What happens when David Bowie teams up with Nick Cave and Scott Walker to create a soundtrack for Chasing The Sun? Oliver James is what happens. On his newest release, Chasing The Sun, Oliver James delivers an epic pop rock journey that weaves through powerful melodies; deep, insightful, yet sometimes gut wrenching lyrical expressions; and […]
Album Reviews
This section includes a running list of the music reviews we publish. We also publish a lot of interviews, curate playlists, and podcast. Want to submit your music?
We are the West – EP II – Listen – It’ll do ya Good
We Are The West uses sound and space to create an experience that is welcoming and honest. The Los Angeles-based duo has recorded in storm drains, performed on sheep farms, and now hosts a concert series in the underground parking garage of an office building the Saturday night before each full moon. This Spring they […]
Chase Enriquez Goes Til The Flame Burns Out
Chase Enriquez is a mixture of epic rock and roll singer, soulful rapper, and pop balladeer. His new album Til The Flame Burns Out represents the natural evolution of a man who has been working on his craft for a long time. Once known as Curse, Chase made his first appearance on Middle Ground’s album […]
Realizations and Declarations with Scott Krokoff
Scott Krokoff hasn’t given up on his dream. He hopes to inspire you to not give up on yours. By day a lawyer, by all-the-other-time a singer/songwriter, Scott’s style of music is reminiscent of the classic folk rock of the 1960s and ’70s. An acoustic based songcrafter, his tunes are melody driven; incorporating finger picking […]
Mirva “One” Great Pop EP from Down Under
She’s been called “a soft female Tom Waits.” Now, I like to think I’m an imaginative writer, but that’s an awful big stretch, just because it’s one of those juxtapositional impossibilities, kay? All right … on to business. On this one let me get my complaining out of the way up front. Compression – way […]
The Black River Chronicles – Lloyd James Fay
Got a new one from Glasgow based singer-songwriter Lloyd James Fay – an album titled ‘The Black River Chronicles.” An acoustic guitar and vocal based record of 10 very intriguing songs, beautifully played. Fay has excellent finger-style chops and uses them to build lush beds for his lyrics to lay in. It’s not all strictly acoustic, […]
Waves and Spikes – Lunar Pulse is Radiating by Plastic Willow
Right. So, this cat sends me a record to check out but, says that I’m not going to like it. Plastic Willow is a one-man-show, but a lot more (even a one-mic record)! In the introduction to Lunar Pulse, I was told, “people love it or hate it.” And that he really didn’t care if […]
Welcome to the Filter Free Rodeo
Parabolabola by Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s three piece Filter Free Rodeo is an energetic noise pop approach to what some might remember as ’90s fuzz rock. What the hell does that sound like!?, you say? This is Nirvana coming back to kick the doors down on a recording session between The Strokes and Cage the Elephant to remind […]
Scares The Daylights – Come On – I ain’t Scared!
Ladies and gentlemen allow me to introduce to you what I would call “Bret’s Band of the Week,” if there were such a thing. Neil Lipuma sent me a copy of Come On, released by Scares the Daylights (white shoe records) on May 7. I could tell from the first few bars that I ain’t scared of […]
Kelsea Little’s Personal Myth
After the first time I listened to this one, I woke up the next day (and the day after) with the melody for Blue Feather stuck in my head. I even found myself humming the tune as I went about my daily tasks. Typically this doesn’t happen so considering this is track 1 on Kelsea […]
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