When you are having trouble with inspiration and the weight of the world appears to be on your shoulders, the best course of action is to volunteer somewhere where people are worse off than you are. That was the philosophy that Deep Sea Diver band leader Jessica Dobson took after touring left her without much musical inspiration. What she did, was to volunteer at Aurora Commons in Seattle, where she gained a “new depth of empathy” and found her musical inspiration again. Out of that experience, the long-player Impossible…
Read MoreIf you are like me right now, you really need a positive up-tempo romp to boost your energy level. Enter Brooklyn band Fixtures and The Great Tequila Flood of 2000-2018 (seen/heard here), and start dancing! Flood is the second single from Fixtures’ just released six-song EP, Weak Automatic (December 4, 2020). Fixtures have been making music since at least 2015, honing their sound from the heartbeat of their city. Rock energy and pop chops, combine with punk influences to garner a sound that is both familiar and…
Read MoreA couple of years ago, Vodka reviewed Belgium-based, Pavlove, and their EP and single, Because Of You. I’ve occasionally gone looking for updates on the band, hoping for a long-player, but I’ve either missed out or failed to report to their Facebook site at the right times as they have released a couple of singles, Give Me All You’ve Got and Keira, since the release of Because Of You. Enter Anything But Cupid (seen/heard here), a single released on Valentine’s day 2019, and a sign that the band continues to expand on love…
Read MoreIndie rockers Clone of Clones recently released their first long-player after a few years of developing their sound and gigging around the Washington DC area. Somebody Else is one of the tracks from Monster Heart (October 2015), which deconstructs the love, lost love, moving on subject very uniquely. The overall sound of Clone of Clones is very modern indie-rock. It is accessible while still being enough different to set them apart from the crowds of music in the same genre’. That’s if you can locate them in that…
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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