MUSIC REVIEWS

Alec Blake “I Believed in You” (SINGLE)

26 year old German producer and performer Alec Blake shares the same sort of origin story as many musicians. Born into a musical family, Blake began playing piano at seven years old, guitar when he was thirteen, and moved onto drums by age sixteen. He played drums in a local …

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Christina Gaudet “Manhattan Oz: A Gotham Odyssey” (LP)

Manhattan Oz: A Gotham Odyssey is prolific American blues rocker Christina Gaudet’s 10th solo album. Packed with jam-worthy guitar grooves and hard hitting drum beats, Gaudet’s flavorful vocals is still the highlight of this dark horse hit parade. Just as the humidity-like rhythms call out like a sweaty dance craze, it’s Gaudet’s …

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Jason Bennett “Cows” (LP)

Cows, the sophomore CD release by Jason Bennett, is a very fitting title for a variety of songs that come together from different places to find a home in the Americana, folk, country and even rock influenced territory. The unplugged approach keeps it grounded for the most part, but that’s …

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CrashMonkeys “Dangerous” (SINGLE)

If a song has the opening line “And then I saw you, breakfast table at Lo-Fi Betty’s, making love to your biscuits and gravy, that big gorilla on your arm,” there’s a high chance no matter what follows could turn my enjoyment of the track sour. For “Dangerous” by CrashMonkeys, …

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The Chillbumps “Welcome to Our Arbor Day Fair” (LP)

Bands like The Chillbumps litter rock and roll’s long history. The Alabama-based five-piece first formed in the late 1980s and, at first, devoted themselves to covers and playing the college circuit in the American Southeast. Auburn University students themselves, The Chillbumps did eventually record one album of originals in 1991, Welcome …

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Alex Lopez “Nasty Crime” (LP)

Blues music is quite literally at the foundation of all western pop and rock music, but when it’s being presented in its purest of forms, there’s no denying its charismatic tone as it exists independently from the genres it has influenced in the past century. A lot of singer/songwriters do …

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