"Cellar door" by Your Superiors

Your Superiors play the kind music Nirvana used to play. In the passed years they were overtaken by bands like The Foo Fighters, The Goo Goo Dolls, and nowadays by Kings of Leon. I'm afraid Your Superiors will always stay in the second league of rock. But that doesn't mean they don't play nice music.
"Cellar door" is their sixth album, and opens very strong with the first single "Lisa likes me for that". When they come over for a promo tour they will without any doubt sell out a lot of big arenas.

"Cellar door" by Your Superiors

"Toiling upward in the night" by Dorothy Marion Campbell

"Toiling upward in the night" by Dorothy Marion Campbell seems to be a nice and sophisticated album. But don't be misled by her gorgious looks and her sweet voice. Campbell has a rude way of saying things and has been banned several times from British radio. Although she talks and behaves well, her lyrics are full of sarcasm and poison.
I wonder what's eating this very talented singer? The fact that there is such a gap between what she does and what she says is a good reason to give this album a closer look.

"Toiling upward in the night" by Dorothy Marion Campbell

"Things that can happen to a man" by Marlon Aguirre

The mix Marlon Aguirre makes is a strange one. On one hand he sounds very eighties and is moving in the direction of The Style Council and Sade. On the other hand he wants to be the new Jazzanova, but sounds like Michael Buble. Although I have to admit that his first album "Things that can happen to a man" sounds very stylish. He uses a lot of electronica and even more guest vocalists, but he treats jazz with respect. He only needs to make up his mind whether he wants to be the next Harry Connick, the next Dimitri from Paris, or the one and only Marlon Aguirre...

"Things that can happen to a man" by Marlon Aguirre

"The termites of relationships" by Roussoellopsis

Chosing a name like "Roussoellopsis" is commercial suicide, I would think. And as I expected, this band never managed to get any commercial success. But that can be because they made the wrong music in the wrong era. In the mid-seventies they made symphonic rock where all bands drove safety pins through their ears and played punk rock. Roussoellopsi was exactly that kind of band that punks hated.
But nowadays there seems to be a symphonic rock revival and the record company re-released"The termites of relationships". I wonder what will happen now to this music, because the band split up more than 15 years ago. None of the members is working in the music business anymore...

"The termites of relationships" by Roussoellopsis

"His life by conscious endeavor" by James Pryde

Where most DJ's make the mistake to release an album of their own, James Pryde waited for years. Most DJ's think they're composers who know how to write a song. Bummer. Most of them only know how to play a record (and sometimes not even that!).
James Pryde however learned from listening. On his debut album "His life by conscious endeavor" he proves he knows how to make a convincing dance tracks. A bit of variation wouldn't hurt though. But these songs are cetainly going to get a crowd dancing. None of the songs are under 8 minutes and make the album quiet a long one (117 minutes) but please listen to it to the end. It's worth it.

"His life by conscious endeavor" by James Pryde

"More men than Neptune" by Hazel Crest

She started as a backing singer in a bluesrock band, but wanted do do her own thing. She attended singing and dancing classes and finally she released her first album "More men than Neptune". It's a collection of Broadway tunes and jazz standards. But where mediocre singers stick to the (too) often covered classics Hazel Crest made a very extraordinary choice. She treats the songs in her typical way and makes the songs her own.
This is a fabulous debut of a very talented singer.

Get that album now!

"More men than Neptune" by Hazel Crest

"Come back from it" by Central Wings

Claire Wings made several pop singles but only two of them got into the charts. After the success of "Army of three" and "That house" miss Wings decided to change her name and her style, and her first album
"Come back from it" is no longer poppy.
Wings changed to a danceable kind of punk rock. The only problem is: so many young and attractive singers have done this before her. This album isn't bad -not at all- but it's a bit as if she recycled the best tunes by Avril Lavigne and Pink. And she doesn't want you to call her music "pop music".
Get real Claire.

"Come back from it" by Central Wings