Author: Kim Muncie

Posted on: January 15, 2020 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Singer/Songwriter Andy Michaels releases new Album

The late 2010s produced a lot of interesting singer/songwriters, and among the more intriguing that I heard in 2019 was Andy Michaels, whose record Incendiary Heart raised a lot of eyebrows in his native Australia as well as overseas in the United States. A product of hybrid creativities and eclectic collaborations with singers like Tiarna Madison and Kerry Ironside, Incendiary Heart takes everything that was suggested as being possible in Michaels’ debut LP Revisited and reshapes…

Posted on: January 14, 2020 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Two (LP) by This Time Band

If guitar sizzle is your style, I would definitely recommend taking a peek at the latest record from Canadian rockers This Time, Two, the next time you’re browsing new indie titles, because from the plodding fuzz of deep cuts like “Caught You in Love” and “Something About,” to the blustery palm-muted storm of “Be Somebody” and chief single “Runaway,” they absolutely embody the core of this band’s sound more than anything…

Posted on: January 11, 2020 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

“Moses” by Jonathan Emile

The last couple of years have been a great time for fans of acoustic pop music. From the United Kingdom to the United States and beyond, artists have been coming out of the woodwork with roots music of the most erudite variety, and although the new single “Moses” from Jonathan Emile might not qualify as being the most prolific acoustic song I’ve heard in the last year, it’s undeniably one…

Posted on: January 10, 2020 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 1

Natasha Wallace’s The Conscious Effect: 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing

Any study of how personal wellbeing, a larger issue than just physical health, influences the overall direction of any organization would be lacking if it did not likewise explore how effective leadership shapes that aforementioned wellbeing. Natasha Wallace’s The Conscious Effect: 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing leaves nothing out in its discussion of the issue. Wallace’s long experience as a HR professional, a respected voice regarding leadership and personal development, and…

Posted on: January 9, 2020 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Ian C. Bouras and Dion Abraham, Refractions of Sound

Slowly creeping out from behind the shadows of silence, we find the traces of an otherworldly melody in “Extemporization,” one of the eight songs comprising the new record from Ian C. Bouras and Dion Abraham, Refractions of Sound. Boldly venturing beyond limits that most artists would fearfully stick with, Bouras and Abraham explore the depths of the sonic universe without stripping away the personality from their colorful harmonics in songs like…

Posted on: January 2, 2020 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Pianist Joseph Seif’ releases stunning pair of Sonatas

Like a flickering light in the midst of an endless sea of darkness, we find the first glimpse at a stunning piano melody in “Adagio in A Minor” as we find the others that join it in Joseph Seif’s Piano Sonata No. 1; spilling over with an untouched emotionality that cannot be replicated, even within the tracklist of this simple classical record. Much like “Piano Sonata No. 1: I. Allegro in…

Posted on: December 31, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Sitting down with Mark and the Tiger

Hello! We are excited to chat with you today. Fill us in on what you have been up to in 2019! Hi! Thanks so much for talking the time to talk with me! Honestly, 2019 has been the year of getting my shit together. I’ve been making music and half heartedly getting myself out there for a few years now but it wasn’t until this year that I’ve really started…

Posted on: December 31, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Joey Stuckey Interview

Hello Joey! So happy we could chat today. Can you walk us through your musical journey? Give us the story of where you started and what is going on now for you. Thanks for inviting me to chat! I had a brain tumor when I was around 2 years old. I survived though most of the doctors didn’t think I would or if I did, I would never walk or…

Posted on: December 19, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Hunting Memories is a full length release

Hunting Memories is a full-length release of the same title, by visual Artist, Tahiti Pehrson, the sole creator of what is an excellent collection of songs that take you through some of the stories of life and things that happen with people along the way. The outcome is a very fresh and well-balanced perspective from an Indie Singer/Songwriter who does things his own way and hangs his hat on his…

Posted on: December 17, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 1

Jupiter in Velvet releases EP

Chords with big, burnt-ends come slashing through the silence in “Forever & a Day” like Jupiter in Velvet’s life depends on it, but as captivating as the guitar parts are in this track, they’re just as potent a force to be reckoned with in the Brit rock-inspired “A Cooler Shade of Mad” without question. Jupiter in Velvet puts the dynamic string grooves at the forefront of the mix in “If…

