by Sebastian Mackay Step aside Justin Beiber, The Wanted and One Direction because there’s another outfit (and they’re a real band) that want to be known for their “great looks” and it comes with more than healthy (doesn’t that make it unhealthy? Who knows?) dose of musical Read More

by Kathleen Larrick, Santiago de Cuba In the streets of Santiago, the music lives everywhere. In the rhythm of the street sweepers, the “whoo-hee-hoo” whistles and pss-pss-pss whispers of the men as ladies pass, the sing-song tones of retro car horns, a song emerges as the day Read More

By Melissa Komar “I’d be lying if I said we weren’t nervous,” admits Zack Chance, one half of the up and coming old-country rock and blues duo known as Jamestown Revival. Chance fields all my questions about their on the brink musical act via telephone in Los Angeles; Jonathan Read More

By Sebastian Mackay Melodime. It’s a portmanteau that means “memories in the form of sound”. And that’s exactly what this band’s albums create: memories. Formed in a hayloft outside DC in the summer of 2006 Melodime isn’t only creating memories for themselves. The Read More

Cymbals The Age Of Fracture Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay     I love the feeling of this album. The motivation behind it is the fragmentation of ideas, life can get too complicated and can become paralyzing. It’s not a concept album per se but it is an album with a Read More

Marissa Nadler July Reviewed by: Melissa Komar     July, Marissa Nadler’s sixth full-length album, offers a private glimpse at a relationship gone bad and the painful process of reflecting on what went wrong.  Over the course of the forty-six minutes worth of eleven Read More