Articles By: Amanda Scherker 
John Hiatt – Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns review
Truly great country musicians never really die out. Give them a guitar, and a sad American tale, and they’ll serve you all the beautiful melancholy that modern, bubble-gum country stars seem to have forgotten. John Hiatt is considered by anyone who really knows country music to be one of the genre’s most prolific and influential songwriters and musicians. His words have inspired artists like Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson to perform covers. So with his twentieth installment, “Dirty Jeans and [...]
Read more →The Alkaline Trio – Damnesia review
Like most people who experienced the most awkward years of their lives in the early years of the new millennium, I listened to emo music. This mopey musical invasion was hardly the first public manifestation of teenage angst, which howled with the punk rock of the late ’70s and early 80s, and then sneered with the grunge rock of the 90s. But emo certainly was the gloomiest, giving birth to the most unabashed whimpering since the word “teenager” was coined. [...]
Read more →hue Interview
Hailing from Toronto, Canada and London, California, the band hue embraces a sunny sensibility that would cheer up even the gloomiest emo kid. Their work is just beginning though, as their recently released new installment, “Starting Fires” proves. The album enhances their easy pop-rock likeability. hue are comprised of Danny Paton, Andrew Schmidt, Darcy Finck, Andrew Jooze, and Jessica Paton. The band took some time to answer a few questions about their inspiration, the industry, and the release of their [...]
Read more →hue – Starting Fires album review
Color me touched by the band hue’s new release, “Starting Fires.” hue blazes onto the music scene with an inextinguishable joy and a penchant for cute hooks and the simple things in life. hue manages a delightful piano-pop that sings rainbows. Indeed, hue is nothing if not joyful. But sometimes their rose colored glasses limit them, and their lyrics suffer for it. Many of their songs rely on a single refrain, which generally can be successful if the lyric is [...]
Read more →1,2,3 – New Heaven album review
If to be consistent is to be boring, than the band 1,2,3 counts off to a sure chance of surprising even the most experienced competitive music listener. 1, 2, 3 revels in its implausible musical range, which even veers towards a delightful schizophrenia as their second installment “New Heaven” progresses. The band’s duo, Josh Sickels and Nic Synder, have an attractive confidence and a wild penchant for experimentation. The insanely catchy hook, and perhaps driving thesis of the album, “I’m [...]
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