Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz present a gem-of-a-listen with American Bardo. One can certainly curl up and dive deep into these dozen.

The musicians other than Tuffy need to be highlighted here: Michael Turner, Matt Walker, Judith Renkema, Madelief van Vlijmen, Lucie Thorne, Steve Gilbert (as mentioned), Nick Larkins, and Zlaya Loud lend their talents to what is a rather spectacularly shining Letters of Gold.

Andy Blunda shows his obvious solid sense of pop song construction on his new EP, Pulling For You. 

Although a husband, father of three and full-time mechanic, still guitarist/singer/songwriter/bandleader Cole Patenaude found the time to shepherd his excellent band into a brand new, full-length album, Are You Happy Now?

Synths are ascending past lower plunky shunk beats in “Never Let You Go,” a tune of deep atmosphere that showcases Little Warrior’s slightly hard-to-discern enunciation sexiness. With the title spoken in the mix of the flighty swirls of synths, a way-back-in-the-mix beat, this is a pretty effective little tune showcasing the deep color of Little Warrior’s delivery.

“Kid Again ft. Marcus Kar” has slamming drums, lead bass, and big shouting vocals. It’s big rock rapper, quite unlike anything else here, and surely welcomed because it is. “6_20,” ends, again with slicing electric cutting through with Well’s heavily auto-tuned voice. It’s slightly lighter than what came before but reveals a fast rap in keeping with the rest of Hard Pill to Swallow.

New York composer/songwriter Chris Ianuzzi sets us up on an intergalactic trip with his new album Planeteria.
The title track gets us out and among the stars quickly with its low synth spread and twinkling breathy sounds. At just about the two-minute mark, a shunky drum machine starts, and we are off flying through space, with more spacey sounds settling by and a kinetic arpeggio of keys.

If you’ve yet to catch-up with Bruce Hornsby or only know him from hits like “The Way It Is,” you owe it to yourself to grab Non-Secure Connection and get to know what this brilliant musician is up to presently.

Les Techno’s Flowers for Dystopia is ten-song collection of some interesting songwriting, very good guitar playing and a true vision

The thing about The Doors was always that I dug the Morrison mystique and love lots of their tunes (lots of which Robby Krieger penned). But for me, it was always Krieger who made that band. On The Ritual Begins At Sundown, it is obvious Robby Krieger is still a force to be reckoned with.