Aria – “A Christmas Letter”

ARIA – “A Christmas Letter” – Single Review Ohhhh if you’ve been reading our pages for this past decade around this time of year, you know exactly what I’m gonna say about this yuletide tune right here now don’t ya?  It is what it is!  Surprise!  Who would have thought, right?  There’s never been a […]Read More

Link&Chain – “Let Your Light Shine”

Link&Chain – “Let Your Light Shine” – Single Review I’d definitely be taking a long look at this single if I was Link&Chain – there’s a whole bunch going right with “Let Your Light Shine” that I’d highly recommend they examine as the blueprint for their pathway forward from here.  Talk about going out on […]Read More

Ruben Simonsen – “Going Crazy” / “Tonight (Hey You, Me)”

Ruben Simonsen – “Going Crazy” / “Tonight (Hey You, Me)” Feat. Toneaffair – Singles Review From what I can see out there online, it looks like Ruben is about to head into what you’d consider to be the third phase of his professional career.  You’ve got his earliest recordings released, which trace back to about […]Read More

Second Choice – Singles

Second Choice – Singles Review You just never know what you’re going to find in the Second Choice catalog of tunes.  From the mind of songwriter Fredrik Lindström – it’s clear this dude likes a whole bunch of different things in music he creates, and I know I appreciate that as a person that likes […]Read More

Third Development – “Auras”

Third Development – “Auras” – Single Review From the “Etherea” genre you say?  Whatever happened to Trip-Hop, and why on Earth wasn’t that name cool enough already Third Development?  Questions for another time I suppose… Anyhow.  If you remember this name from our pages, that makes sense – we featured a review on their single […]Read More

Andrea Pizzo And The Purple Mice – “Ada” / “The

Andrea Pizzo And The Purple Mice – “Ada” / “The Boys From Silicon Valley” – Singles Review While I’m fairly certain any listener out there would have many different opinions on what they hear in the music being made by Andrea Pizzo And The Purple Mice, I feel like we’d all have to at the […]Read More

Blood Rose – “Darkness Falls”

Blood Rose – “Darkness Falls” – Single Review So…hmm…on the brightest of sides, I do think there’s an idea at the core of this cut. I’m somewhat known as the guy that’ll keep it real with the scene and tell folks how I genuinely feel about whatever I’m listening to.  Sure, there’s a sense of […]Read More

Becoming Human – “Scars”

Becoming Human – “Scars” – Single Review Now…I know I’m here to talk about the debut single from Becoming Human today…the debut ORIGINAL single, that is…but lemme tell ya how pleasing it is to be cruising around the internet and coming across a cover of one of your all-time favorite songs by FAILURE in the […]Read More

The Despair Collective – “Crackerman”

The Despair Collective – “Crackerman” – Single Review If you’ve ever recorded a cover tune, you know those comparisons are bound to come.  Not that this wasn’t always the case, but obviously in the day & age of the internet, believe me when I tell ya, those opinions will come fast & furiously from every […]Read More

Richy Snyder – “How Deep Is The Ocean”

Richy Snyder – “How Deep Is The Ocean” – Single Review Yikes!  Never mind how deep the ocean is – what about the massively stiff depths of competition on this cover!?!  Comparison is unfortunately part of the game when it comes to creating cover tunes…it’s a natural part of the way we listen, no matter […]Read More