Beyond Blonde deliver another fine album with Purpe Rose
Beyond Blonde just dropped another kicking rock album Purple Rose. The Rhode Island band just keeps getting better with each successive album. Lead singer Lisa Markovich has written even more sharply defined lyrics this time around and her arrangements have plenty of the usual Beyond Blonde aggressive adventurousness. Lead by Lisa Markovich the band jumps […]
Walter Sickert & The Army Of Broken Toys offer amazing things on Soft Time Traveler
Walter Sickert & The Army Of Broken Toys have created a masterpiece in their latest release Soft Time Traveler. Sickert and his Broken Toys have taken their roots rock influences and whipped them into a huge confection of energetic, explosive bursts of great songs that hit you in the face with their huge sound. Soft […]
Scott Tarulli goes way beyond technique on Anytime, Anywhere CD
Scott Tarulli’s latest instrumental album Anytime, Anywhere is marked by the guitarist’s usual high level performance and technique. Listening to Tarulli carefully, though, reveals a gift for emotional expression, a use of colors, tones, and themes that are equally impressive. Each composition is a flight of fancy that tells a story and paints a picture […]
Bees Deluxe document their concert experience with livevil
Bees Deluxe are following an important tradition as recording artists by releasing a live concert album. The album is called livevil, which could be pronounced live evil or live-ville. The point is that it is a live album that captures Bees Deluxe in their hard-hitting, jamming blues glory. The trio of guitarist Conrad Warre, keyboardist […]
Jo Henley take it to a higher level with The Fall Comes Early
Emboldened by their three previous successes, Jo Henley have come up with a fine, smooth collection of 12 tracks that move with a seamless energy. Pleasant earthy roots music shine under the command of this three piece band and their guest players. Jo Henley is essentially lead singer and rhythm guitarist Andy Campolieto, lead guitarist, […]
Jeff Root reflects his strange brilliance on The Wild Fandango CD
Jeff Root is a beautifully strange rock and roll singer-songwriter. On his latest CD, The Wild Fandango, the metro-west recording artist mixes numerous styles not usually combined to come up with fun, enjoyable pop rock songs. Like a film score composer, Root creates an entire mood and setting. He also likes to tell odd tales […]
Don Campbell offers loving tribute to Dan Fogelberg on double set Kites To Fly
Don Campbell has named his double disc album tribute to Dan Fogelberg Kites To Fly Celebrating The Music Of Dan Fogelberg. Campbell has said that these treasured songs were like kites he had to fly, things to be put up there and given space to breathe and fly. Kites To Fly allows the Maine singer-songwriter […]
Bird Mancini offer Latin American flair on Bird Mancini Lounge CD
Bird Mancini has found a new focus on bossa nova and other music from Brazil. The pair have always had an interest, but this time around they’ve gathered everything they’ve worked in on that genre and dedicated an album to it. Hence, Bird Mancini Lounge, a collection of jazzy, breezy songs with a distinctly South […]
James Straight And The Wide Stance kick ass on No Loitering CD
James Straight And The Wide Stance have just released this killer album of raw, punk, vintage rock and roll. No Loitering is sure to raise the group’s visibility even further on the Boston music scene. The band opens with the elastic guitar phrased “Female Trouble” by John Waters from Waters’ dark 1974 comedy of the […]
The Naked Stills show enormous potential on Cochecho CD
The Naked Stills released their debut CD Cochecho late last year, and it’s an impressive amalgam of classic rock, blues, and folk born in the 1960s American music renaissance. There is a breezy, wide-ranging sense of expression in the vocals and instrumentation in all 12 tracks. There is also a much needed freshness in this […]
