Echo Us: The Windsong Spires
Echo Us The Windsong Spires (Echo Us) With sweeping keys, high fluty-sounds, and echo-y vocals, Echo Us presents “We Seek the Descending Levers,” the opener of The Windsong Spires. This one gets a good head More...
THE SEX FILES: What Might Have Gotten Past You: A Couple of Weeks in Sex
Here are a few naughty, fun stories (and one cautionary tale) that may have got by you when you weren’t looking. Trying to get back to whatever the new normal may be, God knows we are all very much involved in More...
Patrick Ames: The Virtualistics
Patrick Ames The Virtualistics (Patrick Ames) Patrick Ames set himself up with an interesting challenge, certainly informed by our times, for The Virtualistics. Ames writing the eight songs here, saw a good More...
Mike Gale:Â Twin Spirit
Mike Gale Twin Spirit (Baboo Records) A plucky, circa-1920’s piano and effected restricted-speaker vocal inform “Don’t Mind The Weather,” the opener of Mike Gale’s new Twin Spirit. It follows with More...
Rick’s Cabaret New York is Open With No Restrictions
Photo courtesy of Rick’s Cabaret There’s no keeping a good gentleman’s club down…pandemic or not! With New York State curfews and capacity limits lifted two weeks ago, our friends and supremely sexy spot, More...
Dennis DeYoung: 26 East, Vol.2. Â
Dennis DeYoung 26 East, Vol.2. (FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL) 26 East, Vol.2. marks former Styx frontman/vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Dennis DeYoung’s retirement. Thinking he was done with his “Vol.1” released More...
Ad Vanderveen: Release
Ad Vanderveen Release (Songsense) We are in the hands of a well-reasoned production from the get-go on Amsterdam-based folk artist Ad Vanderveen’s new ten song, Release. Vanderveen produces here with Pete Fisher, More...
Will Jackson: Songs From the Briarpatch
Will Jackson Songs From the Briarpatch (Will Jackson) An upbeat acoustic guitar and the snapping snare of “Looks Like Today” begins Will Jackson’s Songs From the Briarpatch. With just the right hint of More...
Aman Jagwani: This Place
Aman Jagwani This Place (Aman Jagwani) Ron Cha’s keys that float and super snappy kinetic highly-tuned percussion from Aman Pankaj Jagwani, both playing under Anubha Kaul’s high warble-of-a-vocal, start More...
The Chris Ruben Band: Madness on Repeat
The Chris Ruben Band Madness on Repeat (The Chris Ruben Band) A great snapping Brendan Allen bass, cowbell, tinkling keys, and Chris Ruben’s vocal leads us off on “Unsure,” the first tune on Madness on More...
