The Mountain Goats tag in many styles with “Beat the Champ”
It, most likely, would not be an unreasonable assumption to believe that someone who is a diehard fan of the Mountain Goats and who has…
Nothing But the Silence: A sophisticated debut from Striking Matches
When a band hits the point of releasing their ever important debut album, that’s when listeners – new and pre-debut fans both – get a…
A second serving of Honeyblood
Stina Tweeddale, guitarist of UK based, crunch pop band, Honeyblood, spoke with me at length about many of the things: about the band’s past, present and…
Striking up a conversation with Stina Tweeddale of Honeyblood
The old adage goes, “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” Well, does a band catch the ears of more fans with…
Jess Ingui intends to inspire with some sincerely soulful music
The idea of a genre-less music industry is a well-worn concept and topic of discussion here in 2015. Artists are pairing instruments that were previously…
Hotel of the Laughing Tree shine light on new sounds with “New World Sundown”
There are certain instances, when significant changes to something happily routine and possessing stacked expectations, like a well established band, can transcend and glide gracefully…
An audience with Face the King
The music business often being the cutthroat, competitive, “needle in a haystack” kind of field that it is, when a band comes along that is not…
Turn up the music and top up the champagne: Stand out music of 2014
I refuse to refer to this as a “Top” list of music because well, we all know the avalanche of such named lists that emerge…
You’ll be scrambling to get in the door for the Long Island Screamo Skramz Festival
New Year’s Eve being the simultaneously predictable and unpredictable evening that it is, (Yes, 2015 is coming but how one chooses to ring in those first…
Testing, testing: You’ll be impressed by Test Pressings for Charity
Today’s ever-running and ever tightening web of interconnection presents the music world with a nice slice of irony, as it is a rare thing for anything…