CD Reviews

Midnight Shine are winning over a lot of new fans this September, and it isn’t at all hard to see why when you take a look at their new music video for the single “Lonely Boy.” With as much vitality and emotionality in its shots as we hear in the …

Some art is born from pain. This is not an universal truth – some art comes from a playful place, some is born from joy, and so on. It is true, however, that some art springs from a deep seeded need to express oneself and experience catharsis by transforming personal …

I admit going into this review I did not recognize this band. Despite a three decade long existence, Diesel Park West eluded my rock fandom but, introduced to their work via this release, I am jazzed to acquaint myself with their back catalog. The UK quartet’s new studio album Let It …

Summer 2019 has produced some larger than life alternative records, but what Matthew Squires has just released this past August in Visions of America is pure poetry in nine nuanced compositions that are unlike any others that I’ve reviewed all year long. Armed with little more than a galloping guitar and a …

Here we have it – Les Techno releases their single Edge Of The World  and we are dying to talk about it. Why would we assume you’d like it? Well, do you like Techno? Do you like Punk? Do you like the 80’s goth scene and vibe? If you answered …

Mixing country and folk music isn’t exactly a new idea, but it’s certainly been all the rage in the U.S. and Canada this year. At the forefront of the Canadian country beat this August is an up and coming duo called The Promised, whose single and music video “We Could …

One Line Down is the new single release by singer-songwriter, musician and filmmaker Mahmood Khan. Khan wrote and produced the song in the beautiful and tranquil Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. ‘The song is about the joy in striving to achieve an inner balance in life cos …

Melissa Harris, singer/songwriter and producer, works under the name Born Days and garnered much deserved acclaim and notice for her 2017 debut EP Be True. The soon to be released successor to that release, another EP entitled Where We Live, builds on the strengths of her first outing and advances her artistry …

It is possible to respect, even admire, an artist’s chutzpah and ambition without uniformly enjoying the results. It doesn’t often happen in music as opposed to, for example, literature where you can discern an author grappling with large scale themes in much starker terms, but modern musicians are, on the …

In their decades-long history of producing some of the best mariachi music in the world, Mariachi Los Camperos has outdone themselves with the new album, De Ayer Para Siempre (from Yesterday to Forever), their first studio album under the leadership of  Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán.  I say this after having spent …