To hear some good reverb-drenched post-rock on the radio dial or the event horizon, you can do a heck of a lot worse than Heron, the Pennsylvania quartet that made…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Curry Cuts’ third concept compilation ups its game to everything-or-nothing heights.
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Rob Ross
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Once upon a time, you had a thing called “rock and roll”. Happy to say, it’s still alive and well and thriving in the sounds of The Bayonets. Put together…
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You can argue the merits of a country singer/songwriter/performer being based in Brooklyn, New York, but I personally find it irrelevant. What counts – simply put – is the soul,…
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Once again, Australian pop master Wade Jackson returns with a brand new album and a different direction. Nearly two years after his shimmering pop masterpiece, Whiskey Alpha Delta Echo, he…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Lush new (surprise) record may test the perceptions of the group.
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The Blood Rush Hour simply knocked us all out with 2014’s And Then… The Unthinkable Happened, with its incredible mixture of ’70’s influenced power pop, rock, prog-pop and symphonic pop…
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Rob Ross
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This one is something of a pleasure for me to have heard and have the opportunity to review, as I had the good fortune of meeting Mr. Rancourt, one of…
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Rob Ross
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This musical collective, The Pinkerton Raid, from Durham, North Carolina, offers up their third album, Tolerance Ends, Love Begins and it is a thoughtful and interesting mix of pop, rock,…
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Justin Vellucci
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In Spades, the Afghan Whigs’ sequel to 2014’s Do To The Beast LP, is, as Whigs’ outings go, a pretty colorful and ambitious affair. Out Friday on vinyl and digital…
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Rob Ross
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I should probably be slapped for having overlooked this album; it’s been out for a while and somehow wound up mixed in at the bottom of the small mountain…
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Rob Ross
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Georgia native Elli Perry has delivered Little Thieves, one of the most highly personal – at least to these ears and this mind – collections of songs this year. Ten…
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Justin Vellucci
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Conventional time signatures, beware the Kraken! Polyrhythms rule the roost on Separate | Migrate, the new record from Austin’s The Kraken Quartet, self-released by the band this Friday. On songs…
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Rob Ross
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This long-standing band returns with their seventh studio album, Believe (first since 2014’s A Song In My Head), produced by the legendary Jerry Harrison and features nine new original tracks,…
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First off, you have to immediately love a guy who was more into Stewart Copeland’s Klark Kent “alter ego” than he was into The Police. That makes him instantly cool…
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Justin Vellucci
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You can tell right from the get-go, from the very first shot right out of the gate, that this thing is going to be pretty damned good. Kicking off in…
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Justin Vellucci
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It’s hard to imagine that the group behind these two pensive, funereal epics, out now on House of Mythology, is the same one that released Cortar Todo, a kaleidoscopic mÁ©lange…
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Iman Lababedi
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Does “Damn.” live up to the hype? Iman Lababedi provides the answers.
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Rob Ross
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Getting out of my “comfort zone”, this debut album from the artist Hite, is something different for me and is as interesting as it’s intriguing. Julia Easterlin, who is Hite,…
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Having embarked on a solo career in 2005, Birmingham, Alabama native Peter Bradley Adams has seemingly shown no signs of slowing down. He’s now about to release no less than…
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Rob Ross
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Lindsay Murray, who is the heart, mind and voice behind Gretchen’s Wheel, certainly knows how to craft and execute a damned fine pop song (okay, actually several). She also knows…
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Justin Vellucci
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It’s tough to pin down and make any kind of broad-stroke judgments about Epithymia, the second LP by ambient power duo Anjou. I’m using the term ”power” duo, of course,…
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An interesting backstory: Lake are an experimental-pop ensemble, centered around the songwriting partnership of wife and husband duo Ashley Eriksson and Elijah Moore. The two met and formed Lake in…
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Rob Ross
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This neo-psychedelic duo from Highland Park, New Jersey is the husband-and-wife duo of Maki and Richard Brenner; they signed to Marty Scott’s forward-thinking Jem Records and are about to unleash…
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Rob Ross
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A lot of interesting things can be said about Derrick Anderson, the Los Angeles-based bass guitar master; for a start, he’s now released his debut solo album, A World Of…
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For someone who began his musical career in the ’60’s, Cape Cod mainstay Chandler Travis shows no signs of slowing down on his quest, having recently released his latest epic,…
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STNNNG simply has outdone itself with Veterans of Pleasure, its fifth full-length record, out tomorrow on vinyl and digital platforms via Modern Radio Records. The 11-song collection, the first from…