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L.A. Knights – Psychoanalyze This!
L.A. Knights Psychoanalyze independent Release, 2016 For all ya’ll out there who like their music sweaty, loud and heavy, there’s this to be thankful for. Especially if you’re one of the many who never...
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Celebrating 50 years of The Grateful Dead
The Best of Fare Thee Well Celebrating 50 years of The Grateful Dead Rhino, 2016 Disc One opens with the Phil Lesh led “Box of Rain,” and is more than a little symbolic here. “Box of Rain” was the...
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Creepy Music for Creepy People
Spooky Fingers Genki Genki Panic Independent Release, 2016 Genki Genki Panic lurk creepily, like a creepy lurking thing. Their hauntingly, memorable variety of 60’s horror themed rock will insert...
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Gary Lucas & Jann Klose Stereopticon
Stereopticon Gary Lucas & Jann Klose Cosmic Trigger Records/The Orchard, 2016 This collection of songs by folk duo Gary Lucas & Jann Klose is light, airey and playful. The melodies float...
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Monster Hole’s Monstrous Sound
Monster Hole Monster Hole Independent Release, 2016 Cocoa Beach’s own Monster Hole are serving up seriously deep grooves. Forgoing sunny themes, the band is better suited to the feel of gritty, exhaust...
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Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds Hijack Your Hi-Fi
La Arana Es La Vida Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds In the Red Records, 2016 Sordid, seedy and feelin’ like they have licentious intentions, this latest disc from Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey...
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Hillbilly Vegas Serve Up Good Time Music
’76 Hillbilly Vegas SMG Records Nashville, 2016 In this day and age of endless remakes, should some fool movie executive got into their pointy head to take another stab at Roadhouse, then Hillbilly...
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The Hip Abduction’s Sunny Vision
Gold Under the Glow The Hip Abduction Independent Release , 2016 From St. Petersburg, FL, comes The Hip Abduction, an upbeat, world beat sort of band, who sidestep easy catagorization. This is the...
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Peach Kelli Pop are Sweet and Lo-Fi
Halloween Mask 7” Peach Kelli Pop Burger Records, 2016 Lo-fi, DIY and hard to resist, Peach Kelli Pop are coarse on the edges and achingly sugar sweet in the center. There’s three songs from this...
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Mammabear Makes Music
Hell Cat MammaBear No Ego Records, 2016 There’s an honest vulnerability to the lyrics MammaBear attaches to it’s songs. No bravado or swaggering boasts, just a profound desire to connect with someone...
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The Sword Rattles Orlando
The Sword w/ Purson Live at The Social Wednesday, May 11, Orlando FL Wednesdays in Orlando have been blessed with some fairly phenomenal shows as of late. Sword with UK supporting act, Purson, pulled...
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Everything’s Beautiful – Robert Glasper Reimagines Miles Davis
Everything’s Beautiful The Recordings of Miles Davis Reimagined by Robert Glasper Columbia/Legacy, 2016 Miles Davis was legendarily fearless. Never one to repeat himself artistically, neither for money...
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CJ Ramone Remains True to his Roots
CJ Ramone w/Rushmore, The Areolas, Broken Gold The Back Booth, Friday, May 27, Orlando, Florida The Ramones changed the rules on what was to be expected from a band, both musically and in terms of...
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Athena is Ready For the Sun
Ready For the Sun, Pt.1 Athena Independent Release, 2016 Athena found herself in Los Angeles working on this project with producer Ethan Allen (Sheryl Crow, Better Than Ezra) the sum result being a...
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Ray Goren Plays the Blues for You
Songs For You Ray Goren Independent Release, 2016 There’s a timeless quality to the blues when it’s done right. Ray Goren, a young guitar prodigy from California touches on the core themes of the...
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Bruce Mountain Band Crank Out The Jams
Another Day Lost Bruce Mountain Band Independent Release, 2016 From Riverside California comes Bruce Mountain Band, and they are an bare-knuckle dust up of a band. With gritty, unkempt guitars roiling...
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The Grifters Re-issues Rock Out Recklessly
One Sock Missing/Crappin’ you Negative Grifters Fat Possum Records, 2016 Album re-issues have become to records labels what movie sequels are to movie companies and Sylvester Stallone, a sure way to...
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Celtic Thunder Returns
Legacy Volume Two Celtic Thunder Legacy Recordings, 2016 Celtic Thunder is back with another great CD/DVD combo document, less than a year after the wild success of Volume 1. Celtic Thunder is a...
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Geezër’s Back! Early Bird is the Word!
Geezër Volume 2 Independent Release, 2016 Quick on the heels of their solid debut, Geezër have released a strong follow up. Volume 2, gets to the point without a lot of folderol. These old timers are...
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Bang, Zoom, Crazy… Hello
Bang, Zoom, Crazy… Hello Cheap Trick Big Machine, 2016 Cheap Trick are still at it and that’s somewhat re-assuring. In a world where technology and trends now come and go in the blink of an eye, we...
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