Pandafan dives into nautical narratives with “Ocean B-Sides”
Folk is one of the few genres where kinship and camaraderie among its performers and writers, tends to get placed at the forefront. Bandmates and…
Hotel of the Laughing Tree check in with the past on “Hotel Junk Box”
There are similarities and differences between all bands but, whenever a new group comes together, that inner search for what makes a group of people…
Start the Summer Solstice with “Summers III”
Happy Summer Solstice! It’s officially the longest day of the year folks. How one chooses to spend these precious minutes of extra sunlit time is…
The Nearness of You: Emotive reality wrapped in the sweetest metaphors
While some of the rising songs of summer are focused entirely on channeling and cranking up the energy of crowded parties and festival jams, others…
Jambinai: A fusion of the fearless and the familiar
Jambinai’s band name might start with “Jam” but this five piece isn’t a jam band by any stretch of the imagination – even if the…
Pete Mancini finds influential footing on “Foothill Freeway”
In a tale as old as the entertainment business, someone starts a band and then somewhere down the line, that person finds a desire within…
“Entropy is Important” to this High Five Spaceship
The art of making it as a self-branded entrepreneur is an undertaking that media and entertainment professionals have been striving to master for years now.…
Severed: Curse of Lono and the effort to break form
While the very name of the Americana genre elicits an immediate geo-based demographic and historical context, the rise thereof across the pond in the United…
You’ll be drowning in 20,000 plays of Like Minded Criminals’ new album (Premiere Play)
When a band undergoes a major shift – whether it be a stylistic one, a lineup change, a change in home base location or otherwise…
Mayve move toward a different decade with “Motion” EP
“We want our sound to live in the divide between light and dark[.] The guys and I have been through a lot this past year.…