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Home›Posts Tagged "alt-rock"

Tag: alt-rock

  • Opportunities
    July 7, 2020
    by Music Connection

    Music Licensing Company is Seeking Alt-Rock Instrumentals

    Contemporary Alt-Rock Instrumentals are needed by a Music Licensing Company that specializes in music for content creators as well as TV shows and Film projects! ...
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  • 5.8
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    February 26, 2020
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: The Scarlet Tangerines

    Recordings by Minnesota fivesome The Scarlet Tangerines demonstrate a consisently unfortunate disconnect between the band and its singer. In fact, instead of enhancing the work ...
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  • Courtney King
    7.6
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    January 30, 2020
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: Courtney King

    Artist Courtney King strives for an artfully dark demeanor and produces more than a few promising moments. She has a strong voice that’s a good ...
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  • Roi and the Secret People
    7.4
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    August 21, 2019
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: Roi and the Secret People

    Roi and the Secret People capture the essence of “open road intensity” with “Drive,” which could enhance a film or TV sequence. Frontman Roi has ...
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  • The Soft Ground
    8
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    July 29, 2019
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: The Soft Underground

    NY drum & guitar duo The Soft Underground have a well-produced sound and material that would work well in a film or TV show. The ...
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  • Latest, Live Reviews, Reviews
    October 31, 2017
    by Heather Allen

    Live Review: Sick Mystic at The Study in Hollywood, CA

    Material: Los Angeles-based alternative rock band Sick Mystic is, for lack of a better word, new to the music scene. The band used their recently ...
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  • 6
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    October 25, 2017
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: Lucid

    On these sunny, dreamy, stripped-down tunes (“Front Door,” “While Ago” and “Glad I Met You”), Lucid makes it clear that he needs to put in ...
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  • Album Reviews, Latest, Magazine, Reviews
    June 2, 2017
    by Andy Kaufmann

    Music Album Review: alt-j - Relaxer (9/10)

    Following up on 2014’s Grammy-nominated This Is All Yours, Britain’s laudable lads raise their penchant for mellifluous, molasses-drenched beats, vivid flourishes and electronic pizazz into a philosopher’s stew of ...
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  • The Slit
    7.4
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    May 29, 2017
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: The Slit

    You don’t often hear such a scalding roar from a singer the way you do from the Slit’s Dustin Liggit. We’re talking visceral, gut-punching aggression that ...
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  • Album Reviews, Latest, Magazine, Reviews
    April 7, 2017
    by Brett Bush

    Music Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Damage and Joy" (10/10)

    This comeback of sorts is both reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s great early work and also fits into today’s alt-rock formats. Soaring, gorgeous guitar sounds ...
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  • Primal Static - new music critiques
    6.8
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    February 27, 2017
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: Primal Static

    Not the first twosome to offer its own take on raw-boned, stripped-to-the-primer blues-rock, the appropriately named Primal Static is custom-made for listeners who crave an ...
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  • 222 - new music critiques
    7.4
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, Reviews
    February 27, 2017
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: 222

    A promising synth-pop duo, 222 balances retro (mainly ‘90s) with modern on crafty, hook-centric material that is “almost there.” “I’m Not Trying” maintains a nice ...
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  • Ember Atom new music critique
    8.2
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, NMC of the Week, Reviews
    December 23, 2016
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critique: Ember Atom

    Calgary-based Ember Atom has a gift for up-energy, critical-mass, mainly synth-driven pop-rock that’s dead-on for alt-rock radio. Yes, “The Rip” is vocally overheated and grew ...
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  • new music critiques repel the robot
    8.2
    Magazine, New Music Critiques, NMC of the Week, Reviews
    August 8, 2016
    by Music Connection

    New Music Critiques: repel the robot

    Dallas, TX duo repel the robot are working at a high level as writers, producers and arrangers to create a fun, dynamic alt-rock sound that's infused ...
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  • 7.8
    New Music Critiques, Reviews
    November 2, 2015
    by Music Connection

    Unsigned Artist: Post Paradise

    As their name suggests, this Fort Collins,
CO fourpiece has a determinedly downcast vision of life and, in sensual singer Nick Starr Duarte, an ideal voice ...
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  • Live Reviews, Magazine, Reviews
    June 2, 2015
    by Luis Gonzalez

    Live Review: The Clouds Are Ghosts at the Pecan Street Festival

    Material: This eclectic Austin-native group became an intriguing six-piece act when one of its two founding members left. The band has truly found their strength ...
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  • Live Reviews, Magazine, Reviews
    May 22, 2015
    by Mary Lemanski

    Live Review: Ratboys at Beat Kitchen

    Material: Chicago-based band, Ratboys, appeals to the indie and college rock crowd with a slightly different twist. In a genre that is heavily saturated with ...
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  • Album Reviews, Reviews
    January 16, 2015
    by liza cano

    Album Review: Magnolia Memoir - Pale Fire (Score: 8/10)

    Driven by the vision of graceful, cinematic-voiced Mela Lee and multi-faceted key-boardist Alexander Burke, this ever-evolving L.A. based ensemble draws equally from its quirky, soulful ...
    Read More
  • Reviews
    November 14, 2014
    by Austin Wood

    Live Review: Walter Salas-Humara At Bowery Electric

    Material: After an 18-year hiatus, Walter Salsas-Humara has returned with his third effort, Curve and Shake. Best known as frontman of the Silos—who were once ...
    Read More
  • Reviews
    November 7, 2014
    by Austin Wood

    Live Review: ILYA at Loaded in Hollywood

    The Players: John Mattos, bass, percussion; Geoff Hill, drums, percussion; Blanca Rojas Fowler, vocals, percussion; Carrie Gillespie Feller, vocals, piano, rhodes, synth; Demetrius AtuЦa, vocals, ...
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