A kitchen sink of variety awaits those intrepid enough to peruse the The Strangest Colored Lights by 13 Ghosts. It’s an album that delights as well as frustrates on early listens, as you hear a song you like, and then fret as they change to another mode altogether, fall in...

When Albert Collins sings, he either looks like he’s making love or enduring a really bad ulcer.  His face scrunches up and he closes his eyes.  What spills out of his mouth are some of the best blues that any living musician is playing today.  He has a knack for...

I don’t know where to start about how amazing this CD is! From start to finish the high energy vibes I got from this album perked me up and got me in the mood to rock out; I can only imagine how great this band is live. Kohl Hegmann’s vocals...

Well, the little punk rock pop princess is at it again.  Ashlee Simpson has had her fans waiting with great anticipation for her third full length album, Bittersweet World.  Where Ashlee started her career as “Jessica Simpson’s little sister” and not much else, she has managed to push past that...

Scottish singer/songwriter Astrid Williamson seems to be following the trend of modern pop-music, although not really at all. She seems to be just a step outside of the popular trends and that is where she intends to stay. She has a unique voice and a unique style, but it’s hard...

I was almost gonna pack it up when I listened to the first couple of tracks off of TIME SENSITIVE MATERIAL, the debut CD from Audiocrash. Part of it was my own fault; the cover which bears the image of a guitar modified to look like an ...

My wife and I were driving through South Louisiana several years ago when she asked me about signs that said “POSTED” which were hanging on intervals at trees. I advised her that the signs marked private property and told hunters not to trespass, hunt, or the like....

Maybe it was the comfort of being home on a lazy boy chair that I had not sat in for many months, or the accidental synchronization of an MSNBC commercial going on behind me to the beat of the music. Whatever it may have been, this album just made sense...

In an effort to kill two birds with one stone, I opted to listen to the newest Be Your Own Pet album, Get Awkward, while I was at the gym. Best idea ever. If ever there was an album that’s sole purpose was to make you want to thrash about...

You hear it over and over again. Either a talented young group has a solid lead vocalist backed by subpar instrumentalists or the instrumentalists are amazing and the vocals make you want to cry. On Between the Trees’ debut release The Story and the Song, Ryan Kirkland – at just...