Bones Garage recently released their newest album, Massacre/Dance. In general, I found the tunes to be enjoyable, but there was a redundancy to the sound that got old quickly. Bones Garage Combines Surf and Punk Self-described as Indie Surf Punk Rock, Bones Garage is comprised of Ariel Pedatzur on vocals, Eden Atad and Yaniv Bin […]
Visuals recently released their four track EP, The State of Things. It’s a dance soundtrack that features mostly electronic sounds. Critics say that the album brings together diverse musical elements, the singer has a unique vocal style, and the lyrics are acutely subtle. This critic enjoys the beats, but does not feel that Visuals’ music […]
I’ve never been to Burning Man, but I’ve visited the North American desert and danced around in a Baja jacket like the Pittsburghers of Rusted Root have been known to do. So when I started listening to Voice of the Wind by Trevor Green, I was lifted from the banalities of my everyday routine and […]
Nigel Thomas recently released an album, Travelling Man, which is aptly named. This burgeoning artist is definitely a travelling man — I think he’s on a journey of self-discovery. Can he take his thespian roots and find success as an independent singer/songwriter? Based on his other interests and experiences, his potential is strong. Thomas is […]
Sometimes, you hear something that takes you back to a certain time, place, or feeling. When I listened to Pet Sun, I was returned to a 1990s adolescence I never had. I found my head bobbing to the sounds of Pet Sun’s debut LP, which were heartwarmingly similar to those of Nirvana, maybe a little […]
The Chewers is not a band for the faint of heart. At their recent show in Nashville, recorded live as the album Live at Exit/In, they dressed up two hard-core fans as giant mouths to dance on stage as they performed. The Chewers, a self-described “off-kilter weirdo-avant-whatever rock duo” from Nashville, screamed to their fans […]
