The coronavirus pandemic canceled Third Eye Blind’s 2020 tour (the second leg) for their Screamer album, released in 2019, so what better way to make up for it than to spend time on a new material resulting in their seventh … Continue reading Album Review: Third Eye Blind – Our Bande Apart
Thrice released their 11th studio album Horizons/East this month, the southern Californian band’s third since ending a hiatus in 2015, with an already 12th album forthcoming in the works titled Horizons/West. Thrice retains the four original members in singer and … Continue reading Album Review: Thrice – Horizons/East
A pretty good week of listening to music and from a wide variety (I think) including one I had never heard and will never listen to again. The Weekly Playlist works, now in the third installment, as much of these I likely would have not listened to. If you’re wondering what I mean by this, go back to the start. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (Album) Who needs waterboarding when you have this album from Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band? 2Loud2Old Music (fellow music writer) reviewed this, poor guy, and actually listened to Trout … Continue reading The Weekly Playlist – Sept. 12 to Sept. 18
The field for 2021 Album of the Year just got a bit more crowded. Daughtry released their sixth studio album Dearly Beloved, today (Sept. 17), a genuinely pleasing hard rock album from beginning to end filled with modern rock melodies, … Continue reading Album Review: Daughtry – Dearly Beloved
TobyMac lost his son two years ago. A tragedy that he will carry for the rest of his life, TobyMac managed a tribute to his son Truett a few months later in the song “21 Years.” But, this type of … Continue reading Single Review: TobyMac – Promised Land
A road trip to Mount Rainier National Park (link is to my review not spam) helped boost this week’s listening playlist and some fellow bloggers’ recent call-outs offered some added incentive to check out previously untapped bands. The ranking has no bearing on favorability. I like lists and most people do too, gotta start somewhere! Chris Isaak – Live at the Fillmore (album) Brought this signed copy on the road trip to listen for the first time. No, it was purchased at his concert in Bend, OR a couple of years ago, not signed in person. Sad face. But the … Continue reading The Weekly Playlist – Sept. 5 to Sept. 11
Samantha Fish released Faster today (Sept. 10), her seventh solo album in a record that indeed indicates a concerted effort on quicker-paced tempos, a bolder more melodic sound and a bigger embrace of rock, while overall showing she has come … Continue reading Album Review: Samantha Fish – Faster
Stunning barely describes what awaits a mere 10 minutes into Mount Rainier National Park. Hardly the tallest of peaks, this mammoth rises just 14,411 feet, but your seat at the table serves an unlikely dish of a heavenly sight. Mount … Continue reading Visiting Mount Rainier National Park
My internal deliberations to put this website to bed tends to come undone with a new idea. Ironically, I don’t listen to music all that much just those albums I review, whether old or new releases, and when concerts were a thing, I’d dive into albums of the coming feature. Yesterday, after listening to several albums I thought, why not a weekly music round-up or some type of list of those bands I listened to and the individual songs and/or albums. Thus, Weekly Playlist was born. Then I thought it was stupid. Then I thought, maybe it would be cool. … Continue reading The Weekly Playlist: Aug. 29 – Sept. 4
Imagine Dragons break some new ground while retaining their core sound on their fifth album Mercury – Act 1, out today, but mostly walk back into their own self-achieved genre. Finding immediate success with their smash debut album Night Visions … Continue reading Album Review: Imagine Dragons – Mercury – Act 1
