Album Reviews
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Dizzy Box Nine – Pop Fantasy
In a time when excess is running rampant in popular music, critically acclaimed alternative rockers Dizzy Box Nine cut an album steeped in minimalism and...
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Sarah Parker – Strawberry Moon
Sarah Parker’s Southern heritage shines through on each of Strawberry Moon’s fourteen songs and numerous years residing north of the Mason-Dixon line has done nothing to...
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Robert “Freightrain” Parker – Outside Ourselves
Buffalo based bassist, songwriter, and singer Robert “Freightrain” Parker has established himself and his band as one of the pre-eminent instrumental outfits working the music...
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Project Grand Slam – Greetings From Serbia
As the crowd goes wild in the background, guitarist Tristan Clark slides into the funky opening riff of “1972,” one of the more rollicking tracks...
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Stephen Winston – Unresolved
Stephen Winston has quietly set about, not by conscious design, building one of the best under-the-radar discographies in the music world today thanks to the...
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Seven Against Thebes – Art Of Deception
Outside the box guitar playing, evocative vocals, and a lively rhythm section attack immediately distinguish Seven Against Thebes as a powerful four piece working in...
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The Merrymaker’s Orchestrina – Little King and the Salamander
New York City’s The Merrymaker’s Orchestrina open Little King and the Salamander with the curt opener Hey Everybody, a guitar dominant instrumental with a strong Hendrix influence...
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Severine – Feel The Rain
I don’t know where the shortsighted notion of pop music being nothing more than two minute hook-laden jingles came from, but I find that it’s...
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Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb – Appalachian Road Show
Barry Abernathy and Darrell Webb present Appalachian Road Show, the first joint musical effort between Abernathy, Webb and guest star Jim VanCleve on fiddle, is...
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The Cold Stares – Mountain
From the moment that Mountain comes smashing through our speakers like a wrecking ball in the song The Great Unknown, there isn’t any debate as to whether...
