Category: Album Reviews
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CLT Spotlight: The Dollar Signs Break Down The Cycle w/ “Hearts of Gold”
Change can be exceedingly difficult. Sometimes we live with our worse habits for a number of years, clinging to them while the world around us slowly moves on to the next phases of its evolution. Comfort from a different time also gives solace, but eventually, we all have to move on and find out how…
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The Dirty Low Down March Forward with 2021’s “On My Own” – Single Review
What becomes of the broken-hearted? When it comes to songs that might appear on a playlist post-relationship, Jimmy Ruffin’s iconic track speaks to the broad feelings of emptiness and loss that comes as the emotions echo day after day. The classic serves as an example of what we tend to go through when that situation,…
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CLT Area Spotlight w/ Altered Vision: Taking On The Future in “Never Alone” & “All Or Nothing”
2021 is the year of the work-up, where the normal beats that preceded 2020, which felt like a machine with no brakes, came to a screeching halt and now is being cranked slowly back with gradually lifted expectations ahead. Granted, the previous year wasn’t a complete bust, but the moment March came around, we all…
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CLT Area Spotlight w/ Jacob Belk of Gluum & The Fentons: 2021 at “The Gluumy Prom”
Question for you; what happens when one song, or style of music, “accidently” fits over another? How does it happen at those weird moments of mistaken genius when one song gets played over another, like having the radio on while having a favorite track as a ringtone blaring, and suddenly a listener captured a particular…
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CLT Area Spotlight w/ Brenden Sica: From the Moonman Sessions to QC2020
Without an imagination, Music would cease to exist in any form. As a guide, music is the road that helps pull listeners from the material world into a sort of spiritual or metaphysical space, taking them to individually inspired worlds, scenes, and separate lives. Some forms of music make that task easier. Lyrical tracks use…
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CLT Area Spotlight w/ Blacksmith Sundays: Toonami Beats & Christmas on Sundays – 12/18/2020
In the late 90’s to the early 2000’s, anime in America was still under-looked to a certain extent. Today’s mainstream appeal took a lot of constant push before modern media would start to get the message, and the roots, including the VHS’s found at your local Blockbuster, FYE, or Suncoast, where either on early in…
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CLT Area Spotlight w/ The Penitentials Self-Titled EP – 12/11/2020
Like with many of us at the beginning of March, April 3rd wasn’t much of a thought, aside from the idea that it, like many of the weekends at a local venue here in CLT, it’d be business as usual for musicians and fans; go in, heat up, and live loud to both new &…
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BadCameo’s “Pink Leather”, Fear Until Fury’s “Concrete”, & Sunday Boxing’s “Your Ghost”: Singles Review
Hey All! In the light of what’s going on currently around the world, with local artists constantly releasing bits here and there out of the studio, RF20XX will be following the crumbs along the way with the reviews to follow, culminating in collection send-ups! Look forward to these along our full album reviews, to be…
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Todd Johnson & The Revolvers Break The Silence with “Use Some Company”: EP Review
In the current age of masks, social-distancing, and Zoom Meet-ups, it’s easy to feel a loss of connection with one another. Music, however, has always had the effect of bringing audiences closer to the artists that carefully craft the sound, no matter the actual distance between. In that light, Todd Johnson has always held down…
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Late Night Special Navigates Thru Turbulent Times with “Halfway To Somewhere”: Album Review
With a little Rock, a little Funk, and a whole lot of Soul, Late Night Special is a band that captivates through their loose definition of what style they belong to, vying instead to play to what feels good musically. Leading the pack of five well-rounded musicians, with the occasional opening for horn & piano…
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