Artist: The Royalty Album: Lovers Genre: Indie-pop/Indie-rock/Blues Label: Victory It’s been three long years since The Royalty have released new material. The El Paso five-piece have spent that time indulging in their love for indie-pop and Soul singers. After signing with Victory Records back in November, The Royalty has finally released their much anticipated sophomore […]
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REVIEW: The Royalty – Lovers
June 1st, 2012 
Ethan Merrick 
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Tags: "How I Like 'Em", "The Bartender", 2012, album review, blues, croon, doo-wop, glam-rock, indie pop, indie rock, lovers, Reviews, soul, the royalty, Victory Records 
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Review: Night Verses – Out of the Sky EP
May 25th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Band: Night Verses Album: Out of the Sky EP Genre: Post-hardcore/Experimental Label: Unsigned Douglas Robinson, the vocalist for The Sleeping, has been keeping busy since the band announced their indefinite-hiatus this January. Robinson stepped in as the vocalist for the Archives after the departure of Marco Lira. However, instead of going on as Archives, the […]
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REVIEW: Your Demise – The Golden Age
April 7th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Band: Your Demise Album: The Golden Age Genre: Pop-punk/Hardcore Label: Visible Noise/Distort Entertainment Since their formation in ’05 Your Demise has shared the stage with numerous hardcore acts; The Devil Wears Prada, Parkway Drive, A Day to Remember and Enter Shikari to name a few. And the charm of Your Demise is that they have […]
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Review: Bermuda – The Wandering
March 30th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: Bermuda Album: The Wandering Genre: Deathcore/Nu-Metal Label: Mediaskare Records Last March Bermuda released their EP Isolationist(s). The album was met with mixed reviews, but with the unanimous opinion that it was most definitely some of the most brutal metal released within the last couple years. Now, a year later the same opinion could be […]
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Review: Adaliah – Broken Families
March 28th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: Adaliah Album: Broken Families Genre: Metalcore/Progressive Label: Rite of Passage/Mediaskare Records Last January Adaliah properly introduced themselves with their EP Rituals. The EP gained the band much acclaim from its whirlwind combination of thrashing guitars and crashing drums. Now, a little over a year has passed and Adaliah have released their debut Broken Families. […]
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Review: Eatmewhileimhot! – Mushroom
March 23rd, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: Eatmewhileimhot! Album: Mushroom Genre: Post-hardcore/Metal Label: Loveaway Christofer Drew is a busy guy, having divided up his time between his three very musically distinct bands. The acoustic, indie-pop Never Shout Never, the experimental, psychedelics of GONZO and the brutal post-hardcore, metal outfit Eatmewhileimhot! Despite the fact that it originally started off as joke, just […]
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REVIEW: Said the Whale – Little Mountain
March 8th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: Said the Whale Album: Little Mountain Genre: Indie-pop/Folk-pop Label: Hidden Pony Records With it being early March, Winter’s bitter chill is still hanging around outside the bars, record stores and along the city streets. Fortunately, Said the Whale, the indie-pop Canadian five-piece, have come bearing a cure for these dark days and seasonal affective […]
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Review: Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour
February 29th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: Band of Skulls Album: Sweet Sour Genre: Indie-Rock/Blues-Rock Label: Electric Blues Recordings It has been quite some time since Band of Skulls have released new material. Both the Friends EP and the live album Live on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic were released back in ’10, and since then the band has kept fairly quiet. […]
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Review: A Common Year – Where the Light Still Shines
February 23rd, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: A Common Year Album: Where the Light Still Shines Genre: Indie-rock/Pop Label: Unsigned The do-it-yourself approach to being in a band has seemed to have served A Common Year well these past several years. For their debut album Between Cities the band had handled all of the recording, mixing and mastering of the record. […]
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Review: Person L/Weatherbox – Split EP
February 22nd, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artists: Person L and Weatherbox Album: Split EP Genre: Indie-rock/Experimental Label: Youth Conspiracy Records After four long years of patient waiting, Person L and Weatherbox have finally recorded that 7-inch they had promised. The Split EP consists of four all new tracks, two from each band, all of which are terribly enjoyable. However, upon successive […]
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Review: My Ticket Home – To Create a Cure
February 14th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: My Ticket Home Album: To Create a Cure Genre: Hardcore/Screamo Label: Rise Records For their first official release, My Ticket Home have constructed To Create a Cure. The album is an all to familiar blend of; guttural and clean vocals, an explosive rhythm section and thrashing guitars. However, despite the album’s feel of old-hat […]
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Review: The Internet – Purple Naked Ladies
February 14th, 2012 Ethan Merrick Artist: The Internet Album: Purple Naked Ladies Genre: Trip hip/Electronica/Soul Label: Odd Future Records The Internet, a hip-hop/soul duo, is a part of the L.A. hip-hop collective, OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All). The group is comprised of Syd Tha Kid-Odd Future’s sound engineer, audio mixer and DJ-on vocals and Matt Martian of […]
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