REVIEWS

If My Bloody Valentine were to ever make a baby with Crystal Castles, you’d basically be able to figure out […]

There’s something about Scotland. Mysterious, seeing as how so many North Americans consider Scotland as England’s little brother. And hard-edged

You know what you’re getting into with The Stone Foxes from the moment you drop the needle on their debut,

Between 10 and 2 is not your usual piece of music by any standards.   Vocalist, pianist and cellist, TyLean,

Katrin goes by only one name, but she wrote from several perspectives on her latest CD Soul Wide Open. The

When a band as young and as talented as Still Life Still make a record as swarming yet precise as

Built to Spill has served as the influence and inspiration for many other indie bands. They inhabit a secure area

What best way to pay tribute to one of the biggest music moguls today than to give a five-hour concert

Some of the greatest hits in music today were made from grassroots bands working on low budgets. The same goes

Hailing from Toronto, LIGHTS is formerly Valerie Poxleitner; a girl who cooled off Warped Tour-goers with her light hearted synth-driven

There are not many hip hop albums out there that have impressed me from start to finish as much as

Audible Mainframe catapulted from their popular Boston nightclub status to making a name for themselves all over the west coast.

Cristen Grey once was the lead guitarist & rhythm guitarist for the heavy metal act, All Eyes.   She and

Bobby Bare Jr., American Bread (Perfecto Records) 7-song EP of 70s radio-pop rehashes from the fortunate son of country legend

Listening to John Pondel creates the illusion of having a nice, quiet dinner and some drinks at a jazz club.

Expect the unexpected here from a Washington-based band known as Sideways Reign. A Stand For All Stages is music for

I really wanted to like TV Ghost’s latest self-titled release. Cool name, rad cover art and the backing of a

It’s a wild world out there. A world filled with bands essentially sponsored by faceless corporations, playing paint by numbers

You know what you’re getting into with the Reigning Sound: a rollicking good time. Led by Greg Cartwright,   the

This 4-song EP is nice & subtle, easy-going music.   You hear a southern rock sound with elements of country

This new work by Rob Carlton is nothing short of amazing with the WOW factor in full effect.   This

Roy Cohen is the man responsible for the birth of Jive64 coming straight out of Tel Aviv, Israel.   Not

Long past the middle of the night, music lovers and record geeks alike sit awake, playing the “What If?” game.

It shuffles, it bounces, it somehow manages to rock as much as it rolls; it’s the debut from Zeus, the

Metallica has their Master of Puppets and I would say Bill Ortiz is master of trumpets.   This artist has

The movie “500 Days of Summer” starring Zooey Deschanel and Joesph Gordon-Levitt is an offbeat comedy about a girl who

Mina is inviting you to take a trip to the dark side just for a bit.   This journey will

After a four-year hiatus, dancehall supergroup, T.O.K. is back with their third highly-anticipated album, “Our World,” which releases on August

Released earlier this month, Tarrus Riley’s third release, “Contagious” is everything its’ title embodies, and more.   Riley’s beautiful tenor

It’s out of character for the typically foul-mouthed rapper Amanda Blank to talk about love and that’s why her debut

Very rarely does an artist choose a stage moniker with apt precision. Finnish-Canadian troubadour Afie Jurvanen and his axe over

This San Francisco based singer/songwriter, who was born in Puerto Rico, has one incredible story that absolutely needs to be

The mastermind behind Requiem For Delinquency’s newest creation, Hobs End, is Faron Chance Morrison.   This one man also produced,

Coming off their 2008 EP, Selah, which sold over 1,000 copies, West Gate is looking high to skies with their

With an album named Hot Mess with its garish cover art, Cobra Starship delivers another musical punch line. Their irreverent

Armistice is Mutemath’s second full length album. The New Orleans based electro alt rock band broke out on the music

John Vanderslice isn’t new to the music scene, Romanian Names is his seventh album in only nine years. He is

Grizzly Bear is currently enjoying indie darling status – it is a band that is unanimously being lauded for its

The Queen Killing Kings, Tidal Eyes (Windup Records) The sounds-like list with which one could tag this Connecticut 4-piece is

First off, don’t try to pin-point as to what type of music this is because you will rack your brain