If you like feel good piano pop, you’ll love Lucas Jack and Don’t Get Carried Away from his March 2013 long-player Sun City. It jams as hard as any piano track can jam and Lucas Jack has a wonderful voice. This is music to do work to, to dance to, to drive to, to do just about anything-except sleep. Sun City doesn’t rock that hard all the way through. In fact, it’s a testament to diverse styles, varying rhythms, the plaintive and…
Read MoreIn spite of the unfortunate name, which makes a Google search turn up every version of the song “Layla” known to man, “Layla”, the singer, is an extremely interesting and talented artist. She is relatively new to the music scene, but this resident of London, England, has some chops and could very easily break loose. She should at least. There is little info on Layla, but you can navigate to her web site (tumblr blog) and hit her other links from there. Then slip over…
Read MoreIt’s Mr. Peabody’s ‘Way Back’ machine for music. The Pepper Pots make R&B and Soul that moves and rocks in a way that was popular in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and is still more than relevant today. Enter, Good Times from the bands 2013 released long player, We Must Fight. The Pepper Pots have been playing 60’s and 70’s flavored R&B and Soul tinged pop music in their native Spain since 2004. They’ve just recently announced that they will be…
Read MoreThe Hillary Reynolds Band combines the soaring vocal of of front woman Hillary Reynolds and her amazing songwriting with traditional acoustic instruments to create pop with a folkish edge. The wealth of acoustic instrumentation provides rich textures that would be otherwise lost and sorely missing. Here on the 2013 single, Crossing The Line, you can hear all of these influences at work. Besides this single, HRB has released one long players, 2012’s Since September. The band also has another single, Leave…
Read MoreThe second post from Paper Aeroplanes within a month is posted because the duo has just released The EP’s-Time To Be & A Comfortable Sleep (November 2013) which is essentially a long-player (10 songs) that combines the EP’s Time To Be (2011) and A Comfortable Sleep (2012) in a single cohesive collection. Paper Aeroplanes may still be struggling for mass appeal, but Sarah Howells and Richard Llewellyn continue to churn out accessible folk-pop that you only need to hear to fall in love…
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