Tag: Rock

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Music Review: Secondborn – ‘Symbols’ EP

December 28, 2015
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Lafayette, Louisiana’s Secondborn started as an alternative rock, post hardcore, punk recording project in 2013. Members Daniel Pinner (vocals), Patrick Trumps (guitar), Stefan Hawkins (guitar), Tim Benson (guitars, synth, vocals), Alex Daigle (bass), and Lee Gauthreaux (drums, percussion), tired of playing by the music industry’s rules, decided to put together an honest representation of what… Read More Music Review: Secondborn – ‘Symbols’ EP

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Music Review: The Unravelling – “Revolt” Single

December 23, 2015
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Heavy and steady as an uprising should be, The Unravelling’s new single “Revolt”, set for release at the end of the month, addresses the various restrictions placed on us by society. While these boundaries are meant to homogenize assimilation, they instead become a burden that band members Steve Moore and Gustavo de Beauville are calling… Read More Music Review: The Unravelling – “Revolt” Single

— Classical, Music Review, Rock —

Music Review: Clocks and Clouds – “Aliantha” (Single)

November 18, 2015

The idea of classical music combined with rock and a bit of dubstep is intriguing enough to give songs like “Aliantha”, released last month, a try. Sometimes, listeners are eased into this attention-grabbing combination of genres. Clocks and Clouds. however, simply throw us into the ride from the first note. The Minneapolis-based trio have been… Read More Music Review: Clocks and Clouds – “Aliantha” (Single)

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Music Review: Attik Door – ‘Never in Agreement’

October 5, 2015

San Francisco alternative rock group Attik Door released their new album Never In Agreement last month. Originally from various corners of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), Liana Tovmasyan (vocals), Margarita Grabarova (bass), Igor Boyko (drums), Alex Shrayber (guitar), and Tim Shulepov (guitar) aim to lock in the culture from their countries of… Read More Music Review: Attik Door – ‘Never in Agreement’

— Electronic, Music Review, Pop, Rock —

Music Review: Alden Penner – ‘Canada in Space’ EP

September 14, 2015

Montreal’s Alden Penner released last June his latest musical offering, the five-track EP Canada in Space. Penner explains that “there are more Canadians than any other nationality represented in the planned Mars colony. [This] EP is an imagining of the dreams, reveries, phantasms, hallucinations, psycho-spiritual projections, naïve mythologies, actions, visions and experiences of an abandoned… Read More Music Review: Alden Penner – ‘Canada in Space’ EP

— Alternative, Electronic, Music Review, Rock —

Music Review: [debut] – ‘Postcards from Berlin’

August 31, 2015

Los Angeles band [debut], a fusion of alternative, rock, and electronic music created by Gareth Thomas, began as a solo project resulting in two instrumental studio albums. But Thomas meant it to be “more than a band”, a sort of “music and art collective with an ever-changing cast”. Released earlier this month, Postcards from Berlin… Read More Music Review: [debut] – ‘Postcards from Berlin’

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Music Review: TJ Doyle – ‘On the Horizon’

August 19, 2015

The inspirational alternative rock of On the Horizon, to be released next month, is TJ Doyle’s follow-up to his 2009 debut, The One True Thing. The album will sound both familiar and new in the combination of the very Neil Young-inspired vocals and the 1980s Eric Clapton and Sting-like melodies. In this release, Doyle reaches… Read More Music Review: TJ Doyle – ‘On the Horizon’

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Music Review: Winchester Revival – ‘Burden’s Landing’ EP

July 15, 2015

From Oakland, California, Winchester Revival (also known as WinRev) is an alternative rock band who just released its latest EP, Burden’s Landing. Members David Rosenheim (vocals), Andrew Lund (guitars, backing vocals), Ron Cruz (bass), Kirk Snedeker (drums), and Matt Glick (electronics) present five tracks inspired by such genres as ’70s California, punk, and alternative rock.… Read More Music Review: Winchester Revival – ‘Burden’s Landing’ EP

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Music Review: Vince Grant – ‘My Depression Is Always Trying to Kill Me’ – EP

May 13, 2015
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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

— Jazz, Music Review, Pop, Rock —

Music Review: Sir Cadian Rhythm – ‘Sir Cadian Rhythm’

May 6, 2015
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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’