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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 …

Psychedelic rock and hip-hop have a relationship that has always been close, but when listening to the music of an artist like Keary Kase, the aesthetically familial ties between the two styles are all the more obvious to listeners from one verse to the next. Kase’s new single “Remember the …

Rather than giving us everything she’s got in the chorus – and limiting the climax of her communication to this one isolated moment in the track – Tai Mistyque wants to spread the catharsis out as far as it will reach in her single “Toxic” this summer. She isn’t flirting …

Art in its truest sense knows no limits, whether they be linguistic, cultural, or medium-sanctioned. Multimedia expression as a concept is nothing new to the intellectual music fan specifically, but when it’s presented as accessibly as it is in the case of Audiopharmacy’s new single and music video “Lose Your …

As muscular as a club track but far too muted in delivery to be anything bigger than a powerful R&B ballad on steroids, Rob Murat’s “Love Me Love” is a difficult song for me to instantly categorize with the typical genre terminology critics and labels use to address and market …

Pop duo (now trio…we’ll get to that later) Robert Clayton Sandifer Jr. and Ryn Elise began making music together in late 2019 under the moniker of Lucibelle. The duo met as session musicians in Macon, Georgia. In under two years, they’ve released seven singles. Their latest “Sad Girl T_T” came …

There’s something extraordinarily soft and approachable about the way DICI lays into the opening verses of his new single “Five Rings,” and from my perspective, it all starts and ends with the vocal harmony he conjures up. He’s got such a natural relationship with the rhythm of the instruments in …

The Brooklyn, NYC based four piece Hard Nips are brimming with playfulness and attitude. Never assume, however, that because they treat their songs and music with a certain degree of irreverence that their latest album Master Cat appeals to the lowest common denominator. There’s intelligence bristling from each of Master Car’s eight …

America’s Got Talent has brought forth many incredible stories over the years, but if there’s one you really need to hear for yourself today, it’s Kechi’s. What she’s survived is unimaginable to most of us, as someone who lived through what could only be described as an impossibly brutal plane crash, …

Sam Green’s Time Machine Transcends Space & Time – serendipity. Sam Green’s fecund creativity makes reviewing his work a joy and embarrassment of riches. His flood of releases between 2013 and 2018 covers multiple bases without ever falling into inconsistency and the impressive variety of the musicianship in his songwriting …

With 2020 essentially devoid of the typical festival activity so many of us have come to appreciate over the years largely for the new music they introduce us to, 2021 was bound to be feature a couple of intriguing comps – and in OIM Records’ Shared Secrets: Wave, we might have …

She can be described as Eartha Kitt meets Marilyn Monroe with a homespun, country twist. Those were my first thoughts when I first heard (and saw) Lady Redneck. Considering her California-esque, platinum blonde beauty, some might say she doesn’t look the part of a country songstress. However, those same people …