When we first introduced you to Chicago’s Vaudevileins in February 2015, they had just released their E.P. Transmission and were then planning on releasing a ten-track full-length album within a…
Album Reviews
It’s one thing to receive a CD for review; it’s another to be knocked out by what you hear but then be even more thrilled upon reading the credits, seeing…
See It Through is the sophomore effort from La Grange, Texas’ The Youngest. This four piece delivers a crisp, textured, rock driven sound that (to these ears) draw inspiration from…
Electroscapes color the basis of this second release from Somerville, Massachusetts’ trio, Pale Hands; Graphism is only eight songs long but in those eight tracks is a lot of melody,…
In the act of rewriting what a concept album saga can be, The Dear Hunter also explores the history of popular music.
Two years ago, Popdose introduced you to The Legal Matters, the brilliant Michigan-based trio of Keith Klingensmith, Chris Richards and Andy Reed. Their self-titled debut was easily one of the…
Mars’ homage to baby-makin’ R&B from the late-’80s and ’90s feels regressive and unfortunate.
And once again, New Jersey’s finest Beatles-oriented band. The Weeklings, have returned with their second album, the aptly-titled The Weeklings Studio 2. Recorded in the sacred rooms of Abbey Road…
Angels Bend Closer, billed as Jane Siberry’s first official album in five years, is actually her first one in close to 20 that I’ve fallen in love with. Alas, ours…
To hear the music coming from the new, self-titled Tattletale Saints album, you wouldn’t think this duo of Cy Winstanley and Vanessa McGowan, were natives of New Zealand but grew…
If you’ve heard the name of Angela McCluskey but can’t place it is because she’s been around for a while now – first with the L.A.-based Wild Colonials and then…
This is one of those “holy shit” albums – that moment when the first guitar riffs come chiming in and the rush of excitement sends you on your way as…
Low-voltage, traditional instruments and a very rootsy feel would be a good quick primer when trying to describe the sound of Binghampton, New York’s Driftwood, who are about to unleash…
Milwaukee-based trio Dead Horses have just unleashed their latest album, their third, Cartoon Moon and this is a magnificent mixture of Americana, traditional and country-based songs that exude warmth, thought,…
Revolution Radio is ready to take the world apart with its bare hands…eventually.
With eighteen studio albums to their credit, Marillion arrives again with an uncomfortable, uncompromising, but altogether magnificent recording. You will be challenged.
Virginia-born singer/songwriter Nicole Wray has everything you’d want in a singer: an infectious Memphis-style soul, a range like Aretha Franklin’s, and a church upbringing that’s brought a pure, healing texture…
For a band that’s only been together since 2014 and an acoustic-based trio, Denver’s Edison has a big, full, lush – near orchestral – sound. One listen to their debut…
Around two years ago, Popdose introduced you to Arrica Rose, lead singer of Arrica Rose and The… their album Wave Function. Now she’s back again with a new band, the…
In the early 2000’s, the way of the new century in music was a charge towards electronic music – great D.J. mix compilations were released; “bands” like Zero 7 and…
This new album by Bongos frontman and New York City mainstay Richard Barone is both a labor of true love and an incredibly detailed and painstakingly researched history lesson. Sorrows…
This fine debut album from East Nashville singer/songwriter Josh Farrow mixes Southern soul, shades of The Band and Leon Russell and is one of the most wonderfully fluid things I’ve…
Classic rock — and those who love them — get covered with reviews of Aisles, Bubble Gum Orchestra, The Beach Boys, Journey, Toto, Mecca, and Meat Loaf.
No Turn Left Behind is the debut album from singer/songwriter Lisa Said. This singer/songwriter/guitarist was born in Cairo (!) and was transplanted first to Memphis (Tennessee, not Egypt!) and then…
Jamie Seerman is the mind and voice of Jaymay; she’s a visual artist and singer/songwriter/performer. And now, this New York native has just unleashed her 12th overall release (and only…
It should be an immediate moment of sitting up and taking notice of Allyson Seconds’ latest offering, Little World, just by virtue of the names that appear as players on…
Time and time again, compilations of certain artists are released that never seem to do that artist complete justice. I can think of a handful – if that many –…
I can remember those days – the tail end of college and my first job right after graduation – overseeing Roadrunner Records’ “alternative” label. The radio was always tuned to…