Tester rock out on new CD King Of The World
Tester recently released their King Of The World CD, and it certainly rocks out in a range somewhere between metal and 1970s hard rock. This music niche works for Tester. Their sound is huge, strong, and rocking yet always accessible. Opening track “Look What You’ve Done” gives the sledgehammer pounding rhythm section, dizzying, speedy guitars, […]
Patti DeRosa emotes with style on new live CD Packing My Bags
Singer-songwriter Patti DeRosa has released “Packing My Bags,” a lively and lovely document of her live performances. DeRosa has named this live disc after its opening track. As a musician, DeRosa is always packing her bags to play gigs. Traveling informs much of DeRosa’s songwriting, and so this packing bags theme works on numerous levels. […]
This Blue Heaven shine on new CD QuickSandGlass
This Blue Heaven is a keyboard driven pop-rock band with a girl singer and sprightly melodies. On this debut CD QuickSandGlass, the quintet, who don’t sound like anybody else, offer up plenty of pleasant ditties. Vocalist MacKenzie Outlund’s pretty voice has an ethereal quality that sounds like she is floating just above the band. She […]
Wild Bill Gleason & Chris Fury Rodis rock the roots of Americana music on Good Groove CD
Wild Bill Gleason and Chris Fury Rodis assembled an all star cast of local blues players to record their dream album Good Groove: American Roots Music. Good Groove is a tribute to some of the great American roots music from the mid-20th century. All of these tracks are rendered with true feeling and grateful appreciation […]
Beyond Blonde offers more rootsie sophistication on Showing My Roots CD
This new Beyond Blonde CD Showing My Roots is a collection of punchy songs that pack the aggression of modern rock into a roots feeling and sound. The rootsie, folkie thing is in the lead singer’s vocal and acoustic guitar approach and in the bands tight arrangements. Showing My Roots opens with a steady, folkie […]
Starr Faithfull releases hard rock masterpiece with Delusions Of Grandeur
Starr Faithfull’s third CD Delusions Of Grandeur is a hard rock masterpiece. Many fine nuances get layered around one another with tasteful applications of the talent in this trio. Starr Faithfull also keeps it fresher and more current than ever. Influences show up here and there but Delusions Of Grandeur is their own sound. After […]
Jon McAuliffe pleases ear and soul with In This Present Form CD
Jon McAuliffe has found communality among Americana roots music, and he infuses the songs on his new CD with plenty of spiritual ebullience. In This Present Form offers plenty of thoughtful lyrics and pretty melodies. McAuliffe is a reflective, progressive minded man with serious spiritual beliefs. Songs like “I Am The Stone” and “Jack Jack” […]
Professor Harp bares his soul on debut CD They Call Me The Professor
Professor Harp’s debut CD introduces the veteran Boston singer-harmonica player with its cool title, They Call Me The Professor. And “professor” is a title Hugh Holmes has earned. Muddy Waters, during a Boston gig, called Holmes “the professional of the harp” and Solomon Burke, when he too was in town, called Holmes Professor Harmonica. With […]
The Rationales are true pop rock craftsmen
The Rationales new CD The Distance In Between is a lively batch of songs dripping with sweet pop-rock melodies. Hooky choruses are the order of the day on this disc. Band leader David Mirabella has a mild, pleasant timbre in his rangy vocal and he conjures warm feeling in each song with his tender vocal […]
Mr. Isaac Allen scores big on his debut CD Don’t Smoke
Mr. Isaac Allen sounds a lot older than his 24 years on his new Don’t Smoke CD. And his new CD is smoking’. It is also sizzling, featuring 11 tracks about life on the mean streets of life. Each song is doused with Allen’s smoky piano bar melodies and direct, gruff vocal deliver, like a […]
