Tag: album
King Tuff pushes back album release and announces world tour
King Tuff announced the unfortunate push back of his new album, Was Dead, to May 28,2013. However, he did release a track from the album, “Dancing On You”, that can be streamed below! KING TUFF TOUR DATES Fri. April 12 – Palm Springs, CA @ Ace Hotel Wed. April 17 – Pomona, CA @ The…
Review: Luke Winslow-King’s ‘The Coming Tide’
Thank God for Luke Winslow-King. In a musical era in which simple beats and perverse lyrics reign supreme, and enjoying quality music puts you in the minority, Winslow-King brings back a feeling long forgotten: the way your hips can’t help but sway in an almost instinctive way when early 20th century jazz blares from your…
Circle Takes the Square pre-orders available now
It’s finally happened. The moment we have all been waiting for. Our dear, talented friends from Circle Takes the Square have released Decompositions: Volume Number One digitally, and now it’s time to get your pre-orders in for physical copies…and so much more. For those of you who don’t remember Vinyl Mag’s first interview ever, Decompositions:…
REVIEW: Night Moves’ debut full-length Colored Emotions
In this age of hybridized genre tag mania (proto-post-stoner-jam-metalcore, anyone?), it’s become easy for bands to lay claim to invention by slapping synths, reverb, drum machines, etc., on top of blasé retreads of well-worn forms. Amid the innovation inflation
REVIEW: Sick/Sea’s debut album Moral Compass
Self-defined “jazzy rockers” Sick/Sea will be releasing their first album, Moral Compass, on the 16th of next month. Moral Compass feels like an extended juxtaposition—an album with a resonating youthful lyrical basis, and yet a definitive level of harshness/roughness in its melodies and overall sound. The childlike nature of the album is ever present and…
Twenty One Pilots “Regional at Best” review
Twenty One Pilots is cooking up a storm in central Ohio, and is now starting to spread that across the US with their first tour venturing out of the Midwest and the release of their second LP, Regional at Best. The genre of this duo is hard to define. Take some pop, hip hop, rock,…