A variety of today’s musical artists have a large array of musical instruments and computerized dance beats backing up their sometimes less-than-desirable vocals. Not so for folk artist Christy Altomare, who captures the listener simply with her acoustic guitar and high, clear voice. While Altomare is a relatively unknown artist, her music should easily put […]

Whether you enjoy listening to country or pop Taylor Swift delivers in every song she sings. Many of Taylor’s songs are well known and have hit the charts multiple times. Each time “Love Story” or “Tim McGraw” is played on the radio everyone knows the entire song. The fact that her songs are so easy […]

The Breeders – “Last Splash” The Breeders’ debut album entitled “Last Splash” is a creative new look at music. The Breeders’ musicians include sisters Kelly and Kim Deal on vocals and guitar, Jim MacPherson on drums and Josephine Wiggs on bass. The 15-track CD includes the popular song “Cannonball,” the first release, making “Last Splash” […]

Although many songs on Pink’s newest album, Funhouse, have to do with her ex-husband, Carey Hart. But track two, her newest hit single, called Sober, definetely does not. The song has a haunting tone to it and shows off Pink’s excellent vocal range. The song speaks of her journey to sobriety. And when I see […]

Shaped in 2010, Canadian band Purity Ring consists of lead singer Megan James and instrumentalist Corin ­Roddick. The group creates experimental, witch home, and post-dubstep-influenced music. Their solely album, “Shrines,” launched in July 2012, brought on a surge of their recognition. They acquired a lot reward for his or her deeply immersive music – a […]

Review of “Xenosapien” by Cephalic Carnage Love them or hate them, Cephalic Carnage have always been pushing the boundaries of technical death/grind. Cephalic Carnage incorporates much more jazz, doom, and sludge influences into their music than most of the other leading technical death/grind bands of today. When was the last time you heard Dying Fetus […]

Every day I wake up to the blaring laughter of my alarm clock, smack it, and grab my iPod. See, part of my morning routine is listening to my “Wake Up” playlist. Some of the music is uplifting, like Group 1 Crew; some is quiet and happy, like Jack Johnson; and some puts the worries […]

Idolized by the great Taylor Swift, Troye Sivan’s EP, WILD, is definitely something to be revered. Australian YouTube star Troye Sivan debuted his third EP on the 4th of September, with all his 3,000,000 fans there to support him. His EP mixed electro and dream pop melodies to convey the deep messages. WILD is a […]

Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi well known as “Kid Cudi” was born in Cleveland, Ohio on January 30, 1984. Growing up on the streets of Shaker Heights, as a teenager he attended Shaker Heights High School then transferred to Solon High School. His father, a Mexican-American, died of cancer when Cudi was twelve-years old. His mother, […]

On the opening track of her new album, Jukebox, released on January 22, 2008, Cat Power belts, “these vagabond shoes/are melting away” with just as much believability as Frank Sinatra, who made the song famous. Born in 1972 in small-town Georgia, Charlyn “Chan” Marshall, under her alias of Cat Power, brings a new definition to […]