Track Review

“You’re Not Listening” begins with a familiar kind of anxiety: you’re talking, someone is right there, and somehow none of it seems to be getting through. But Mister Chorister’s latest track gradually flips that frustration around. What if the person who isn’t listening is actually you? The alternative-rock track is the third chapter in the

There are few experiences more exhausting than being told you need to have everything figured out. Modern life has somehow turned indecision into a personal failure, as if everyone else received a very important instruction manual that somehow got lost in the mail. fernvie’s “Dito Muna Tayo sa Pagitan” has a different suggestion: maybe we

How does a good grief song go? Acoustic guitar? Check. Weepy lyrics? Yep. Sunlight, wind, trees, nature? Well, you knew it was going that way. “Without You Here,” the most recent single from Jersey Shore alternative rock band Starboard to Sunset has these things. It also has a lot of latitude to just sit with

There are certain phrases you probably shouldn’t say immediately before making a potentially dangerous decision. “I’ve got a great idea” is one. “Trust me” is another. But perhaps the most relevant is: “What could possibly go wrong?” That’s the question Norwegian alternative rock project Gubbe asks on its new track of the same name, primarily

The opening clang of Jimi Fiano’s “Hey Joe (Not Your Father’s Hey Joe)” doesn’t so much announce itself as it throws a rusty, amplified gauntlet at your feet, immediately drenching the space in a humid haze of overdriven tube amps and a general sense of impending musical mayhem. This isn’t the kind of track that