Album Reviews

The diversity in the selections epitomizes The World Before It Ever Was experience

Straying from the choppy chords, choppy hair and choppy vintage Ts of post-punk, Gerling have nice shoes and an affection for disco balls. Playing with late 70s punk swagger, and leaning towards 80s indulgence, Badblood!!! acts as a retro-predecessor of punk morphing into synth-pop.

In the new millennium, there hasn

The Heat is a poignant release that sparks with pain, solace and penetrating observations, exposing Jesse Malin as an honest punk rocker turned storyteller.

On Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love, Jonathan Richman

Set out on fulfilling their mission of songs that sounded like songs, instead of placing jam noodlings over words, the Stockholm Syndrome have broken forth with a record that aches of pain and soul, However, Holy Happy Hour still has its moments of sunshine.

Mile 8

Almost 20 years after forming, and with half a dozen records under their belts, Five Eight turns out a self-titled effort that is neither ground breaking nor a complete disappointment.

Indian Summer is a pop rock gem, proving Carbon Leaf can hone their sound to glimmer with tasteful melodies, smart lyrics and delicate chops that you can truly grasp for numerous listens.

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With this sober debut from some of rocks most excess abused survivors,
Velvet Revolver shows promise, but may need some long road and studio tuning to reach that true Supergroup potential.

With close to twenty-five years and almost that many albums, one of the world

Lead singer, Spookie Daly

Rodney Jones has been a mainstay on the soul scene for a number of years, spending quality time with such talents as Maceo Parker, James Brown, and Tina Turner.

Sometimes a story is over before it even starts. By the time Phish

San Francisco’s ViV is growing as a band, and are coming into their own. The journey isn

He may well be this country’s most famous living mandolinist any side of David Grisman. He is known in some circles as the “Mayor of Telluride” due to the fact that he has performed at 26 of the 27 Telluride Bluegrass Festivals. Some prefer to call him, simply, King Sammy. What ever you call him, you owe it to yourself to take a listen to his latest offering of foot-stomping bluegrass, King Of My World.

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