Note: The original video no longer exists. There is no studio-quality version still available. Great Peacock is just preparing to release (at the time of this writing) their first long-player, Making Ghosts, due out mid-May 2015. Family Home is from the band’s self-titled EP from a couple of years ago. Great Peacock’s music is instantaneously infectious, specializing in melodies that stick in your head and make you want to sing along. Based solely on the title track of Making Ghosts (available in the Bandcamp link below) and the band’s previous EP, the new long-player promises to be a delightful offering of…
Read MoreScottish band Dropkick have a new three-song EP, appropriately titled Style (November 2013) which includes the song Style as the single-and what a single it is. Dropkick shows off their tight melodic hooks and their propensity to harmonize. Formed on the East coast of Scotland in the late 1990’s by brothers Andrew and Alistair Taylor and friend Ian Grier, the band has transformed itself over the years from punk-pop, to power-pop and alternative country after being influenced by the likes of The Jayhawks and Tom…
Read MoreSteeped in a mysterious story that lies just beneath the surface, Black Hills Gold from the band Dolorean’s 2011 release The Unfazed, insinuates a deep loss and in some ways, a new beginning. Singer and guitarist, Al James, paints the story with broad strokes, rather than details, and lets the listener decide how best to interpret. That said, the story is decidedly dark. This video, captures the darkness in it’s black and white rendering. As the story resolves in the end, the…
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