Reviews
Alexx Calise – Ac3 EP Review
Alexx Calise’s Ac3 EP Review By Kara Kulpa Alexx Calise is a trailblazer. Armed with a searing axe in one hand and a mic in the other, Calise is definitely not one to wonder about the path less traveled. Like some of her predecessors, she too was told by many in the music industry toRead More…
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16-Jun-2013Alexx Calise – Ac3 EP Review
Alexx Calise’s Ac3 EP Review By Kara Kulpa Alexx Calise is a trailblazer. Armed with a searing axe in one hand and a mic in the other, Calise is definitely not one to wonder about the path less traveled. Like some of her predecessors, she too was told by many in the music industry toRead More…
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20-Jan-2013Heart – “Kicking & Dreaming”
Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll — Book Review By Kara Kulpa While Heart’s career may have been on life support at various moments in time, the passion for music and dedication that both Ann and Nancy Wilson possess for their craft has consistently been far from dead. JustRead More…
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15-Jan-2013Heart – “Fanatic” Album Review
Heart – Fanatic Album Review By Kara Kulpa Heart is like a fine wine. With time, experience, various line-up changes that have helped to evolve and shape the band’s sound, look, and brand, they have only gotten better with time. Do not, however, consider Heart to be classic rock, because the backbone of the band,Read More…
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06-May-2012Heart – Strange Euphoria Boxed Set
Introduction: For nearly four decades Ann and Nancy Wilson have been making music as Heart. They’ve sold over 35 million albums, played to millions of fans worldwide, and in 2011 were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But despite that supersized career, their songs are ultimately intimate, small conversations between Ann andRead More…
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17-Dec-2011Shauna Burns – A Winter Gathering
“A Winter Gathering” By Shauna Burns Release Date: October 25, 2011 Label: Red Rock Music $$$$$ – Excellent! If you want to have beautiful Celtic flavored Christmas music playing during your holiday gatherings, I highly recommend “A Winter Gathering” by Shauna Burns. This compilation of Celtic holiday music is well arranged and her voice isRead More…
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09-Aug-2011Laura Veirs
“Troubled By Fire” Bella Union $$$$ Ms. Veirs is a twenty-first century Seattle girl pushing a traditional-down-home-back-porch sound. Her third album, “Troubled By Fire,” is nothing less then beautiful, mixing blues with folk to banjo-rock to everything on the in-between. Wi th a gift for quietly intermingling her opinions into her lyrics, she leaves usRead More…
