Piano aficionado Victor Wainwright, Jr. has made his mark as a boogie-woogie style performer and songwriter with a style that fuses rock, blues and just a touch of jazz. One of the two current groups that Wainwright currently tours with nationally and internationally is called The Train, Formed in 2017, the groups released their debut … Read more
Buy Perfect Smile Often overlooked as just a subset of The Badlees, this band may have put out one of the finer recordings by a Pennsylvania artist during the first decade of the 21st century. Perfect Smile by The Cellarbirds is excellent through and through. It’s one of those albums that just gets better with … Read more
Buy The Optimist The Optimist is the debut solo album by Eric Bazilian, released in 2000. It is kind of odd to consider that this artist’s “debut” anything would come at the dawn of his fourth decade of professionally performing, writing, recording, and producing. But all of the previous recordings by Bazilian were done for … Read more
Buy Damnation Opeth‘s seventh studio album, Damnation released in 2003, was quite a departure from the dedicated death metal sound of their previous work. Co-produced by Steven Wilson, this album took a dedicated prog rock path with melodic vocals, crisp guitars and a generous use of Mellotron on several tracks. In fact, the album is … Read more
This album review is provided by J.D. Cook, a writer of fiction, essays, reviews and the managing editor of the website New Pulp Tales. Find out more about Mr. Cook at JeremiahDylanCook.com. While the internet age has given the world many new problems, access to independent music is not one of them. It’s a fabulous … Read more
Minneapolis based American Pleasure Dome is a project spearheaded by songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Hans Schumacher. In November 2019, the self-titled debut album was released, featuring a dozen songs of melodic indie-style rock that Schumacher spent years crafting and recording. Schumacher is a life-long musician and writer of original tunes, who started by playing piano … Read more
Released in June, Follow is the fourth overall album by Minnesota-based artist Molly Maher. This unique and organic sounding album features all original compositions, was co-produced by Maher and Erik Koskinen and it ends a nearly nine-year gap since her last release, Merry Come Up, in October 2011. The Follow album blends a country/Americana style … Read more
Oceans is the 2019 third album by Pennsylvania-based singer/songwriter Shannon Marsyada. With all songs composed by Shannon, the album features a fine mix of piano ballads and richly produced pop tracks. These were recorded by an ensemble of talented producers and musicians at various locations which range from Nashville to Germany to the home studio … Read more
Social Media Anxiety Disorder is the latest album by Minnesota folk rocker and composer Dan Israel. Released in October 2019, this is the 15th overall studio album by Israel. Thematically, it tackles prominent cultural issues in the modern world, in particular, social media channels that once promised better connectivity but instead often cause anxiety and … Read more