Aloud Exile Lemon Merchant Records www.allthingsaloud.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie What to make of Aloud? Hmm…it’s not your everyday pop-rock-hip/hop-emo-nu-metal CD but a horse of an entirely different color. More oriented toward hippie groovin’, folkified, laid back mellowness, Exile, their newest release has some interesting routes less traveled in the average music of today. Aloud consists of two principals: Jen […]

Malanna Monroe A Musical Reflection of Your Light Self Released, 2010 myspace.com/malanna Reviewed by Kent Manthie Hailing from Tennessee, USA, but with stops along the way in Detroit and Louisiana. Her new CD, a refreshing little DIY thing called A Musical Reflection of Your Light, is out now and a generous sampling of some tunes from it are on her […]

The Wet Teens Let it Pee Silber Records www.silbermedia.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie Ahh…to be a carefree teenager again: invincible, immortal, no responsibilities save getting good grades scoring a bitchin’ ride. On a slight detour from the average Silber Records CD, which is usually more experimental-driven, drone-noise-ambient-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink types of tinkering and toying with. The Wet Teens’ new CD, Let it […]

The Experiments What Kind of Animal Review by Sean Ross The Experiments latest and free album What Kind of Animal quickly asserts itself as pop-punk teeming with classic sounds familiar to the tortured underage urban wanderers of the late seventies and early eighties—only, much tighter and impressive, more now. Songs are replete with stylized guitar punctuations, absurdly succinct and punchy […]