Album Review: Pile’s “All Fiction” delivers on atmosphere and ambition

You don’t come across many bands like Pile. The trio has melded haunting soundscapes and indie-rock grit for 15 years, and it’s put to tremendous effect on their eighth studio album, “All Fiction,” out now on Exploding in Sound Records. You can tell that great care went into capturing and Continue Reading

ALBUM REVIEW: “New Game+” by Palette Knife – an energetic ode to Midwestern life and the introspection of quarantine 

What would you do if you’d spent the last three years in a world getting over a pandemic and lived the surreal experience of weeks trapped in quarantine? You might write an album like New Game +, an album dedicated to days gone past and the pain of nostalgia. It Continue Reading

ALBUM REVIEW: Bloom, by Cold Hvnds – A Love Letter to Mid-2000s-2010s Post-Hardcore

Cold Hvnds’ influences are laid bare – walking on the same stones cast by alt-rock and pop-punk forefathers of a bygone era, while also marching out of step by pulling from the Rise Records run of post-hardcore styles, culminating to an honest and passionate effort in their debut album, Bloom. The Continue Reading

Demon Hunter debuts stripped down versions of old classics on “Songs of Death and Resurrection”

American metal group Demon Hunter is set to release “Songs of Death and Resurrection” on March 5th. The album comprises of one new song and 11 reimagined versions of previously released songs from across the entire discography. The band indeed showed how talented and versatile they can be on this Continue Reading

Taylor Swift’s “evermore” feels effortlessly refined, showcases growth as an artist

For most artists, releasing new music during a pandemic would be next to impossible, and terribly daunting. For Taylor Swift, it appears a breeze, as she has now released not one, but two quarantine albums this year.  Swift’s ninth album, evermore, was announced in the early hours of Thursday, December Continue Reading

Dance Gavin Dance continue to impress with “Afterburner”

Dance Gavin Dance is a band that just consistently gets better and better each release at it again with their ninth album titled Afterburner; they continue to impress. Blending all sorts of different sounds from rock to pop to funk to Latin, these guys aren’t ones force themselves into one Continue Reading

Beach Bunny Release Debut Album “Honeymoon”

Chicago’s indie act Beach Bunny release their debut album Honeymoon, fitting for lovers of “heart-on-your-sleeve” music. Honeymoon is an album full of honesty and innocence, that combines in a way that makes the music tunefully exuberant. Lead singer, Lily Trifilio writes music overcoming self-doubt, that at face-value can seem archetypal, Continue Reading

Northwest Indiana band The Region Close Out the Year with Newest EP “Everything I’ve Got”

  As a year of great music wraps up, Indiana emo/punk band The Region offer one last release to enjoy with their new EP “Everything I’ve Got”. A special highlight is the guest vocals of Cory Castro of Tennessee emo group Free Throw, on the opening track “Giving Up”.  The Continue Reading

Nina Nesbitt’s Offers Up an Expanded Version of Latest Record

Nina Nesbitt newest release “The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change, The Flowers Will Fall” is a deluxe version of her album “The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change” that was released earlier this year.  This new version features acoustic versions of the album’s original tracks, Continue Reading