Party anthems seem to have the same narrative and visual theme when reimagined as music videos, but while some are content to do the same things their rivals and influences just did, Ron Brunk wants to blaze forward in the new single “Five Lights.” “Five Lights” invites us into a collage of …

Sheila E. featuring Gilberto Santa Rosa “El Rey Del Timbal” (mambo/Latin dance) https://youtu.be/hllqI4T17pE   She needs no introduction, yet she merits a parade—Paisley Park’s Queen of Percussion, here she is: Sheila E.! Hailing originally from a working-class, melting-pot family in Oakland, Sheila E. rapidly gained success in her early 20s, playing …

Silent Skies’ Dormant is the third release from the highly praised duo of pianist/composer Vikram Shankar and Tom S. Englund. The pair are renowned for their work with other musical outfits; Englund with the band Evergrey and Shankar with acts such as Lux Terminus and Redemption. Their partnership under the Silent Skies banner, however, affords them …

Jonah Leatherman, the enigmatic sonic craftsman hailing from the heartland of Indiana, has unveiled his latest creation Ensuring My Uncertainty. The very title of this record serves as a poignant harbinger of the emotional terrain we are about to traverse. Leatherman’s offering beckons us to grapple with the ineffable uncertainties that pervade …

Erupting like a stadium rocker in the style of classic chest-beating bands like Led Zeppelin but quickly shaped into something too grungy and disobedient to live by the disciplined rules of metal, it’s obvious from the first couple of seconds we hear in The Dead Daisies’ “Make Some Noise” forward …

In what feels like an AOTY-worthy moment for indie rock fans everywhere, The One Eighties deliver a new record this summer that has left me on the edge of my seat from my very first spin. Appropriately named Minefields, The One Eighties’ most recent affair is hardly another entry in a …

Carla Patullo’s So She Howls is a lot of things. The nine songs comprising the album are neo-classical, ambient, and cinematic in scope. It’s really quite unclassifiable as one thing. It defies easy labels. Listening to these performances suggests that the creative outburst producing this material likely took a year to write, …

Massachusetts-based Clash Bowley continues his prolific ways with yet another new collection entitled Warm and Fuzzy. His idiosyncratic songwriting bears no ready comparison with his peers and contemporaries; much of this is due to the nature of the recordings, DIY affairs laid down in his home studio setting, but there’s more …

There aren’t many sacrifices in this world that can compare to that which a group of musicians makes when they give their soul over to the audience for nothing more than a round of applause, and in the new single “Heaven Collides” by Makes My Blood Dance, the up and …

2023 has been a banner year for new pop music, and among the talent that I’ve had the pleasure of listening to this summer, few stand out as much as R&B crooner Andon does. Andon’s new single “Love Language” is a fiery groove number that puts a lot of stock …

In his new single “Legal Dreamers,” singer Kēvens continues what he started with his debut in establishing himself as one of the hardest-hitting young players to come out of the underground in recent times. Right from the first beat forward, “Legal Dreamers” presses us with its muscularity whilst adhering to …

The North Carolina-based singer-songwriter releases the follow up to her Top 10 UK iTunes hit, “Two Shots of Tequila.” The song is based on that moment when you want something, but you know it’ll only bring you heartache in the morning. ” Today, singer-songwriter Pam Ross releases her new single, “You Don’t …