With a year off and nothing to do, 2021 unleashed a torrent of new music as many bands used the forced lockdown of 2020 to write new music. Veteran bands were especially prominent this year as aging rockers rolled back … Continue reading Top 10 Best Albums of 2021
A busy week as December rolled in with lots of listens for the forthcoming Top 10 Best Albums of 2021. The new releases have slowed down for the year as nothing has peaked my interest in recent weeks but just to mix it up I listened to a remixed album. But tis the season… 1. Merry Axemas (album) Expect this one to appear on this list for a few weeks. A fun guitar oriented approach to classic Christmas songs. “The Little Drummer Boy” my favorite for some obvious reasons. You can check out the artists and what they contribute here. … Continue reading The Weekly Playlist – Nov. 28 to Dec. 4
Jeremy Camp released When You Speak last week (Sept. 24), his 13th album that takes a sudden departure from his normal fare with blistering guitar solos, head-banging chords and lots of swearing throughout the 13-song 45 minute record. I guess … Continue reading Album Review: Jeremy Camp – When You Speak
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
Imagine Dragons kind of remind me of Nickleback. When they first came on to the scene they brought this wondrous, almost new sound (in their respective categories) virtually unheard of before and they took the music world by storm. Then … Continue reading Album Review: Imagine Dragons – Origins
So, Imagine Dragons just might be for real. After wringing as much as they could out of their 2012 smash album Night Visions the quartet hailing from Las Vegas finally stopped releasing individual singles that seemed to serve only as … Continue reading Album Review: Imagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors
Just when you thought there was no one left to rise out of the mediocrity of today’s “best” music a quartet from Las Vegas finds a way to bring an imaginative approach to rock and radiates above the rest. Imagine … Continue reading Concert Review: Imagine Dragons Is On Top of Seattle
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