Glowing with a melodic intensity that has become as much of a signature as his own voice is, the guitars are always a star in Whitebeard’s sound, but they’re all the more a linchpin of his new single “Dream of Me.” Whether consumed beside the...
Righteously rollicking through the speakers in “Why Oh Why,” stomping out of the darkness with a prideful groove in “Tell Me,” there’s no getting around just how vital the beats are to the two debut singles from Walker’s Cay out this spring. Every classic rock...
We’re in arguably living in a highly trans-formative era for American culture and the music that provides its greatest of artistic statements. 2020 has definitely been a great year for new content on the left side of the dial, and if you’re looking for something...
Steve Markoff first met musical partner Patricia Lazzara long ago when Markoff visited the latter looking for flute lessons. They struck up a musical collaboration that’s endured over multiple releases and this single, cut by the duo plus piano player Allison Brewster Franzetti while quarantined...
Starting Over is a six song EP release from country/Americana songwriter Mark D. Conklin. Conklin’s multi-year story of first working as a songwriter and touring musician, plying his craft in country music’s spiritual home Nashville, moving into a behind the scenes role, and then reclaiming his...
I don’t think many listeners will find a single outright weak track on Heartour’s latest album release R u in. Vocalist, songwriter and musician Jason Young has penned arguably the strongest set the Heartour project has enjoyed in their brief history and it is impossible to hear...
On the back of a buoyant, almost poppy groove, a hurricane of harmonies forms inside the first sixty seconds of “Animal,” the new single and music video from Jane n’ the Jungle. What will soon follow in the next couple of minutes can only be...
Loud, punishing and capable of mass destruction; there’s no arguing that the riffs are the most stirring element in “Unspoken,” the new single by The Dead Daisies. Outfitted with fretwork from both Doug Aldrich and David Lowy, “Unspoken” comes screaming out of the silence like...
In a slow-moving creep, we come in contact with the first few scattered bars of the eclectic “Priceless Commodity,” from David D’Angelo and rapper MayDay. At first, it’s hard to tell what sort of direction that textured pulsations are taking us in, but once MayDay...
If you’re a fan who has been feeling like hard rock needs a hero right now more than ever, you’re not alone. In the last decade, rock has struggled to maintain its rough and tumble identity, but that doesn’t stop Tainted Black from getting back...