A few years after I started writing, encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive feedback, I submitted my work for publication. A quick Google search will demonstrate that my attempts have yielded, to date, one publishing deal. I took the publishers’ lack of interest as my writing being unworthy of being published. Of course, that is not… Read More Talented vs. Delusional: The Conundrum of an Indie Artist
As the name of the EP so clearly indicated, depression is at the heart of the five-song offering by Vince Grant. In 2013, it was estimated that some 4% of the population in North America suffers from depression; the numbers aren’t that much better in other places in the world. And yet, there is still… Read More Music Review: Vince Grant – ‘My Depression Is Always Trying to Kill Me’ – EP
Marc 7’s sophomore album When Sounds Attack, Vol. 1 is slated to be released next month, a year after his debut Food, Clothing & Shelter. It adds to Marc 7’s portfolio eight new heartfelt, enjoyable, and thought-provoking tracks, reflecting again that he is talented and comfortable rhyming about even the most difficult of topics. The… Read More Music Review: Marc 7 – ‘When Sounds Attack, Vol. 1’
Long Island’s Sir Cadian Rhythm, a rock, jazz, pop quintet, released earlier this month a self-titled EP of five tracks. The band consists of musical theater performers, Juilliard graduates, music teachers, award-winning jazz band performers, and prolific poets, each having different musical backgrounds and styles that range from progressive rock, funk and metal to pop,… Read More Music Review: Sir Cadian Rhythm – ‘Sir Cadian Rhythm’
Readers are loving getting to know a bunch of authors, known or not, through the Ask an Author feature, launched the fay before Valentine’s Day here on Sahar’s Blog. This new feature, which is published here twice a month on Friday afternoons, is thriving thanks to the dedication of an amazing group of authors who… Read More Ask An Author: Dreams
Orange County trio Echo Sparks, featuring CC Kinnick on vocals and guitars, DA Valdez on vocals, guitars, banjo, and drums, and Cindy Ballreich on upright bass and mandolin, released last month a new full length album, Ghost Town Girl which brings together country, folk, and rock. The most striking feature of this album are the… Read More Music Review: Echo Sparks – ‘Ghost Town Girl’
Filled with contagious, riff driven sounds and raw vocals, the six tracks on Return for Refund’s self-titled EP combines elements of hard rock, punk, metal, funk, and blues. The last two songs are also clearly tinged with a southern twang. That members Drew Clementino (vocals, guitar), Sasha Molotkow (guitar, backing vocals), and Karlis Hawkins (drums,… Read More Music Review: Return for Refund – Self-Titled
The Torn Images released a full length album called Reviver last November. The ten tracks put together by this California based alternative, indie rock band come after two well received EP and hopefully marks the beginning of a long and successful career. The album opens with the electric guitar driven of “The Drifting”, the mid-tempo,… Read More Music Review: The Torn Images – ‘Reviver’
Hailing from the sunny state of Florida, G2P’s members—Nathaniel Shepherd (guitars, lead vocals), Sterling Siegfried (drums, vocals), and Matt Mallory (bass, vocals)—have put together a self-titled alternative rock EP to which dashes of funk, punk, and reggae have been added. G2P opens with “Animals”. The track starts with heavy but simple electric guitars and slowly… Read More Music Review: G2P – ‘G2P’
Ethan Jano is a young folk singer originally from Pennsylvania bringing together a collection of twelve tracks to be released in album form in February this year. There is an interesting mix of simplicity in the instrumentation with complexity in the vocal delivery and in the lyrics that lovers of the genre would appreciate. Dashes… Read More Music Review: Ethan Jano – ‘I’ll be Fine’