The Despair Collective – “Saints To Sinners”

The Despair Collective – “Saints To Sinners” – Single Review Well…y’all come here for my honesty.  Probably best to buckle up. I’ve got concerns for The Despair Collective! On the positive side of this scenario, none of what I’m worried about revolves around the effort they put into their music or the professionalism they possess […]Read More

Queen Majeeda – “Unfaithful Woman” / “The Wait”

Queen Majeeda – “Unfaithful Woman” / “The Wait” – Singles Review Those of you regular readers out there know that one of my purest joys in life can quite often be found simply by pushing play and not having any real idea of what to expect.  Sure, soon enough I’ll end up going down the […]Read More

Veronica Largiu – “Always Running Back To You” (Radio Mix

Veronica Largiu – “Always Running Back To You” (Radio Mix / Deltiimo Big Room House Remix) – Singles Review So…as I say from time to time, a couple things can be true at the same time. When I put on Veronica Largiu’s latest single “Always Running Back To You,” (Radio Mix) to kick things off […]Read More

Maenda – They Say The Sun Is Dying

Maenda – They Say The Sun Is Dying – Album Sampler/Singles Review Sign me up for more of this!  Maenda has been nothing but a pleasure to listen to this week.  A solo-project brought to you by the magnificent musical mind of Matthew Op ‘t Eijnde…I’m tellin’ ya, this dude has got some absolutely stellar […]Read More

Deltiimo – “Hypersonic” Feat. Veronica Largiu

Deltiimo – “Hypersonic” Feat. Veronica Largiu – Single Review How many times in your life have you heard the notorious phrase, “video killed the radio star,” long ago added to the lexicon via The Buggles, ever since they added this ironic cut to the first MTV broadcast way back in the day?  Countless times, right?  […]Read More

INFINIZHEN – “Generative Lucid Dreams” (Road Ramos Mix) / “You

INFINIZHEN – “Generative Lucid Dreams” (Road Ramos Mix) / “You Can’t Be Trusted” – Singles Review Sometimes it’s the littlest things that tend to catch your attention… Not to minimize the BIG SOUND that you’ll find from INFINIZHEN, which is quite compelling all around, but it was actually the tiniest hashtag that first piqued my […]Read More

Betweenzone – “May Queen”

Betweenzone – “May Queen” – Single Review It’s funny…when you think about it, for a band called Betweenzone, they’ve always had two very distinct sides to their personality and what they create.  There’s very little grey area when you listen to their music and very little overlap between the two realms they craft their tunes […]Read More

Avaraj – “The Dive”

Avaraj – “The Dive” – Single Review Close… One of the toughest thing artists tend to go through is communicating the parts of life that bring them down with the right level of energy…to upbeat and it’ll seem insincere, and if it’s too on-point, it’ll make a two-minute track feel like four.  “Life can be […]Read More

Good Spells – “Monsters”

Good Spells – “Monsters” – Single Review Somewhere over in the UK, our hero here is found in a converted Airstream he calls the Spells’ Lab… It’s been a minute or two since we last had Good Spells on these pages of ours, but not so long that the name doesn’t still get auto-filled in […]Read More

Testimony Of Apocalypse – “Heretic And The Adversary” / “The

Testimony Of Apocalypse – “Heretic And The Adversary” / “The Rescue” – Singles Review “Brutal and high energy metal with elements of thrash, groove, and death which come together to form an extremely original and progressive sound.”  Well said!  I’d have added the occasional capital letter in there for the titles of the genres & […]Read More