Hello All –
Here’s another update in regards to Unsigned Underground. I’ve been getting sporadic queries from artists wanting reviews and net-play and I want to say that we will be back soon with an updated format. I’m still looking into exactly what that format will be.
In the meantime I will be re-broadcasting past episodes via Twitter. Follow me at www.twitter.com/darrygregory
Stay Tuned!
~Darryl
I am in the process of re-thinking the format of this podcast. I realized that I really like to do interviews and I think that listeners enjoy the interviews as well as I have gotten a lot of great comments on the shows with interviews and my interviewing style.
I will not be accepting any new CD submissions at this time and I will be instituting a new submission policy.
So stay tuned for new shows in the coming weeks.
~DG
Title: One Below The All Time Low
Artist: Watts
Release date: 2007
Available from: iTunes, CDBaby, Watts – MySpace
Artist website: Watts – MySpace
Quote: This CD is definitely worth every penny – buy it, download it, listen to it and then go see Watts live. If I had a star rating system I’d give these boys a gold one. Cheers!
When I got the new WATTS CD in the mail for inclusion on Unsigned Underground, I was immediately drawn to the cover. It made me think of an old album cover from the ‘70’s. I loved the “Rock-n-Roll Poses” that the musicians were taking. I loved the simplicity. I had a pile of CDs to look through… I opened this one first. Continue reading »
Title: Down This Road
Artist: Dahlia Wakefield
Release date: 2007, Squirrelly Girl Music
Available from: CDBaby.com
Artist website: www.dahliawakefield.com
With a sexy-smokey voice and an aggressive delivery that says you’re-gonna-love-me-now, Dahlia Wakefield puts the hammer down on nine original tracks of country rock on her new release “Down This Road”. Dahlia also does a sweet cover of “Wouldn’t It Be Good”, that old Nik Kershaw single from the 1980’s. Continue reading »
Title: Surprise Party
Artist: Bob Burger
Release date: 2007, Big Brave Music
Available from: CDBaby.com
Artist website: www.bobburger.com
It was a privilege to receive this CD in the mail. Rare that I say that these days, but true about Jersey-boy Bob Burger’s new CD entitled “Surprise Party” which turns out to be a real rockin’ disc. From the get-go it’s a cool album that did not make me think of any bands around today (thank goodness). In fact I immediately thought of Bram Tchaikovsky, the mercurial artist of the late seventies who penned “The Girl of My Dreams”, just because of the feel of the songs: great melodies played over intense rock grooves and bass lines, soaring/biting guitar licks and well placed solos. Continue reading »
Title: From the Ground Up
Artist: Cory Mervin Coons
Release date: 2004
Available from: Bent Music, and Cory’s website
Artist website: www.corymervincoons.com
OK, what is in the water up there in Canada that makes guys voices sit up in the soprano range? Let’s just recap: there’s Neil Young’s strained falsetto and of course Geddy Lee’s castrasti-like rock-opera warbling and then there’s Anne Murray, oh wait she’s a chic right? Continue reading »
Title: Rockwood Music Hall
Artist: Andy Fitzpatrick
Label: Little Old Lady Records (indie)
Release date: Spring 2006
Available from: CDBaby, CCNow.com
Website: www.andyfitzpatrick.com
I found out about Andy Fitzpatrick through a friend. He’d been raving about this Irish guy who plays piano down on the lower eastside of Manhattan and telling me I need to go hear him. Well my time in NYC is past and I live in the ‘burbs now, but ironically, now that I’m out of the City I can now say that I’ve heard Andy play in a lower eastside club. Andy’s second CD, entitled Rockwood Music Hall, is a live album recorded over three nights at the Allen Street venue of the same name. The recording is superb with a nice balanced sound that doesn’t accentuate any one instrument like some live recordings and the disk really takes you into the club, sits you at a table and even offers you a drink. Continue reading »
I got a CD in the mail a while ago that I normally would not have given a second thought to. Because I try to be conscientious about these things, I threw it in the CD player and was pleasantly surprised. Note to self: don’t be so judgmental. Continue reading »
Malcolm Holcombe’s latest CD “I Never Heard You Knockin’” is like a charcoal drawing of emotional landscapes executed by a well picked guitar and a voice that is a combination of John Hiatt and Greg Continue reading »
Singer-songwriter Jonah Sage is quite a wise songwriter for one so young, and through the fourteen tracks on his new album “Leaving Myself Behind” Jonah takes us on a trip of Continue reading »
