CD Reviews

I love cross language/culture/border/genre collaborations – it is at the edge of genres that great creativity happens. A perfect example came across my desk this week, a collaboration between Chicago native crooner Matt LeGrand and the Venezuelan rap star Mestiza who have teamed up on “ I’ve Been Watching You”.  …

“Introvert”, the first side of Scizzorman’s latest release Schizophonic, opens with the track “21st Century Clan”. The track’s spoken word introduction segues into a clean funk groove highlighted by a tight relationship between the bass and Terry Vinci’s drumming. The brittle slash of guitar fills punctuates the arrangement before the vocals begin. …

From the jittery, palm-muted textures that greet us in “Johnny Rogers” to the glittery, soft harmonies that slowly disappear as “Goodbye” fades into the mist, Jeremy Rice’s debut album, Jeremy Rice and the Legendary Fist of Takinawa, is an awfully tough LP to put down once listeners embrace its myriad of …

Belgian-born producer Francis Groove has just dropped Can’t Wait, the follow up to I Swear, the AM-A collaboration which got to #7 on MusicWeek’s Urban Club Chart earlier this year. Can’t Wait features Miss X on vocals and another collaborative track, this time with Simon Le Saint and Tony G. …

DJ TLove (Thiery Valentin Peronet) is considered to be a pioneer in the Belgium House music scene, beginning his career there in 1992. TLove has been a resident DJ for some of the biggest clubs in Ibiza and has played alongside some of the greatest innovators of house music like …

Jeff Goldblum has cultivated quite the aura around himself. Make no mistake, it is an act of cultivation. That’s totally fine, by the way. He’s a celebrity, he’s an actor, he’s a public figure. It seems like he enjoys it, and it seems like there is clearly sincerity there. Jeff …

It is no secret that hard work and persistence are just as important as talent for success in today’s music world. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of very talented singers, musicians, and bands playing weekends in small clubs all over the country while they focus on their jobs during …

When Casey Ahern steps up to the mic, she doesn’t just belt out a soothing country croon – she takes us to wherever she’s at emotionally and makes it as real as is possible from within the four walls of a recording studio. Using descriptive poetry that transcends the normal …

So far, to say that this year has been going exceptionally well for MkX would be an understatement of immense proportions, as his last two releases – an original cut of “Highlights” and a Planet X remix – have sizzled through the underground and received a warm reception from one …

Tummyache is Soren Bryce’s chosen moniker for her alternative rock project and her new release under this banner, Humpday, is a five song EP with unabashed personal meaning for this songwriter and producer. Bryce has released music under her own name for the previous six years but a new label for …