Abel Cruz

  • ASHRR - Otherside

    ASHRR – “Otherside”

    When you happen to be in a very creative environment, it is very difficult to stay still. The current pandemic situation has become a challenge for those to overcome when you have ideas you want to express. We have seen many cases in the last year of musicians trying...
  • ASHRR - Dark Eyes

    ASHRR – “Dark Eyes”

    In the ‘80s, when Mark Burgess’ band The Chameleons ended most of their gigs with their angry and sometimes hysterical cover version of Alternative TV’s “Splitting In Two”, the Mancunian singer chanted, “We’re living in strange times,” a reference to their third record (Strange Times), but also a recurring...
  • J GRGRY - Dinosaurs (2020)

    J GRGRY – “Dinosaurs” (2020)

    QRO actually reviewed “Dinosaurs” in March 2019 (QRO review), but J GRGRY made a new version, after finding several problems with the previous incarnation, as he explains: “The version from early 2019 was a demo we were working on. I wanted to have some new material out for the...
  • J GRGRY - Flowers + Champagne

    J GRGRY – “Flowers + Champagne”

    After a string of top-notch singles we’ve covered in this page, such as “Imagination”, “Dinosaurs” (a track that will receive a new mix, shortly), “Open Roads”. and “Don’t Ever Give Up” (this one racking up more than 1 million views on YouTube), J GRGRY is still going strong with...
  • The Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain

    The Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain

    You would expect them to be mellow, as most bands become when they’re in their late 50s, but this is not the case with the Furs....
  • J GRGRY - Don't Ever Give Up

    J GRGRY – “Don’t Ever Give Up”

    We’ve been following the exploits and latest singles by Seattle’s J GRGRY since late 2018 when he released the feisty “Imagination” (QRO review). There, the character bowed to makes amends to things and people he did wrong, in an up-tempo and flickering melody. Then we had the sumptuous “Dinosaurs”...
  • Blak : Live

    Blak

    It is refreshing to see bands from two different continents and separated by 10,000 miles (at least) joined by their mutual love of pushing the limits of what instrumental rock music can be....
  • J GRGY - Open Roads

    J GRGRY – “Open Roads”

    Seattle’s J GRGRY (Joe Gregory) keeps on advancing new tracks of what will be his new record, out next year. After the feisty “Imagination” (QRO review) and the anthemistic “Dinosaurs” (QRO review), he now presents “Open Roads”. The song deals with the moving of Gregory and his now fiancé...
  • Primavera Sound 2019 Preview

    Primavera Sound 2019 Recap

    Primavera Sound came to Barcelona in 2019....