I’ve been waiting for an actual video to be release for Heart Heart Head from the stunning Meg Myers since I heard the track for the first time a couple of months ago. The video was released on April 30, but due to forward posting, the entire month of May was already spoken for on this blog. If you’ve been following along, you’ve seen Meg here before. Monster appeared last year and was also one of the top 40 tracks on Vodka…
Read MoreSteve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy of The Church, step out occasionally to record music as a duo. They sound eerily familiar here on I Wouldn’t Know, the first track on the May 2013 long-player, You Are Everything. It’s not as if they’ve co-opted a style other than their own, but you get just a hint of the quieter moments from Pink Floyd or David Gilmour. Perhaps it’s the focus on minor keys, or the haunting, nearly spoken-word, delivery. Whatever the reason…
Read MoreTuscon, Arizona based alterna-pop rockers, The Great Collision are the sum of many parts, not least of which is lead singer, song-writer and guitarist, Ryan David Green. Here on I Fell, this short but lyrically visual tune, gives you an inkling of the nature of the remaining tracks on the debut April 2013 long-player, Running In Circles, from which it comes. The long-player is heavy on visual, lyrical and melodic licks. Musically, the instruments skirt orchestration, instead providing simple rhythm and…
Read MoreWorldly flavors of rhythm and music flow through the latest long-player Blackbirds Are Dancing Over Me (September 2012-due out world-wide June 2013) from Canadian singer/songwriter Danny Michel. Case in point is the lead-off track, What Colour Are You?. Danny Michel traveled to Belize without a song, guitar or equipment, to create music from the Belize perspective. While there is no mention of how The Garifuna Collective came to record with Mr. Michel, the inclusion of this group certainly fits with making music…
Read MoreAlt popsters Dark Furs, almost lost me at the intro. It’s that same plink, plink, plink intro used in so many pop rock tunes these days; But there was a variance. Something that indicated difference just ahead, and I stuck it out. I’m happy I waited! Here on Won’t See Me from the December 2012 self-titled EP, vocalist Suzanne May wails tunefully through the verses and refrain. Suzanne has a confident, strident vocal, which is applied with just enough echo to…
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