Sun Domingo: Live in Montreal, Marillion Weekend 09

When it comes to live albums, artists need to be very, very careful in the execution of both the concert being recorded for the album, and the final product of the album itself.

 

From the sound quality being off—too loud, too soft, too harsh-- to the artist not realizing that the amount of talking usually done in a concert might not work well on a record, to just losing the overall vibe of the performance, there’s a lot that can go awry on live albums.

 

Luckily, Atlanta-based rock band Sun Domingo does a pretty good job of avoiding these issues on the recently released Live in Montreal, Marillion Weekend 09.

 

The trio, made up of Jason Pomar, Edgel Groves, Jr., and Nathan Lathouse, give a performance that is totally in sync the entire way through. This is easy enough to accomplish when recording in a studio, but to be consistently spot-on with each other throughout a live concert? Impressive...MORE

Capelle: Money Now, Money How, Money When

I don’t think anyone will argue with me if I make the claim that there’s a lot of very good music out there. Every day, new artists break onto the scene, hopefully bringing something fresh to the music world. However, while a lot of the new music we’re graced with is good, not all of it has that extra something that makes it truly pop out from the rest.

Who knows what exactly defines that extra something, but whatever it is, Capelle has it.

Money Now, Money How, Money When, the debut album from British band Capelle, has everything one looks for in an album: stand-out vocals, excellent instrument playing, lyrics that grab your attention, and a perfect synchronization of those elements that results in a record that keeps the listener hanging on the entire way through...MORE

ROB: Rise on Belief

If Jimi Hendrix and Lenny Kravitz somehow had a love child and let the Red Hot Chili Peppers raise it, ROB would be it.

These are some big names to compare a new artist to, but ROB is every bit deserving of such accolades.

ROB’s debut album Rise on Belief starts out with the song “Freedom,” which has guitar stylings, and even vocals, that sound like ROB directly channeled Hendrix, and Hendrix complied.

Although there is a definite reminiscence of Jimi Hendrix in ROB’s songs, there isn’t the feeling that ROB is simply trying to imitate Hendrix’s sound...MORE