Reviews
[Album Review] Floating Room – False Baptism
M. Stoneman
I remember the exact moment I realized I had completely fallen in love with moody, beautifully textured indie rock. Spending a long, bored night tumbling down the endless rabbit hole of the internet, I ...
[Album Review] Other Americans (Self Titled) [EP]
M. Stoneman
It’s funny, the incredible effect of hearing something that immediately captures your attention from the very first second. There’s a sudden rigidity that holds you in place, an almost primal fear of what caught ...
[Album Review] Becky and the Birds (Self Titled) [EP]
M. Stoneman
These days, originality is a hard thing to come by and if there ever was a more guilty genre to display this, modern pop and R&B sits at the very top of the list. ...
[Album Review] Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic [LP]
Derek Oswald
According to the Oxford dictionary, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is “…a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and ...
LEX the Lexicon Artist – Raging Ego Review
Al Gibson
LEX stuns in her new Raging Ego release. Read below for more: At some point in its short history, Hip-Hop became extremely diverse. Back in the day, that means the late 80’s and 90’s ...
[Album Review] Pusha T – Daytona
Altwire Staff
With just 3 albums in his discography since 2011, Pusha T is not one to consistently release new music, but when he does release an album it feels like a ceremony and makes an ...
[Album Review] Falling From Trees – Sleepless Nights
M. Stoneman
As a creator, your earliest ventures can either be something to be proud of or what eventually cause you to shudder in disapproval in the years to come. It’s natural to feel that your ...
[Album Review] Circle of Dust – alt_Machines
M. Stoneman
While Klayton’s most playful persona was recently revisited with Scandroid’s latest remix album, Dreams in Monochrome, Circle of Dust easily represents the most aggressive side of things for the Detroit producer/musician. Following almost two ...
[Album Review] TT – LoveLaws
M. Stoneman
“I need a little room to sway.” Exquisite Corpse is a tremendously beautiful piece of work. Be it the dreamy, lullaby tones of ‘Billie Holiday’, or perhaps the gorgeously absorbing layers of reverb drenching ...
[Album Review] William Ryan Key – Thirteen (EP)
M. Stoneman
It hasn’t been an easy 18 months for the world of music. From the likes of Tom Petty to Chuck Berry, to Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, and the recent tragic news of Scott ...
[Songs For Spring] Becky and the Birds – Concept Store
M. Stoneman
While the incoming dizzying and vibrant summer tones (and pulsing, infectious holiday beats that tend to accompany it) are always entertaining and fun to play with, spring tends to lean towards being far more ...
[Album Review] Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
Altwire Staff
Dirty Computer is the third and the latest standard length studio album by the indie artist Janelle Monáe who is most known for her unique afro-futuristic style of R&B, which often showcases a delightful ...
[Album Review] Anne-Marie – Speak Your Mind
Altwire Staff
Speak Your Mind is the debut studio album by British Pop singer, Anne-Marie. The 27-year-old singer has attained several charting singles on the UK Singles Chart. She was also featured on Clean Bandit’s “Rockabye,” ...
[Album Review] Shinedown – Attention Attention
M. Stoneman
It’s fair to say that Shinedown are the kind of band where you know exactly what you pay for. Mixing hard rock with flavours of heavier post-grunge, The Sound of Madness effectively stands as ...
[Songs For Spring] Christian Besa Wright – Cherry Blossom Oak
Altwire Staff
Music is powerful, and the lens through which we observe it can affect our feelings, whether we’re listening to music when we are happy, or sad, or when we are spending time with loved ...
The Movement & Signal Fire @ The Attic – Ybor City
Altwire Staff
The night began with all of us “certified MVMT junkies” relaxing like royalty in the downstairs bar and lounge area of The Attic in downtown Ybor City in Tampa, FL. The Attic is a perfect ...
[Album Review] Frankie Cosmos – Vessel
Altwire Staff
Greta Kline known under her stage name as Frankie Cosmos is an independent pop artist from the city of dreams, known world-wide as “The Big Apple”, New York City. She started her musical career ...
[Album Review] Princess Nokia – A Girl Cried Red (Mixtape)
Altwire Staff
Princess Nokia identifies herself as a tomboy, a classic New York Boricua shorty, a feminist, and queer woman who isn’t burdened, but empowered by her complexity. She is a versatile artist that can switch ...
[Album Review] A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
M. Stoneman
It starts slowly. A swell of thousands of excited voices in unison, then quelled gently by Maynard’s solitary introductory vocal, “from dehumanization to arms production, we hasten this nation towards its destruction.” A sweetly sinister ...
[Album Review] Tinashe – Joyride
Altwire Staff
Joyride is an album that has been affected by numerous setbacks. The project was first announced in 2015, later being promised to appear in the balmy months of both 2016 and 2017, with nothing ...
