Marina Andreas

Ahh Christmas time is approaching and it stirs up so many fond memories from my childhood and young adulthood. Rainy days, drinking hot chocolate by the fireplace, decorating the Christmas tree, baking cookies, and of course listening to classic Christmas tracks back when tapes and CDs were a thing. Oh, and let’s not forget Dad’s and Mum’s warnings that Santa will gift us only if we were nice throughout the year–and this was the mere and only condition we were allowed to write a letter to this imaginary red and white fuzzy, fat human. When I first heard “Don’t Shoot

  While I believe  music and comedy don’t really mesh–many times the result is just tacky or moronic, there are some folks that prove music with a comedy twist can make a really nice and quality duo.  When I accidentally came across British musician and comedian Rainer Hersch (thanks to my YT recommendations) and listened to a couple of his orchestrated works, I had an “Aha” moment. This guy is probably crazy or genius (or maybe both) but his unconventional ideas to mix music with comedy are quite the thing. I mean, who could have thought of turning the familiar

Even though I’m not the kind of person who’s always on the lookout for new music and new artists, there are times where I accidentally stumble across new hidden gems that eventually grow on me and I feel proud of myself.  Something like this happened when I searched for “ocean blues” and the artist “Oceanator” came up in the YT music search. But, despite what her name suggests, her music style has nothing to do with ocean blues and relaxing music, but something more symbolic and profound ( I assume that’s what she thought when she came up with this

When it comes to my taste in rock music, I’m all about vinyl classics or totally spicy and alternative tracks–nothing in-between and nothing too hard or pretentious. And Alice Cooper certainly never disappoints (at least thus far) when it gets to offering rock fans a mixture of classic 70s and 80s rock with a twist.  His latest album, released back in Feb 2021, “Detroit Stories” is just that. A luminous marriage of classic 70’s rock-n-roll, 80s metal, shock rock and some subtle jazzy, electronics, and blues influences. As it’s obvious by the title, the entire album pays homage to his