CD Reviews

In the extended play Leo’s Guitar, Izzie’s Caravan explore the basics of blues-rock with an old fashioned swagger that isn’t easy to come by in the genre these days. Songs like the pendulous “Lightnins-A-Howlin’” and “Dorian’s […]

Swagger can make or break a jazz record like Project Grand Slam’s East Side Sessions, but thanks to the confident demeanor of its players – including new singer Marilyn Castillo – it feels and sounds like […]

AV Super Sunshine has attracted attention from iconic performers such as Lady Gaga and it’s not hard to hear why. This is an artist geared towards eventually achieving mainstream prominence thanks to the waves of […]

Crossover artists have been dominating almost every chart, mainstream and independent, in the last couple of years, and if you’re a fan of this new movement within western pop, you’re probably going to like what […]

Beatrice Betley’s second official single, “Lullaby,” starts off simply enough with a velvety vocal as pristine as it is entrancing, but don’t be fooled by its soft intro. In a little less than four minutes’ […]

Tell us what this time has been like for you? Has it given you more time to focus on music or do you find it more difficult? Though it’s a crazy and uncertain time for […]

What’s one way to get singer Jenny Teator to do something? Tell her she can’t do it. And she will get it done with grit, energy and ‘wo-oh’ will it be rocking. “Rise Up” the […]

In “Miss You,” the latest single from Chasing September, the pop-punk outfit’s singular driving force – Don Davis – marvelously melds Bob Mould-style vocal harmonies with furious riffing that would appeal to casual rockers as […]

Ricky Comeaux first made his mark in the music world during the 1980’s and 1990’s with creative partner Jerry Atwood as one half of the Houston based vocal duo Atwood and Comeaux but has reemerged […]

In his new extended play Northern Lights, Austin’s JD Lion explores the atmospheric end of the chill-hop spectrum across three short but entirely elaborate compositions that don’t require any previous knowledge of the genre to appreciate […]

While the churning beats inside of Mike Rickard’s “Don’t Feed the Ghosts,” “Alright,” and “Taste Your Smile,” all of which can be found on his incredible album Out Loud, are undisputedly captivating in every way […]

A single piano key stoically collides with a mild drumbeat to form the backdrop of “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” one of the longer jams featured on Mike Dekleva’s 2018 EP Psychedelia, but […]

With a quick mic-check and a click of the drums, a slow galloping groove welcomes us with open arms into the warmth of “Show Me You,” the new single from a newly-solo Dynamyte (known prior […]