Pain, yes. But maybe…beautiful pain? Such are the ruminations that come to mind as a listener, hearing Darren Michael Boyd’s sophomore album Wonders Of The Invisible World – preferably at three o’clock exactly on a dark and stormy night. The album begs a setting fitting its chameleonic, three-act musical structure. In a way that’s significantly […]
Virginia’s David Arn is a prolific songwriter – his Americana and soft rock songs in his newest collection, Traveler Tales, are 14 selections strong. You wouldn’t know it, for at first it sounds like you’re dipping your toes into a modest singer/songwriter selling his voice and song for a momentary reaction. Soon, the sonic experience […]
Acclaimed writer and poet Nathaniel Bellows is easily one of the best writers of his generation; his work distinguished enough to have appeared in the Paris Review and The Best American Short Stories compilation. Therefore it should be no surprise that his songwriting abilities match to boot, his third effort as a musician – an […]
Billy Jeter – “Sins Of Me” from the upcoming 2021 album Shineye Landing, is a spiritually enlightening rush of not only Country, Folk and Rock, but Jeter is also rooted in the blues, so it wouldn’t be right to avoid the genre to help describe the artist and this song has a slide guitar solo […]
It’s hard to believe anyone can remain anonymous in the year 2020, but one band that can continue to do so is the folk/rock duo Newspoke. The band’s new single “Python Petroleum (or Must Be Tough to Carve up the Resolute Desk Into Firewood and Other Forms of Combustibles)” is an obvious dig towards the […]
Darren Jessee is well known for being the drummer of Ben Folds Five, but his solo work is also of major significance, especially if you are already a fan. His latest album – Remover, sets him on course for his own purpose and goes a step beyond previous efforts without changing beyond recognition. This release […]
Pure joy and pure honesty never elude Hēran Soun. The experimental rocker/singer/songwriter showers the listener with a multitude of emotions and projections in his debut effort Undeaf. Part odyssey and mostly unchartered territory, Hēran Soun (real name James Freeman-Turn), brings to light his own loss of hearing as a child to create a tangible, out-of-mind […]
There’s probably not a single musical underground as diverse as the melting pot of the Canadian indie scene right now, and to understand what I mean, you really need to take a peek at the new record Omen from Twin Flames. While hardly the only interesting Canadian LP I’ve come across this September, what caught my attention […]
