Tag: review
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Pain of Salvation is a Swedish progressive metal/rock band created by frontman, songwriter and guitarist Daniel Gildenlöw, who also plays lute, bass, keyboards and mandolin. Some fans would tell you that the band was born when Gildenlöw started his first band in 1984, but the band was called Reality at the time and Gildenlöw was…
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Kaipa, a Swedish prog/folk/rock group, was originally called Ura Kaipa way back in 1973, but Wiki gives one the impression that they broke up circa 1982 and only reunited in 2000. Sattyg is their thirteenth studio album, the name being Swedish for diablerie, which Google gives two definitions for. One is “reckless mischief; charismatic wildness” and the…
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I’m going to come right out and say it: I’m late to the party on this one. Sort of. You see, I was aware of singer/songwriter Grace Mitchell before she released this EP last October. She’d done a moody cover of Hall & Oates’ classic “Maneater” on the soundtrack to The Secret Life of Walter…
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One-time Hotel Café waitress Meiko has come a long way since self-releasing her debut album in 2007 (and re-releasing it via MySpace the following year). A singer/songwriter who routinely tells stories with her songs, her material tends to be very upbeat or entirely sad. Her new album, her third, is of the down-trodden variety. There…
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Super synthy, semi dark, sugary sweet… One of iamamiwhoami’s finest songs now has a video. And it’s positively creepy. For those of you who aren’t digging the Christmas music.
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If you like light-hearted country tunes with lots of banjo, you’re in for a real treat here. As always, The Band Perry deliver top notch country music about, what else, love; sure to lift the spirits of anyone who listens. Unless, of course, you happen to hate banjo. But we’re down with the banjo, which…
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“The Dollyrots are a punk rock band but their CDs are very pop.” – from their bio on their Facebook info. And after listening to their new Christmas EP, I’m inclined to agree. The Los Angeles duo’s energy and tempos are very punk rock, but the hooks are so contagious that you could also consider…
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This one has a really uplifting chorus, but the verses are a trainwreck. She sings a few lyrics then she starts going “blah, blah” and making some incomprehensible gibberish. If it wasn’t for that hideous bridge we might actually like this song, but… Any song that has to resort to “blah, blah,” etc, just strikes…
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And now for something completely different… A slamming, electro-pop gem from The Ready Set. No, we didn’t exactly see it coming either. “Fangz,” as it’s called, is a better EDM track than anything on David Guetta’s latest album. OK, so it’s not quite EDM, but parts of it pack the sort of propulsive beats and…
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Just over a week ago, Robbie Williams announced that he’d be releasing an album of rare and previously unreleased tracks called Under The Radar Volume 1. This immediately excited me because I’ve always loved and collected Robbie’s B-sides and have often felt that many of them were stronger than some of the material on his…
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Wow… this one is beautiful beyond words. But we’ll say a few anyway. Marie Digby’s acoustic rendition of her new song “Kings & Queens” is spellbinding and very emotive, her sounding vulnerable and romantic all at once. If this one doesn’t touch you’re heart then you’re probably frozen and should check to make sure you…
