Tag: review

  • When it comes to indie singer/songwriter Emm Gryner, I always have very high expectations. This might have something to do with the fact that her album Northern Gospel was my #1 album of 2011 and that her album Torrential was my #12 album of 2014. Suffice to say she’s one of my favorites, so forgive…

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  • “I’m sick of this record already,” begins “Ordinary Life,” a song roughly halfway through the album that is about, well, being sick of ordinary life. While he sings about losing the will to live in Boston, floating and waiting to die, the song isn’t intended to inspire suicides. Quite the opposite in fact, “Just because…

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  • Bombus is back, motherfuckers! OK, so, maybe that’s a bit too dramatic, but you’ll feel like using some exclamation points yourself after you listen to the band’s contagious new track “Deadweight,” which hails from their new album Repeat Until Death, which is due out via Century Media Records on February 26th, 2016.

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  • Sometimes when two artists get together and collaborate it’s a labor of love that’s largely enjoyable only to the two of them. That is not the case with Gary Lucas and Jann Klose’s just released album Stereopticon; their songs are not only accessible but a whole lot of fun. This is what you get when…

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  • Dystopia is album number 15 for Megadeth, the band that refuses to die, which I mean in a positive way. If you read the Wiki pages for the band and this album, Dave Mustaine and company faced some serious hardships while writing and making it. It would have been easy for Mustaine to take a…

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  • The video for DUCKY’s new single “Winter Song” doesn’t start off looking like your typical winter, but that’s clearly the point. Her EP is called Los Angeles and I believe that’s where the video was filmed.

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  • I’m always very excited when I find a truly awesome song that we can premiere, which is certainly the case with newcomer Olivia Cipriani’s splendid new single “Limitless.”

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  • The wonderful thing about checking out new music is that sometimes, on rare occasions, you come across something so fantastic that you can’t believe you’ve lived your life so far without it. It’s that whole “where have you been all my life” factor, and that’s precisely how I felt the first time I listened to…

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  • “Horns” is one of the best songs from Children of Bodom’s most recent album, I Worship Chaos, which is easily one of last year’s best metal records.

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  • It’s very fitting that the cover of Pillar Point’s sophomore effort, Marble Mouth, is quite colorful, bursting with sweet red, tangy orange, vibrant yellow, groovy green and electric blue. Plus, a little black thrown in for good measure, perhaps to represent the dark side within all of us. It’s one of those instances where you…

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  • Now, here’s Bitter’s Kiss with “No One Will,” a song you could look at many different ways. She could be singing these things about how “no one will ever kiss me” and such because she’s self-loathing, like she doesn’t think she’s worthy of being kissed. It could also be that she’s just fiercely independent and…

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  • If you’re a metalhead who appreciates classical music, look no further than Exmortus and their fantastic new album Ride Forth, their second for the Prosthetic label. The Whittier, California-based band blends elaborate, classical-influenced guitar solos with double bass thrash drums, often proggy bass guitar and death metal vocals for a sound that is unique and…

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