Bristol Rocks
"...Jake Stigers and the Velvet Roots are one of the best bands that I have seen either in or out of Bristol."...click here to read more
Blog Critics Magazine
"His new CD has a loose, energetic flavor, and Stigers' facility with catchy
tunesmithing has not deserted him" ...click here for more
Classic Rock Society Magazine
"A well crafted and soulful album, a superior effort full of radio friendly tracks. Stigers voice is pleasant and striking." ...click here for more
UK Sunday Express
"His songs chime with such a clear and literate brilliance...." ...click here for more
EarCandy Magazine
"Soulful rock n' roll with just enough of an edge to be cooler than most of radio darlings in the same vein". ...click here to check out the complete review
The Daily Vault
"Of all the musical ingredients needed to cook up a tasty batch of rock and roll, one of the most intangible and underappreciated is attitude. You can have the cleanest, fattest hooks in the game, but if you can't muster up a little snarl, a dash of wild-eyed fervor, don't even bother, man. It's gonna come off flatter than a penny on a busy train track. Of all the assets Jake Stigers bring to his game -- and there are plenty -- maybe the most appealing is attitude. The dude just plain loves to sing, and it shows." ...click here to check out the complete review
Blues Matters!
"Indie artist Jake Stigers is a rock singer/songwriter force aspiring to the same league as the great Jude Cole. An artiste who apparently and unusually arrives fully formed and confident, nothing naïve or immature here. The songs all supply shed-loads of hooks, great rock riffs, scorching lead and back-up vocals set in solid arrangements and production to make harmonious AOR of the highest caliber" ...click here to check out the complete review 
Get Ready To Rock
"A beautifully recorded piece of work. It's a great good time rock 'n' roll record and it's undeniably radio friendly ...click here to read more
Roadworks Music Club
"If you ever needed someone to really rip it up and win over a crowd - if your life depended on it - Jake and The Velvet Roots would be the boys. Use your 1 phone call to send for Stigers!" ...click here to read more
The Muse's Muse
"If Jake opened his own hotel, his fans would make sure there would be No Vacancy because this is the kind of music that people not only want to hear, but experience as well." ...click here to read more
NEUFUTUR
"The continual shifts in style and approaches to music that Stigers creates is a nice burst of fresh air in a time where acts attempt to ape each other without anything in the way of differentiation between them. Stigers has no bounds." ...click here to read more
Kweevak.com
“Stigers has a smooth voice with swagger. Jake's talented band provides fat riffs, heavy rhythms and some harmonies to compliment Stigers' melodious voice. The CD is strong from start to finish.” ...click here to read more
Smother Magazine
“Smothered in Southern blues-rock and the thick drawl of the Deep South, Jake Stigers returns to produce the follow-up to his “Comin’ Back Again” album. He continues to tackle the roots of alternative rock with a furious tenacity.” ...click here to read more
Not Lame Recording Company
“Classic roots pop… cool, gritty and always catchy. Like his debut (Comin’ Back Again), “No Vacancy” is an out-right winner.” ...click here to read more
Melodic.net
“Perhaps it’s his cool, “It’s only rock n’ roll” attitude and his lovely voice that speaks right to your heart.” ...click here to read more
Music Emissions
“Rootsy rock with a little bite and a little humor. “No Vacancy” is a great beer, lazy afternoon listen, one as familiar as all your drinking buddies. Jake Stigers is one guy you want to see on stage.” ...click here to read more
Kool Kat Musik
“Very cool rockin’, first-rate roots pop effort from Jake! The radio-friendly lead-off track, “Ride With You”, sound like T. Rex filtered through the Georgia Satellites! “She’s A Woman” could’ve been a hit for James Taylor or The Eagles!” All good things in our book! “Slow Time”, is a fitting end to this little 7-song gem! ...click here to read more
Daily Vault
"And then there are those rare indie artists who seem to emerge fully formed from the ether with just about every little detail -- hooks, vocals, arrangements, production -- in place and ready to blow up your radio. Indie artists like Jake Stigers. " ...click here to read more
New York Daily News
"Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes is such a fan of Jake Stigers…[he’s] Mick Jagger meets Bill Withers."
Time Out New York
"Stigers plays rock without apologies, seamless songs with undeniably catchy choruses.”
The Fuze
"Comin’ Back Again is an honest album full of raw guitar and emotion and songs that appeal to the heart and to the head. Jake Stigers is an independent artist on the rise.”
