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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · 3d

“She’s gotten much better through the years, I think, and her latest is perhaps my favorite sonically that I’ve heard.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/t...

TAYLOR SWIFT, THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL

When it comes to bigger artists who take the spotlight, there’s always the question of “street cred.” It’s not easy at the top—“heavy is the head that wears the crown,” as the saying goes. But Tayl…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Check out our latest playlist for ideas of artists to support #bandcampfriday

prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Sep 1

New Prism playlist for artists reviewed between May and August! open.spotify.com/playlist/1lg...

PRISM REVIEWS - MAY TO AUGUST 2025

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Aug 6

"It’s always cause for celebration, when Chris Staples releases a new album, and this one certainly doesn’t disappoint." prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/c...

CHRIS STAPLES, DON’T WORRY

“I’m still making up for / the person that I wasn’t then / I still got a little time / to become what I could have been,” Richmond, Virginia’s Chris Staples sings off his newly released…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Aug 1

It’s Bandcamp Friday! Check out Prism Reviews and support your new favorite artists #bandcampfriday #supportindieartists

prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 29

“But really, who else would you want to be winning at this game, than someone who keeps it as real as Alex G does.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/a...

ALEX G, HEADLIGHTS

“I think that no matter what you choose now / you’re gonna have to lose, now,” Philadelphia’s Alex G sings on the last song off his new album of songs, Headlights, which is his first major la…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 28

“It is a fitting follow-up to a record that put him on the musical map with his memorable melody lines and the duo’s visceral alternative rock attack.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/a...

ASSERTION, BASKING IN THE GASLIGHT

Have you ever been so gaslit that you feel like you need a gas mask? On their stellar sophomore album, Basking in the Gaslight, Spartan Records’ Assertion, made up of multi-instrumentalist Justin T…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 23

“It is a pretty and pretty deep album, you should check out if you like pop artists who are deeply rooted in folk colorings.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/c...

CHRISSY JOHNSON, SHAKE WHERE YOU’RE STEADY

“And all the runaway love / on the loose in my brain / So much runaway love / on the loose in my brain” Chicago’s Chrissy Johnson sings on her album of folk pop songs called Shake When You’re…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 21

“With all of the confusion and pain that comes with life, you’ve gotta take a chance on living a little, they offer to their listeners in songs that are measured on the scale of indie alternative rock mettle, and not found wanting.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/p...

PAINTDRY, KISS//CRY

“I’ll play a happy song to myself as a treat / Incongruence aside I like moving my feet / I like moving my feet,” Baltimore’s alternative indie band paintdry sings off the single “Huddy Bolly,” fro…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 19

“If you like the appeal of a “fringe festival,” where each of the bands is just professional enough to make for quality entertainment, you might really enjoy Shakemore Au Go Go.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/s...

SHAKEMORE 2025, LIVE REVIEW

On the outskirts of Westminster, MD there is a fringe fest that happens every year (they even managed to record from home, during the pandemic) that is home to outsider bands and grassroots concert…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 12

“Rachel’s voice is hypnotizing and the band, though they are adept at many different styles, have a funky, raucous style all their own.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/l...

LADY KING & THE ACES, S/T

“I know that I’m gold / With four aces in my pocket,” Rachel King of the Lancaster quintet Lady King and The Aces sings on the opening track of their debut self-titled album which released on Indep…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Pretty songs, pretty deep, too. If you like folk music with satisfying attention to detail, check this out.” @marianrunk.bsky.social
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MARIAN RUNK, TWO WIRES AND A SPARK

It’s coming on April, and I’m on a bus / traveling toward a city of rust / The red-feathered birds are all back from the south / I’m headed east, riddled with doubt,” Chicago’s Americana artist Ma…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jul 3

“Is there anything as under-appreciated as Motown, really?” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/s...

SAEED, PATTERNS

“There’s numbers everywhere / please believe / we’re living in equations,” Miami’s Saeed Tabibi, who blends “Cuban and Persian roots into soulful, genre-defying music filled with positi…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jun 30

“The way I say it, it sounds cliche. The way they sing and play it, with their own brand of triumphant mystical exploration, it sounds like the forming of clay into a pot or the cutting of trees into a house.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/b...

