Carol Keogh is a musician, singer, songwriter and visual artist from Ireland. Her latest 3-song EP is entitled My Father The Jeweler, which is a tribute to her late father, Brendan Keogh who passed away in 2014. The cover art is also by Carol Keogh, a piece entitled Whale Tail. Carol has remained in the musical shadows in spite of her tremendous voice. She has lent her talents to a number of Irish bands over the years that also have been mostly…
Read MoreDolores 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 MoreFlagship Romance made their debut appearance on Vodka two years ago with the tremendous Treason from the duo’s awesome first EP effort, The Fudge Sessions. We revisited the band again about a year later with another track from that same EP, Hit The Ground. Then the two began work on numerous philanthropic projects, followed by a crowd funding campaign that raised over $25,000 to help them make their first long-player, Fee Fie Foh Fum, which was released in June of 2014. Dandelion hails…
Read MoreBeaulieu Porch (Simon Berry) has a reclusive personal profile. His music is “released” largely in snippets, one track here and another there, over the course of years, so it is nice to finally have a collection of those tunes all in one spot for a change. Enter We Are Beautiful (April 2015). It includes the previously reviewed (a little over a year ago) The Colour 55 and 17 (!) other psychedelic pop tunes for a pittance (Name your price) on the Bandcamp site. These…
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…
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