MUSIC REVIEWS

URL: http://www.elsewhere-band.com/ As a music journalist, a big part of my job is finding the appropriate labels and defining terms to attach to bands and solo artists so that audiences can have an easier time finding what they want to listen to. Classification is essential to categorization, but even though …

I-TUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1412981639?ls=1&app=itunes This is a punchy, feisty new single from Nashville based Kanisha K, a powerful new singer and promising songwriter building a reputation as one of modern country music’s premier young performers. She is sure to increase her public attention with the new single “Talk is Cheap”, a passionate …

URL: http://www.extremeflute.com/ The results are in; The Silent Wish – Bill McBirnie with Bernie Senensky is being called the most important jazz flute record of the late 2010s, and it only takes a casual listen of its twelve sterling songs to see why critics from Toronto to London can’t stop talking about …

BANDCAMP: https://alberta.bandcamp.com/ Alberta is the brainchild of singer/songwriter and Detroit native David Boone and his new album MMMMM, self-released, is an eleven song collection attesting to his idiosyncratic artistic nature. Describing his newest release as the explosion of a single thought overall with the individual songs representing shards of shrapnel, it’s …

URL: https://www.sarahclanton.com/ Medicine and law may well be noble professions, but I would argue that no calling is more emotionally taxing and demanding than music is. For fans like most of us, a good song can be the soundtrack to our daily lives; it can be there for our greatest …

URL: http://www.brotherreverend.com/ Employing a more sensitive take on rip roaring American garage rock, Brother Reverend have unleashed a sonic juggernaut in their new album The Tables Turn Too Often, which is available everywhere this September 28th. The Tables Turn Too Often sees Brother Reverend expanding on their trademark sound, which fuses elements from …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheFibsOfficial/ A singer/songwriter/musician who says they wrote the lyrics for their new album while reading famed poet Lorca might draw a slightly arched eyebrow from those with antenna raised for possible pretension. The Fibs’ front man, Preston Newberry, isn’t some hipster dilettante however. The self titled second album from his …

Anchored by the riveting single “A Girl Named America,” Nate Smith’s new album Some Kind of Dancing is a poetic slice of viciously dark Americana as imagined by one of our generation’s most provocative songwriters. Smith’s last album, Around and Around, captivated critics including myself with its delicate prose amidst stern social commentary, …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvsXTKpDY3Y If it weren’t already enough to construct a brilliant concept album the likes of which his generation hasn’t seen before, Jonathon Zemek wanted his new record to be an experience that would engage his audience on every possible level; audiological, visual and physical. With the help of …

YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsZwuz2Idyo Like a painter carefully applying a brush to a canvas, singer/songwriters Rachel Panchal and Scott Oatley artfully contribute one stroke of colorful tonality after another inNo Ghost, their brand new EP hitting record stores this summer, and their painstaking attention to detail is devastatingly moving in every …