With a sultry voice, a drum machine that keeps a handshake agreement with her acoustic counterparts, and a string section that could have played while the Titanic sunk; Madeline Mondrala’s Cloud EP somehow makes a bombastic sonic air raid feel like a [...]
Wide, rollicking soundscapes and resonant rhythms. That’s what was on display the first time the NJ bred Delicate Steve caught my eye, and ear, opening for Yeasayer at a picturesque gig on Governors Island a few years back. Not much has [...]
Any band that samples Optimus Prime’s Top 40 radio show and Hot Rod automatically propels to the top of my favorite outfit list…sorry, but it’s the rules ingrained in my DNA, which I was not consulted about during the writing process, [...]
The listener can hear the abrasive rust ingrained in each genre-hopping compositions brought to life by Empty Orchestra, an Industrialized outfit not in style, but in citizenship, as The Hold Steady-influenced (among others) Flint, Michigan denizens walk the artistic line, [...]
With Alabama Shakes’ recent break through into the summer festival circuit and the hearts of a Blues-Rock obsessive generation, eyes and ears have been left agape searching for the next collective of this common feather to arise, and it appears [...]
If on The Killers year and a half hiatus in 2010 Brandon Flowers had embraced his Bruce Springsteen obsession, come to Asbury Park, and locked himself in The Hotdog House with Red Bank, NJ’s own Boss-influenced raconteur, Brian Fallon, a [...]
The Orlando, Florida-based Bearcat is a new Indie-Pop project created by Renee Yohe, author, songwriter, and leading member of the internationally renown non-profit organization To Write Love On Her Arms (a group which aims to offer hope to those struggling with [...]
