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Kito Peters began his musical career writing songs in college and then took a break from music to become a therapist and teacher. His music was awakened again in 1998 and Peters felt the songwriting bug bite him hard. Peters’ music is a blend of rock, jazz, blues, folk, country, world and pop. His lyrics are thought provoking and his political views are very much against the current trends happening in the country. His core audience base are listeners that appreciate deep and heartfelt... Read Full Story

MoeTar is the best band that you have never heard of until now. Consisting of Moorea Dickason (vocals), Tarik Ragab (bass), Matthew Charlea Heulitt (guitar), Matt Lebofsky (keyboards), and Dave Flores (drums), the awkward and cacophonic band name will help to serve as a reminder. Thankfully for the world, From These Small Seeds is the band’s debut release, so there is no extensive discography to catch-up on. This is a good time to stumble upon MoeTar because you will want to and need to spend... Read Full Story

A Liquid Landscape’s debut album, Nightingale Express , is a concept album. It’s about a journey, both outwards and inwards, and the ideas of finding oneself, a place to belong, and self-deception.   The band describes their sound as follows: “washed up, tired and staggering across a beach in the early hours of the morning. Somewhere in the twilight between desperation and surrender, there is a glimmer of hope. That everything will be alright no matter what the odds are”.   I’d say... Read Full Story

  Buxton is the five piece La Porte based band that has been rocking Houston, Texas and the surrounding environs since their inception in 2004. The band consists of Sergio Trevino (vocals/guitar), Jason Willis ( lead guitar/mandolin), Chris Wise (bass guitar), Justin Terrell (drums) and Austin Sepulvado ( guitar/vocals). Haley Barnes is a contributing artist on keyboard and harmony vocals. Nothing Here Seems Strange is the band’s debut recording with New West Records. This is the band’s... Read Full Story

The Split album release is one clever form of marketing. Bands get to release some of their new material, and if they work together with the right band, new fans will latch onto you. It’s a brilliant idea.   Hummingbird of Death is from Boise, Idaho. The project began in 2004 and has grown bigger ever since. Their counterpart on this album, Titanarum , has been around since 2007, but they had been playing since the 1980’s together under multiple band monikers and lineups. Fortunately... Read Full Story

On a desolate northern night in December after viewing a stage play of the acclaimed novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Opera Diabolicus was conceived. The chance meeting of David Grimoire and Adrian de Crow is the stuff that spawns legends. Both were interested in the story and the dark elements, so they decided to collaborate on a new sinister endeavor. Opera Diabolicus is about “combining the dark elements of music and theatre in alliance with musical excellency.” That is quite a... Read Full Story

Bryan Adams did it all on Waking Up The Neighbours (1991). He served as the composer, guitar player, producer and vocalist. Audio Fidelity decided to remind us how talented Mr. Adams was. Even though he owned the 80s the next decade started off with a bang for the Canadian rocker turned superstar. Adams appealed to both sexes, his chiseled good looks struck a chord with the ladies and his average Joe look with plaid shirts and jeans made the guys feel like he was one of them. With that kind... Read Full Story

After Hours is an interesting mix of contemporary R&B with smooth jazz. The two vocal tracks are very much in the adult contemporary R&B genre, while the rest of the album straddles the two. Overall the music tends to be a little funkier than your average smooth jazz, and let me go ahead and say right up front that for a medical doctor frontman Hulon sure does play sax well.   The musical reserve that's a primary characteristic of smooth jazz is in evidence on every track. On “Second... Read Full Story

  When I first read the name of this band my arteries started to harden in anticipation. They were relieved when I found that the band name wasn’t pronounced (clogger), but (kay-log-are). It’s based on the law of Weber-Fechner: S = K log R (the amount of stimulus that each of the senses needs to actually be triggered on a cognitive level).   This project is led by Gabriele “Rusty” Rustichelli (Vocals & Guitars) with Nicola Briganti (Guitars), Todd Allen (Bass), and Filippo De Pietri... Read Full Story

Sleeping With The Sunworm is the latest release from the sultans of space-rock, the Øresund Space Collective , and much like a worm is one organism, segmented, so too can this album be seen as one cohesive unit, broken into three nearly equal parts. It was recorded over the same two day session(s) that produced the Dead Man In Space   record, and is the most guitar-centric Ø SC album I’ve heard yet, which is interesting considering there are fewer guitarists credited on Sunworm than on Dead... Read Full Story