Album Reviews

This section includes a running list of the music reviews we publish. We also publish a lot of interviews, curate playlists, and podcast. Want to submit your music?

Nine Beats Collective Deliver Wide Array of Soulful Music on Nine Beats To The Bar

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman March 14, 2018 9:47 am Tagged With: Acoustic, Funk, R&B, Soul

Nine Beats Collective is a team of troubadours, poets, rebels, sages, provocateurs, theologians and activists spanning across multiple continents who have created an impressive concept album that features spoken word, R&B, soul, funk, gospel, acoustic driven rock/pop along with obvious influences from African and World music. The album, Nine Beats To The Bar, is founded […]

Discover The Amazing, Soothing Sounds of Sarah Sharp on Her Latest Wake EP

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman March 11, 2018 9:50 pm Tagged With: Americana, Folk, Jazz, Roots, singer, songwriter

With songs featured internationally in ad campaigns for Chanel, Dell, Kida, ABC’s Revenge, E.L.F. Cosmetics and TV shows such as The Good Wife, Cable Girls and Grandfathered; it is safe to say Sarah Sharp knows how to write a damn great song that captures the attention of more than just your average listener. A multiple […]

Molly Kruse Arrives With Uplifting, Jazz-Infused, Pop Jam Titled Come Back To Me

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman March 11, 2018 9:30 pm Tagged With: indie pop, singer, songwriter

Singer/songwriter Molly Kruse has delivered a smooth, jazzy, indie pop jam, Come Back To Me, that will have you feeling the good vibes in no time. Featuring top notch musicianship, happiness inducing melodies, a soothing vocal performance, and enough jazz to have us feeling cool as the breeze on the hottest of summer days, Come […]

Eyal Erlich Delivers Sweet Acoustic Styles On It Don’t Seem Right

by Featured Guest March 7, 2018 1:30 pm Tagged With: Acoustic, Folk, Israel, Middle East, singer, songwriter

This review is by Mike O’Cull, independent music journalist. www.mikeocull.com Eyal Erlich is a singer/songwriter from Tel Aviv, Israel with a unique and emerging creative voice that is currently making a lot of friends in the online music world. He writes, records, and performs with just his voice and an acoustic guitar, which is pretty […]

Finding Entertainment When Visiting New York

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman March 7, 2018 1:05 pm Tagged With: New York City, United States

For entertainment, art, culture, history, architecture and general excitement, there’s really just no city like New York, aka Manhattan or “The Big Apple.” New York is one of the oldest cities in the United States, and its history still resonates to this day. New York combines a wonderful old world feeling with some of the […]

Dusty Grant Releases Powerful, Acoustic-Driven Rock Single and Video, All Crashed Down

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman March 7, 2018 11:04 am Tagged With: acoustic rock, hard rock, indie rock, Kansas, Rock, singer, songwriter, United States

Midwest based rocker and songwriter Dusty Grant has delivered his latest single and accompanying visual treatment (by Shattered Glass Films) for All Crashed Down. An acoustic-driven rock song, All Crashed Down is a powerful, emotion evoking, cathartic release as Dusty brings us front and center into life situations which can either break us…or make us. […]

Faultlines Set To Premier Powerful Music Video for New Single Rain on March 9th

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman March 6, 2018 10:12 am Tagged With: Folk, folk rock, Los Angeles, United States

Faultlines (who we have featured and interviewed previously) are premiering the music video for their powerful new folk single, Rain. Having hosted two benefit concerts raising a combined $30,000+ for the ACLU of Southern California and Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, Faultlines are riding that momentum by creating something really special with the song and […]

Daniel Biro Creates Captivating Sonic Worlds On New Album 120 Onetwenty

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman March 1, 2018 11:10 am Tagged With: composer, Experimental, Instrumental, Jazz, London, producer, United Kingdom

London based creative wizard (composer, keyboard player, producer, songwriter, improvior, sound-designer, video artist, label director) Daniel Biro has released his latest project 120 Onetwenty featuring one hour of enchanting, mystifying, captivating soundscapes created over the course of six years using a suite of vintage keyboards. Infused with an array of stylistic influences, 120 Onetwenty runs […]

Reasons to Learn Piano Chords and Basic Chords You Should Know

by Featured Guest March 1, 2018 9:33 am Tagged With: Piano

Source: Pixabay During a piano lesson, you might have stumbled upon piano chords. Learning piano chords are often not pursued because of the notion of complexity and that you can opt to play the piano without the knowledge of it. But most don’t have an idea how beneficial it is to learn piano chords. 5 […]

King Gheno Taps Into The Subconscious Mind On New Single, Plan In Motion

by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman February 27, 2018 11:24 am Tagged With: Hip Hop, rap, United States, Washington DC

Washington, D.C. based Hip Hop artist King Gheno has released a series of conscious singles he refers to as “brain train tracks”. Plan In Motion is the newest release. In Gheno’s words, Brain train tracks are meditation tracks that are strategically crafted with affirmation to retrain the subconscious mind. The hypnotic hip-hop beats will help […]