Danielle Miraglia rises to new artistic heights on Glory Junkies CD
It’s amazing the artistic heights Danielle Miraglia has reached since she entered the greater-Boston singer-songwriter scene back around the year 2000. Her latest CD, Glory Junkies, is certainly her most self-aware CD. She sounds emboldened by her past successes in the recording studio, having a stronger than ever command of all the elements she has always relied on, rock and roll, blues, gospel, worldly lyrics, and her innate singer-songwriter sensibilities.
Hot Like Fire prove their worth with Forward CD
Hot Like Fire have been an in demand act for sometime now. Their latest CD Forward shows why this band has become one of our area’s most popular reggae bands. It is loaded with high energy reggae music with a bit of a rock edge. Toss in the witty lyrical observations of band leader Kelley Bolduc and you have one dynamite CD.
Jacob Anthony Butler has More To Offer on his latest CD
Jacob Anthony Butler achieves on his latest More To Offer CD an emotional honesty within a warm, pristine sound. He milks each vocal note in his singer-songwriter approach as each of his support players do so on their instruments. Good to the last drop might be a way to describe it. This is just one of those albums that sound so good you want to savor every note, especially if you’re going through the same experiences as the songwriter was while he was writing each of these songs.
Huxster shine brightly on third CD
Huxster’s third, self-titled CD delivers plenty of the fun modern pop-rock the trio has become known for. Compressed guitar leads, concise, precise rhythms, and tidy beats are the order of the day. Yet, within their tightly packed sounds are tiny, shiny gems, nuggets of good guitar phrasing, riffing, tricky drum fills, and a steady bass holding up the song architectures.
Pat & The Hats prove themselves well on Fake It ‘Till You Make A Hit
Pat & The Hats latest release Fake It ‘Till You Make A Hit is a sweet confection of pop rock ditties. Band leader Patrick Gochez s crafts and sings some of the best local music in this genre. With a slight Beatles influence, Gochez composes engaging melodies and warm vocal harmonies. One listen to this CD will inform any music fan that this is a band on the rise.
Travis Colby Band take it to a higher level on A Better Age
Travis Colby Band just dropped their sophomore CD A Better Age, and it’s chockfull of great blues guitar and piano styles. Colby has erased his New Hampshire accent entirely for this recording, sounding like a blues singer from a better time in the genre. There is also a lot of sophistication within this collection of cool blues, hot soul, and driving funk.
Jennifer Greer proves queen of techniques on engaging Hey Tide album
Jennifer Greer’s fourth album, Hey Tide, is an assemblage of artful, colorful songs. Featuring Greer’s honeyed voice and lively piano melodies, these tunes flow in a variety of currents, some subtle, some intense, all infused with her often spellbinding talent.
Singlecast rock hard and rock well on debut CD
Singlecast’s self-titled CD is loaded with impressive hard rock songs that consist of fine melodic vocal belting, piercing guitar phrases, and a rhythm section with plenty of chunk. Keeping their music well structured and melodic as well as hard driving is what makes this trio’s debut so much fun to listen to.
Dan Blakeslee makes beautiful music his own way on Owed To The Tanglin’ Wind album
Dan Blakeslee’s latest album Owed To The Tanglin Wind is fine collection of new fangled twists on the folk and Americana roots music he has become so well respected for. Though it is impossible to categorize Blakeslee into any particular genre or subgenre, he does conjure a lot of the emotive qualities associated with acoustic music and older forms of American music. Yet, he uses those genres more than they use him, forming his own individual songwriting patterns, keeping his genres fresh while adding some edge. A lot of his songs do not follow expected songwriting structures, leaving his listener with a goulash of instrumentation and vocals that moves in unusual patterns
Famous Jane stand out with their roots rock album New Persuasion
Do you know how sometimes a really, really good local album seems to come out of nowhere? Well, it’s happened again. The upstart New Hampshire band called Famous Jane, brain child of producer-singer-songwriter-guitarist Hank Decken, just released their debut album, New Persuasion.
