“I’m facing four walls / I’m going nowhere at all” complains a frustrated Jupiter in Velvet at the onset of the record-opening “And so the Earth Stood Still” from Punk Goes the Velvet, his vocal and its lyrics echoing much of the mood that will persist throughout the entirety of the tracklist here. Putting rebellion at
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Pop singer Giadora has been taking her time stepping into fame. Her first single, “Twisted,” was released in 2019 to more than a warm reception from critics and fans – it lit up almost sixty thousand streams in the wake of its debut, and immediately had the independent press sniffing around for the new and
Rolling out of the shadows with a fiery guitar-driven groove that only gets hotter as we press on, “Simple Song” is anything but, and it’s a fair taste of what listeners should expect to find around every turn in the new album Live at the Saxon Pub from Matt Smith. Billed as Matt Smith’s World, Smith and
Driven by a giant bassline but hardly devoid of substance in its vocalist’s blistering rap, Chilleano’s “That Shit” is perhaps best described as being rapid-fire where it counts but executed with immense thought and self-control just the same. There are aesthetical contradictions in the track that immediately confront us in the intro – there’s a
The Mary Me Margret podcast series by Randall Wheatley, co-created with music by Matt Smith, is an oddity of sorts but it is also a great story to kick back to during the global pandemic. The 14 short stories string together with a nail-biting edge, told by the excellence of Wheatley who created something he’s
The gilded strumming that signals the start of Rod Stewart’s legendary “Maggie May” is left wholly intact in the version we find in Origins – Singers and Songs That Made Me from Jeff Coffey this September, but from the onset of the melody forward, there’s a tense pressure in the instrumentation that won’t find relief until Coffey
OG Cuicide has done a lot since his 2011 breakthrough single “Never Give Up” first hit record store shelves. He’s recorded numerous singles, dropped a couple of albums and appeared on quite a few collaborative projects, and in his latest release “Keep it G,” he brings his wealth of experience to the writer’s room and
Where is the music world going? Who will emerge as the next generation of top flight performers and bands? What will come into fashion and then fall out again? These are the sorts of questions serious music heads often ponder and sometimes the answers are far from clear. One thing I am certain of, however,
The rhyme, the look, the beat, the poetry, the intensity, the artistry, the creativity, rapper Nate Soundz has got it all. Almost from out of an abyss, he’s arrived on the scene in full effervescence and dazzle, owning his unique and edgy soliloquy. Already a sparkling producer, Nate Soundz has a soundcloud repertoire including tracks
Categorizing an artist like HeIsTheArtist isn’t easy when trying to use the standard labeling that applies to most performers in 2020. When listening to his new EP, Adam & Eve, there’s a general sense of continuity to the music we hear in tracks like “Boom – The Explosion,” “Sometimes / I Want You Around” and “Boom
Folk and rock have a hybrid together on the new Psychopath Etiquette – Rough Draft EP. The band are a duo out of southern Main, consisting of David Sprague and Paul Sprague, two fine musicians who’ve been at it with various projects over the last decade. The first EP features “When Anxieties Attack” and they
The characters in The Little Wretches’ songs are so real, so close to the listener it’s like you can almost picture them crossing the train tracks. They’re putting out a smoke, chucking a pebble or looking up at the Pittsburgh sky trying to see the stars beyond the airplane lights. Robert Wagner, lyricist and lead
Rocks blues roots have been getting some long overdue respect from underground players lately, and for evidence of this, I point you towards none other than “Shaking Off The Evil,” the new single and music video from one Moon Fever. Moon Fever have a rock n’ roll sound that is bred from their edgy collective
From one verse to the next, there’s not a stitch of inauthenticity for us to look past in the new single “Hurt Me” from Taylor Colson – if anything, there are so many raw lyrical barbs being thrown in our direction that trying to evade them becomes next to impossible by the completion of the
The music more than the lyrics speaks volumes in the new track, “Biznasty” from genre-defying trio, The Dream Logic. Distinguished in their musicianship, the members of The Dream Logic have collaborated with an astounding who’s who of music for several decades. On the surface it might sound like a merry, mix matched blend of genres,
