OPAL CANYON, Tomorrow to the Sea
Perhaps it’s a petty point in this streaming age when album art is often experienced as tiny thumbnail images, but the psychedelic...
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THE JW VIBE
Music That Sticks To My Soul
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Jonathan Widran
Apr 5, 2022
CRASH TAYLOR, Retired Outlaw
As we listen with rapt attention to the insanely cool phrasing and storytelling couched in the soulful, blues-tinged folk/rock energies...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 26, 2022
ARI PAPPALARDO, Minstrel Class
In contemplating the unique title of Ari Pappalardo’s brilliantly eclectic, atmospheric yet grounded, rootsy and organic yet often...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 24, 2022
CHAMPAIGN PAULI CARMAN, "When Your Heart Beats With Mine"
Back in 1981, when the pop/soul band Champaign first stole our hearts with their uber romantic genre crossing Billboard #1 AC, #4 R&B hit...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 20, 2022
MONSOON, Ghost Party
While every emerging indie band has or should have a detailed bio about where they and their musical intentions come from, few have a...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 5, 2022
CARRIE BIELL, We Get Along
It’s been a way too long spell – since 2008’s When You’re Feet Hit the Stars, to be exact- since we’ve been blissfully wrapped in Carrie...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2022
DARREN RAHN, Rock the World
While truly ready to Rock the World with his wildly adventurous, intensely melodic and grooving, sonically ambitious and – perhaps most...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 16, 2022
KICK AND THE HUG, Ladies and Gentlemen, Kick and the Hug
We can suppose that when a band forms during a pandemic, it’s par for the course that they can blaze dynamic pop/rock trails even though...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 16, 2022
SLUKA, Figure It Out
Imagine a band so bold, dynamic and pinball bouncing eclectic that 11 albums and 32 years after their debut album – and after a cross...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 11, 2022
DEAN FRIEDMAN, American Lullaby
If your skepticism about fake news has prompted you to shut down your senses and not pay attention to the sociopolitical issues of the...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 10, 2022
FRANK VIELE, Time Is a Thief
There are three unique ways to look at Frank Viele’s first ever EP Time is a Thief. Most simplistically, it’s a simple gathering of the...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 10, 2022
GREG BUCKING, Greg Bucking
In this digital era where indie artists seek inclusion on playlists and a handful of tracks on an EP, for both budgetary and practical...
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