Album Review: Hey Violet Show You Love “From The Outside”

Sugar punk is what Hey Violet serves in their debut record, From The Outside; a cool title for a band that approaches pop music like…

Album Review: Courts’ “Back Of The Mind” Stays In You Head

Courts is straight-up feel good. In four tracks, their new EP, Back Of The Mind, gives you the exhilaration of a good workout. You dance…

Film Review: “Maudie” Makes You Fall For In Love For This Real- Life Folk Legend/ Painter

Aisling Walsh’s Maudie is a sheer character piece based of real-life folk-painter Maud Lewis. At two hours it begins slowly as we are introduced to…

Album Review: Fleet Foxes Show The Beauty Of Disillusion In “Crack-Up”

Beauty is hard thing to capture, which is why people dwindle it to the eye of a beholder; you have to see it to believe…

Album Review: Trevor Sensor Deconstructs Fame In “Andy Warhol’s Dream”

Andy Warhol seems to fascinate people because he was a purveyor of “the fascinating”. He picked up humanity’s penchant for images, and human beings’ own…

Song Review: Coldplay Gets Romantic With “All I Can Think About Is You”

Leave it to Coldplay to make a song, All I Can Think About Is You, that is socially poignant, sonically trippy, and oddly romantic all,…

Album Review: Joyner Lucas Makes You Want To Dial “508-507-2209” Till Its Number 1

Joyner Lucas’ new record, 508-507-2209, elaborates that Lucas can drop-kick a verse like gymnastics, but cannot avoid the difficulties and discrepancies of living life poor…

Album Review: Early Riser Brings Theatrical “Currents” To Country-Folk Music

The line between theater and country music has been officially ended, and Early Riser have done it. Their new album Currents has an alternative country…

Album Review: Vita And The Woolf Build “Tunnels” Of Sonic Perfections

Imagine walking the glittered, roped drapes of an underground nightclub. As you look at walls with graffiti images and names of people proclaiming, “I was…

Concert Review: Bay Ledges Bring A California Vibe To Mercury Lounge NYC

Bay Ledges’ played a bright show at Mercury Lounge. The siblings, Zach And Georgia Hurd, moved to LA, California for a change of scene that…

Album Review: Palehound Shows “A Place I’ll Always Go” Is To Her Heart

Palehound’s A Place I’ll Always Go should really be called The Only Person You Can Turn To, Ultimately, Is Yourself. Yes, I know that title…

Album Review: Steve Earle And The Dukes Ask ” So You Wannabe An Outlaw”

Steve Earle is a legend. When you think of classic country, you think of this Nashville singer-songwriter, who capture country music’s inner rebel. In perspective,…

Concert Review: Honors Show The Difference Between The Heart And Mind At Baby’s All Right

The difference between emotion and mood fascinates me because I FEEL there is a difference between the vibes/ atmospheres your presence sets and the sentiments…

Concert Review: Frances Rose Sing To The Adulthood Of Being Young At Knitting Factory

I’m beginning to think that family might be the best platform for music. Between those you consider family, The Bent Knee, and those you were…

Concert Review: The Avalanches Show Me What FUN Means At Music Hall Of Williamsburg

Sometimes, we need a sparking reminder that life can be fun. Seeing The Avalanches live was the reminder I did not know I needed. From…