Lochness Monster:Â Working for a Future
Lochness Monster Working for a Future (Venemusic LLC) Loud guitars and a stuttering drumbeat from Rene Rivera opens the fantastically desperate “Glass Jar,” the first tune from Miami’s Lochness Monster’s second EP Working for a Future. Right from the jump, the listener is captured by the production of perfect layering of a well-written rock More...
Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz: Variant Blues: Music In The Time Of Coronavirus: Songs 21-30
Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz Variant Blues: Music In The Time Of Coronavirus: Songs 21-30 (Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz) The fourth release from Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz, Variant Blues: Music In The Time More...
Ajay Mathur:Â Talking Loud
Ajay Mathur Talking Loud (Ajay Mathur) A simple yet effective high-sailing guitar line begins the upbeat first tune, “Sooner Or Later,” off Ajay Mathur’s 5th full-length album, Talking Loud. As I often More...
The Color of Cyan: Agape Â
The Color of Cyan Agape (The Color of Cyan) The swirling, rising, spooky keys that turn quite mournful of “Inception” start us off on The Color of Cyan’s new release, Agape. I’m not sure all the layered More...
THE SEX FILES: Interview with Madam Director/Lola-PART 2
Photo credit: Mistrexx Mars Here is my part two talk with domina/filmmaker/ goddess Madam Director/Lola Are you dom in your personal sex life? In my personal life, my husband and I are both switches. I am in general, More...
THE SEX FILES: An Interview with Madam Director/Lola-PART 1
Photo credit: Mistrexx Mars The fetching, seriously sexy, dangerously adept domina/filmmaker based in NYC almost exclusively now just films the scenes of her art and work, often alongside her sub “Peaches.” More...
Swansgate: Becoming Someone
Swansgate Becoming Someone (Swansgate) Big swirling string strikes begin on “Lost in the Sun,” as we easily float into Michael McKinney’s MOR beat and Stu Draughn’s tight vocal delivery laden, with maybe More...
Aura Blaze: Open-Mindedness
Aura Blaze Open-Mindedness (Cleopatra Records) Open-Mindedness opens an EP of the same name from Rhode Rachel’s Aura Blaze. This trio of tunes, written (save for the last track, a cover of The Charlatans, “The More...
Spencer Elliot: SE3
Spencer Elliott SE3 (CandyRat Records) Spencer Elliott’s strummed and echoey acoustic breaks into the free-flying groove of “Torque,” the opener on his new album SE3. Along with drummer Chris Hudson and More...
Leadbetter Band: Howl
Leadbetter Band Howl (CD Baby) A heavy beat with Mark Johnson’s organ spikes and some chunky guitar runs inform the opener “Waterdogs” from Oregon-based rock trio Leadbetter Band’s new Howl. The second More...
