Singled Out: “In The Air Tonight” by The Choir (Phil Collins Cover)
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…
Album Review: Bruised Sky by We Are Kin
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…
Review: 18th & Addison – “Leeches”
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…
Review: The Flaming Lips, “King’s Mouth – Music and Songs”
Arriving in 1983, the band The Flaming Lips was already an anachronism, unapologetically psychedelic, and prone to agitating against the mainstream even as it longingly gave it some side-eye. That…
Review: MELK – “Listen”
There’s not very much that’s astounding about “Listen,” the one-song debut from Reno soul quartet MELK, released Tuesday on streaming services. That is, there’s not very much that’s astounding about…
ALBUM REVIEW: THE GOLD NEEDLES, “Through A Window”
Another new signing from Marty Scott’s legendary Jem Records, The Gold Needles, who hail from Hull, U.K., are arbiters of 60’s-influenced psychedelic/power-pop prove with an album that one can automatically…
Review: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Energetic Bursts”
Guitarist-composer Aaron Myers-Brooks constructs mathy, even obtuse, metal for listeners who appreciate the genre’s technical virtuosity but take issue with its faux-evil strutting and testosterone-jacked theatricality. There you have it.…
Album Review: Luxury, “Trophies”
Luxury has a new album titled Trophies. It’s the result of 2015 Kickstarter campaign, where fortunate supporters received an advance copy of it. However, it was not officially released in…
Review: The Raconteurs, “Help Us Stranger”
2019 has been a surprisingly strong year for guitar-oriented rock music. You wouldn’t know it from the Billboard Top 100 which remains fully committed to trap, hip hop, and EDM-based…
Review: Shellac – The End of Radio
Bootlegs of Shellac’s first BBC session with the legendary king-maker John Peel started surfacing fast on the heels of its airing, way, way back in 1994. And it remains readily…
Review: Destroyer – Black Mountain
Black Mountain is a Canadian band used to specializing in the neo-psychedelic rock resurgence that has successfully swept the world for fans of this genre. Since 2005, Black Mountain has…
Review: Western Stars – Bruce Springsteen
When it comes to Bruce Springsteen, we get stories deeply embedded within well-crafted lyrics and beautifully driven by a usual blend of excellent musicianship. This is especially true with his…