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Sinking Suns Sonic Blast
Death Songs Sinking Suns Independent Release, 2016 Primitive and moving with an animal instinct, the Sinking Suns skulk warily through familiar territory, bristling with an nervous unease. Prowling and...
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Southern Culture on the Skids Look inward with The Electric Pinecones
The Electric Pinecones Southern Culture on the Skids Kudzu Records. 2016 Southern Culture on the Skids, house band for the perpetual house party, have a secret identity. And if their ego is a...
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The Pixies Return with Head Carrier
Head Carrier The Pixies 4AD, 2016 Head Carrier is the seventh and most recent album by the Pixies and it sounds a lot like The Pixies. L-R: Paz Lenchantin, David Lovering, Joey Santiago, Black Francis...
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The Highwaymen are Country Music
The Highwaymen Live American Outlaws The Highwaymen Legacy, 2016 If you like Country music, you know the kind chock full of cowboys, whiskey, heartache and real loss, this is about all you’ll need for...
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The Outlaws Return Better Than Ever
Legacy Live The Outlaws Steamhammer, 2016 The Outlaws are Southern rock royalty. There was a time in the 1970’s when the South,and Florida in particular, was the center of the rock universe. The...
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Citizen of Glass a Quiet Masterpiece
Citizen of Glass Agnes Obel Pias Recordings, 2016 Danish musician Agnes Obel constructs music with the same delicate strength spiders use silk to create webs. Impossibly strong and fragile at once. The...
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Float like a Buffalo – Enjoy the Ride
Enjoy the Ride Float like a Buffalo Independent Release, 2016 From Denver comes Float Like a Buffalo, a genre blurring, good time sort band perfect for a summer festival or your next backyard shindig....
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One Way Ride Shine with Put Me On
Put Me On One Way Ride Independent Release, 2016 From Denver, Colorado comes contemporary blues band One Way Ride, with strong harmonies and burning guitar leads. “Devil’s Eyes” kick starts this disc...
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Suicidal Tendencies Still Cyco with World Gone Mad
World Gone Mad Suicidal Tendencies Suicidal Records, 2016 Suicidal Tendencies have seen it all. They were skate punks before the term existed. They were hardcore and naturally mutated into a thrash...
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Tim Houlihan – Another Orion
Another Orion Tim Houlihan Independent Release, 2016 Tim Houlihan has a soft denim creased voice, accompanied with a crisp acoustic guitar and while there’s a backing band here, this is enough....
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80’s & Big Band Christmas Albums Provides Nostalgia for All
The Classic Christmas 80’s Album The Classic Big Band Christmas Album Legacy, 2016 Look here, everyone knows the whole emotional point of the Christmas holidays is to wring every bit of nostalgia from...
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Bash And Pop’s Brilliant Sophomore Release
Anything Can Happen Bash & Pop Fat Possum, 2017 Bash & Pop was Tommy Stinson’s post Replacements project from 1991. They released one exceptional album, (Friday Night is Killing Me), and there...
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Sweet Sounds from When the Earth Was Still Flat
When the Earth Was Still Flat Brother Spellbinder Independent Release, 2016 Acoustic and arty, San Fransisco’s Alzara and Brother Spellbinder are an singularly unique act. Graceful and offering a light...
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The Skinny on Field Trip South
For many creatures great and small, a trip to Florida during Winter months can be just the thing that’s needed to brighten moods. This February, Orlando will host it’s first two day Garage band...
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Swift Knuckle Solution Do it Fast and Hard
Swift Knuckle Solution Swift Knuckle Solution Violent Breed Records, 2016 From Orlando,comes Swift Knuckle Solution, a no frills, kick in the pants band. Theirs is a simple formula; a thunderous bass,...
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Orlando’s First Ever Field Trip South!
Scott Sugiuchi is a busy, busy man. He plays in several bands (The Stents, the Hatebombs), he has a wonderful garage label, Hidden Volume Records, and has co-organized Orlando’s first two day Garage...
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Scott Smith’s Americana Road Trip
Down to Memphis Scott Smith Independent Release, 2016 Reviewed by Cathal Cart Scott Smith dives deep into his Americana roots rock and pays tribute to the artists who inspired him. Title track “Down to...
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Dead Kennedy’s and Reagan Youth Play Port Canaveral
Dead Kennedy’s W/Reagan Youth and Room Full of Strangers January 24, Milliken’s Reef, Port Canaveral, FL Like I have to tell small children and some preternaturally cheap homeowners, “Somethings, once...
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Six String Soldier Answers the Call of Duty
Six String Soldier Joey Stuckey Senate Records, 2016 White boys playin’ the blues can be a well trod, cliché filled, music genre. Blind blues musicians, while a less crowded a field, is also a thing....
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KP Wolfe’s Exodus
Exodus KP Wolfe Independent Release, 2016 Reviewed by Cathal Cart KP Wolfe isn’t approaching this album with a gentle hand or any notions of subtlety. She’s has big plans , a lot to say and is aiming...
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