Five million streams on Spotify, performances at Royal Albert Music Hall and The Hollywood Bowl, and signing to the same label as Fetty Wap and Highly Suspect 300 Entertainment, is an impressive resume for the genre-crushing artist Cobi. Mixing pop sensibilities with confident R&B …
Category: Blues
Album Review: Plum – Light Years, Dark Years EP – Classic rock is not dead
Album Review: Plum – Light Years, Dark Years EP Shhh… before you start reading this review, I want you to click the play icon on the first track of this album. Do you feel it? Do you feel that sway? That swagger? Mmhmm. …
Album Review: Drawing Blanks – Take It Or Leave It EP – Real, gut-busting rock n’ roll
Album Review: Drawing Blanks – Take It Or Leave It EP – Real, gut-busting rock n’ roll “I won’t try to analyze what you want…” is one of the main lines in the opening track of this album, which seems to embody the …
Album Review: Tough Old Bird – Gambling Days
Album Review: Tough Old Bird – Gambling Days If the sound of subtle strings and clear vocals help you feel sane, this album is pure tonic. Tough Old Bird offer a relaxing sonic embrace that fits perfectly with what we do here at EarToTheGround. …
Five Fabulously Talented Singer Songwriters
Five Fabulously Talented Singer Songwriters The task of the songwriter is complex; take an emotion or moment and capture it in song. Make sure that the mood of the music matches the feeling of the message. Also, it can’t be too cheesy or …
/// Three Rock EP’s to Punch Your Saturday Soul
Northern California three-piece Thunderchief have a flare for the dramatic. Whether it is through song title (“Sudden Death in the Flesh” comes to mind), the nickname “butcher” for their bassist, or the pure magnetism that embodies every riff and soul-shattering drum beat. These …
Album Review: Arts Fishing Club – Self Titled EP
Album Review: Arts Fishing Club – Self Titled EP If the name Arts Fishing Club sounds familiar, it’s because we covered his remarkable tour last year when he and a few other songwriters WALKED their tour from Maine to Tennessee. It was a …
Album Review: Peter Henry Phillips – The Origin
Album Review: Peter Henry Phillips – The Origin This is an outstanding album from a gifted singer songwriter. Peter Henry Phillips has the ability to capture depth of emotion in a single line. His intonation and dynamic style comes through on every track …
Album Review: Hans Wenzel – Greyhound 77
Album Review: Hans Wenzel – Greyhound 77 Country music has a lot of interesting wrinkles that define it. Sometimes it’s just a twang or intonation, other times it’s a full song structure that makes it country. When it comes to Hans Wenzel’s country …
Brenna Whitaker: : : Old Soul, New Video: : : “Love Back”
Some things never go out of style. Unfortunately, some day, the popular music we cling so tightly to now will be a relic, replaced by a future sound or style which in turn will be fossilized for yet another. Yet, in this bleak …
