Soulful Femme – “40 Under” Feat. Joanna Connor

Soulful Femme – “40 Under” Feat. Joanna Connor – Single Review After everything I’ve been reading about this duo of talents and their combined love of the Blues, I gotta admit, hearing the mythical & mystical way this single “40 Under” from their new album It Is Well With My Soul started out with an […]Read More

SirenBlue – “Every Other Weekend”

SirenBlue – “Every Other Weekend” – Single Review Ha!  Well how do ya like that?  This is my second experience with UK-based SirenBlue, and even though this time around I got a bio to look at, I still feel like I’m just scratching the surface of who they are and what they’re all about.  In […]Read More

Forsaken Garden – “Space In You” / “Backward March”

Forsaken Garden – “Space In You” / “Backward March” – Singles Review OKAY.  Let’s get one thing mighty clear here…just because I type these word-things out all day long does NOT mean I have any clue as to how it all actually happens.  As in, “I’m not a smart man, Jenny” – I’m pretty much […]Read More

Aldrich Benson – “Bless Your Heart”

Aldrich Benson – “Bless Your Heart” – Single Review The main question is…are we working with the traditionally sweet definition of “Bless Your Heart” or are we talkin’ about the “Bless Your Heart” so often uttered throughout the deep south – because as far as I understand it, those are definitely two very, very different […]Read More

Tanner Gordon – “Start Again” / “Empty Promises”

Tanner Gordon – “Start Again” / “Empty Promises” – Singles Review Well now – looky here will ya? It’s gotta be feelin’ real good to be Tanner Gordon right about now…likely feelin’ better & better by the day in fact.  It’s been twelve years since he last dropped a solo record according to the ol’ […]Read More

Brandon Riley – “Scar Tattoo”

Brandon Riley – “Scar Tattoo” – Single Review It has been interesting trying to piece together what this dude’s all about, that much I can tell ya for sure.  On the one hand, you’ve got a bio that’ll tell ya how he’s embodied the “The Roaring Twenties and The Great Depression – and on the […]Read More

Catfish Walkin’ – “16 Bit”

Catfish Walkin’ – “16 Bit” – Single Review Man.  Somewhere out there, in my heart of hearts, I hope Oliver Stone is sleepin’ real well, knowing he made a significant contribution to the whole lexicon of references we make in this world.  I cannot even begin to express just how many times I’ve found the […]Read More

ROCKOKO – “Mutual Love”

ROCKOKO – “Mutual Love” – Single Review This is quite possibly the easiest song to like or love that I’ve heard this year.  Like for some of you perhaps – definitely love for me – this single by Ukrane-based ROCKOKO is just about everything I wanna hear on repeat until the very end of my […]Read More

The Little Wretches – “All Of My Friends” (Live)

The Little Wretches – “All Of My Friends” (Live) – Single Review “I have never really done anything to earn the freedoms that we enjoy.  But I would like to honor the people who have sacrificed for my freedom by perhaps someday saying something worthy of freedom of speech, writing something worthy of freedom of […]Read More

Jay Elle – “Miss Mess”

Jay Elle – “Miss Mess” – Single Review It’s probably having been born in the 80s and growing up Grunge in the 90s that gave me a healthy skepticism about anything I’d read about music before pushing play.  I watched the world move from slick & catchy, ready-to-consume and buy-buy-buy (!) culture within the industry, […]Read More