Music of the World

OFFICIAL: http://rejectionistfront.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/RejectionistFront/ Written by Daniel Boyer, posted by blog admin Rejectionist Front has tended to their musical development with all the attention you’d expect and have aligned themselves with causes and concerns clearly illustrating the importance of conveying their core beliefs through the vehicle of popular music. Their second studio album Evolve boasts twelve songs showcasing their exponential development since first debuting and they bring much of the same New York City assertiveness we heard on their first collection. Most rock bands in the modern music world adopt either five or three piece configurations in their journey to earn public notice, but Rejectionist Front is a four piece band with immensely creative rhythm section work and creative guitar playing compensating well for the absence of a second guitar player. The band’s appeared on a variety of high profile festival lineups and...

OFFICIAL: http://www.slowburningcar.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SlowBurningCar/ Written by Laura Dodero, posted by blog admin Hailing from Los Angeles, CA; Slow Burning Car are a quirky quartet that mesh various different hard rock influences into an album that delivers an experience that’s best heard as an uninterrupted whole.   The band’s fourth disc Defection may start off textbook enough with “Alpha Duplicor’s” teeth-gnashing, hard rock guitar riffs, angst-ridden yet melodic vocals and throbbing percussion that’s a storm of snare/tom fill transitions but Slow Burning Car switches style on a dime and never lingers on the same musical turf for too long.   A smorgasbord of sound awaits the listener at Defection’s every corner turn.   Whirling dervish guitar leads, crisp punk riffing, steadfast drumming and smooth vocal melodies/harmonies are “Soul Crimes’” bread n’ butter from the first note to the last.   They toy with this basi...

OFFICIAL: http://blacknotegraffiti.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/BlackNoteGraffiti TWITTER: https://twitter.com/blacknotegraffi Written by Raymond Burris, posted by blog admin The second full length release from Ann Arbor’s Black Note Graffiti, Volume 2: Without Nothing I’m You, is an eleven song collection that positions this (then) four piece to rise several more notches in the world of indie rock. The band, furthermore, crackles with the potential to take their act far outside the warm but relatively narrow confines of the indie scene. Rock and its musical progeny may swim upstream commercially in our modern music world, but what that means is that the limited room for viable acts culls the fat off the genre and those who boast marquee status truly deserve it. The band’s talents are considerable – musically, vocally, and lyrically. The growth they’ve exhibited since their 2013 debut is surely the result of the inherent talent they’re dealing with, but it...