TREVOR LEWIS

If your moniker is a play off of actor Patrick Swayze’s name, you better be bringing some good music. Shwayze (Aaron Smith) has the catalogue that backs up the name. The rapper, along with Cisco Adler, had a few hits on their debut album in 2008 with “Buzzin” and the uber-catchy “Corona and Lime.” The […]

Brooklyn-based Lettuce is keeping Funk alive and kicking with its full, rich soundscape. There are rarely lyrics but they are not needed, as the band speaks fluently through its rhythmic, dance-inducing instrumentals. Hearing the instruments trade off the lead like they do is nice, but hearing the solos is the real treat. A great song […]

Within the trend of trying to recapture the sounds of the 60’s British Invasion, Gringo Star manages to stand out among the others trying to cop the essence of garage rock’s glory days. With its experimental style that carries garage, psychedelic, and surf sounds, the band conjures memories of everyone from the Fab Four — […]

If a city has a day of appreciation held in a musician’s name, the assumption is they must be pretty good. For Patty Larkin, that is a very safe assumption. The Boston-based — and Boston-loved — singer-songwriter’s warm voice, paired with her fluent guitar playing, combines to create a captivating, incredible soundscape. Her topics aren’t […]

Most of the time that I listen to reggae and dancehall, I enjoy the music but get a little frustrated at not being able to understand the words (I’m looking at you, Sean Paul and Shabba Ranks). This isn’t the case when listening to I-Octane though. His lyrics are generally comprehendible and more importantly carry […]

Don’t be surprised to think Johnny and June when you listen to country-folk duo Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay. The pair manages to summon the sounds of older country with keeping a more modern subject matter — and it’s not the typical “my wife left me, my dog died” subject matter you’d hear in a […]

After watching some videos of David Mayfield performing live, I asked myself what was more impressive, his beard or his guitar playing. It is a great beard, but the guitar playing still takes the cake, as Mayfield is a virtuoso on an acoustic. That’s not all Grizzly Adams, er, I mean Mayfield, brings to the […]

Typically, a band either stands out because it is good or it breaks from the norm. In Twenty One Pilots’ case, it’s both. The schizophrenic pop group — and yes, that is actually a real subgenre of pop — uses a combination of keyboards, synthesizers and drums along with lyrics written in a poetic fashion. […]