With four songs totaling a little over 15 minutes, post-punk trio Manilow released its EP Cease and Desist earlier this month. Hailing from the United Kingdom, Dean Moston (lead vocals, guitar), Paul Chamberlain (bass, keys, backing vocals), and Gary Cardno (drums, percussion, backing vocals) have put together songs that explore themes of relationships, escape, psychosis,… Read More Music Review: Manilow – ‘Cease and Desist’ EP
The solo project of a Germany-based singer and multi-instrumentalist, Boris Rogowski, The Big Sleep is a dreamy sounding neo-folk, pop, and indie rock fusion marked by mid-song stylistic shifts. Rogowski is the main contributor here (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, woodwinds, percussions, drums), supported by Moishe Lichtfuss on saxophone, Benedikt Filleboeck on trumpet, and Isabelle Holder… Read More Music Review: The Society Islands – ‘The Big Sleep’
The Voices of Terror is a name that inspires fear, dread, and, well, terror. It’s not an emotion that I look for in music, but because they claim to be an alternative rock and hip-hop music duo, I decided to give their debut album, Rock-Rap Dynasty, a try. Mike Walker and Zero, both from New… Read More Music Review: The Voices of Terror – ‘Rock-Rap Dynasty’
The late 1990s/early 2000s’ iteration of pop punk comes to mind when listening to Everlost’s EP The Hardest Thing to Say. Released in mid-September, this collection of five radio friendly songs featured the same range and emotions one associates with bands such as Yellowcard, Jimmy Eat World, and Fall Out Boy. Jared Kay’s voice, while… Read More Music Review: Everlost – ‘The Hardest Thing to Say’ EP
From the first notes of the opening track of Joe Con’s new EP, I Choose You, you get a feel of who he is and the environment that shaped him: a relaxed, fun guy who has spent hours on Venice Beach’s California coast. Most of the songs on this six-track EP are fun to listen… Read More Music Review: Joe Con – ‘I Choose You’ EP
Perhaps it comes as no surprise that an artist from New York City cannot be contained within one genre, just like the Big Apple can’t be described in one word. A bit of folk, a bit of pop, a big of rock, a bit of punk, a bit of Americana, and a bit of electropop… Read More Music Review: Nehedar – ‘The Warming House’
It comes as little surprise that someone from Arkansas would write and produce an all-Americana imbibed album. But it might come as a surprise that he started his musical career when he found a string-less guitar in 2010 while dumpster diving. Michael Leonard Witham’s debut album, A Scandal in the Violets, to be officially released… Read More Music Review: Michael Leonard Witham – ‘A Scandal in the Violets’
Post-future rock artist aCr (also known as Alvaro Che Rodriguez) has just released his first solo EP titled Ghost Note Manifest. He is already known for his work as guitarist and vocalist of progressive punk group Liquid Casing. Hailing from Houston, aCr wrote, produced and performed all the instruments on this release, except for the… Read More Music Review: aCr – ‘Ghost Note Manifest’
Beginner Mind is a honey-laced, 11-song album that combines folk, country, gospel, and other intimate forms of acoustic music focusing on topics such as the happiness the artist has found in creating a home with his wife and child. From North Caroline, Jay Brown is a blend of James Taylor, Willie Nelson, and Cat Stevens,… Read More Music Review: Jay Brown – ‘Beginner Mind’
Merriam-Webster defines slang as “words that are not considered part of the standard vocabulary of a language and that are used very informally in speech especially by a particular group of people”, and “an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech”. While this alternative… Read More Music Review: The Slang – ‘The Slang’ EP