Richard Lynch comes across my desk with a lot of career behind him and in front of him as well to talk write home about. But the multi award winning, chart top 40 topping country singer/songwriter and host of The Traditionally Lynch TV and Radio shows needs no introduction. That is unless of course you either do not like country music, or you have been hiding under a rock according…
2020, in more ways than one, has felt like the year of the millennial soul revival movement reaching its climax after about a half-decade of inching towards the summit, and to understand what I’m talking about, I recommend picking up Lace’s new EP Liar’s Notebook this fall. Among some of the other elite debuts to have hit record store shelves in the past ten months, Liar’s Notebook is perhaps one of the most engaging…
2020 has provided us with an interesting crossroads for the punk movement in both the United States and abroad. There’s still a lot to rebel against socially, politically, culturally and financially, but more than any of that, there’s a lot to fight within the construct of the mainstream pop/rock model itself – which is precisely what singer/songwriter Warbler BC is getting at in his new record One. Equal parts a collection…
After just a few spins of the song “Lillian” and you feel like you’ve found a new friend, a new confidant in Jeremy Parsons. He gives the impression that he’s the type of guy that is easy to strike up a conversation with, sitting next to him on a subway train, or standing behind him in line at the grocery store. He’s the type of artist that can spit out…
Jake Winstrom initially built his name fronting and writing songs for the band Tenderhooks but his second solo album, Circles, brings a higher level of ambition to bear. There are pop inclinations rife throughout the album’s nine songs, even the more guitar-dominated tracks, outside the box instrumentations adorns some, and an engaging poetic twist further strengthening each song’s character. Circles is rich with idiosyncratic yet revealing turns of phrases, jolting imagery, and a…
With a hip-thrusting groove to lead the way alongside a muddy guitar riff straight off of classic punk vinyl, Jupiter in Velvet’s “Dimestore Suave” rips through the silence ready to pulverize just about anything that comes between its beat and the audience. There’s an aggression to this song, and really all five that you’ll find in the tracklist of the new record Punk Goes the Velvet, that makes the urgency of…
Dirt Yard Street – by Clay Harper, is what you might call an easy listening masterpiece of sorts, with a folk-based style and reality-based theme that flows at it goes. The background of Harper is impressive and reads like a “who’s who” of artists he has worked with and been associated with or produced. This is just a testament of the artist himself and where he’s been, and these songs…
If I had a voice like Jeff Coffey’s, I would be singing some of music’s biggest hits, too. Origins – Vocalists And The Songs That Made Me, Coffey’s album is a bevy of rock music and some pop rock songs that steal the moment. A former lead singer of legendary band, Chicago, Coffey makes these cover songs his own in a 14-track odyssey. As each track unfolds, the listener gets…
There is increasing interest in expanding the purview of what we deem possible in business/corporate design. The ever-expanding range of commercial possibilities thanks to the evolution of technology, among other elements, underline the demands on today’s business leadership to remain innovate or risk obscurity in the modern marketplace. Daniel Bruder’s 360 degree approach to the issue of business leadership today emerges with unquestionable detail in the book The Blendification System: Achieving…
You can’t hold down Brandyn Cross. After a devastating train accident that changed his world, Cross has emerged a solo artist years later. His new single, If Money Talks (It Ain’t on Speakin’ Terms With Me) co-written by Daryl Stevenett.is a prosperous tale of a hardworking man that can’t seem to cash-in. The all-too-relatable tale is bolstered through the slide guitar and a forlorn violin. Cross’ new track is bankable…
With a slinky groove behind its melodic strut, there’s never any question in the opening bars of “Boom – Love Version” as to whether or not we’re getting the best performance out of HeIsTheArtist possible – around every turn in his new EP Adam & Eve, this slow jam crooner is giving every part of himself to the audience. Sensuousness is delivered through an unbranded lens in Adam & Eve, and while…
Rough Draft, by Psychopath Etiquette, is the debut EP of the songwriting duo of brothers David and Paul Sprague. The Southern Maine based siblings have their own unique blend of folk and rock which make up the indie vernacular between them. They are a group formed out of necessity of needing to see where their ideas can take them after years of their own individual journeys in the music world,…
Every so often you come across an artist that has been right under your nose for the longest time, but you never knew it. Des Cox is one such artist I am talking about. He started his career off way back in the early days of music and TV, and it involves a lot of well-known TV and film stuff, as well as having extensively toured as a live performer.…
Brought to life by the brooding strum of an acoustic guitar, the string-bound “My First Band” embodies every bit of the youthful rebellion its title would suggest it does and then some. Like the other songs found on the stunning A Gateway to a Lifetime of Disappointment (a record which sources its title from a line in “My First Band”), this track sees David Newton and & Thee Mighty Angels blending the…
Where does music take you? Does it lift your spirits? Does it motivate you to finish that last 20 minute cardio workout? In the new song “Relationship” from the wonderful singer/songwriter Arina Mai, this petite-sounding singer fills in the void of doubt and reveals more about her inner beauty to her listeners. URL: https://www.arinamai.com/ Mai, who is based in Denmark, first came to my attention with her KP Larsen-produced track…
Comprised primarily of some electrified string play, delicate piano keys, a profoundly crisp beat and honeysweet vocals that have our attention from the start, Gary Burk III’s “Two Lane Airplane” isn’t the most fanciful country song I’ve heard in 2020. It isn’t featuring any grandiose fat on its bassline, nor does it have a sizzling lead guitar part that puts it into metallic, stadium-shaking territory. For the better part of…
Blistering electric guitars meet warm lead vocals, honest harmonies and more than a couple of slick beats in songs like “Summer Means New Love,” “Good Ol’ Stupid Me” and “Sweet Sugar,” but even in the slow song “Dismal Day” and its easy-going counterpart in “Driving Me Insane,” there’s scarcely a moment in which Tom Tikka & The Missing Hubcaps don’t sound on-point in their new EP Insane. Mixing together elements of…
Live records present us with a different dimension of an artist, and in some cases, a level of appreciation for their craft that wouldn’t have been possible in a more typical setting. In Live from Lockdown, the Streaking in Tongues’ 2020 installment in their growing discography or pure indie gems, the father-son pairing give us access to some of their most revered compositions through a dynamic real-time performance that binds all…
An essential agent of evocation in most any pop/rock effort, there’s no understating what a quality guitar part can contribute to an album as homespun as Daniel Tortoledo’s Through out These Years, and in songs like “Give Me Soul” or “Eloise,” it’s as important as any lyric ever could be. There aren’t a lot of cosmetic frills in Through out These Years, nor are there any attempts on the part of singer/songwriter…
Though guitars are frequently a centerpiece in any given rock album, they take on a special role in the songs found on Glorybots’ new LP Invisible that shapes not only the tone of the music, but the very lens through which we interpret it. In songs like the record-opening “Blepharospasm” and swinging “Radiate,” the riffs serve as a direct extension of the lead vocal in expressing the complete depth of emotion behind…