Album Review: The National Quell Inner Demons In “Sleep Well Beast”

The National know how to make music that is picturesque and silencing to listeners. Sleep Well Beast is the name of their newest album, and…

Book Review: Other Men’s Daughters By Richard Stern Shows The “Mind” Behind A Cheater

Synopsis: “Until the day of Merriwether’s departure from the house—a month after his divorce—the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one” we read on the…

Book Review: Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy Shows The Love That Pervades Even For The Unluckiest

Synopsis: In this astonishing novel, Shanthi Sekaran gives voice to the devotion and anguish of motherhood through two women bound together by their love for…

Book Review: Kwei Quartey’s “Death By His Grace” Revamps The Thrill In Crime-Thriller

Synopsis: Katherine Yeboah’s marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye is all the talk of Accra high society. But when it becomes apparent that Katherine is infertile, Solomon’s…

Album Review:Kedr Levanskiy’s Brings Out The “Ariadna” In All of Us

Kedr Levanskiy’s Ariadna makes me want to grab a bunch of Club Kids and join a Drag Dance competition. It is filled the voguing sensuality…

Album Review: Faith Healer Make Trying Something Worth Doing In Newest Album, Try ;-)

Faith Healer lives up to their name in new album, Try ;-). From the beginning, you feel like you entered a room filled with hot…

Album Review: Happy Hollows Makes You Want To Pack A Bag And Head To “Concordia”

  Can we all go to Concordia? That is what I want to know after listening to Happy Hollows’ newest record titled Concordia. It just…

Concert Review: Vallis Alps Make Simplicity Feel Epic At Music Hall of Williamsburg

On a super rainy day in NYC, a group of concert-goers had a love spell cast over them, and the magical culprits are Vallis Alps.…

Album Review: Tori Amos Celebrates Her Fifteenth Album With Political Fire In Native Invader

15 ALBUMS! Just take the time to absorb that concept. FIFTEEN ALBUMS is what Tori Amos has created with the release of her newest record…

Album Review: Alvvays Send Love To All The “Antisocialites” Suffering From A Breakup

I love 500 Days of Summer. Yes, I know this is an album review for Alvvays highly-anticipated new album, Antisocialites, but I mention this film…

Artist Close-Up: Zeke Finn Brings The Chill In “Under The Willows”

You ever feel like you are just walking around; no purpose or destination. Now this not a bad thing, and it does not have to…

Artist Close-Up: Soul Has Another Rising Star In Kat Wright

Soul has a new front-woman, and her name is Kat Wright. With a voice that opens and closes notes like a spiritual heart valve, there…

Concert Review: Underground Mantra Gives Positive Vibes At Mercury Lounge

I begin my review on a personal note. There is TOO MUCH TALENT IN THIS WORLD! In a time, where the world seems to be…

Album Review: Tender Debut Human Duality In “Modern Addiction

Tender’s Modern Addiction is about duality or as, Hunter And Wolfer would put it, “the irony of vulnerability”. Beneath lyrics that are humorous in their…

Album Review: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Show The Purity of Pleasure

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (TPOBPAH) treat pop like it a refinery of candy. Somewhere, way more magical, there is a factory that…