review I’m kinda rooting for Chaz Hearne. This solo artist has enlisted some fantastic talent to assist him in bringing the songs from his debut album to life. Bouncing between playful sounds and heartfelt emotions, this acoustically-driven album hits the sweet spot like the ice-cream […]Read More
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