The shoulderbrain is a bit of an anomaly. You won’t find it in your textbooks and your doctor will cock an eyebrow if you ask him to point it out. But just because the medical world doesn’t know about it doesn’t mean it can’t exist.  It can. It does.

I know because I’ve felt its effects and have been forced to follow its command. I bet you have, too. Anytime some music comes on and you find yourself moving, from a head bop to a sho…

After listening to Mishka’s new album, “Talk About,” it is evident that this artist has an innate knack for creating music that is an amalgam of island and American influences (the same blend is also enjoyably inherent within his vernacular and accent as well). This is not overly surprising considering that Mishka grew up as a child of the Caribbean islands, and currently calls Burmuda home. However, he has also call…

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The first time I saw them play, Carnifex was touring with Killwhitneydead and The Demonstration, supporting their 2008 release The Diseased and The Poisoned. The venue – The Mad Hatter Club – a hardcore-oriented bar venue at capacity with drunk punks, aggressive metal-heads, heaily tattooed straight-edge boys and a thick cloud of noxious cigarette smoke.  Outside, the August heat was spot-weldin…

I would say that my folk/alt country, or whatever you would like to call that genre, kick ended, for the most part, about a year or more ago. An acoustic guitar and a sad, dusty voice just didn’t do anything for me anymore. Theordore, a group from St. Louis and personal friends of mine, is a band whose music is so uniquely Midwest and impressively deep in tones and lyrical content. Their first release, “Songs…