On Wednesday, with the post of Dropkick’s Slow Down, Vodka reached the 500 post mark. From our humble beginnings in December 2011 to today, we have striven to bring you great music from the dark corners. Thanks for being followers and please pass a link to the Vodka blog to your music-loving friends!
Read MoreRemember Dropkick? They appeared on Vodka a couple of years ago with Style from the EP of the same name. Since that time, the boys in the band have been busy, releasing Homeward in 2014, which contained Style, a compilation long-player encompassing some of the band’s work from 2001-2008 called Good Vibes Vol. 1, and now (by the time you read this or very soon after) a new long-player, Balance The Light, from which Slow Down comes. The band seems to have settled on a style that is a bit retro…
Read MoreWyvern Lingo is a favorite on Vodka for its three-part harmonies and a willingness to stretch on each new release. Here on Letter To Willow, the title track of their new EP which should be out by the time you read this, the girls continue to please, ramping things up with an almost Another One Bites The Dust bass line. If you are new to Wyvern Lingo’s music, take a trip down Vodka’s memory lane when they first appeared about a year…
Read MoreIt is perhaps the cruelest of circumstances that the music industry, in general, gave only a brief nod to the passing of Keith Emerson, who as a third of Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP), made progressive rock masterpieces in the 1970′s and beyond and influenced many a progressive rock band both during their band’s era and today. As a classically trained keyboardist, Emerson made rock that not only had emotion and energy, but also a real beauty. It is said that Carl Palmer, longtime percussionist of ELP, is planning a tribute to Keith Emerson in June. If you are too young…
Read MoreSinger-songwriter-producer, Scott Warren has a new rock-flavored release, Good Love (February 2016). This pop track, Divisible/Indivisible, is from the Dyed In The Wool long-player (August 2012). Mr. Warren has played a variety of styles of music from pop, to folk, to indie-rock and combines those styles with an eye toward the rockier numbers on Good Love. Scott’s musical history on record goes back to his work with Signal Hill Transmission that included a couple of EP’s and LPs dating back as far as 2002. He currently has three solo released…
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