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Your Electronic Music Fix: Aunt Thirteen -Pentagon Dreams

For your electronic music fix (new segment for the blog?), we invite you to immerse yourself within the techno-technicolor dreamland by Kansas-based Aunt Thirteen with Pentagon Dreams.  Admittedly we here in the Crooked Forest sometimes have trouble describing albums like this – it’s not exactly our wheelhouse but we can’t deny when we’re drawn to a unique soundscape and we like to encourage others to … Continue reading Your Electronic Music Fix: Aunt Thirteen -Pentagon Dreams

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Jazzmine? Alien Feli’s latest feels more like a musical Goldmine.

With an almost animalistic nature, a lush wave of soulful blues guitars rushes out. Perhaps unsurprising given its namesake, the alluring tone is joined by jazz-inspired rhythms, soulful bass bopping along to the intentional shuffling of the drums and breezy staccato guitars carrying the beat steadily onto our auditory canal.  While we got a small taste of the vocal stylings of Alien Feli at the … Continue reading Jazzmine? Alien Feli’s latest feels more like a musical Goldmine.

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Big Sexy embark on the River of Shame.

Barreling out of Somewhere’sville, U.S.A comes Big Sexy, a unique collaborative group of artists who together pack a punch. Their recent release River of Shame is an 8-track album created in partnership with Outside Records out of Kiev, Ukraine who have been working with artists who shared their interest in supporting Ukrainian musicians and using music to ease the challenges brought on by the weight … Continue reading Big Sexy embark on the River of Shame.

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Luchi’s “Things He Handed Down” is like an emotional conversation with an old friend.

How can fathers not love their sons?  It’s the question posed by Glasgow-based Luchi in his most recent release, “Things He Handed Down”, an emotional pop-rock ballad.  From the moment the delicate piano strings are struck by the hammers accompanied by long-bowed violins welcoming us into a similarly somber headspace, we can feel Luchi’s sentimental reflection as it fades impassionately into view.  While the vocal … Continue reading Luchi’s “Things He Handed Down” is like an emotional conversation with an old friend.

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We’re Blowin’ Dust as we race towards Randy Ross’s latest.

We embark down a long dirt road to find ourselves on a cattle ranch somewhere just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Lured in by steel guitars and charming fiddles weaving their plectrums and bows across their strings, we are utterly possessed to begin our two-step the moment our boots hit the gravel. Somewhere in the distance it’s as though there is a barn full of strangers … Continue reading We’re Blowin’ Dust as we race towards Randy Ross’s latest.

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Op Ed: You have seriously gotta stop with the “dad rock”

It’s Father’s Day. While you all prepare for your afternoon barbeque’s, ball games and brewery tours, I am sitting in anticipation of the flog of blogs today with titles like, “Top 10 Dad Rock Bands”. I’m going to be really transparent about this – I hate the term “dad rock”. I hate the term “dad joke”. I hate dad-anything, really, except my own dad, who … Continue reading Op Ed: You have seriously gotta stop with the “dad rock”

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Music Video Release: Neither Could Dylan – Tapes

Newly released today with little forewarning, check out the new official music video for Neither Could Dylan’s “Tapes” only available on YouTube. Speaking of the inspiration behind the video, NCD said, “Tapes is the first track off Acceptance and it really sets the tone for the record, which is sort of like a new beginning for me as a solo artist and producer. Last night … Continue reading Music Video Release: Neither Could Dylan – Tapes

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Celebrating the gift of music and life with Lady M’s “Day of a Hundred Candles”

Beginning with a somber pad of strings before we’re introduced poetically with a sprinkling of twinkling lights to our leading lady, the exceptionally talented opera singer Laura Gomez, Lady M’s Day of a Hundred Candles welcomes us with a brief introduction to the woman who inspired the piece and to which it is dedicated. “Mary, what a beautiful name,” Gomez propels, a nod to Mary … Continue reading Celebrating the gift of music and life with Lady M’s “Day of a Hundred Candles”

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We’re shouting, “I’m Ready” with Kris Anders

Ahead of his forthcoming album, The Threshing Room Floor, Manitoba-born songwriter Kris Anders brings us “I’m Ready,” a feverishly upbeat summer pop-rock anthem that carries with it the spirit of the Okanagan Valley from which he is based.  Listen to the track on Spotify Kicking off with the chorus, an anthemic repetition of the track’s namesake, Anders’ bursts through the door and pulls us towards … Continue reading We’re shouting, “I’m Ready” with Kris Anders

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New Music Release: Songs Against Dying Compilation

New out of Poison Arrow Records, Songs Against Dying is a compilation record that was released on June 2nd, 2023. Proceeds from the record are going to support medical expenses for a friend of the label who’s having a difficult time getting the treatment they need. Check out the compilation now on Bandcamp featuring Pine Four Records recording artist Neither Could Dylan. Continue reading New Music Release: Songs Against Dying Compilation

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