It’s rare for me to hear an album I only have, at best, a few quibbles with. There are, invariably, larger problems I identify even on releases I love but, per... Read More...
Charting consistently can be one of the toughest challenges an artist breaking away from the underground market into the mainstream spotlight can face, but Vin... Read More...
Although this isn’t something I conventionally endorse in a rock record, especially one as compact as Dark Stars & Velvet Skies by Burn the ... Read More...
Lofi beats have been getting pretty big again this summer, and in the stylish new single “Type” from Leol, they take center stage beside some of the sexiest li... Read More...
In the music video for C-Nice’s “Masterpiece,” a lively diner serves as the perfect setting from which the rapper and his melodic counterpart in singer Jae San... Read More...
The guitar strings pace about in the foreground of “Dope Boy” long before Jay Delmore begins to rap in this latest single to join his discography, but even ahe... Read More...
Entering focus with a clandestine groove as supple as it is inviting to the listener, BEAAST MOBB and Leash Da Beaast waste no time getting a gentle fire start... Read More...
Most critics have come to agree that the Canadian underground has been one of the more overlooked corners of the North American rock spectrum for the better pa... Read More...
There’s nothing quite like the feverish grind of guitars to set the tone in a hard rock performance, but rather than hitting us with gargantuan distortion righ... Read More...
Faith Elicia’s new book Do You See What I See? feels like an elaborate amalgam of the best aspects of decidedly different genres. There’s an aspect of the pain... Read More...
