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Ed Roman has had quite a career. The Ontario native has been broadcast across more than six hundred radio stations worldwide and found his name everywhere from Billboard Magazine to the Radio Music Awards. His latest single, “Stronger,” showcases exactly why he is one of the most prolific emerging artists …

Joseph Seif released two intriguing records in 2019, Piano Sonata No. 1 and Piano Sonata No. 2, both of which caught the ear of a number of people within the classical music community, and although the New Year of 2020 is now upon us, this pair of sonatas are still getting a justifiable …

“First Thing on My Christmas List,” the leadoff single from The Imaginaries’ seasonally-themed Hometown Christmas, opens with a jovial, string-driven strut that will carry on for the entirety of the song’s three minutes and twenty-seven seconds of play, but waiting on the horizon we’ll soon discover a vocal from singers Maggie …

Much like the San Franciscan backdrop that greets us at the start of his music video for “What Really Matters,” Dan Ashley is approachable, warm and welcoming in this new song he released earlier on in 2019, and while his voice is but one of the working parts in what …

As enigmatic as any of the lyrics it croons to us so bitterly are, Neill Maclean’s vocal in the new single “Invite me Over” isn’t an easy component to interpret from a cosmetic point of view, but just beneath its surface-level angst there lies a certain charisma that is becoming …

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/griffinholtby/ Griffin Holtby has pursued his musical dreams from an early age as both an escape from stormy internal weather and as a way to give voice to those same emotions. His adopted father first turned him on to music’s potential after playing him Cream’s music and that initial …

Caroline Blind “Need To Say” is the second single from Blind’s anticipated February 2020 release, The Spell Between. It follows the previously released single, “God Damn The Sun”. Blind delivers a spellbinding, albeit, dark song in the engrossing “Need To Say”. Searching for the words to describe the final, precious …

Telemonster is a band based in Chattanooga, Tenn., by way of Iowa and New Mexico. Cousins Ben VanderHart (guitar and vocals) and Josh Barrett (drums) teamed up with bassist John-Michael Forman and pianist Dave Hess to create an EP in 2011 and followed up in 2012 with A Girl I …

The holiday season is sacred to many for the overwhelming love and time shared between family. There are no better gifts Flat River Band could deliver than the tracks that land on their latest seasonal album “Christmas Time.” The trio themselves are brothers who have seen great success in the …

Creeping out of the silence ever so slowly, the violin that triggers the first few strands of a melody in Steel Blossoms’ “Revenge” might not present us with very much at the onset of the song, but what it will create with the other components of this amazing new single …

Billy Droze’s new album, simply titled Renaissance, is powered by big strings and even bigger vocal melodies from Droze himself, and it doesn’t take much more than a cursory inspection of its opening track, “Coal Fed Train,” to get swept away by its chunky instrumental presence and slick serenades, which are …

Christmas isn’t just a time for shopping and vivid lights outside homes. It’s a time, as well, when musical acts of various styles feel the festive spirit as well and release songs and albums with a Yuletide theme. Dallas String Quartet, however, haven’t recorded your typical holiday release. The synthesis …