MUSIC REVIEWS

Matthew Squires issues a formidable sequel to his last album, the plaintive Tambaleo, in Visions of America, a record that not only lives up to its title but further explores a poetic side of Squires’ artistry that was only slightly touched on in its predecessor. In lyric-driven ballads like “The Sentinel,” “Lonesome,” …

In the new single “Lonely Boy,” Midnight Shine and their charismatic frontman Adrian Sutherland deliver one of the most searing performances that they’ve attached their well-respected moniker to thus far, and while the content of the composition is more than satisfying on its own, the music video for the track …

  Diesel Park West’s three decade long journey through the highs and lows of popular music continues with their ninth studio release Let It Melt. The UK four piece features three members from their 1980’s lineup, included singer/songwriter and guitarist John Butler, and eleven song collection released by Dallas, Texas based …

Canadian songwriter Jeremy Rice is garnering a ton of buzz this September, and it’s undoubtedly because of the new music video for his single “Arriianne.” With a colorful cast of characters that include five forest green sock puppets, the video for “Arriianne” is a creatively black and white revival of …

Pulsating acoustic guitars. Thought-provoking lyrics. Decadent strands of melodicism stained in bitter poeticisms of old Americana. “The Ballad of the Unknown River Driver,” “Broken Cup,” “Best Mistake,” “Patterns,” “Labor Day” and really every track on Leo Harmonay’s brilliant new album Naked Rivers is layered in a different shade of sonic …

Nick Demopoulos, working under the moniker Smomid, produces musical compositions defying tradition and pushing listener’s ideas about songcraft into challenging new areas. It is key for readers and potential listeners to recognize what awaits them before hearing this release for a first time. He writes and records music with self-designed …

With the cadence of an elevated heartbeat, Nocturnal Blonde kick off their new album Still Gushing with an evocative drumbeat and a burning vocal harmony between Rachel Adams and Richie Williams in the first of the twelve tracks that Williams wrote with his brother Dave, “Smart Heart.” “Smart Heart” shoulders a beast …

Allocai is reaching out to a lonesome world in this single The last few months have produced some seriously sweet pop music on both sides of the dial in the United States, but few in the American indie underground have been garnering the kind of attention that Jamaican-born R&B crooner …

OFFICIAL URL: https://www.rebeccabinnendyk.com/ In her latest single, titled “Brick by Brick,” Rebecca Binnendyk delivers some of the most chilling vocal harmonies of the season in what many critics have deemed her breakthrough moment as a singer/songwriter. Right from the onset of the piano’s understated melody, we’re entrapped in Binnendyk’s web …

Fans of alternative music have been demanding a lot more from bands lately, and this summer there’s one group that has been answering back with a pre-album single that seems perfectly timed for the needs of contemporary listeners. I’m talking, of course, about the Sharon Lia Band and their new …