MUSIC REVIEWS

Connecticut’s Laura Sumner channels the philosophical ways of a folk artist and meshes them together with rock and roll and Americana bliss in the moving EP Red Clay Blue Sky. Inviting the listener into her world, one that is filled with memories and delightful details, Sumner’s voice keeps the listener close …

Burgeoning talent is attracting a lot of people to the American underground right now, and whether you’re looking for something urban or bucolic, you can rest assured there’s going to be something to suit your taste out at the moment. URL: https://foundrytownsurvivors.com/ Those who prefer the latter over the former …

It’s been a long time since this sort of music has been able to gain and keep a foothold in the modern music world. Smooth jazz is often consigned to the netherworld of cocktail bars, period piece movie soundtracks, or the general oblivion of golden oldie radio stations. Le Sonic, …

Consider JD and the RetroRyders to be proverbial keepers of the flame. This unique seven piece band based out of Huntington Beach, California is led by front man Joe DeMeo with two supporting vocalists, a drummer, guitarist, bass player, and an additional percussionist. They have four well-received releases under their …

Noise-rockers Cinemartyr have a particular philosophy when it comes to making music – “the body dictates the note” – and it’s very much in this spirit that we find their new album  sounding like one of the more imposing releases of its kind out this summer. From the moment the …

Francesca Beghe Live presents the wildly talented veteran vocalist in fine fettle. The fourteen songs included on the release, drawn from Beghe’s first three live performances with a full band behind her in twenty-plus years, are an indistinguishable blend of originals and covers. I say indistinguishable because nothing Beghe does ever …

From the moment we press the play button on the warm, sunlit string play of “My Sunrise,” it’s obvious that we’re in for a special treat in the new Chris St. John album uncommon on the mainstream level of country music nowadays. While St. John isn’t reinventing the wheel with Fly …

Indie singer/songwriters are enjoying their moment in the spotlight right now, but it hasn’t come without a lot of divisiveness among critics. In her debut EP Tonight There Might Be Stars, Karen Turner isn’t putting her music in one particular aesthetical camp over another and is instead focusing on melodic charm …

Wreckless Strangers are like the carpetbaggers of jam and blues rock bands. Opening up a wide bag of sounds of lots of gems in the full-length debut When the Sun and a Blue Star Collide, at their core, this Bay Area group is bound together by a passion for a unique …

Experimental music and the esteemed city of Seattle are about as intertwined as cities and genres can be, with the genre of grunge exploding out of the Pacific Northwest back in the early ‘90s as a response to mainstream pop and punk, and then the modern indie genre spawning out …