"Deeply personal. Quite possibly brilliant. Epically interesting." All descriptors in our March review of Rustic Dreams, a previous collection from the Crawley, United Kingdom-based, Spectre (a.k.a., Stuart Francis). Spoiler alert, that EP will [Click here to open...]
Archives for June 2019
Safe As Houses – Lucky Lucky
Just southwest of Toronto, Ontario, there is a smaller town called, Kitchener, which has given birth to a new breed of substantive, hand-crafted music by way of the 5-piece folk-pop outfit, Safe As Houses. Elliot Anton (guitar, vocals), Bensen [Click here to open...]
Initial Mass – Reason To Take (single)
At the core of the Los Angeles-based prog-punk trio, Initial Mass, are Mark Baldwin (guitars, vocals) and Kevin Robertson (drums). Friends since jr. high school, they bounced around separately in different projects for years, until 2014, when the [Click here to open...]
Katie Belle – Out Tonight (single)
We recently reviewed her single, Was, and called it a "...pleasingly-minimalist, synth-centric, electro-pop, post-breakup anthem." Now, the Atlanta, Georgia’s-based singer-songwriter, keyboardist, Katie Belle, has returned, and with summertime on [Click here to open...]
DB.Kinney – Killing Time (single)
Performing in several different Northeast-based bands over the years, the Glastonbury, CT-native, DB.Kinney (a.k.a., David Kinney) now finds meaning and purpose making his own music, using his own name. Whether performing solo-acoustic sets alone, [Click here to open...]
The StiffTones – Midwestern Town (single)
Boy meets girl at open mic. Boy teaches girl to play guitar. Boy and girl fall in love, get married and tour the country as the acoustic Americana duo, The StiffTones. Based in Greenville, IL, this husband and wife team consists of, Shaun & [Click here to open...]
Matthew Browning – Underneath The Willow Tree (single)
Trained in music theory and composition, the Colorado Springs-based (by way of Memphis, TN) singer-songwriter, Matthew Browning, creates emotive musical atmospheres right at home with his iconic influences of Peter Gabriel, Queen, and [Click here to open...]
I’m Just Dane – I Don’t Need’em [Clean Master] (single)
At 13 years old, his mother put him on a bus headed away from the cold streets of Chicago, and into the warm arms of his grandmother in Los Angeles, California. There, Dane (a.k.a., I'm Just Dane) sang in church, taught himself how play the piano, [Click here to open...]