CD REVIEW: Adam Levy – “Naubinway”

Adam Levy – Naubinway URL: http://www.adamlevymusic.com/ Roots-oriented singer/songwriter Adam Levy made a name for himself by fronting the Minnesota group Honeydogs for nearly 20 years before striking out on his own and focusing on a solo career.  He still plays with the aforementioned group, but on Naubinway, Levy unveils a striking tribute to his son Daniel who passed away recently.  …

CD Review: The Wild Waiting – Stay Gold

The Wild Waiting – Stay Gold  URL: http://thewildwaiting.com/ We live in a cluttered world. The Information/Internet Age has inundated our lives with every conceivable entertainment flavor spanning over countless genres and sub-genres. It’s impossible to sift through it all and, as a result, it’s more incumbent than ever before that new bands quickly find a niche and develop a core …

CD Review: The Stollers – “Stationary Sun”

The Stollers – Stationary Sun FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TheStollers/ Cohesiveness doesn’t come easy. Too many albums today are hit or miss grab bags of songs lacking much overarching focus but with ambition to burn. It’s unquestionably a matter of talent. However, experience plays a key role as well. If you haven’t found your artistic vision of thousands of gigs and ten thousand …

CD Review: Sarah Morris – Ordinary Things

Sarah Morris – Ordinary Things URL: http://sarahmorrismusic.com/ Twin City native Sarah Morris cooks up a hot brew of folk, country and root diggin’ blues on her latest release Ordinary Things. Not only can Sarah sing and play, but writes all of the tunes. It’s great to hear a singer with her vocal talent be actively involved in every part of …

CD Review: Martin X. Petz – Chained

Martin X. Petz – Chained I-TUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chained/id1050269394 This sort of raw, yet delicately rendered, sincerity is in short supply. Rock, rap, country, all of the major popular music genres are littered with talents who have made a gloomy fortune pretending and performing for audiences too jaded to care. Martin Petz is beyond that. His second release, Chained, takes on familiar …

CD Review: June Star – Pull Awake

June Star – Pull Awake FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/June-Star-157285697643268/ After fifteen plus years crisscrossing the country and streaking north and south along the East Coast, Baltimore’s own June Star have long since paid their dues. Nine studio recordings have established primary songwriter Andrew Grimm as one of popular music’s great unsung writing talents, but the band doesn’t begin and end with him. …

HGR CD Reviews: Xander Demos “Guitarcadia”

Jim Price of HomeGrown Rocker CD reviews recently posted his write-up of shredmaster extraordinaire, Xander Demos‘ debut disc, Guitarcadia: “Guitarcadia offers a guitar-shredding sonic paradise, ten tracks of full-force guitar fireworks. The overall sound is big and broad, showing listeners that this artist and his band are easily suited to rocking arenas and collosseums. Fans of guitar fireworks will easily …