Music Review

Knoxville, Tennessee hard rockers Sonic Fuel deliver their no-nonsense brand of guitar-focused, monster riff rock music that’s sure to be right at home with loyal listeners. Unforgettable chorus hooks and excellent guitar work unite to…

With an album of widescreen melancholy pop Manic Street Preachers let light (and love) in. My first Manics album was 1998’s This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, bought when I was 15, it had a pervasive melancholy and great sense of yearning…

Little Green Cars didn’t wait long to trade in when their engine gave out once and for all. Frontman Stevie Appleby has hit the road on his own, while Faye O’Rourke, Adam O’Regan, Donagh Seaver O’Leary and Dylan Lynch have re-emerged from…

California native Wise John has delivered a beautifully crafted blend of jazz, folk, and pop on his new LP, A Wonderful World. “I wrote most of A Wonderful World while I was living in Orange County, CA, during the summer of 2020,” said…

The opening track of Vince Staples’ self-titled album may be his defining masterwork. The bouncy and devastating 'ARE YOU WITH THAT?' seems to exemplify everything he’s been about his whole career, brought to new melodic heights. Vince’s…

Blueanimal is a band that emerged from another Orlando outfit called Redwax. The guitarist and bass player, Luke Elms and Matt Lube, formed their own musical nugget from the main gig, and they just released a captivating new concept album…

Time is Your Old Droog’s debut album, or so he claims. The Ukrainian-born rapper has released six projects since 2019, Time being his seventh. The misdirection is intentional. Time at once shows the listener sides of Droog never before…

Prodigious lo-fi artist Mike Gale has knocked out his ninth release, Twin Spirit. This one marks a different approach to earlier work, however, as this is built upon samples that act as thematic bases to draw melodies over, progressively…

Dark and broody is certainly a style to fit the times we’re in, and “Alt-desktop” doom artist K4LT (formed from the German word “Kalt”) has delivered a discombobulated, weird, and mesmerizing piece with his new EP, Endgame. The Berlin…

After fourteen years and the release of two albums, Gypsies On The Autobahn called it quits. Not one to rest on his laurels, James Smith busied himself with multiple remix projects under his Yurn moniker and made some guest appearances on…