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The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers (2025)

The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers (Album Review)

Garrett RichardelloGarrett RichardelloSeptember 2, 2025

The Black Keys’ latest album, No Rain, No Flowers, marks a thoughtful and stylistically mature entry in the band’s extensive discography. Released on August 8, 2025, through Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound and Warner Records, the album was recorded at the band’s creative base in ... Read More

Sir Woman - If It All Works Out album art

Sir Woman – If It All Works Out (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockFebruary 22, 2025

For some, music is just background noise or a way to pass the time. Then there are others for whom music is so much a part of who and what they are that there is simply no life without it. You could say these should ... 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

SUSU Premiere Single “Waiting”

CrypticRockCrypticRockJune 2, 2023

The New York City based collective known as SUSU are full of heart and soul. The unified project of Singer-Songwriters Liza Colby and Kia Warren, the two have been pumping out exceptional music for a few awhile. In fact, they have released a list of ... Read More

JJ Wilde – Ruthless (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockJune 12, 2020

While JJ Wilde might not be a household name yet, sooner than later, she will be. Out of Ontario, Canada, Wilde is a singer-songwriter with a working class attitude who is not afraid to get her hands dirty. Trying herself in music for many years, ... Read More

Interview – JJ Wilde

CrypticRockCrypticRockJune 1, 2020

It is one thing to have the tools to sing, but it is another to have the soul to do it right. Coming out of Ontario, Canada, JJ Wilde is a young lady with a rawness and sincerity in her voice that you cannot only ... Read More

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The Black Keys – No Rain, No Flowers (Album Review)