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Droppin’ Knowledge: New York MC Rouge Releases His Sonically Dense, Lyrically Rich Debut – War! – A Review & Conversation
Staten Island, New York emcee Rouge recently released his debut album, War!, a sonically dense collection of music, with crisp writing and a rich, full sound. On the album, Rouge grapples with the responsibilities of adulthood, the future of the planet, love, death, creativity, identity, and dreams, as well as the more mundane concerns of …
Track: Twisted Illusion – Hatred Is A Virtue
Twisted Illusion will re-release their newly recorded debut album, Temple of Artifice, on Friday 28th May. The band have also just dropped their superb new single, Hatred Is A Virtue. Flying vocals and rampaging riffs as the band belt out this rock track. The track is a hot pot of hard rock as the band …
Track: Josh Rands The L.I.F.E Project Share First Track The Nothingness
Stone Sour’s Josh Rand has teamed up with vocalist Cassandra Carson to create THE L.I.F.E. Project. The music was written, arranged, performed and produced by Rand in his home studio and mixed by Josh Wilbur (Korn, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Parkway Drive). The track introduces us to Carson’s powerful voice which pairs perfectly with Rands straight up rock guitar …
Track: Black Stone Cherry – The Chain
Black Stone Cherry have unveiled a brand new video for ‘The Chain’, another track taken from their current studio album, The Human Condition. Guitarist Ben Wells tells us, “The Chain is one of those straight ahead, ‘riff city’, throw down BSC songs! Not only is the music totally in your face, it also grooves and features a totally metal bridge, …
Premiere: The Yugoslav Attack blend smooth jazz with melancholy: Listen to new single “The Separation”
Backseat Mafia are excited to premiere the brand new single from Melbourne jazz assembly, The Yugoslav Attack. The Separation is the first track from their upcoming sophomore album titled Illusions, due for release in June through False Peak Records. The Separation, featuring wonderfully understated musicianship, captures a feeling of complete despair and a state of …
Track: Pacific Avenue pour some brilliant sunshine into their new track ‘Easy Love’ and announce Australia wide headline tour
There is a sparkling seventies sunshine feel to the new single by NSW South Coast band Pacific Avenue that emanates pure golden rays. Layered harmonies, arcing guitars and a powerful melody serve to illuminate this track: bolstered by one of those guitar solos that pop and strut around with attitude. Singer Harry O’Brien says of …
Track: The Chills flutter their eyelashes at us with new track ‘World Within Worlds’ ahead of ‘Scatterbrain’ album release
Lifting the veil a little more on the hidden prize of their forthcoming album, ‘Scatterbrain’, the eminently gorgeous The Chills have just allowed another glimpse of the treasures within with another sparkling single ‘World Within Worlds’. ‘Scatterbrain’ is due out on 14 May 2021 out through Fire Records and Flying Nun Records. It goes without saying this is …
Soundtrack of Our Lives: breaking psych-folk troubadour E.R. Jurken takes us a for a trip through the music of his life
THEY loved what they heard so much they set up a label just for him. Yep, that’s the tale of E.R. (Ed to his friends) Jurken’s slow peregrination towards a recording contract once he’d landed in Chicago after one of those periods when life gets dismantled, leaves you tumbling in its riptides; criss-crossing the States, …
Album Review: Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God
Album six; phase two, stage two. If it seemed curious that Manchester Orchestra trailed the impending announcement of The Million Masks of God at a performance that simultaneously capped off its predecessor’s campaign back in February, it was unwarranted. Having pushed themselves in a hard and heavy direction for 2014’s COPE, the Atlanta, Georgia quartet …
Premiere: Daniel Green (Laish, DG Solaris) releases new cover for Marty Willson-Piper’s (The Church) song
London-based Daniel Green is an established songwriter, performer and musician, who has made a name for himself under the moniker Laish, recently changed to DG Solaris after starting a collaboration with his wife, during their honeymoon. We are proud to host his new release, a cover for a song by Marty Willson-Piper, former member of …