MUSIC REVIEWS

URL: http://www.garydouglasband.com/ There’s a steady turning-like effect to the new single from The Gary Douglas Band, “Nothing Ever Goes as Planned”, which has an almost chiming like sound at the start. The hypnotic sway of the song is lightly applied, never too overwrought, and the delicacy of the song’s acoustic …

URL: https://www.champdemars.net/ “Forlorn Cowboys of Nuclear Winter” opens Champ de Mars’ first full length studio album Rancho Seco Victory. In a bit of evocative misdirection setting a tone for everything following, the first track kicks off with moody sonic misdirection before settling into an airy, melancholy groove. The offbeat nature of …

INSTAGRAM: https://insta-stalker.com/profile/oberonrose/ A grinding organ gives way to the coarse and violent strumming of a haunting guitar. At once all of our emotions are bottled into a singular container and shaken like soda pop; the frothing fizz leaks out and spills onto our hi-fi with an uncompromising scowl that can …

REVERBNATION: https://www.reverbnation.com/dawggonedavis During the nine to five, she’s rocking the IT world managing the day to day workings of corporate America. But when she’s off the clock she takes on another identity – one of the Midwest’s most intriguing rappers and philanthropists. She is DawgGonDavis, and her new EP Anthem Pandemonium is …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/BenMillburn/ Ben Millburn’s Sunglass Moustache has confidence radiating from each of the album’s eleven songs. Millburn wrote and arranged all of the songs, but some of the tracks are shaped by improve rather than laying out a composition for a band to follow. If you don’t know, it’s impossible to tell …

THE ALBUM: https://open.spotify.com/album/10y9nciKuBaNJnnmKihbuN Del Suelo’s new album The Musician’s Compass: A 12 Step Programme has rocketed its way into the title of most anticipated record of the year, and having just given it a listen over the weekend it isn’t hard to see the reasons why. In an era where charlatanism has …

YOU TUBE: https://youtu.be/K58bNNsU2VM You could say that pop has been lagging in terms of organic melody lately, and I wouldn’t be able to disagree. But one area in which music – both in the mainstream and in the underground – has grown substantially more mature in the last couple of …

URL: https://www.hughiemac.com/ It seems, on the surface, a relatively bold move to record and release an album of classic pop standards in 2018. Some may say foolhardy. The extended success enjoyed by Rod Stewart belies this assumption and numerous other notable singers have taken a turn through the Great American …

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/JupiterInVelvet/ Fusing stoner rock’s mammoth distortion with punk’s visceral rhythms and 80’s heavy metal’s excessive virtuosity, Jupiter in Velvet has struck rock n’ roll gold in his new album Beautiful New Day, and critics from one side of the country to the next cannot stop singing its praises. I’ll be …

URL: https://marieldarling.com At just 16 years old, up and coming pop singer/songwriter Mariel Darling has been stunning critics across the country lately with her insanely good vocal capabilities, which some have likened to such legends as Madonna and Celine Dion. I myself hadn’t had the chance to really breakdown any …