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Acting as Functional – “No Go Battle Zone” review
This review was paid for by Acting As Functional. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Acting as Functional and I go way back – and if you happen to be a keen reader of this very blog, you… Read more
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“Strawberry Skies” out now!
Strawberry Skies is finally here, loud and proud for the world to admire 🍓🍰✨ I’ve lived in this era for a while now, and it was about damn time I let others in on a secret that’s long been brewing inside me. This song is about the beauty of the sunrise as it washes yesterday’s… Read more
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The Destination #7 – Pilgrimage Boot Camp
Tibbit, tibbit, tibbibbibbit. March 21st, 2009, 6.30 AM My wicked ways find me in Orchomenus, Greece. I’ve long aspired to make it here… I’ve learned a lot by being a city girl, and I suppose Orchomenus is a city, only it is not “just another city” – nay, it is a good city. I am… Read more
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The Heard Eye – “Free Everybody” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Another day, another The Heard Eye feature. Except this tune is not new, no, not at all – “Free Everybody” is a track off the funk-rock collective’s 2023 album “Funkalypse.” That is to say, it has been out for a while now, but that is no deterrent for the purposes of this… Read more
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Darrell Kelley – “ICE Cold Killerz” review
This review was paid for by miamindmusic. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Have you made the grave mistake of reading the news recently? If so, you may be familiar with the mayhem ongoing in the United States… Read more
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Solid Gold – “Government Grade” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Music (and art at large) has always acted as a Trojan horse for political discourse. In 2026 more than ever before, with the United States up ablaze and the whole world down with it, politically charged art is of critical importance. That is the background against which Minnesota-based rock collective Solid Gold… Read more
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New single “Strawberry Skies” out March 23rd!
Because even if all else fails, the sunrise remains strawberry-pink~ 🍓🍰 My new single “Strawberry Skies” (and its B-side “Nineteen”) will be released this Monday, March 23rd, 2026. This piece is my love letter to the dayspring, a 1970s-informed piano-rocker all about perseverance in the face of excruciating doom. While many turn to the sunset for… Read more
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The Destination #6 – Trojan Horse / I Hate Poetry
February 22nd, 2015, 7.13 AM What if the car of the bus of the darkness of the light was but a lie?What if we were damned upon a blue, blue star?What if the phony of the telegram in my pony was just myth? Well, I don’t think such would fly (but it did) What do… Read more
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The Destination #5 – Dishevel Heavened
A tree in roots in soil, a soil in Earth in world. In world a universe alight, in light, dark incarnate. January 29th, 2007, 7.41 AM Why do I pretend I’m complicated, when in reality, I am just blind? I am a pigeon on the wire, trapped by the wind and afraid to move. I… Read more
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Acting as Functional – “Tick Tock Bump and Boom” review
This review was paid for by Acting As Functional. If you too want me to review your music, or any other release of your choosing, please place a commission here. Final verdict: 6/10 ★★★☆☆ Ladies and gentlemen, today I present you with what might be the most impressive redemption arc in all of music history; do you… Read more
