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Bat for Lashes – The Bride (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaSeptember 12, 2016

Born in October 1979, Bat for Lashes is the moniker of the English Artist, Songwriter, and Multi-Instrumentalist Natasha Khan. In her decade-long career, she has released four studio albums: 2006’s sparse, cinematic, and vaudeville-inspired Fur and Gold, 2009’s EDM-flavored Two Suns, 2012’s tribal, slightly angular, and ... Read More

Modern English – Take Me to the Trees (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaSeptember 7, 2016

Doubtlessly, the release of the much-awaited eighth album of the legendary and seminal Post-Punk/New Wave band Modern English is the proper epitome of many music analysts’ favorite description: “A return to original form.” Indeed, Take Me to the Trees is a completion of a stylistic circle, ... Read More

Michael Sweet – One Sided War (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaAugust 31, 2016

Those who are not in the know might be surprised by the recently released album of Michael Sweet, thinking that the frontman of the American band Stryper has gone solo. However, the initiated knows that One Sided War is already Sweet’s seventh full-length album. Sweet ... Read More

Ezra Furman – The Big Fugitive Life (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaAugust 30, 2016

The American artist Ezra Furman began his musical career as the leader of the four-member band Ezra Furman & the Harpoons, which formed in 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. After releasing three albums (2007’s Banging Down the Doors, 2008’s Inside the Human Body, and 2011’s Mysterious ... Read More

Switchfoot – Where the Light Shines Through (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaAugust 16, 2016

Many listeners fall in the folly of describing the music of bands based on only the so-called breakthrough albums or couple of singles that they heard on the radio or which they are familiar with. This results in an inaccurate, unfair, and myopic assessment of ... Read More

Misfits – Friday the 13th (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaJuly 15, 2016

Formed in 1977, in New Jersey, United States, by the Singer/Songwriter Glenn Danzig, Bassist Jerry Only, and Drummer Manny Martínez, Misfits has released seven studio albums in its on-and-off activity, from 1982’s Walk Among Us to 2011’s The Devil’s Rain. Songs such as “Night of ... Read More

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Bat for Lashes – The Bride (Album Review)

Modern English – Take Me to the Trees (Album Review)

Michael Sweet – One Sided War (Album Review)

Ezra Furman – The Big Fugitive Life (Album Review)

Switchfoot – Where the Light Shines Through (Album Review)

Misfits – Friday the 13th (Album Review)

Bat for Lashes – The Bride (Album Review)

Modern English – Take Me to the Trees (Album Review)

Michael Sweet – One Sided War (Album Review)

Ezra Furman – The Big Fugitive Life (Album Review)

Switchfoot – Where the Light Shines Through (Album Review)

Misfits – Friday the 13th (Album Review)

Interview – INXS’s Andrew Farriss

Interview – Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust Talks Blood & Stone

Interview – Lynn Renee Maxcy

Simone Simons – Vermillion (Album Review)

Jason Charles Miller – Knives in the Dark (Album Review)

Uncle Kracker – Coffee & Beer (Album Review)