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Missy Higgins - The Second Act / Eleven: A Music Company (2024)

Missy Higgins – The Second Act (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockOctober 14, 2024

There is an artistry to songwriting that we do not often discuss enough. An ability to harness melodies, rhythms, and lyrics into sections of music that not only fit together but provoke a reaction from listeners. Throughout history, many songwriters, whether they perform the songs ... Read More

JJ Wilde – Vices (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockSeptember 17, 2024

While thinner, auto-tuned vocals seem to be all the rage with modern vocalists, there are some still out reminding us a soulful Rock-n-Roll approach is the most moving. Among the select few thumbing their nose at trends, you have young ladies like JJ Wilde; letting ... Read More

Developing Artist Showcase – Niina Soleil

CrypticRockCrypticRockJune 2, 2024

The creative process can be an agonizing one. Looking for perfection in each written word, brush stroke, or music note, mostly in an attempt to satisfy our own anxiety of an artistic vision, no one said it would ever be easy. Something to consider when ... Read More

Interview – Guernica Mancini of The Gems

CrypticRockCrypticRockMarch 14, 2024

Sometimes when we feel defeated, the easy way out is to surrender and give up. An initial, natural reaction, what we really need to do is pick ourselves up, battle through the pain, and move forward. The more difficult path to take, this is exactly ... Read More

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive album art

Slowdive – Everything Is Alive (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 17, 2023

Initially coming together back in 1989, the English band known as Slowdive are considered one of the pioneers of what is called Shoegaze. A difficult subgenre of Alternative Rock to describe, to many, their 1993 album Souvlaki is one of the best of its kind. Moving forward ... Read More

Interview – Clare Grogan of Altered Images

CrypticRockCrypticRockSeptember 22, 2023

Among the many talented UK bands to emerge onto the Post-Punk/ New Wave scene in the early ’80s, there was a little band out of Scotland called Altered Images. Led by Vocalist Clare Grogan, they were unique, young, and ambitious, who would hit big with ... Read More

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Missy Higgins – The Second Act (Album Review)

JJ Wilde – Vices (Album Review)

Developing Artist Showcase – Niina Soleil

Interview – Guernica Mancini of The Gems

Slowdive – Everything Is Alive (Album Review)

Interview – Clare Grogan of Altered Images

Missy Higgins – The Second Act (Album Review)

JJ Wilde – Vices (Album Review)

Developing Artist Showcase – Niina Soleil

Interview – Guernica Mancini of The Gems

Slowdive – Everything Is Alive (Album Review)

Interview – Clare Grogan of Altered Images

This Week In Horror Movie History – Stigmata (1999)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Flash Gordon (1980)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Visiting Hours (1982)

Developing Artist Showcase – Vipërwitch

Developing Artist Showcase – Vermilia

Developing Artist Showcase – Black Smoke Trigger

Interview – Clayne Crawford & Summer Shelton

Interview – Bishop Briggs

Interview – Henry Thomas & Sarah Lind

The Native Howl – Sons of Destruction (Album Review)

The The – Ensoulment (Album Review)

Blood Star (Movie Review)