I still am not quite sure what I want to say about this album.  I hadn’t heard of Adam Marsland before, and considering this was a 'Greatest Hits’ album, I was excited to listen to it and to see what it was I’d been missing.  I don’t think I was...

I’m pretty new to Alesana’s fan base and I think I came in at a good time. They have a lot more growing to do but this is the most developed sound I’ve heard from them yet. As they play with their sound on this disk we do get a...

Rochester’s Blue Avengers is a jazz/soul quintet led by Bob and Alana Miller. The Millers are possessed of an international background in music separately acquired before they met in 1999 and subsequently formed the band which they front. CHASING RAINBOWS IN THE DARK is their second release;...

North Carolina has produced its share of folksy backwoods farmers and hunters who love to pick on guitars around the campfire. Bowerbirds is the latest installment, and they deliver a very good performance on their debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse.  Phil Moore and company deliver a vast array...

Those who know me will not be surprised at the news that I am sick of the green movement. About ten years ago I started taking actual guerrilla action, celebrating Earth Day by making unnecessary auto trips to the local mall, dumping glass bottles at the landfill,...

I have to be honest when I first popped this album in my stereo I knew very little about Camper Van Beethoven. I know they formed in the eighties but their name always made me think of Sebastian Bach, obviously because of the classical music allusions in each name. My assumption,...

Charles Laster II has said elsewhere that his style is a combination of influences, including Andre Crouch, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder. Just so; one can hear all of those gentlemen, and more, swirling In JOURNEY OF LIFE, Laster’s project with musical, spiritual and emotional partner Silvia...

Chicago's latest release is a re-release of, what was once bootleg, Stone of Sisyphus. (The release date was intended to be 1993, and the album sounds it). This album's release, on Rhino records, is one of 23 compilations and re-releases Rhino has done for Chicago in the past 6 years....

THE OUTSIDE is gonna take some getting used to. I am not sure what Eliot Lipp is doing here, if he is moving the electronica genre closer to mainstream, or even retro, pop, or vice versa. I initially put THE OUTSIDE on the system anticipating…well, what one...

Over the past five years, Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson has become a hip-hop and pop music idol. Her debut CD, The Dutchess, spawned stunning platinum success and revealed her to be a draw outside of the Black Eyed Peas. Almost as a victory lap for The Dutchess's success,...