Cryptic Rock

Cryptic Rock Magazine is a digital entertainment magazine covering a broad range of music and film. Established over a decade, Cryptic Rock has in-depth music reviews, film reviews, retrospective reviews, interviews, and live concert photography/reviews.

Stopmotion (Movie Review)

Steven DeJoseph Jr.Steven DeJoseph Jr.April 4, 2024

The art of animation and filming a stop-motion feature is hard work. It could take days, months, even years to finish the shortest of stop-motion films. For some artists, this is second-nature, where those days and months spent clicking the camera each time a clay-made ... Read More

Grace Cummings – Ramona (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockApril 4, 2024

It is often difficult to find substance inside the empty vacuum of social media attention spans and shallow personalities surrounding us. A casualty of modern life? Perhaps. Although, those of us who still believe in the human soul seek something more than content curated by ... Read More

Gary Clark Jr. – JPEG RAW (Album Review)

Garrett RichardelloGarrett RichardelloApril 3, 2024

Since first entering the Austin, Texas music scene in the late 1990s, it quickly became clear that Gary Clark Jr. was a guitar prodigy. Honing his craft until he was gracing the same stages as Blues legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, and Freddie ... Read More

Sting (Movie Review)

Cara McWilliamCara McWilliamApril 2, 2024

Arachnophobes be warned! In theaters on April 12, 2024 through WellGo Entertainment, Sting is going to be a film that you will either want to place a glass over and eye nervously or a film that you will want to swat with a heavy object ... Read More

The Black Keys – Ohio Players (Album Review)

Hannah Means-ShannonHannah Means-ShannonApril 1, 2024

Closing in on their 12th studio album, Indie Rock duo The Black Keys will be releasing Ohio Players via Nonesuch/Warner Records on April 5, 2024. Looking back, while their 2021 Hill Country Blues covers album Delta Kream took them deeper into their musical roots, and 2022’s Dropout Boogie was hailed as approachable and ... Read More

The Haunt – Do Not Resuscitate (EP Review)

Hannah Means-ShannonHannah Means-ShannonApril 1, 2024

Out of Florida, The Haunt are a Alt-Rock band focused around siblings Anastasia Grace Haunt (vocals) and Maxamillion “Max” Haunt (vocals, guitar, production). Perhaps still very new to some, they previously released two EPs, amassed a ton of streams, and are now set to unveil their ... Read More