Gamma Rage impress with intense debut album
Rhode Island’s hard rocking glam band Gamma Rage recently emerged from the studio with this frenzied, energetic eponymous debut album. Singer Malyssa BellaRosa’s beautiful and terrifying vocal opens the album with “Gloom,” a song part classic rock, part goth, and part whatever this band’s creativity reaches out toward and pulls in. BellaRosa burns through this […]
Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish blow the roof off The Fallout Shelter with down and dirty blues
Johnny Hoy And The Bluefish dropped their latest blues oriented album onto the greater-Boston/New England. Only this time around it’s a live album. Blues Live From The Fallout Shelter. Playing a lot of traditional blues numbers, Hoy and his Bluefish serve up a fun party vibe that might make some wish they hadn’t missed this […]
Sado-Domestics get even better on Camouflage
Sado-Dometics have released another winsome, intriguing album, Camouflage, based on words used in stories by writer T.J. Gerlach Although their writing experiment is interesting, Sado-Domestics accomplish another major task. Their unique sound on this album raises their artistry, their status, and it should, on this album, bring them more recognition and a wider audience. Opening […]
NH country artist Jennifer Mitchell excels on gritty, flinty Still I Rise
Rough and tumble New Hampshire country and western artist Jennifer Mitchell just released her gritty, flinty album Still I Rise. Loaded with true country feeling and idioms, Mitchell makes her country strong. Opening cut “The Red Pick Song (Ride Or Die)” finds the Granite State country lady singing with a seriously good timbre for this […]
Anne Stott moves to higher artistic expression on Watershed Synapse Experience
Anne Stott’s latest album, the operatic rocker Watershed Synapse Experience, builds a variety of song structure around her perfectly smooth, sweet vocal. Sometimes the music charges forward briskly. Other times it come straight down like a hard rain. If we take it song by song it becomes a sensation of mini works each with their […]
Gordon Thomas Ward brews wonders Walking On The Wire
Maine’s Gordon Thomas Ward is one of those singer-songwriters whose ability flesh out his sound with a full band makes one question whether singer-songwriter is an adequate description. His multi instrumentalist talents include acoustic and electric guitar, baritone guitar, organ, mellotron and a a lot more. He can therefore place a distinctly personal accompaniment around […]
Chris Steele abounds with sunny talents on Tales Told Out Of School
Boston area’s Chris Steele is a pleasant listen. His witty and wise observations of life are married to his sweetly sincere vocal. His songs are personal enough to remind listeners of something whispered into their ears by a confidant. A huge Rush fan growing up, it’s only natural that Steele wraps his singer-songwriter observations and […]
Gerry Beaudoin Trio creates wide jazz sound within tight trio on Blues & Ballads & More
On his new Blues & Ballads & More album, Gerry Beaudoin Trio serve up a platter of jazz treats, music influenced by swing jazz and bop, a combo of styles that has influenced Beaudoin through out his career. Aside from two Duke Ellington standards, this album is made up of original compositions from Beaudoin and […]
Jennifer Tefft & The Strange make Strange Beginnings cool
Jennifer Tefft knew it was time for a change. She traded her Jennifer Tefft Band in for Jennifer Tefft And the Strange, a new grouping with a bit of an eerie, edgy twist. JTATS just released Strange Beginnings, an eight song document of what that new sound is all about. The eight pieces are startlingly […]
The Namedroppers deliver the goods with ever more slickness on Starshine
On their new Starshine album, Connecticut’s blues, soul, R&B, oldies rock and roll amalgam The Name Droppers deliver more of the kind of emotive, heartfelt snappy soul grooves they’ve become well known for. Only this time around, their album is a bit more slick, possesses a little more of the motion filled groove and fine […]