Posted on: December 9, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Kerry Pastine releases City of Love (single)

Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene’s third album release City of Love promises to be their defining moment to date. The Denver, Colorado native and her band mates built the two previous releases around a rockabilly blues hybrid sound earning raves in the process and established a reputation as a lively concert act more than capable of building on the energy they capture in the studio in front of enthusiastic fans. Her…

Posted on: December 4, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Parker Longbough LP Green and Gold/Drink the Hemlock

Guttural in one track, smothered in a synth’s playful harmony in another, the guitar parts that adorn the material we hear on the new Parker Longbough LP Green and Gold/Drink the Hemlock are at times reminiscent of early White Stripes records, 80s Seattle sludge and even the noise-laden riffs of Sonic Youth all at once, and yet they rarely translate as being overly experimental in songs like “Avalanche Beacon,” “Bad Attitude” and…

Posted on: November 25, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

“I Hereby Resign” by Steven Manchel

You would think that the subject of handling employee transitions between direct business competitors has a wealth of literature on the topic. You would be wrong. Attorney Steven Manchel writes about the issue with a objective and learned eye in his book “I Hereby Resign” Job Transitioning: How Individuals Properly Prepare, Resign and Move to the Competition, and How Companies Best Manage that Process. It has an agreeable length for the vast majority…

Posted on: November 24, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Time Has Made a Change by Jeff Parker & Company

In their latest record, titled Time Has Made a Change, popular bluegrass group Jeff Parker & Company get back to basics in a time that has seen their peers doing anything and everything but, and as a result produce an album that could be the most focused of Parker’s extensive career. From the slow-churning swell of strings in “Southern Wind” to the crisp harmonies of a peaceful “Time Has Made a…

Posted on: November 20, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Jeremy Rice releases new LP

Angelic guitars and piano keys intertwine and dance without any inhibition in “Goodbye.” Those same guitars entertain a dangerous riff rock in “Nme” and “Arriianne” that couldn’t be any dirtier in tonality, but the melodies in these songs are as springy as what we’d find in “Underneath the Ground” and “Beleev.” Jeremy Rice can croon in full-color heartland harmony in “Johnny Rogers” just as well as he can spit punkish…

Posted on: November 16, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Mimosa Hygiene is the first collection from Nashville based duo The Criticals

Mimosa Hygiene is the first collection from Nashville based duo The Criticals. The talents of Cole Shugart and Parker Forbes are formidable even after a single listen; this is a band who have their songwriting wrapped up far tighter than your average emerging act and I can’t point to a single track among the six included as an obvious example of filler. The Criticals, instead, come out of their corner swinging…

Posted on: November 11, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

“Don’t Stand a Chance” the new single by Mattia Pironti

Somewhat somber and yet capable of encapsulating the honest optimism of the lyrics in the foreground, the piano plays with a tortured resilience at the start of “Don’t Stand a Chance,” the new single by Mattia Pironti, and its opulence will only grow more noticeable as we press on. Its keys frame a poetic window into the soul of Mattia Pironti that had only been teased in his first two…

Posted on: November 6, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

MkX is keeping it real with us in his new song “right place, at the right time”

With an opening stanza that starts off with the lines “Undercover operations takes / A lotta discipline and patient waitin’ / Gotta secretly manipulate / To speed fate up,” MkX is getting real with us in his new song “right place, at the right time” and causing a stir among critics and fans for the third time in 2019. MkX is no loose cannon in “right place, at the right…

Posted on: November 6, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

Tummyache releases new EP

Tummyache’s Humpday opens with “Machine”, an often raucous cry from the heart looking to wrest meaning and purpose from a world often seeming to lack both. The five songs included on this EP release embrace that as theme. Songwriter Soren Bryce, through her inter and intra personal relationships, is an artistic voice chronicling how to hang onto your emotions in the general miasma of modern life. The roughhewn musical feel of “Machine”…

Posted on: November 5, 2019 Posted by: Kim Muncie Comments: 0

John DeNicola The Why Because

John DeNicola might not be a household name, but he should be, because you’ve probably heard his work in one form or another, whether you realize it or not. And his new album is his debut solo record, but it’s not exactly clear to me what’s all original and what is covered concerning both his own past works and covers of other’s work on this disc. What is clear to…