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BREAKING THRU
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Rene Lopez (from the album A New York Lie available on Liberation Label) (by Danny McCloskey)
Like the sounds surrounding him in his birth place of The Bronx, NYC native Rene Lopez blends diverse styles of Outlaw Country, Latin beats, Americana, Rock’n’Roll, and blue-eyed Soul into A New York Lie, his latest release. Putting the rhythm on the rails, the singer-songwriter confesses that ‘this heat of mine is pumping like a bullet train’ in “Feeling Right as Rain’ as A New York Lielayers a confident beat underneath the advice in “Baby Go and Fly”. The rhythms sway with “Any Chance”, drop in a coin for a honky tonk jukebox keeper with “Please Don’t Give Up”, and walks towards the front door with the confession included in the story of “I Need to Get Out”.
The songs of A New York Lie circle around common human topics when Rene Lopez juggles tales that sketch out the pain of heartbreak and find a path towards self-awareness and its prize of redemption. With a delivery that rests comfortably between Lower East Side grit and the sweet sound of Southern Soul, Rene Lopez comes to the realization that “We Can’t Even Be Friends” as he quietly strums for the mental rambles in “Beyond the Sun” and strides across the streets of NYC on the persistent beat of “We Broke Night”. A New York Lie lazily drifts on the smooth groove of its title track and offers a touch of Zydeco for “Didn’t Know Any Better” as Rene Lopez rattles the rhythms for the sense of self that drives “Goin’ Back to Lovin’ and softly offers a resume of loss for “That’s the Truth”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Rene Lopez on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Rene Lopez website
The Doohickeys (from the E.P. Merry, Happy Whatever available on Forty Below Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Coming from the non-frozen SoCal landscape that stretches from the mountains to the beach, The Doohickeys would like to wish the world a Merry Happy Whatever on their holiday release. The E.P. is a stocking stuffer of seasonal songs when The Doohickeys re-think milk and cookies to leave the man in red a mature offering with “Santa Needs a Beer”. Putting a finger to his nose and a joint to his lips, Merry Happy Whatever watches the sleigh blaze across the sky declaring “Santa is a Stoner”. The title track shuffles over the E.P., raising sawdust from the honky tonk dance floor as the Christmas Day temperatures melt the snow trapped under weather that reads “Sunny & 72” as The Doohickeys face the reality of America in 2025, checking name’s off the present list with “Put It on Credit”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to The Doohickeys on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on The Doohickeys website
Kris Angelis (from the album Le Sigh available on Blue Elan Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Riding a career trajectory that has seen chart-topping singles (“That Siren, Hope”, “The Skies We Look To”), Kris Angelis offers her recent release, Le Sigh. There is a tenderness in her vocal when she bids ‘hello’ to an “Invisible Friend” as she gracefully delivers words sent directly from her heart over the soft acoustic guitar notes that sparkle like fireflies in “How About That?”. Tough love finds a home in the story of “Dirt (Hellos and Goodbyes)” as Kris Angelis boards the “Last Call Train” with a satchel-full of questions and finds herself “Drowning” on a sluggishly echoed melody.
