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Blues Rockers HOWLIN’ SUN is finally back with their highly anticipated second album, “Maxime,” out May 5, 2023, on Apollon Records. The sound is familiar to fans of the first album, but this time it is crisper, darker, and bigger. The dark and heavy title track ‘Maxime’ – a homage to a […]
Greek stoner-rock collective GODSLEEP shares a new music video for a new track titled ‘Pots of Hell,’ which is taken from the band’s third full-length album “Lies To Survive,” due out on April 7th via Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Records, the label owned by 1000Mods. The follow-up to their 2018 critically acclaimed second album “Coming Of […]
“Cloud Souvenirs” is the sixth full-length album by American songwriter Chris Staples, and will be out on May 26th on Hot Tub Recordings. The ten songs spun from accumulated memory and flashes of insight into the hidden corners of life. Recorded in the midst of travel back and forth to Florida to […]
The Sardinian stoned-and-fuzzed-out garage punk group Loose Sutures is back with “Sado Sex for Dummies,” their third LP, slated for 26 May via Electric Valley Records. This new album marks Loose Sutures’ first studio outing as a trio, and to make this raucous ride more intoxicating, the Italian three-piece invited a few special guests, including […]
Whenever I listen to an ambient album, I always check and see where the artist’s influences stem from. In the case of The Lonely Bell, the full-length album called “Ghost Town Burning” does not necessarily beg to any path or another, but it goes about and presents itself as music […]
Following their latest record, “Alone in the Crowd,” released seven years ago, French female-fronted progressive metal/rock band Wedingoth has unveiled its fourth full-length record, “Five Stars Above.” According to their press releases, the band combines the power of rock, served by a female voice charged with emotion, to atmospheric nuances […]
On today’s to-do reviews sits Fearful Symmetry, a progressive music ensemble and the brainchild of Suzi James, a UK-based multi-instrumentalist. Together with Yael Shotts (vocals) and Sharon Petrover (drums, arrangements), Suzi released their sophomore album “The Difficult Second” on July 15, 2022. The album follows the band’s successful debut, “Louder […]
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, A Reason to Travel will release its third studio album ‘Concrete Sunrise‘ on February 3rd. “Concrete Sunrise” is an experience like no other. It is, indeed, made up of familiar elements to fans of post-rock, drone, and ambient. Still, the intense experimentation A Reason to Travel showcases makes it so beautifully […]
Cabbaggage‘s upcoming album is set to be released on February 10 via Veinte 33 Records, consisting of nine tracks that feel beautifully tangible and intimate. On “Piano Homage To Gormenghast,” Vancouver-based singer and songwriter Levi Taschuk says that “Each piece is a character study, with track titles as the names […]
Cabbaggage is the solo project of Vancouver-based singer and songwriter Levi Taschuk. “Microscripts,” one of Cabbaggage‘s recent albums, is dedicated to Robert Walser, one of the most mysterious writers of his time. The album is a collection of thirteen instrumental piano tracks, which manage to be both experimental and comforting […]