Set to a pulsating rhythm that neither pushes us nor drags behind the melodies divvied out by our leading man, the latest single from Ethan Gold, “Our Love is Beautiful,” just might be the greatest testament to his multidimensional songwriting skill so far. Where past efforts from Gold have dabbled in everything from post-punk to […]
Featuring a structured sway that starts to feel more like a hurricane than a simple rock harmony set to a solid beat, “Unstoppable” isn’t your average sonic bruiser. The latest release from Psycho Village doesn’t ride a purely-synthetic rhythm into the sunset; if anything, it scoffs in the face of such childish nonsense with its […]
Nuke the Soup’s mildly bohemian “Oceans and Mountains” doesn’t waste our time with a lot of fanciful frills; instead, this track gets right down to the business of plying us with one decadent melody after another. The harmonies that form here are relatively smoky compared to some of the similarly-stylized content I’ve seen attempting to […]
With a disturbingly chilling string of melodies that greets us shortly after pressing the play button, Pastor Jamaal’s “Different” comes creeping out of the shadows with a grimacing groove that will only get stronger as we listen on. In the video for “Different,” vices are everywhere we look, as is the surreal sense of self-discovery […]
“If you leave behind the splendor of the quarter clientele / For the flats where all the houses look alike / I could wander here for hours / ‘til the levees start to swell / But I won’t put any fingers in the dike” we’re told by a superbly poetic Tris McCall in the opening […]
If you’re looking for relentless rock n’ roll thunder that doesn’t apologize for its machismo, the hard-charging grooves of Makes My Blood Dance’s “Power of the Lightside” could be exactly what you need to hear this July. Rooted in the ultra-aggressive intensity of a bygone era in rock and metal, “Power of the Lightside” at […]
If you’re looking for a diverse underground, you needn’t search any further than Canada’s vast collection of indie scenes, the best of which are producing incredible new content like the latest album from Toronto Tabla Ensemble, Unexpected Guests. As its title would imply – and the video for its namesake cut will outright show you – Unexpected […]
Rock has arguably never been as alive with vitality as it is in 2020, with virtually every one of its many subgenres finding another life amidst a curious millennial generation. In that spirit, the world welcomes a newcomer act in Riches of the Poor this June that are more than worth all of the hype […]
