Category: Reviews
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Yes, it’s true. Like it or not (we like it), Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have recorded an entire album of duets together. From what we understand, the album consists entirely of covers and it’s called Cheek To Cheek and drops September 23, 2014. The first single is a short but infectious ditty called “Anything…
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As the story goes, Angus and Julia Stone were happy with their solo careers and had no plans to make another album together. Ever. They didn’t hate each other or anything like that. They simply went in two different directions musically and didn’t feel they would ever be in the same place, stylistically speaking, to…
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SPC ECO: THE ART OF POP The best artists are those who are constantly changing colors like a chameleon if not downright evolving and SPC ECO make a great leap forward with The Art of Pop, an album that ditches all of those raw, distorted guitars in favor of delicious, pristine pop beats, uplifting melodies…
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OK, so technically this is only about half a song, sung while she’s sitting in her car, but if she can sound this good live then you know darn well her forthcoming EP is going to be incredible. Especially if it has this lovely song on it. “I’ll take you higher than the Eiffel Tower,”…
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It’s no secret that I love California-themed songs and that’s a large part of why I’m digging this new tune by Amelia Lily. But I also like it because it’s an infectious pop song with an invigorating rock edge, Lily (and whoever works with her) opting to use drums and rock guitars instead of your…
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Collaborating with everyone from Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren and Paul Van Dyk to Pete Tong and Gareth Emery, Danny Darko is already a club-killing legend with more than thirty releases in the Top 50 on Beatport’s Genre Charts and 4 million views on his Youtube channel. His latest slice of club kiddie heaven is a…
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Imagine, if you will, Robin Thicke collaborating with The Weeknd. Not the Robin Thicke of his recent album Paula though. We’re talking about the Robin Thicke of “Blurred Lines” fame. You take that song, make the vocals deeper, speed it up a bit, and give it a murky sound and, voila, you’ve got Erik Hassle’s…
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#9. Not many bands reach that number of albums. Even the best bands seem to break up or otherwise call it quits after number five or six. Not so with Chicago’s Novembers Doom, however. They’re a wicked beast that refuses to die, thrashing away at anything that gets in their way, thus painting their portraits…
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Fozzy has a backstory almost as weird as Spinal Tap’s. The funny thing here, however, is that their backstory started out entirely fictional when they released their debut album nearly a decade and a half ago with the band saying they went to Japan with a record deal, destined to become huge rock stars, but…
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Interview by Michael McCarthy Recently, I was introduced to the music of Monuments, a genre-defying band who are often mislabeled as various genres and subgenres, as you’re about to read below. Their music was like a sonic equivalent of a rich, complex roast of coffee… Sometimes I daydream about Starbucks using their Italian roast to…