The main character in Le Sigh is the voice of Kris Angelis. She sings her words with emotional tones and textures that demand attention with their seduction. Musically, Le Sigh is comforting; its music wrapping around the vocals with an equal amount of poise and consideration. A hint of a Tex Mex breeze rises from the sounds of the Le Sigh title track as Kris Angelis bids “Goodbye Captain Fantastic”, walking over the ambient soundscape of “Read My Mind” uttering a whispered delivery, and confidently strides over the determined rhythms of “Dear Me”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Kris Angelis on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Kris Angelis website
Zeke Bleek (from the E.P. The Great State of Dismay available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
Delivering songs that act as a personal confession, Zeke Bleek delivers his recent E.P. release, The Great State of Dismay. He becomes “The April Fool” fully admitting ‘the joke’s always on me’ as he sidesteps pitfalls and potholes that materialize in his path. Butch Vig wandered into a Hi Desert watering hole, finding Zeke Bleek on stage, alphabetically listing his former lovers using the entire slate of letters available, deciding in the moment that he needed to produce the singer, and sat happily behind the board to record the E.P. Zeke Bleek counts “26 eXes” on the opening cut, bordering the tune as he exits The Great State of Dismay on the discordant melodies in “Harry Deam Stanton’s Eyes”. Jumping between rhythms and moods, Zeke Bleek relays his observations on life with “Bleaker by the Week” while he laundry lists the items he can no longer claim as his own in “All is Not (Yet) Lost”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Zeke Bleek on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Zeke Bleek website
Gina Barcal (from the E.P. Midwest ‘til the End available from Up the Line Music) (by Danny McCloskey)
After considering an exit to ward off the winter’s chill, Gina Barcal finds a reason to stay in place with a “Long Tall Lover”. The tune opens the territory she champions in the song when it begins the song cycle for the Midwest ‘til the End E.P. The rhythm picks up when she makes a request with “Blue Eyes Tell Me Something”, gaining the speed of a runaway train to support another personal plea with “Whiskey Don’t Fail Me Now”. Recorded in Nashville, the E.P. celebrates Country music with the glint of Americana in its eyes. Midwest ‘til the End quiets the beat for the dark words of “The Fire Won’t Stay Alive” and sings a memory with “Smoky Mountain High” as Gina Barcal spins her own life into a story as she tells the tale of Gina Rae in “Girl from the River Town”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Gina Barcal on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Gina Barcal website
Twilark (from the album The Taming Ties Create available on Canon Pence Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
North Carolina’s Canon Pence uses his musical alter-ego Twilark to collect his somber songs on The Taming Ties Create. There is a subtle Rock’n’Roll drive that carries “Your Own Ceremony” as the tone quiets with finger-picked acoustic notes that sparkle as they satellite around “Constancy”. There is a peace to the songs of Twilark as they are gently coaxed along on a soundtrack of Southern Gothic Folk. A persistent groove propels the dark promise that “Each Day Will Take a Part of You” as confident strums and rhythms ride underneath “Shade for Sunshine”. Balancing The Taming Ties Create with melodic moods and a literary tone, Twilark speaks “My True Name” on a rhythmic sway, presents ”A New Ending” on a powerful beat, and becomes a “Beacon” on a revolving rhythm as he exits the album with the advice of “To Tame, To Learn, To Know”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Twilark on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Twilark website
Like the sounds surrounding him in his birth place of The Bronx, NYC native Rene Lopez blends diverse styles of Outlaw Country, Latin beats, Americana, Rock’n’Roll, and blue-eyed Soul into A New York Lie, his latest release. Putting the rhythm on the rails, the singer-songwriter confesses that ‘this heat of mine is pumping like a bullet train’ in “Feeling Right as Rain’ as A New York Lielayers a confident beat underneath the advice in “Baby Go and Fly”. The rhythms sway with “Any Chance”, drop in a coin for a honky tonk jukebox keeper with “Please Don’t Give Up”, and walks towards the front door with the confession included in the story of “I Need to Get Out”.
The songs of A New York Lie circle around common human topics when Rene Lopez juggles tales that sketch out the pain of heartbreak and find a path towards self-awareness and its prize of redemption. With a delivery that rests comfortably between Lower East Side grit and the sweet sound of Southern Soul, Rene Lopez comes to the realization that “We Can’t Even Be Friends” as he quietly strums for the mental rambles in “Beyond the Sun” and strides across the streets of NYC on the persistent beat of “We Broke Night”. A New York Lie lazily drifts on the smooth groove of its title track and offers a touch of Zydeco for “Didn’t Know Any Better” as Rene Lopez rattles the rhythms for the sense of self that drives “Goin’ Back to Lovin’ and softly offers a resume of loss for “That’s the Truth”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Rene Lopez on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Rene Lopez website
The Doohickeys (from the E.P. Merry, Happy Whatever available on Forty Below Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Coming from the non-frozen SoCal landscape that stretches from the mountains to the beach, The Doohickeys would like to wish the world a Merry Happy Whatever on their holiday release. The E.P. is a stocking stuffer of seasonal songs when The Doohickeys re-think milk and cookies to leave the man in red a mature offering with “Santa Needs a Beer”. Putting a finger to his nose and a joint to his lips, Merry Happy Whatever watches the sleigh blaze across the sky declaring “Santa is a Stoner”. The title track shuffles over the E.P., raising sawdust from the honky tonk dance floor as the Christmas Day temperatures melt the snow trapped under weather that reads “Sunny & 72” as The Doohickeys face the reality of America in 2025, checking name’s off the present list with “Put It on Credit”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to The Doohickeys on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on The Doohickeys website
Kris Angelis (from the album Le Sigh available on Blue Elan Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Riding a career trajectory that has seen chart-topping singles (“That Siren, Hope”, “The Skies We Look To”), Kris Angelis offers her recent release, Le Sigh. There is a tenderness in her vocal when she bids ‘hello’ to an “Invisible Friend” as she gracefully delivers words sent directly from her heart over the soft acoustic guitar notes that sparkle like fireflies in “How About That?”. Tough love finds a home in the story of “Dirt (Hellos and Goodbyes)” as Kris Angelis boards the “Last Call Train” with a satchel-full of questions and finds herself “Drowning” on a sluggishly echoed melody.
