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Buy Perfect Smile Often overlooked as just a subset of The Badlees, this band may have put out one of the finer recordings by a Pennsylvania artist during the first decade of the 21st century. Perfect Smile by The Cellarbirds is excellent through and through. It’s one of those albums that just gets better with … Read more
The fourth album by Vicky Emerson, the new 2019 release Steady Heart features the artist stepping up to assume sole production duties for the first time and with stellar success. Emerson’s music finds a nice niche somewhere between country and Americana and the songs themselves seem to at once contain good movement and yet show … Read more
Talk to Me is the fourth full-length album by Rhode Island based modern rock band, The Complaints. The album, which is well produced and nicely showcases the trio’s sound, has a bit of a garage band edge with simple arrangements and strong songwriting. It is the first LP release by the group in a decade. … Read more
Ride or Die is the third solo album by Devon Allman. As a whole, this album has a raw and powerful edge wrapped in bluesy emotion with superbly-textured guitar driven rock. While this is a rock album to the core, Allman also adds a measurable influence from his Chicago-style blues roots. The son of Gregg … Read more
Wild Change is a 2017 release by the Oklahoma-based trio KALO. The album features emotionally-charged performances and musicianship with some overall lyrical themes of believing in yourself and daring to dream. KALO is named for and fronted by Israeli born guitarist and vocalist Bat-Or Kalo, who drew strong influence from American music and released her jazz-influenced … Read more
The 20th annual Brigg’s Farm Blues Festival is nearly here. While this festival happens once a year over what amounts to a long weekend in July, extensive preparations have been happening almost non-stop since the inaugural festival back in 1998. The festival has grown from hosting about 800 people a day in that initial year … Read more
Breaking the Script is a double length album from Reno, Nevada’s rock/jazz quartet, The Novelists. The group combines folk-like story telling lyrics with magnificent multi-part harmonies, layers of instrumentation and rich production. The resulting sound is uniquely theirs and very easy to enjoy from the beginning to the end of this twenty-four song long musical … Read more
Buy Nobody Gives a Damn For his second solo album, Nobody Gives a Damn, producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Owen Sartori delivers a collection of sonic gems with consistent musical quality throughout. The album’s title (and title song) comes out of the frustration that this industry veteran feels with the modern music industry in which many … Read more
Buy Rain and Laura Wylder, an indie-pop/folk-rock band from the Washington, DC area has released a refreshing and cohesive debut with Rain and Laura. This album is much more than just a collection of songs presented together because they happened to be written around the same time. In fact, it is a quasi-concept album documenting … Read more