Dolores makes pop rock for the masses. You can tap your toe, find a dance floor or sing along easily. Enter Mary from the band’s first long-player, Peach Fuzz (May 2015), which is a follow-up to their pretty awesome EP, Nectar, from August 2014. These gentleman seem uncomfortable with their skins when they aren’t playing/singing, but when they start the latter, they are in their element and their sound is simply wonderful! Dolores’ music owes much to the styles of the late 60′s and early 70′s,…
Read MoreFile VMichaels (it’s a band, not a person) as pop-rock with a touch of soul and r&b that is instantaneously positive, danceable and fun. Undeniable is currently just a single, one of just a handful of tunes available from VMichaels, but hopefully there is much more on the way. You can find more information on the band by visiting their nicely formatted web site, which includes all of the required social links. If you live in the Los Angeles area, you can probably catch the band…
Read MoreI’m late to the George Ezra party, but thanks to my daughter’s recommendation, I’m in now! George recently released his debut long-player, Wanted On Voyage (January 2015), in both original and deluxe formats. The deluxe version gives you three bonus tracks. George does a good job of releasing videos for his songs, making it easy to pick a favorite, and for this go around I just had to pick Listen To The Man, because of the humor included with video…
Read MoreWhen I hear a tune and a voice like Irene Facheris’s and the song is not in my native English, it makes me wish I’d spent some time learning a foreign language. I guess it is never too late to start, but hey, I’m a lazy old man. Here on Tre Giorni a Milano (Google’s translation into English is: Three Days in Milan) from Ms. Facheris’ latest (November 2014) long-player, Allontanarsi Dalla Linea Giallal (Move Away from the Yellow Line), Facheris…
Read MoreYou may remember Portland, Oregon based Otis Heat from the video / review posted for Gold Mine around two years ago. Well, the second long-player, ING, from the group is finally out (by the time you read this, September 2014) and with it comes Brow (see this video), Gold Mine and twelve additional tracks. Since I’m writing this review prior to the release, it is going to have to exclude most of those tracks, as I have not heard them yet, but Otis…
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