REVIEWS

If you could float through everyday with Octoberman’s Fortresses in your head, constantly on repeat, you’d probably share a comfortable […]

Elwood Emission is made up one creative-minded individual by the name of Lucy Kalantari.   Her music includes a little

I have to be honest that when I saw the band title, Sprockets, I first thought of that hilarious bit

Poking their heads out from obscurity in London, all-girl noise-pop trio PENS is what you would expect to hear from

Unless you’re an musical icon like Bob Dylan or an indie darling like Conor Oberst, being pegged as a singer-songwriter

With a name like Vangough, you’re assuming top-notch precision & artistry at its finest.   Now, you and I know

This Kentucky-based rock group is literally bringing The Painful Side of truth on this new record.   You get a

This past year has seen plenty of rock bands that ruled the 90s reunite in an effort to relive their

This Canadian rocker from Edmonton known as Greg Wood is ready to rock the spot all night long.   With

This Berlin-based singer/songwriter brings you a 4-song EP titled Kite. I have to mention the cover art due to its

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the

With a voice that’s impossible not to fall in love with, and a heaping helping of Audrey Horn (Sherilyn Fenn)

It is hard to believe that it has been only three years since the Arctic Monkeys burst onto the rock

While Ted Kooshian named his album Underdog, and other Stories… Kooshian is certainly not an underdog, nor is his Standard

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