rock

by GetMusic

Riff-ridden and restless: Dino DiMuro's Beatle Bones 'n Smokin' Stones delivers psychotic Americana — a Beefheart cover dressed in wild new colors — while Unquiet Nights' Last Days of Rome stirs stirring synths and fret wizardry into themes of the eternal versus the temporary. syn.terra's Mechanical Jazz welds jazz stylings with industrial sensibilities — pianos and horns fused with distorted synth saws — and Ian Cat's East Coast New England Boy chronicles homesickness and loneliness in a Wilco-meets-Britpop soundscape. Stan Stewart's Protection offers a heartfelt plea to protect the vulnerable.