ALBUM REVIEW: THOSE PRETTY WRONGS, “Zed For Zulu”
Let’s start with an instant disclaimer – I love this band. I’m already a committed fan. So it’s not like any great surprise that I would want to sit down,…
Let’s start with an instant disclaimer – I love this band. I’m already a committed fan. So it’s not like any great surprise that I would want to sit down,…
The music of Russian Circles has always created a refreshing, if not assault-like quality. In fact, it’s surprising to me that they’re not better known than they are. With seven…
Liz Hysen’s reliably dissonant acoustic guitar might ground her as Picastro, but her work on six strings, however interesting it might be, is only the sparest introduction to this highly…
As protest songs go, this one, yep, is pretty damn angry. “Uglier Americans” – the new MAGA-targeting protest song, out today online, from Virginia noise-rock quartet Demons – is a…
The rhythmic power of Motörhead melded to the heavy groove of Rage Against The Machine then filtered through the pop sensibilities of a Muse or Randy McStine = sophisticated dynamism.
Lou Reed has become one of Rock’s most enigmatic stars, equalled by few. His reticence with the press is legendary. But his affiliation with those whom he had great respect…
Rick Altizer has returned with a new album called Bread, and it’s been far too long since we last heard from this fine singer/songwriter. Bread is best described as a…
It’s been six years since we last heard from The Ocean Blue, but the sound of Kings and Queens/Knaves and Thieves reveals how not much has changed since this Hershey,…
Cherish this, kids, because records like Western Spaghettification don’t come along often. The trio INUS, whose full-length debut is out Aug. 9 from San Diego’s Three One G, prominently features…
Is Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” a great song without that drum fill? With their latest single, The Choir have taken on the task of answering that question in…
With Bruised Sky, We Are Kin inhabit this third meaning, taking progressive rock far beyond mere "prog" or even "rock" into neo soul and deliberate soundscapes grounded in compelling synth…
New Jersey gets a bad wrap, though sometimes it’s for good reason. I was born and raised in the Garden State, and, having spent the better part of 25 or…