Downtown Music Mountain

Downtown Music Mountain #3 Now usually, I would only post on Sunday, but I wanted to make an exception for every last day of the month. I wanted to talk about my anticipated albums for the upcoming month. I don't know if this will be an every month thing, seeing as I don't have any albums in December I'm looking forward to. Of course, I'll do my research but anyways, here are my 8 albums I'm looking forward to in September! Gonna keep it relatively short since I've got eight bands to pay attention to here. Alazka: Pheonix  Release date: September 1st, 2017 I found this band pretty recently so not much I can say about them. Also the fact that I've only heard 3 songs by them. So I won't be coming into this album with long awaited expectations. Still, from what I've heard, I'm really interested, especially to hear more of those cleans. Blindwish: Good Excuses Release Date: September 1st, 2017 Even less I can say about this b

Downtown Music Mountain #2 I'll admit, at first I wasn't a big fan of instrumental bands. A band with no vocals? Nothing I can sing along to? How can anyone get into this? But after giving bands like Chon, Save Us From The Archon, and Covet a chance, I noticed that instrumentals in songs are usually so taken for granted. Three new instrumental bands inspired me to show off the underrated talent they have: Fox Vibes, Sincerely, and Elders. Check out my summaries of them below and make sure to show them love! Fox Vibes From Leominster, Massachusetts  Latest Release: Mantra EP (July 14th, 2017) What makes Fox Vibes so impressive, is the fact that they are essentially a solo project by Anthony Cepeda Jr. Creating a plethora of jazz metal fusion sounds. This band is for fans of Strawberry Girls and Chon for sure, but do not mistake them for clones by any means. The guitar/bass tracking is so all over the place (in a good way), that it makes you wonder how on