Please enjoy our full archives of Open Your Ears, in which the team at VWMusic reviews albums both new and old:
2021 Reviews:
Reviewing John Salvage’s Coyote Hasten
Reviewing The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
Reviewing The True Romance Soundtrack on Vinyl
Reviewing Bathroom of the Future’s new EP, Everybody Else Here Is Having Fun
Reviewing Micah Sheveloff’s Rockville
Upon Further Review: Alta Reign’s Mother’s Day
Upon Further Review: Examining the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets’ Latest Effort
Dream Sitch Takes You On a Synth-Driven Trip!
Reviewing MARLEE’s Hypnotic New Single, “Tru Luv”
Calling Out To The Past, While Looking Toward The Future: Reviewing Michael Baker’s Hasten Mercy
Ringing In The Holiday Season: Reviewing Doug Ferony’s Classic Single, “It’s Christmas”
Finding A Deeper Meaning: Savarre’s New Single, “Art Of The Bleed,” Lays Down The Spiritual Gauntlet
An Exercise In Audio High Fidelity: Reviewing Jayywallin Magnetize’s New EP, The Chosen Ones
Summer Vibes Take The Form Of Pop Mastery: Reviewing Gigi Vega’s Single, “Down Crazy”
Unmasking Bias Within The Cultural Zeitgeist: Tarah Who?s & YUR MUM’S single, “Push Me”
Traversing The Distance Inward: Analyzing in/error’s Latest EP, Death By Design
A Review of Waiver Wire’s Newest Single, “Battery Health”
Grappling With Insanity: Reviewing Riku(戮)’s Single, “Rin Pun”
A Light In The Darkness: Reviewing Mark Stein’s “Let’s Pray for Peace”
Leols’ New Single, “Time ft.HRTBRKFEVER” Is A Seductive, Contemplative Affair
2022 Reviews
Reviewing John Lodge’s The Royal Affair And After (Live)
Saxon Seizes The Day With Its Invigorating New Album, Carpe Diem
A Review of Mod Sun’s Pop-Punk Stunner, “Rich Kids Ruin Everything”
Rebelmatic Begins Exciting New Chapter with Mourning Dove
Kenton Place Braces for the Unknown with “Haley’s Comet”
Slow Crush’s Hush: Reinventing The Dreamscape
Brent Shinn’s “Limerence” Strikes a Delicate Balance Between Obsession & Adoration
Taiwan Beats Showcase: An Exercise In Global Musical Mastery
Moonraker’s The Forest: A Spiritual Journey Through the Valley of the Mind
Reviewing Sharon Van Etten’s We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Reviewing Big Drink’s It Was Supposed To Be So Easy
Bramses Xalyxys Mysterious Warrior: Narratives Summoned Through Metaphor
Hazel English Casts Spells of Magic Across Summer Nights
The Fats Hit Paydirt Via Their Very Own Rock & Roll Fantasy
Black Sweater Sets a Chill Tone with “Moves Like You”
Jack White Gets Rootsy with Entering Heaven Alive
Jacob Rice Serves Up a Dish of Country Music Tinged with a Taste of Sugar
Stephen Piazza’s “The Edge” Proves to be a Hymn to the Fallen
New Music Review: Scott Reynolds’ Chihuahua in Buffalo
Levi Zadoff and Dead Hendrix Shake Off the Pandemic with the Dead Summer EP
Rocky Votolato Takes us Back to His Wild Roots
Robert Hunter Takes Aim at Life and All Things Ahead with the New Single, “Permanent”
Derek Sherinian Enters the Vortex
Long Distance Calling Erases Modern-Day Prog-Rock Misconceptions
Silversun Pickups Waves the Indie Flag with “Physical Thrills”
Ralph Curtis’ “Man You Want Me To Be” is a Late-Night Lament for the Ages
Megadeth Makes Like it’s 1985 with The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
Alternative Phenomenon: A Spiritual Awakening Via Music
Midday Sons Strike a Chord with “My Love Will Always Find You”
Tell Me, Can You Stick With This? Reviewing the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Return of the Dream Canteen
I Guess Sometimes We All Get What We Want in the End: Reviewing Taylor Swift’s Midnights
Still Livin’ This Dream and it Ain’t Over Yet: Reviewing Sammy Hagar and The Circle’s Crazy Times
Hell or High Water: Reviewing Skid Row’s The Gangs All Here
Josh Remi’s “C8” is a Stirring Homage to Corvette Car Culture
2023 Reviews:
Angel Dust From Heaven: Reviewing the Melvins Bad Mood Rising
Young Dirty Bastard Harkens Back to the Hip-Hop’s Golden Age with Brooklyn’s My Blood Type
Anizzy’s “You Against Me:” The Antidote to Your Late-Night Worries
