As a fan of Carissa Johnson, we were immediately intrigued when new music from Vanessa Silberman, who took Johnson out on the road last year, came across our desk. And we were even more excited that her new EP, Brighter In Bloom, is just the kind of rawk that we dig on the regular. As will you!
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“You gotta play it with your heart, you got to feel the song.”
Our interview with Cold mastermind Scooter Ward was conducted on Layne Staley’s birthday and clocked in at exactly 13:13. If that doesn’t scream “SERENDIPITY” then I don’t know what does.
But I digress.
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The year is 2019 and we are typing up a review of a brand new record from Puddle of Mudd unironically. What a time to be alive! This has already been a banner year for comebacks with heavyweights like Slipknot, Rammstein, and Tool returning from lengthy slumbers as well as old school metallers like Sacred Reich and Alt-Grunge luminaries Cold who could easily be considered contemporaries to Puddle of Mudd who return with Welcome to Galvania, their sixth overall and first in almost a decade.
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Delving into Phantoms, the latest from Azam Ali is akin to traversing a mysterious new realm of reality. There’s bits of World music within as are grand film score elements. Then there are the beats-driven tracks bringing to mind Trip-Hop and later, bits of Goth especially when Ali takes on “Shallow Then Halo” by Cocteau Twins. Still with us? Because if you are, you’re in for a weird, wonderful trip!
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Boston’s blindspot return with a fabulous slab of uplifting Alt that’s sure to whet your appetites for what’s to come when they drop a brand spankin’ new EP in 2020. But in the meantime, fans will be treated to “Upside Down” which sees the band propelled to new sonic heights on a song that has the songwriting maturity that contemporaries like PVRIS or Paramore wish they had at this stage in their career.
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Can I be that guy who’s all “I was into them when before they had vocals”? Because I was. And still am. Here’s why:
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Amongst the many accolades that have already been heaped upon Boston’s Set Fire, it gives us great pleasure to begin this review adding “2019 Rock And Roll Rumble Winner” to that list. Which they are! And any doubt as to why this trio should be this year’s champs will be squashed upon hearing their upcoming new EP, Traya.
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“Love” and “Family” were two words that were thrown around a lot during Cold’s set and it was a great sense of love and family that was felt by the packed house Friday night at the Stafford Palace Theater in Connecticut when the quintet made a triumphant return to the stage on the second night of their current “Broken Human” tour.
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Cwn Annwn is a band that you need to know. Period. Pronounced Coon-uh-NOON (Loosely translating as “The Hounds of Hell” in Welsh mythos according to their bio), the St. Paul quintet is delivering the most solid of shreds with the most ferocious and dynamic lead singer on Patron Saint.
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Scooter Ward has returned. In a year filled with resurgences from Tools and Slipknots and Sacred Reichs, no one could’ve predicted that the little band that could would come back and deliver one of the most endearing and earnest records of their career. But they did just that on their sixth long player, The Things We Can’t Stop. Cold has persevered through Grunge and Nu-Metal, transcended Alternative and become this unstoppable beast that uses heart as a weapon and on The Things We Can’t Stop, they’ve managed to conjure up a truly timeless snapshot of their musical legacy.
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