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Soft and supple at the start, “Soar,” the new single/video combo from Michael Pinder, slowly blossoms into an indie pop power ballad both steeped in surreal harmonies and an ebbtide of exotic beats certain to put a swing in your step this April, and although you could make the argument …

To say there have been scores of curious indie folk-rock artists coming out of the woodwork lately would be too big an understatement for this critic to make about the state of the Canadian underground, but few that I’ve personally come across this April have demonstrated quite as much efficiency …

Brown Kid, the moniker of Eduardo, a Peruvian-born singer/songwriter, has released the single “Sunrise”. Now based in the United States, Brown Kid’s modest song has a warm, acoustic guitar bed and verse repeating in his charming tune. Listeners will love the story telling and Brown Kid’s mesmerizing voice. “Sunrise” is …

On the back of a rollicking guitar-driven groove, DocFell & Co.’s “Fragile,” the latest single from Oklahoma-born frontman John Fell’s eponymous band, comes into focus with a lush melodicism that is unmistakably countrified in tone and wholly a product of Okie soul at its freest. The strings sway to a …

What’s the place that makes you feel the most free? Is it a state-of-mind or a physical spot? Or is it a person? Hourstone, an exciting young artist, channels his mesmerizing beats and spiraling tones in “Halfway House (The One Place Remix)”. EDM and pop music fans alike will get …

Rocker Jack Pfeffer is all of us right now. He’s the type of rocker that could easily be content creating music from his home studio. He’s sensitive in nature. He’s wanting to get out and blare his music to the masses, but in the cruelest of ways, here we are. …

It’s never wise to judge a song, nor a music video, completely by its opening bars, but in the case of Bruce Sudano’s “The Mountain,” it’s difficult to avoid getting swept away by the modest acoustic melody that greets us at the onset of the singer/songwriter’s most recent single. The …

If you keep up with underground heavy music, you probably already know something about Mr. Tom Keifer, whose 2019 record Rise shook metal and rock scenes enough to attract a lot of buzz from the mainstream and indie circles alike. Rise’s star single, “Hype,” and its music video are a big part of …

From the kaleidoscopic riff n’ groove rundown that we encounter in “Make out Music” to the sultry acoustic swing of “Sweet Coffee,” pastoral pulsations in “Ransacked Hearts” and simplistic melodicism of the easygoing “Elephant in the Room,” there’s scarcely a moment in Gordy Hunt’s new album Mood Swings where the veteran singer/songwriter …

Rocker and poet Caroline Blind’s pallet might be a bit darker than most. Her songs fall into place into an often melancholy journey. In her album The Spell Between, Blind bewitches the listener into her expressive moments. At her core, Blind’s songs reveal addiction and loss. None of the songs …

Making one hit single on any given album is a challenge all on its own, but three can be next to impossible – unless you’ve got a skill set like Dr. Rob Alexander’s. Alexander’s last studio album, Being Myself, has been roaring through the American underground like nobody’s business in …

While she’s never been one to release a half-hearted performance behind the microphone, what Destiny Malibu does with her vocal in the brand new single “Lo Siento” is something for even the most diehard of her fans to marvel at. There are many charms to this latest track from the …