Single Reviews

  • King Falcon – Ready Set Go

    By on June 12, 2023

    Surging into the melodic ethers with a casual attitude I don’t hear nearly as much of in the rock genre as I should in 2023,...

  • Rob Alexander – Get Over Yourself

    By on June 11, 2023

    Rob Alexander’s “Get Over Yourself” is the first single from his new studio album Young Man’s Eyes and it’s a doozy. It crosses a lot of stylistic...

  • Benevolent & Divine – Hyacinth

    By on May 31, 2023

    In his new single, titled “Hyacinth,” songwriter Branden Andrade – as Benevolent & Divine – looks at life as learned through the lens of a...

  • Kinga – Something’s Gotta Give

    By on May 18, 2023

    Deliberately built to induce a bit of tension right from the moment we press play forward, the beat behind the verses in Kinga’s new single...

  • XOLEX – Ain’t Buyin’ It

    By on April 7, 2023

    From one verse to the next, there’s not a stitch of inauthenticity for us to look past in the new single “Ain’t Buyin’ It” from Xolex –...

  • Taylor Jules – Helicopter

    By on March 1, 2023

    Singer/songwriter Taylor Jules, coming out of a crowded California scene this January, demonstrates a brilliant soft melodicism shaped into a worthwhile power ballad in her...

  • Brian Shapiro Band – Better in TX

    By on February 28, 2023

    Brian Shapiro and his musical compatriots come together again for their latest single “Better in TX” and the results stick with you. The Philadelphia based...

  • Justine Sletten – Dandelion

    By on January 27, 2023

    Justine Sletten has every opportunity to play the part of a stereotypical country songstress in her new single Dandelion, she instead bewitches us with a...

  • The Refusers – Eat The Bugs

    By on October 12, 2022

    The Refusers’ brand of modern hard/punk rock emerges again with the Seattle quintet’s new single “Eat The Bugs”. Michael Belkin’s latest lyrical tirade against the...

  • California – Perfect World

    By on September 30, 2022

    You can hear and describe California featuring Les Fradkin’s new single “Perfect World” in multiple ways. One of those is as a promise kept. Fradkin...