The main character in Le Sigh is the voice of Kris Angelis. She sings her words with emotional tones and textures that demand attention with their seduction. Musically, Le Sigh is comforting; its music wrapping around the vocals with an equal amount of poise and consideration. A hint of a Tex Mex breeze rises from the sounds of the Le Sigh title track as Kris Angelis bids “Goodbye Captain Fantastic”, walking over the ambient soundscape of “Read My Mind” uttering a whispered delivery, and confidently strides over the determined rhythms of “Dear Me”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Kris Angelis on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Kris Angelis website
Zeke Bleek (from the E.P. The Great State of Dismay available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
Delivering songs that act as a personal confession, Zeke Bleek delivers his recent E.P. release, The Great State of Dismay. He becomes “The April Fool” fully admitting ‘the joke’s always on me’ as he sidesteps pitfalls and potholes that materialize in his path. Butch Vig wandered into a Hi Desert watering hole, finding Zeke Bleek on stage, alphabetically listing his former lovers using the entire slate of letters available, deciding in the moment that he needed to produce the singer, and sat happily behind the board to record the E.P. Zeke Bleek counts “26 eXes” on the opening cut, bordering the tune as he exits The Great State of Dismay on the discordant melodies in “Harry Deam Stanton’s Eyes”. Jumping between rhythms and moods, Zeke Bleek relays his observations on life with “Bleaker by the Week” while he laundry lists the items he can no longer claim as his own in “All is Not (Yet) Lost”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Zeke Bleek on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Zeke Bleek website
Gina Barcal (from the E.P. Midwest ‘til the End available from Up the Line Music) (by Danny McCloskey)
After considering an exit to ward off the winter’s chill, Gina Barcal finds a reason to stay in place with a “Long Tall Lover”. The tune opens the territory she champions in the song when it begins the song cycle for the Midwest ‘til the End E.P. The rhythm picks up when she makes a request with “Blue Eyes Tell Me Something”, gaining the speed of a runaway train to support another personal plea with “Whiskey Don’t Fail Me Now”. Recorded in Nashville, the E.P. celebrates Country music with the glint of Americana in its eyes. Midwest ‘til the End quiets the beat for the dark words of “The Fire Won’t Stay Alive” and sings a memory with “Smoky Mountain High” as Gina Barcal spins her own life into a story as she tells the tale of Gina Rae in “Girl from the River Town”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Gina Barcal on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Gina Barcal website
Twilark (from the album The Taming Ties Create available on Canon Pence Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
North Carolina’s Canon Pence uses his musical alter-ego Twilark to collect his somber songs on The Taming Ties Create. There is a subtle Rock’n’Roll drive that carries “Your Own Ceremony” as the tone quiets with finger-picked acoustic notes that sparkle as they satellite around “Constancy”. There is a peace to the songs of Twilark as they are gently coaxed along on a soundtrack of Southern Gothic Folk. A persistent groove propels the dark promise that “Each Day Will Take a Part of You” as confident strums and rhythms ride underneath “Shade for Sunshine”. Balancing The Taming Ties Create with melodic moods and a literary tone, Twilark speaks “My True Name” on a rhythmic sway, presents ”A New Ending” on a powerful beat, and becomes a “Beacon” on a revolving rhythm as he exits the album with the advice of “To Tame, To Learn, To Know”. (by Danny McCloskey)
Listen to Twilark on the Breaking Thru Spotify playlist
Find more information and purchase options on the Twilark website
