Album Review: A Yawn Worth Yelling – Play Pretend Imagine the most infectious, courageous, and powerful pop rock hook you’ve ever heard… maybe it’s from U2 or some big arena rock band, right? Then add a nice sort of slick pop punk vocal …
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Album Review: Canyon City – Refuge EP
Album Review: Canyon City – Refuge EP The opening song of Canyon City’s debut EP is “Fix You,” a cover of the Coldplay hit. That might sound like a run of the mill place to begin an acoustic EP, but it immediately shows …
Album Review: Hello Industry – When I Was Young
Album Review: Hello Industry – When I Was Young Hello Industry is the married duo of Nathan and Heather Peterson. They are pretty much the kind of people we all wish we could be; inspiring, resilient, and able to make beauty out of …
Album Review: Darlingside – Bird’s Say
Album Review: Darlingside – Bird’s Say Hey let’s not mince words; I really like Darlingside. In fact, when I got the submission, I put a little star beside it with my initials so that I’d remember to personally cover it. It’s exactly the …
Guest Review: Siri Undlin on Karrnnel Sawitsky & Daniel Koulack – Fiddle & Banjo: Tunes from the North, Songs from the South
Karrnnel Sawitsky & Daniel Koulack – Fiddle & Banjo: Tunes from the North, Songs from the South by Siri Undlin Hailing from the more maple-leafed side of our North American continent, Sawitsky and Koulack bridge the roots-music distance between North and South – …
Three Awesome Pop Rock Bands for Your Weekend
Three Awesome Pop Rock Bands for Your Weekend “Pop” has such a negative connotation in this indie world and I mean to change that. Pop can just mean upbeat and major chords. Pop doesn’t mean trashy or bubblegum. It just is a way …
Album Review: Have Gun, Will Travel – Science from an Easy Chair
Album Review: Have Gun, Will Travel – Science from an Easy Chair Have Gun, Will Travel are a savvy, interesting Americana band that will tickle the fancy of many listeners. Rather than the tired old cliches of American music, Have Gun, Will Travel …
Album Review: Greg Jackson Combs – Messenger
Album Review: Greg Jackson Combs – Messenger Greg Jackson Combs has a pop sensibility that can sometimes feel like U2 or Coldplay, while other times preserving a smaller, more intimate sound. But Combs writes with an urgency in his music that makes it …
Album Review: Telegraph Canyon – You From Before
You From Before by Telegraph Canyon Review by Hannah of www.rockmycommute.com You From Before is the fairly new 2015 release from Telegraph Canyon, and is now widely available even on Spotify so it will be easy for you to check this out! I …
Three Introspective Singer Songwriters
Three Introspective Singer Songwriters I’m not quite sure of the historical roots of the term “singer songwriter,” but it has definitely morphed into a catch all phrase that considers quite a wide range of performers these days. Around here, we often mean a …
