Like a hacky comedian in the year of our lord 2021 would ask, the man wasn’t 2020 a difficult one? Beyond the gestures at current hell world, young adults and teens especially of color have had to endure plenty of social injustices, let alone multiple setbacks in education because of …

“R.U.O.K.” is Melanie Rogers’ powerful follow-up to her most recent single “Fever” and features many of the same individuals responsible for the latter song’s success. Jesse Field’s production, mastering, and engineering has an obvious effect on this track. The even-handed treatment of the song’s several instruments, including Rogers’ voice, is …

Emulating a hurried heartbeat that carries more emotional weight than a single strand of lyrics ever could on its own, the rhythmic pulse of “Mirror Mirror” by Morgan King reaches through the speakers and demands a reaction out of us right out of the gate. There’s a capriciousness to the …

Ominously cutting into the silence in “Whistle While You Work” or grinding out a post-blues dirge in the groove-laden “Maybe My Next Day,” Grey Fields’ Vesna presents listeners with such a fetching and addictive tracklist that temptations to play it from start to finish are often too strong to be resisted. There’s …

Greeting us with a bright, almost meditative strumming of electric guitar strings, there is instantly a feeling of familiarity in the opening bars of “Throw Me into the Pool” by Izzy Outerspace that asks for us to welcome the material into our hearts right off the bat. This feeling just …

Live At The Mattress Factory – Songs From The Land Of Pit Bulls & Poker Machines” is out now. It follows their 2020 album, “Undesirables and Anarchists. “I really want listeners to be drawn to the detailed lyrics (about) the lives of people in post-industrial river towns, turning the folklore …

“EyeBANGing” is a pop dance offering that follows the international iTunes hit “I Never Catch The Train” Group of women After the success of his single, “I Never Catch The Train,” Sarantos follows up with his witty, satirical single, “EyeBANGing.” This uptempo track builds tension with the listener as it introduces the …

The country genre has never been a genre desperate for content, with it historically being one of the more popular genres out there with one of the more consistently devoted fanbases, but there’s a considerable weight to the number of men in country music that overshadow the hard-working women doing …

When Dave Vargo cuts a single, you can count on a couple of elements to be present in the material; first and foremost of these being his trademark climactic chorus. Vargo starts off nice and easy per the standard for his songwriting style in his new piece “Half Bad” but …

A fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s boldest musicians . New York-based, singer and songwriter Shihori has released a new MV ‘Invisible‘ the previous single from her upcoming album that will be released this late August. With dozens of hit songs and countless moments of brilliance, Shihori has been …

Sorted but spellbinding because of its distinctive arrangement of strings, percussion and brooding vocal harmonies, there’s something all too fetching about Discomfort Underneath’s “No Lonely Days” as it starts to play, and trying to press the stop button ahead of the song’s conclusion is next to impossible. The clandestine pop …

Even tempo and smooth vocal deliveries might sound like enough to make a decent pop track on paper, but when listening to a song like “Small Town U.S.A.” from singer/songwriter Scott Smith, it becomes obvious that making something unforgettable takes so much more than that. Smith is of a special …