MUSIC REVIEWS

“From a third-person view, you got your friends in the moon, each one looking at you / What’s the matter, why you closing your eyes? What a pointless disguise, only think that you hide,” Trevor Drury sings in his signature honeysweet voice, his vocal peppering a sophisticated piano-driven melody that …

URL: http://www.adrunksdreamcomestrue.com/ Tommy Botz is a songwriter on a journey that is said to be one of “hardship, compassion, and redemption.” And out of that long story comes the song “Teddy Bear,” sung by Logan Wells, and written by Botz, for a fellow inmate while locked up in an Ohio …

The last couple of years have left a lot to be desired in rock music on the mainstream level, but in the case of underground up and comers Stars in Toledo, those who worship at the altar of rock n’ roll gods will find a fine collection of songs in …

URL: https://www.caseyahern.com/ If you’ve been looking for especially stylish country grooves with a fresh, pop/rock edge, Casey Ahern might just have exactly what you’ve been yearning for in her new extended play He Was Summer, which is out now everywhere that indie music is streamed and sold. Ahern brandishes a versatile …

URL: https://www.respectables.ca/ The Respectables deliver a signature blend of epic tonality in their all new album The Power of Rock ‘N’ Roll, an eleven-track masterpiece that fuses hard rocking rhythm with adept, colorful lyrics that are often spiked with seductively stylish hooks. With songs like “The Shotgun Seat,” “Give Some” and …

URL https://www.clevelandinternational.com/ Soul-saturated swing doesn’t waste a second before throttling us with all of its muscular might as we descend upon “I Don’t Wanna Go Home,” one of Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes’ most beloved songs and only a fraction of the musical magic that listeners are beholden to …

A gentle piano emits an optimistic melody as brittle acoustic guitar strings attempt to replicate it in the opening bars of “Million Miles Away,” the latest single from the Gary Douglas Band’s new album Deep in the Water. When Douglas starts to croon in his smoky voice, his vocal wraps around …

Eclectic melodies and surreal soundscapes comprise The Girl from Cherry Valley, the stunning debut album from Jas Frank & the Intoits, which is now available everywhere that independent music is sold and streamed. Frontwoman Jas Frank leads the way with her sultry vocal in the centerpiece single “All the Highs All …

URL: http://www.acrosstheboardmusic.ca/ Fleeting string melodies flanked with a shimmering vocal track will get you hooked on “Alpha Wolf.” A stutter-step groove making merry with a bulging blues bassline will draw you into the firestorm that is “Graffiti.” Though littered with an illustrious keyboard part, it’s the treble-saturated lead guitar that …

URL: https://francinehoney.com/ Francine Honey has traveled the world taking her music to audiences from the U.K. to continental Europe, but her beating heart is the icy lands of Ontario, Canada. The music of the American South, namely country and blues, shares space in her heart with that Ontario upbringing, but …