Compelling, Concise, Exciting at Every Turn – Yama Uba’s Debut Full-Length “Silhouettes”
Having first waded into the many and varied waves of music as a teenager, having been...
Author: Dave Cantrell
STEREO EMBERS SINGLE + VIDEO PREVIEW – “Hush, Hush” from the marvelously reconvened Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
In many, if not most instances, the rearrival of an eclectic, eccentric, virtually inimitable band like...
Fierce, Undying Hope – “Rebuilding Society on a Shoestring Budget” from A Cloud of Ravens Side-Project Dystopiarch
It is said that April is the cruelest month and though the poet had his reasons...
STEREO EMBERS PREMIER – “Come and Join the Beautiful Army” EP from The Noise Who Runs feat. Ian Pickering of Sneaker Pimps Fame
This rock’n’roll alternative new wave old wave in-between wave call-it-what-you-will business attracts all types, the hustler,...
Eternal, Indeed – “Master Chaynjis” from New Jesse Ainslie Project WARKA
There’s little more gratifying in this music-obsessed life than to witness the constantly arcing evolution of...
Tackling the Dark Impossibilities of Choice – Victor Montes and Dave Cantrell Present the Best of Darkwave 2023
Here’s how I almost began this piece: ‘This will be the last year we do this.’...
Pounding With Grace and Momentum – “Walk Through Fire” by Ashes Fallen
There is the standard danger, of course, and in many if not most instances counting as...
Steadily Blown Away – “Lines” from Northern California’s Soft Science
Artists are called artists only if they evolve. Those that don’t? That hit upon some pre-fab,...
Capturing Sparks – Benjamin Jayne’s “Broken”
On Broken, the latest full-length from the Brattleboro-based, more or less solo artist Benjamin Jayne (nee Wright),...
An Exuberance of Subtlety – Wreckless Eric’s “Leisureland”
Does any artist in the pop context represent the peculiar commingling of the quixotic with the...