Discovering Artists
"With a well refined hard rock & roll sound, Jake Stigers has a lot to offer, with smooth riffs & Stigers’ voice; a well-oiled piece of rock-n-roll machinery…his lyrics are filled with wit & edge…” ...click here to read more
Ear Candy Magazine
"Where the hell did this guy come from? Do you feel high slaps you upside the head and makes you want to turn around and ask for more. This is an album full of power pop with bits of bluesy rock flavor that should be in your collection”
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Smother Magazine
"He writes catchy hooks with easy on the ears vocals and magical guitar riffs”
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Kool Kat Musik
"WOW! A totally rockin’ debut! Chock full of crunchy at times, jangly at times, acoustic at times, ragged, Keef ‘n Woody-like guitar interplay other times, with top-notch vocals and songwriting! In other words, the perfect formula for some great rootsy pop!...click here to read more
Melodic
"He’s a cool power pop rocker that could be the result if Mick Jagger, Steve Miller & Danny Wilde got together & made an album…I think Keith Richards would be full of envy if he heard this stuff…” ...click here to read more
Its About Music
"I have taken a listen and all I can say is that it’s very difficult to hide genius.”
KWEEVAK
"Jake Stigers is a talented artist melding modern and vintage flavors in a savory musical stew!” ...click here to read more
Pulse Weekly
"Stigers is a singer/songwriter at heart, but he loves the full band and he does a damn fine job of combining both. His songs are beyond catchy.”
Coffee Artists
"Jake’s undeniably a great artist. We wade through a lot of terrible CD’s, it’s nice to get one that you actually enjoy listening to from start to finish. I liked it so much I’m listening to it again!”
Music Emissions
"Stigers has a strong, and confident, pop sense, the songs rock with tight control. "Comin’ Back Again and "Only Wanna Be With You” bounce and crunch like good power pop should”.
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WNTI 91.9 FM
"I just listened to most of your full length CD. You rock! I’ll definitely be playing you on my show. You keep making great music, and I’ll keep playing it!
Neufutur
"With vocals as heart breaking as anything that Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard could whip up and skillful movements through rock, country, and even the pop-rock of the Beatles, Comin’ Back Again will ensure that any and all listeners, regardless of age or musical tastes, will tune in again and again.” ...click here to read more
The Pace Press – Pace University
"If you’re tired of punk rock bands screaming into microphones and just want to sit back and listen to some good rock music, then Jake Stigers is the rocker for you. The songs on Comin’ Back Again are catchy. You will indeed end up listening to this CD several times and it will have you humming along by the last track. Stigers is even better live than he is on his CD. Be sure to see him perform”.
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Kynd Music
"Jake Stigers did it this time. With one continuous 10-song groove, he carries the listeners up the mountain heights, down in to the valley, to church, along the river and back home again. To sum it up for you, it’s time to recognize his serious talent and start cranking this shit any and every where you go”. ...click here to read more
Shut Eye Records
"Simply put, this album rocked my socks off. Rarely do I get the pleasure of reviewing a CD that I enjoy flawlessly from start to finish. Jake Stigers exemplifies the fun, buoyant spirit of pop/rock that we’ve all missed so dearly. This is authentic rock n’ roll – raucous guitars, snotty vocals and a hint of that good ol’ vintage vitality. Jake Stigers proves that rock n’ roll is truly Comin’ Back Again.”
Not Lame Recording Company
"The debut has a roots-pop feel grounding it, an energizing ingredient in a welter of Wall of Sound, throwback Tom Petty open-chorded jangle, a bit of rockin’ funk of Prince or Lenny Kravitz and sharp-eared pop tunefulness” ...click here to read more
Pop Matters
"...if the first nine didn't knock your socks off, then Stigers ups the ante with the no-BS of "That Ain't Livin". If only they all came this great......click here to read more
Blog Critics
"Stigers' songwriting and his fine voice and band keep the whole thing on course. Musical comparisons aside, this CD is a whole lot of fun, and isn't that the main point of rock anyway?"
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Left Hip Magazine
"From the very first track I knew that this was down home rock n' roll of the purest kind" ...click here to read more
Demo Universe
"Jake may be unsigned but he hasn't an indie bone in his body. Jake Stigers is as polished and impactful as anything on commercial rock radio". ...click here to read more
Left Hip Magazine
"This is music that can't be ignored......." ...click here to read more
