Angus & Julia Stone | Angus & Julia Stone | Rating: 9/11 | If only all siblings sounded as good as Angus & Julia Stone sound together on their third full length record. After three years of separation and solo operations taking place, the duo has been wrangled up by infamous ringmaster and producer Rick Rubin. The self-titled record is […]

Rise Against | The Black Market | Rating: 6/11 | The ethically sound punk-rock band, Rise Against, hits the front lines of activism through music with their latest record The Black Market. Aggressive beats, melodic voices with rustic tones and heart pumping energy is the best way to describe this, their seventh full length album. “I Don’t Want To Be […]

Nightmare and the Cat | Simple | Rating: 10.2 / 11 | Nightmare and the Cat know how to write a song of all kinds: one that will make you think, one that will instantly get stuck in your head, one that will bring you to tears at its emotional relevance and one, most importantly, that will have you grooving […]

Bleachers | Strange Desire | Rating: 9.5/11 | If there’s one topic Jack Antonoff knows how to write about it’s lost love, but the heartbroken-my-life-is-upside-down kind that leaves you devastated and unable to move on; not confined to the romantic side of love. In his break-out debut album, Strange Desire, for his solo project (a.k.a. Bleachers) Jack tackles the full […]

Bad Suns | Language & Perspective | Rating: 8.1 /11 | If Bad Suns have one thing going for them, it’s that they’ve just proven themselves more than ready and able to bottle and sell a perfectly produced musical aesthetic. Now if that sounds like a dig against the Southern California indie rockers, trust that it’s not. In their disarmingly short […]

How To Dress Well | “What Is This Heart?” | Rating: 8.5 /11 | Sound design has its place in a record collection, particularly when it is parceled with romantic distress, emotional anguish and/or delving into and through Tom Krell’s aka How To Dress Well’s dialogue of what was, is and may never be if his failures and shortcomings don’t […]

Passenger | Whispers | Rating: 8.5/11 | Mike Rosenberg, aka Passenger, has come a long way since his hit single, “Let It Go” in 2012. Though he’s toured the world, both supporting fellow singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and on his own, this folk artist still planted himself on random street corners (one of them during San Diego’s Comic-con) last year to croon at people as […]