Category: Reviews

Live | Saint Sister @ Café Du Nord, San Francisco

For Irish electric-folk duo Saint Sister, Friday night’s performance (5 October 2018) in San Francisco marked a double celebration: It was the duo’s first time in the ‘City by the Bay,’ and it also marked the long-awaited release of its…

Single | Matt Massey – Built

They say to never judge a book by its cover, but the front piece artwork for Matt Massey’s new single, ‘Built’, conveys a message in and of itself. The tune itself is a blistering, driven development in indie rock with…

Album | Matt Kjeldsen – Last Days

Like the lizard printed on his t-shirt, Matt Kjeldsen’s Last Days represents a psychedelic, peaceful movement. One might go on to determine that they both might also stand for bringing a little more artistic flourish into the worlds of those who…

Album | Annie Oakley – Words We Mean

Twin sisters Sophia and Grace Babb have played music together for years. They especially needed an outlet for their emotions after their father’s suicide. Within a year’s time their friend and violinist, Nia Personette, who had also lost her father,…

Album | Shane Palko – ‘Pick Me Up’

As much as they say never to judge a book by its cover, a picture is also worth a thousand words. If these sayings were only meant to cover generalities, then the latter would only be a quarter of the…

Video | Geoff Gibbons – ‘Rollin’ Free’

Following the release of 2017’s Buffalo Hotel, Geoff Gibbons is freeing himself up on his latest single. This comes quite literally for the Vancouver singer-songwriter, who’s hitting the road on ‘Rollin’ Free’. Instrumentally, the song is an old-school Americana arrangement featuring…

Album | Any Other – Two, Geography

In the peripheral Italian music scene, the number of acts that have recently achieved international recognition can be counted on one hand. At Adele Nigro’s age, and at only her second album, to have an already scheduled a reasonably sized…

Video | John Smith – ‘Hummingbird’ (Live Session)

On the day following the 2018 Cambridge Folk Festival, John Smith stopped by Moo & Two in Fromme, Somerset. Besides supporting an independent business with a hint of tea or coffee, Smith also hit the artisan brew house with another goal…

Album | Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie

Five years can be a lifetime. Especially when you front a band like Phosphorescent. Yet for Matt Houck it went by in the blink of an eye. Along the way he got married, moved from New York to Nashville, had…

Album | JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing

Joshua Pless Harris seems to be the essence of a Kris Kristofferson song: “walking contradiction, partly truth, partly fiction.” Yet Harris has lived enough in 35 years for three men, leaving home at 14, hopping trains, working as a sheet…