Album Review: A Healthy Dose Of Hope – The Happy Somethings

The Happy Somethings dropped a new album today, and I thought I’d give it a track by track breakdown. Something Good A Healthy Dose Of Hope (ALBUM) by The Happy Somethings The Happy Somethings kick off their new album with a track that starts off with pitch bent strings, for a minute I thought they’d …

Track Of The Day: “Dusk” – Joey Sherrett

Saturday is not usually a day that people release new music on however I was looking for a track to review and doing some digital crate digging on Instagram has usually turned up some gems for me – this one is no different. joey Sherrett dropped a track that’s very powerful in vocal as well …

Single Review: “Lemon Sugar” – Octrain

Review by Sammy Stein Octrain are a multi-generational rock trio comprising 2 brothers, John (lead vocals and guitar), Greg (Bass), and their cousin Pat (Drums).  Music has played a big part in all of their lives, but with eight years between John and Pat, and a further eight years between John and his younger brother …

Fresh Faves: Batch 612

AROUND ABOUT DUSK- without you Around About Dusk · Without You This has such a World War II era jazz feel to it, none of the gloss that came later on, but the kind you’d expect in the background of a period drama. This could be playing in the background on a grainy gramophone, at …

Fresh Faves: Batch 609

Every week Fresh On The Net, sister blog to Platinum Mind receives up to 200 tracks moderated by a volunteer team and reviewed on rotation. This is my review of Batch 609. Alan Dreezer – Delusional  Alan Dreezer · Delusional This track is from Alan Dreezer’s album Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes which came out …

Track Of The Day: “2468 Motorway” – Tom Robinson Band

In celebration of my friend Tom Robinson’s birthday I thought I’d review a song that was his first big hit – 2468 Motorway. Every time I hear it I usually have my headphones on and as is customary I turn it all the way up to 11 and play air guitar with TRB’s legendary maybe …

Fresh Faves: Batch 606

Every week I listen to up to 200 songs through the fresh on the net inbox as lead moderator leading a team of volunteers. These are the tracks that made up the final ten as picked by our fab readers. Listen to the inbox here. These are also my personal picks ABS – Breathe! abs …

Fresh Faves: Batch 605

ANNA BLAISE – We’ll Be King  Anna Blaise · We'll Be King Anna Blaise is a newcomer to fresh on the net and brings a down tempo synth track with an ethereal vocals. This also appears to be her debut single! In any case double congratulations on making the faves as well as her debut! …

Fresh Faves: Batch 604

I wrote the faves reviews for fresh on the net this week so I thought I’d publish them here. BUTTER FUNK FAMILY – Love Power Printz Board · Love Power (feat. Nadav Peled) To kick off this week’s faves we have a psychedelic funk track that takes us all the way back to the early …

Track Of The Day – “Days We Left Behind” – Paul McCartney

This song is the first release from Paul McCartney’s new album “The Boys From Dungeon Lane” and it follows Paul’s ability to weave a story into a song. To me this is almost the lyrical sequel to the ever beautiful “In My Life”, given that it revisits Paul’s childhood. There are references to war – …