BOAT WATER, SEAT OF CREATION

“I want to share the pain / Love is driving under a bridge in the rain / Now, rain!” Baltimore’s Boat Water have released a study in country psychedelic indie rock in their latest three track EP, c…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jun 27

“His songs are a bit like lightning in a bottle: capturing the tenuous interplay between love and loss, home and wanderlust, forever and the pregnant present moment.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/j...

JEROME FORDE, I WON’T EVER GET OVER YOU

“Tell me your love is mine to lose / And I will not refuse,” Northern Michigan’s alt-Americana plucker-singer Jerome Forde sings with conviction on his latest EP of songs. “I won’t ever get over yo…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jun 23

“If you like literary music, artists who operate with a scalpel on the sometimes unsavory human species, you might really like McMurtry’s music.” @curtismcmurtry.bsky.social prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/c...

CURTIS MCMURTRY, THE POLLEN & THE ROT

“When you’re restless in the spring / let your roots turn into wings / sail until you finally sink / back to the mud below,” Austin’s apocalyptic indie pop artist Curtis McMurtry sings on his lates…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jun 21

“I’d give this album a perfect ten, for its vocal and lyrical riches, matched with remarkably nostalgic arrangements.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/j...

JEREMIAH LLOYD HARMON, STUPID HERO

“I find love like I find money in the laundry. With a little bit of luck, in the pockets of my old jeans. And it’s never too much, just enough to last me till the morning, when I lose it all the sa…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jun 14

“I have watched this, and the other videos, almost every day, for weeks, a first for me.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/d...

DANCE MYTH, THE SHAPES WE MAKE

“We are not just simple math. We are a library of surprises inside a maze of last stands,” Missouri’s Dan Smith (cleverly rendered Dance Myth) “talks” with force on his latest album of altern…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jun 12

RIP Brian Wilson

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · Jun 7

“The change she sings about in ‘Ghost’ is a change that determines what artists are really going places and what artists get trapped in their own fears of transcendence.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/c...

CALISTA GARCIA, ANIMAL MAGNIFIQUE

“She shatters the glass / And it all flies back / A thousand shards to the face // She’s relieved to know / She’ll never have to look the same,” Calista Garcia sings on the song, “Ghost,” off her n…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · May 29

“Imagine hearing PJ Harvey for the first time. Or Courtney Love’s Hole. Bonanno, who channels both of those epic female rockers, yet has her own sound.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/e...

EXWIFE, BLOW

“The first cut is the deepest / one to the soul / gonna be a long time before we make it home,” Alexandria Bonanno from the Portland, Oregon ExWife sings on her debut album, of ‘90s alternative rem…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · May 28

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · May 27

“She knows the power of a compelling anthropomorphic fable, a Robert Frost-like poem, or a nature-rich metaphor.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/j...

JESSICA WILLIS FISHER, BLOOMING

“June, I hear you knocking at the door / Don’t keep me waiting anymore / Come take my afternoon,” Nashville’s Jessica Willis Fisher sings on her latest album of fiddle and guitar tunes, Blooming, j…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · May 25

“The album is like a love letter from a mother or a best friend, giving spiritual advice, reminiscing on the past, and promising to be the person in your corner.” prismreviews.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/s...

SHERYL CROW, EVOLUTION (DELUXE)

“With a personalized spin on classic roots rock and songwriting that’s smart, fun, and often more complex than it first lets on,” it says in Sheryl Crow’s bio on Spotify. She’s been around si…

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prismreviews.bsky.social @prismreviews.bsky.social · May 5

“But that is the magic of a new mewithoutYou record, especially a live album, is that it gives their avid fans another look into a character and a group of character who have revealed a heck of a lot of their mysteries to the world.”
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MEWITHOUTYOU, LIVE (VOL. ONE)

“I often wonder if I’ve already died,” mewithoutYou’s Aaron Weiss sings off of “Cardiff Giant” on the band’s “posthumous” live concert album, called simply, Live (rhymes with “give”), Vol. On…

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