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Image from paris_monster’s Facebook Page Written by Ljubinko Zivkovic Around late November and early December is the season when the album releases quite down, but the singles keep on coming. So, here is a batch of some interesting releases that do not necessarily hit the top of the review lists, but possibly should… 1). Adam […]
Image from rockonphilly.com The modern metropolitans of today’s future can bring upon a wave of confused and unstudied emotions. With so many aspiring denizens living under one hivemind can bring about the feelings of exaltation, ironic isolation, anguishing stress, and awed inspiration. It seems that the best stories of today come from the cosmopolitans of […]
Image from streetsects.bandcamp.com This post was published on nerdyscoop.com The urban Hardcore scene is riddled with begrudged souls and content marauders. This has always been the case since Hardcore’s augmentation from the 1980’s and throughout. Going to a Hardcore show is like no other experience. Not many other event fanatics treat each other as dear […]
Image from reggieslive.com Earlier in the Fall season, Memphis Underground Rapper Travis Miller, known by his pseudonym as Lil Ugly Mane, had posted an inauspicious announcement of his first tour in half a decade. Touring with Memphis Hardcore Punk band No Warning, fans of Lil Ugly Mane have been awed by his sudden appearance after his seemingly […]
Image from Billy Toulson (Facebook) Written by Ljubinko Zivkovic Back in 2008 while still in Delaware, Billy Toulson wanted to be a musical Sun Brother, hence the adopted nom de plume. Not much can be found or heard from that strictly acoustic period of Toulson’s music, but then he obviously had a change of heart […]
Image uploaded on amazon.com (Gracie & the Valley – Eye Spy) Written by Ljubinko Zivkovic As the Autumn season sets in and almost everybody tied to the music industry starts shoveling out their ‘product’ for the holiday season, the pile of singles and single tracks start making an onslaught on your ears and other senses. […]
Written and Selected by Ljubinko Zivkovic Image uploaded by Kissing Is A Crime’s Facebook Page If there are an overflow and abundance of albums available to listeners, what can be then said about an almost mind-boggling choice of singles in any shape and form, including the revamped 7” format! Of course, the largest pile of […]
Image from Classified Frequency’s Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/classifiedfrequency) Written by Ljubinko Zivkovic Power Pop is one of those Rock genres that seems to be in yet another resurrection phase, and that is a good thing. Washington DC/Baltimore area quartet Classified Frequency is back with “Black Eye”, their latest (third) EP to prove the point. […]
Image from bulldada.bandcamp.com During the early 2000’s, late night programming saw their coalition with animation. With the likes of late night channels such as Adult Swim and Comedy Central, shows likes Space Ghost Coast to Coast and South Park saw a rise in ratings and cultural popularity. Particularly with the Adult Swim channel, their popularity […]
Image from discogs.com If you look up the title “Rubba” on any search engine, not much could be found, besides the involvement of the term in the title of Juicy J’s fourth single album, and a village in a Tibetan occupied region in China. The first few results show some of the singles by the […]
