Mike O’Cull, independent music journalist. www.mikeocull.com
Guitarist and singer Tom Gilberts and his mighty trio groove hard and get contemplative on their new single “Flow State.” Released January 27th, 2023, “Flow State” is a cracking, mid-tempo blues/rock track that’s all about feel and space. Gilberts is one of those players gifted with a magic touch and the ability to write tight, […]
Southern California singer-songwriter Conner Cherland dramatically expands his sound and vision on his new EP Call Waiting. Available now on Santa Barbara Records, Call Waiting is a brief, six-song effort that puts Cherland’s mastery of classic indie rock sounds on full display. John Bottrell (Christina Perri, Keith Cullen) produced the sessions and clearly bonded deeply […]
Indiana’s own Blind Uncle Harry, a.k.a. Chris Doran, gives listeners a huge blast of his iconoclastic avant/Americana/conspiracy/folk brilliance on his new album Visualize Industrial Collapse. The record comes out November 18th, 2022 and, if you’re not hip to Harry yet, it just might blow you away. Visualize Industrial Collapse is the work of an outsider […]
Vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Alex Genadinik brings us some plain-spoken, emotional truth on his latest track “Keep Your Heart Open.” Alex Genadinik is a talented player, creator, and interpreter of enchanting, beautiful music that touches his listeners’ lives in a personal way. This time out, he delivers his version of Russian poet and songwriter Bulat […]
Florida’s own King P, a hip hop artist and multi-instrumentalist who is one of the most crucial creators currently working in the South, will be dropping a brand new music video for his track “Slip N Slide” on May 28th. The song is another incredible blast of P’s dancehall-influenced style on the microphone combined with […]
Sonic Radiation hits the end of 2020 hard with a brand-new track, “Roentgen,” that’s a monstrously-energetic dance floor banger. Named for a legacy unit of measurement for exposure to x-rays and gamma rays, “Roentgen” pushes against the machine that made it, delivering a relentless EDM beat seemingly meant to drive humans over the edge. Synths […]
Experimental electronic music artist Three Eyes displays significant amounts of vision and originality on their brand new self-titled release Three Eyes, which dropped November 6th, 2020. The sound is a blend of dream pop, hip hop, cinematic, and psychedelic ideas that flow over and into each other, resulting in a mind-expanding nine-track record that energetically […]
John Lebanon sounds like a person but it’s really a band built around Lebanese guitarist and songwriter Roy S and fleshed out by a number of collaborators that includes Matt, Alex, Kat, Olivia, Malabar Buckley, Juliette, Laeticia, Noemie, Wheels, and Soup Wizard. The crew has released a steady stream of singles and EPs that showcase […]
