Covering all the important subgenres, it’s New Music Friday: The Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
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Covering all the important subgenres, it’s New Music Friday: The Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
Which one of these releases are you most excited about?Continue reading
Covering all the important subgenres, it’s New Music Friday: The Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
Which one of these releases are you most excited about?Continue reading
Covering all the important subgenres, it’s New Music Friday: The Rock and Metal Releases for 11-8-24
Which one of these releases are you most excited about?Continue reading
Instead of reminding everyone of the horrible year we’ve had by sharing this list of my top 20 albums of 2020 with all of you, I want to think that I am sharing new music that can keep being an outlet to rely on when times are tough. We’re in a moment in time where we’re all vulnerable and music keeps being one of the best tools to help our mental health. The following albums are the ones that helped me go through the year and I hope you find something that you can add to your playlist and enjoy it as much as I do. Within each album, there is the country, genre, and their Bandcamp links (for those that have Bandcamp) in case you want to directly support them in these troubled times.
If there is one thing that recent Progressive Rock acts have done, it is once and for all putting to bed the notion of the genre being predominantly style over substance, with a reliance on over-playing as opposed to having heart. A completely unfair assessment from day one of course; even just a cursory listen to the contemporary Prog Rock leaders such as Riverside, Steven Wilson, and The Pineapple Thief shows both an unwavering sense of emotion and a balance of challenging yet accessible song structuring.Continue reading