Rock n’ roll rebellion comes in a lot of different forms, but in the case of Pretty Awkward’s new aptly-titled single “Misfits,” it’s hitting us in stylized lyricism that is sharper than a samurai sword. There’s been a lot of talk among the critics lately about whether or not gentler pop rock in the style
Chilling and ominous in its strut, the beat we discover beneath the melody and vicious rap in “Off the Block” is arguably just as big an agent of evocation as Livefromcedargrove’s lyrics are. The North Carolina-born hip-hop artist isn’t pulling any punches in this all-new single; instead of retreating from the sizzle he set off
The magic between songwriter Bonnie Warren and crooner Manny Cabo is lightning in a bottle – especially when it comes to the new ballad “All Night Again”. Cabo, a rocker with a strong sense of sensitivity, bleeds Warren’s words into a moving tune for our times. Inspired by the front line care workers during an
If you like country music, you’re probably already aware that there hasn’t been a generation of up and coming players like the emerging one in quite a long time – if ever before. Artists like east coaster Gary Burk III are changing the game for country music and removing creative control of the genre away
A charismatic string melody. A soft voice with a brooding, strong verse. The gentle beat of the percussion. The sway of the collective band. This is “Anniversary,” our first official look into the artistry and melodicism of one Jeffrey Li, and it’s easy to see why industry insiders are already calling this young man one
Sporting a textured bassline presence but ultimately defined by its melodic faceting as it’s sourced from the vocal, Sane’s debut single “Average” is anything but a simplistic hip-hop recording from a rook still trying to find his sound. On the contrary, Sane approaches his verses with a swagger more akin to a veteran style than
Oozing out of the speakers with a molten-hot riff that could destroy just about anything that gets in its path, “Driving Me Insane” starts off with a heavier frontend than some of its counterparts in the tracklist of Insane, but nevertheless, it’s just as melodic an anthem as any other on this latest cut from Tom
If you’re a fan of adult contemporary crossovers with a gospel twist, you need to give Lavendine and their single “Rapture” a close listen this summer. Acquiring a lot of buzz from the indie press, “Rapture” fuses together some of the best elements from pop, adult contemporary rock and CCM to bridge the gap between
There are a lot of voices, not a majority but still a significant group, speaking out that the hip-hop genre has fallen into a rut, struggles with an epidemic of imitation, and labors under the weight of its clichés. Elz Bentley is a rebuke to that idea. The Lexington, Kentucky based performer, vocalist, and writer
With a patient picking, Streaking in Tongues invites us into the bucolic string play of “Everyone Who Ever Cared,” one of the cornerstone tracks of their new record Live from Lockdown, but this instrumental charisma is only the tip of the iceberg for what this LP has in store for listeners. Tracks like the imaginative and
When you work with greatness, your own game elevates. Just ask singer/songwriter, Andre Mayon. The artist behind “Love At First Sight” breaks into the indie scene with an unembellished tune that runs circles in the listener’s mind. Mayon, who’s cousin is famed music video director Hype Williams, utilized his time in the music industry trenches
Pop hasn’t changed in the last fifty years quite as much as some people might think it has – in all reality, it’s essentially the same structural concept that it was a half-century ago in more ways than one. Take Rob Alexander’s new single “This Hollywood Road;” while the track is sporting a sophisticated swing
A blistering beat tamed by a velvety vocal. Sleek lyrical daggers laced with a melodic integrity as strong as it is welcoming. A strutting drumbeat that doesn’t need a big ol’ bassline to get us grooving along to the rhythm of the music. This is Little Hurt’s new single and music video “Alaska,” and while
308 Ghost Train are trying to accomplish a lot with their music, but one thing they aren’t interested in – even slightly – is keeping up with the trends of a jaded mainstream rock sound. Their latest single, “Bleed Over Me,” ushers the band into 2020 with a balladic sound stylized around a vocal-powered hook
Chemistry is everything in a band, and this is especially true of rock n’ roll bands. If it’s not there, and more importantly, if it’s not real, the audience can tell – take The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ latest single, “Brace Yourself.” With over a billion online streams of their discography, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are
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