music
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E.J – “Conversations With My Heart” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Over the course of the last decade or three, pop music has seen a lot of ups and downs. While the CD era was still in full swing in the 2000s, we had pop divas such as Beyoncé fresh off her Destiny’s Child tenure, and Britney Spears, who needs no introduction. The… Read more
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Eric Alexandrakis – “One More Angel” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Well, it appears that Eric Alexandrakis gave us more than just the over-the-top cinematic piece “Life Is Better Live” – on the project’s A-side lies “One More Angel,” a heartfelt tribute to Raul Malo of the Mavericks, who passed away in December 2025 following a gnarly fight with cancer. Alexandrakis first crossed… Read more
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Dusty Edinger – “Beginning to Break” review
Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆ Dusty Edinger is a singer-songwriter I admire and have extensively covered on this website before. I was going to call it quits until he released his new single “Beginning to Break” just a couple of days ago – now you bet I am reviewing it. “Beginning to Break” stays true to Dusty’s… Read more
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Eric Alexandrakis – “Life Is Better Live” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Eric Alexandrakis is a twice Grammy-nominated musician and composer with quite the streak (I mean, just peep his biography!). After receiving extensive classical training, Alexandrakis put his musical gifts to good use by creating cinematic avant-garde music that feels both traditional and new at once. “Life Is Better Live” is the soundtrack… Read more
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Mr. MiLK – “Platitudinous” review
Final verdict: 9/10 ★★★★⋆˙⟡ Sometimes an album cover makes me excited to listen to an album, only for its title to confuse me as to whether or not I am actually excited to pull the trigger and give the damn thing a listen. Such is the case with Mr. MiLK’s “Platitudinous,” which has an album cover… Read more
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Blind Uncle Harry – “Shambala Warrior” review
Final verdict: 7/10 ★★★⋆˙⟡☆ I have been aware of Blind Uncle Harry for a while, having been introduced to him through his 2025 single “Kimberly Kankowski.” For better or for worse, I chalked him up to being a “comedy rock” act (as much as I hate to slap that label on music, because what do I… Read more
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Slime Squadron – “…Gateways!” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Slime Squadron (hereby referred to as simply “Slime”) is an electronic music project based in Austin, Texas. A recognized force in their game, Slime has won several music awards, including 3 consecutive LIT awards, and has enjoyed several other distinctions. All that there was left to do for Slime was get signed… Read more
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Kenny Foster – “Sideways Apocalypse” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ You know Kenny Foster – “Poor Little Trillionaire,” “Fixing Up Everything,” and other songs that I am sure evade me at the moment. The Connecticut-native singer-songwriter has a bit of an activist streak, with his new single “Sideways Apocalypse” satirizing the current political climate of the United States. It only makes sense,… Read more
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Second Choice – “Where You Found Me (feat. Dimi De San)” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ Swedish musician Fredrik Lindström has been around for longer than most of my reader base has been alive, playing guitar in a whole slew of bands since 1992. In 2010, he started Second Choice, a solo project designed to accommodate all his musical ideas that did not fit the mold of any… Read more
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Jackalico – “The Sun Under the Water” review
Final verdict: 8/10 ★★★★☆ It is not so frequent that I spend a lot of time thinking before I write a review – I am the impulsive type, the kind of guy to listen to an album and instantly get to work on writing about it, my thoughts flowing in an endless stream, not always intelligibly,… Read more