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Album Review: "Light Rays" by The Boxmasters (7/10)
Distributed by: Keen Tone Records Producers: The Boxmasters Created to satisfy their craving for ‘60s beats, the Boxmasters claim garage rock as their missionary roadmap. ... -
Album Review: "The Recession 2" by Jeezy (7/10)
Distributed by: CTE/Def Jam Producers: Various Ten studio albums deep, and Jeezy is an artist who proves he is still one of the voices of ... -
Album Review: "The Book of Strongman" by Dennis Davison (9/10)
Distributed by: Pretty Plague Recordings Producer: Dennis Davison Davison spent decades in the thinking-man’s pop sensation, The Jigsaw Seen. Here on his first solo album, ... -
Album Review: "Nightmare Vacation" by Rico Nasty (9/10)
Distributed by: Sugar Trap Producers: Various Rico Nasty describes her debut album, Nightmare Vacation, as “sugar trap on steroids”—a fitting description for an album that ... -
Album Review: "Pluto x Baby Pluto" by Future and Lil Uzi Vert (8/10)
Distributed by: Warner Music Group Producers: DJ ESCO/Various Pop-trap fans have finally got the collaboration they’ve been asking for. Future and Lil Uzi Vert are ... -
Album Review: "Anissa Lea" by Anissa Lea (8/10)
Distributed by: E & A Music Productions LLC Producer: Alex J. Greene One of the latest artists to emerge from the Motor City is a ... -
Album Review: Vinyl Re-Release of "Colors" by Between the Buried and Me
In 2016, I reviewed a Between The Buried And Me performance in San Francisco (review here). When co-headliners August Burns Red took the stage, a ... -
Album Review: "Perpetual Heartbreak" by BAO (8/10)
Self-released Producers: BAO, Davy Pelletier, Taylor Shechet and Sunrise Transparence Bao Vo, the brainchild behind synth-pop act Ming & Ping, set out to create a ... -
Album Review: "By The Fire" by Thurston Moore (9/10)
Distributed by: Daydream Library Series Producers: Eva Prinz, Paul Epworth Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore delivers a heady magnum opus here, genetically recombining and expanding ... -
Album Review "Dance With Me" by Carol Welsman (8/10)
Distributed by: Justin Time Producers: Carol Welsman & Oscar Hernandez Considering her career-long status as a true musical citizen of the world, perhaps it was ... -
Album Review: "Dissecting Shadows" by Rusty Eye (9/10)
Distributed by: Epoche Records/Blood Blast Producers: Baron Murtland, Mr. Rust, Miss Randall Rusty Eye is a heavy rock trio from Hollywood who bring multiple influences ... -
Album Review: "Mermaid A-Go-Go" by The Neptunas (8/10)
Distributed by: Altered State Of Reverb Producer: Danny Amis The Neptunas, an all-female surf/garage combo, have resurfaced this year with their most polished release to ... -
Album Reviews: "Earth to Dora" by Eels (8/10)
Distributed by: E Works/[PIAS] Producer: Mark Oliver Everett As if to tempt luck, the 13th album delivered by Los Angeles indie rockers Eels wallows freely in ... -
Album Review: "Living in the Gap & Hungarian Pictures" by Mandoki Soulmates (8/10)
Distributed by: Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra Records Producer: Leslie Mandoki Leslie Mandoki is a veteran producer-arranger-composer who is affectionately described as the “Hungarian Quincy Jones.” He has ... -
Album Review: "Electric Ghost Parade" by Grex (8/10)
Distributed by: Geomancy Records Producer: Karl A.D. Evangelista The brainchild of guitarist-vocalist Karl Evangelista and keyboardist Rei Scampavia, Grex crafts a sound that defies description. ... -
Album Review: "Slippin' and Slidin'" by The Immediate Family (10/10)
Distributed by: Quarto Valley Records Producers: The Immediate Family In the tradition of The Wrecking Crew and The Funk Brothers these guys have played with ... -
Album Review: "Saudade" by Juni Ata (8/10)
Distributed by: Flying on Fire Records Producers: Jake Rossowog and Steve Cropper If anguish brightens an artist’s muse, the sorrow paid by Juni Ata (nee ... -
Album Review: "Nice Days" by Chef McKenzie (7/10)
Distributed by: Fervor Records Producers: Chef McKenzie, Basshaus & Will Prinzi Ever since hip-hop turned into a caricature of itself, rhymes regarding the mechanics of ... -
Album Review: "True Love Waits" by The Coronas (7/10)
Distribued by: So Far So Good Records/Blix Street Records Producer: George Murphy, Rob Kirwin, Cormac Butler Sharing their name with the virus hasn’t stopped this ... -
Album Review: "Headed For Love" by Susan Toney (7/10)
Distributed by: Strange Child Records Producer: Bob Tucker Having survived a near fatal car wreck and a bout with cancer during her 20-year-plus career, Billboard-charting ...
