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“Unforgiven”: Sophia Mengrosso’s Operatic War Cry.

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

James M LaRocque’s “All About Me”: Self-Aware or Self-Obsessed?

James M. LaRocque, or JML as the hip kids probably call him, dropped "All About Me". It's a classic rock single, which, you know, feels like showing up to a party dressed as a Roman gladiator when everyone else is in jeans. Not a bad thing, necessarily. https://open.spotify.com/track/3xQO9QXBzMyKSCsN10ggfp This isn't about discovering some new profound meaning to life, that's for sure. JML is firmly planted in...

Epic Sigh’s “Deteriorate”: Neon-Drenched Existential Dread

Epic Sigh's "Deteriorate," a single served straight from the neon-drenched gut of Las Vegas, has somehow materialized. Nina Carmine's vocals—soulful? Yes, hauntingly so, echoing...