Buy Love Lost for Blood Lust Bobgoblin touts themselves as a post punk band with a social conscience. They live up to this promise with lyrics that are deliciously sardonic and poetic. Drawing influence from punk, new wave, and seventies-era glam, the trio’s music is energized and catchy. On their most recent album, Love Lost … Read more
Buy Early Risers Soldiers of Fortune has been described as both an “indie super-group” as well as an “anti-band”. In either case, it is accurate to say that this New York based group of experienced musicians with a wide variety of musical pedigrees is a very custom rock band. With their 2015 album, Early Risers, … Read more
Buy Blackstar Over time, much will surely be written about David Bowie‘s mysterious final years. In 2013, this rock legend emerged with his first album in ten years, which he immediately followed with his swan song, Blackstar, which was released just two days before Bowie’s death in January 2016. Although Bowie (who had been secretly … Read more
Buy And The War Came And the War Came, the 2014 third album by Shakey Graves, features an overall minimalistic approach with simple acoustic guitar, percussion up front and impressively tight production. Born Alejandro Rose-Garcia, this songwriter and performer has an incredible talent for using his unique voice (a voice which naturally falls somewhere between Bruce … Read more
Buy Above the Sweet Tea Line Using a modern vibe with many classic influences blending into one cohesive sound, Jeremy Porter and the Tucos fuses a simple but highly effective sound on their latest album, Above the Sweet Tea Line. They claim influence from disparate sources ranging from Cheap Trick to Gram Parsons to Merle … Read more
Buy Something You Remember Released: June 21, 2015 Produced by: Franklin Gotham Track Listing Casanova Forced Metaphors Jamie Want Ad Still Beating Heart Group Musicians Kevin Adkins – Lead Vocals, Piano, Melodica Jarrett Nicolay – Guitars, Keyboards Christopher Speich – Drums, Percussion Franklin Gotham‘s impressive debut EP, Something You Remember may be the start of … Read more
Buy Me Right Now Released: October 14, 2015 Produced by: Jon Lewis Track Listing Me Right Now Mine Stay New York I Love You So Close So Far Musicians Hannah Ayrault – Piano, Vocals Jon Lewis – Synths Me Right Now may only be five songs long, but this debut EP by Hannah Ayrault certainly … Read more
Buy Tales of the Aftermath Courtney Chambers brings music to a place many artists grasp towards but can’t quite reach. Her fourth album, Tales of the Aftermath, bluntly and artfully expresses sentiments that most everyone can relate to. It is masterful in its simplicity but poetic in its deliverance. Chambers’ s vocals are the core … Read more
Hungarian rockers, The Trousers, put forth a lot of positive, highly energetic tunes on their latest album, Mother of Illusion. The album overall is a refreshing, modern take on classic genres such as classic rock, punk and new wave, and it features some fine production, sonic engineering and musicianship by the four members of the … Read more