We have a problem from time to time at Vodka using our normally reliable sources for good new music, coming up with, well, good new music. So we took a side road recently and ended up at the front door of the Shook Twins and boy do we wish we had discovered them earlier! Awhile (video) is from their Jr. effort, What We Do (2014). Their two other long-players, You Can Have The Rest (2008) and Window (2011) all feature Katelyn and Laurie Shook’s dueling vocals and a broad variety…
Read MoreRemember Dropkick? They appeared on Vodka a couple of years ago with Style from the EP of the same name. Since that time, the boys in the band have been busy, releasing Homeward in 2014, which contained Style, a compilation long-player encompassing some of the band’s work from 2001-2008 called Good Vibes Vol. 1, and now (by the time you read this or very soon after) a new long-player, Balance The Light, from which Slow Down comes. The band seems to have settled on a style that is a bit retro…
Read MoreWyvern Lingo is a favorite on Vodka for its three-part harmonies and a willingness to stretch on each new release. Here on Letter To Willow, the title track of their new EP which should be out by the time you read this, the girls continue to please, ramping things up with an almost Another One Bites The Dust bass line. If you are new to Wyvern Lingo’s music, take a trip down Vodka’s memory lane when they first appeared about a…
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…
Read MoreDiane Birch is a singer-songwriter-pianist with some nice vocal chops and a back catalog of wonderful music. She has released two long-players, Bible Belt (2009) and Speak A Little Louder (2013), as well as two additional EPs, The Velveteen Age (with The Phenomenal Handclap Band) and iTunes Sessions, both from 2010. Stand Under My Love is from her January 2016 EP, NOUS. Diane evokes emotional undertones with her vocal inflections that add weight to the lyrics she delivers. Her songwriting provides an often melancholy vibe, but has…
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