As a Glam Rock extraordinaire Rocky Kramer is a Rock Star to The Core. Recognized as one of the best guitarists currently on the planet, Rocky Kramer excited his audience with his exquisite, decadent, and riveting talent. He is often compared to the great Jimi Hendrix. Born in Norway, Rocky was a violin virtuoso at
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Timing is everything in the music business, and I get the impression that rock n’ rollers Starfire agree with me on this. Their latest release, the compelling and multilayered Dreaming of Your Destiny, embodies some of the surreal qualities that a lot of independently-released rock music has in the past few years, but with one major
2021 was a surprisingly hot year for alternative rock all things considered, and last November, things got particularly interesting for fans of the genre’s more progressive side thanks to a new self-titled offering from buzz-worthy duo Illuminaut. Illuminaut doesn’t waste any time getting into the guts of a complicated approach to heavy music majesty with
February 4, 2022 [Long Island, NY] For the second year in a row, Long Island, New York songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Joe Piket has won the prestigious Long Island Entertainer of the year award in the piano entertainer category. Piket has been described as “a more edgy Billy Joel” and “the Bruce Springsteen of Long Island” by music critics. Rave reviews for Joe’s CDs have appeared in Newsday, Good Times,
Love conquers all and in the case of “Like Home”, even distance. “Like Home”, the new single from country pop duo, Wild Fire, is riveting and romantic. The song warms the heart and it touches the nostalgia heartstrings. The story, like every great country song, triggers an immediate reaction. While their moniker suggests that sisters
Indie rock has many strains and many flavors, and The Cold Head are adding their own touch to the genre this February with their new single “Spirit of the Beehive.” As its eccentric title would imply, this is hardly an act of conventionality on the part of these independent musicians, but instead quite the daring
Dan Ashley reminds us that life is all about love and joy with his new album Out There. Smart tracks about today’s issues collide with carefree songs that will make you nostalgic for an everlasting Summer. Blending classic rock with hints of Country music, Out There feels patriotic and personal. Ashley wisely explores the highs and lows of daily
Atmospheric melodies are everywhere we listen in the new single “Time” from Leol, and although the track focuses as much on the backdrop as it does its lead singer, there’s no disputing who the true driving force of this song is. Leol presents with the kind of crisp, relaxed attitude more akin to the veteran
Longtime East Bay mainstay Greg Hoy is at home with surprising listeners. Be grateful for it. Reading his four song collection Old Man and the Cinnamon Girl covered three of the most obvious Neil Young tunes under the sun, sans “Heart of Gold” or “Rockin’ in the Free World”, and finished up with a reputed
Even a single listen to Go to Space Die’s Red Air Don’t Care makes it clear where songwriter Dagan Thogerson’s artistic loyalties lie. The longtime drummer for indie stalwarts Murder by Death unleashes eight songs under the banner Go to Space Die immersed in technically superb and muscular progressive rock burning with seldom heard passion. Such music
Rock, once thought to be dead and buried, is on a big comeback at the moment, you don’t have to look any further than the Canadian underground to appreciate what I’m talking about. SONIK, frontman of The Sonic Memes, is definitely embodying much of the old school rock n’ roll spirit in his new single
Dark pop doesn’t have to automatically equal self-indulgent songwriting themes, and if there’s one player who really wants this to be well-known in 2022, it’s Bob Dee. Together with his band, Petro, he’s melding excess with exquisite compositional discipline in the new single “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,” with the results being a lot more
“Ballers Club” is the feisty new hit single from Gabby Gabanna. The hip hop/ R&B single is drunk with indulgent beats. Gabanna’s vocal delivery style is a mesh between rapid fire and an artist that lets the listener marinate in their golden-laced prowess. Gabanna, representing the East Coast-style of rapping hails from North Carolina, and
Elektragaaz offers listeners six different vibes to suit their mood on their latest EP The Synaesthetic Picture Show, Now Playing Part 4. Elektragaaz is a multi-fusion music group based out of New York City that blends various genres with live music and electronic music. Their aim? To create movies in their listeners minds. The group
MUMEx Trio’s four song collection Folds of Time goes where few other musicians or bands can follow. It, likewise, should confound some cliches. Many believe that trained musicians with significant time studying and practicing their craft often play precisely but without passion, thinking too much, feeling too little. Louis Siciliano, Mauro Salvatore, and Bob Bellatalla’s first foray
It’s rather unfortunate to admit, as both a fan and a critic, but there aren’t a lot of artists in the country music scene today willing to put the music – and quality thereof – ahead of everything else when it comes to their careers. Vanity and an ill-conceived notion of virtuosity’s role in Nashville
High energy is the order of the day as we listen in on the opening cut in Project Grand Slam’s The Shakespeare Concert, the classic “I’m Falling Off of the World,” and as the band digs into another stone-cold jam in the form of one “Redemption Road,” the fact that there’s no audience in front of
Greye’s single “Everything” is a successor to its original version appearing on their second studio release, 2016’s The Worrier. There are scattered examples throughout popular music history over the last three-quarters of a century where musical artists, dissatisfied with a prior release or believing the track deserving of a revamp, pluck plums from their catalog and
Opening their latest release Chain Link with the one-two punch of the title track and “Groove Town” makes it clear that Little Muddy’s talents are built on solid fundamentals. Their familiarity with blues and rock doesn’t have any artistic distance; the band, particularly guitarist and dominant songwriter Rich Goldstein, wholeheartedly embrace those traditional sounds without ever imitating
Steve Markoff, Patricia Lazzara, and Allison Brewster Franzetti come together again on the A-Ha’s pop hit “Take On Me” with memorable results. I wasn’t a fan of the original when they first released and it still stands for me as a near-archetypal video for a network, MTV, with serious quality control issues, but my point
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