Music Review
The crazy coolness that is Destroy Nate Allen returns with the Gnarboots serving as their backing band. Backing band you say? Have they gone corporate pop? Not at all! Folk punk is still the basis for Destroy Nate Allen’s sound here… but the added instruments take that sound in many unexpected directions. One minute you…
Crumbächer’s classic second album has been given a facelift for its 25th anniversary. The sound is new wave / rock / synthpop straight from the 80s. Some people will write this off as dated no matter what I say – but I believe that good music is still good music no matter how it ages.…
This was an interesting review set-up. We tend to get stuck on random email lists by random labels that obviously don’t know our magazine and think we will want to review their next teen-bop wannabe. Marco actually contacted us himself and knew our names when asking for a review (pro-tip #1 right there random labels).…
Doug Burr returns with an EP of re-recorded versions of songs from his O, Ye Devastator album. The difference between these songs and the original ones are that these are stripped down numbers with interesting “version names” added on the end. On the 7-inch vinyl you get “A Black Wave Is Comin’ (Forest Fortress Version)”…
Expansive minimalism from Jeff MacKey of Writ on Water and Jarod Weldin of Dangerous Trap. The majority of the music on this self-titled album is created using ambient guitars, with just a slight hint of percussion and pianos/keyboards here and there. This is mellow music perfectly suited for contemplation, meditation, reading, and relaxing. No song really…
It is hard to find anything to say about Sticks and Stones that hasn’t already been said a time or two in the last 22 years. On a personal note, this was my introduction to the 77’s as a band. It wasn’t until years later that I checked out their albums prior to this one,…
A Review of Losing Steam by Gord Wilson While running on the treadmill, I wait to see what song Iggy, my iPod shuffle, will choose next. Most of the songs I don’t recognize from the first few strains. Some I click ahead to find something wilder for the warm-up or mellow for the cool down.…
Emotional Tourist is probably the best way to describe the experience of consuming the art of Steve Scott. Scott takes you on a journey through the heart and soul of human emotions like no other can. So how do you go about creating a retrospective of a career starting in the 1970s that spanned many forms of…
Something tells me that the guys in SLIDE are not afraid to speak their mind. Which is a good thing, because the lyrics of Auto Tune Massacre go straight from the hearts of the band members right into your soul…. sometimes in a harsh light, sometimes in a fun light, but always with a healthy dose of…
This is one of those great timeless records that’s good from beginning to end. “Break In Rhyme” opens the Kickstarter funded album with a very reflective piece, echoing the line “So it goes, what we have could be gone in the blink of an eye” – something we can all relate to. “I Can’t Wait”…