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INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ashleydelima/ Lush Latin grooves and pristine pop hooks come together to comprise the juggernaut single “Fire in the Sky” from up and comer Ashley Delima, which is out now everywhere that new music is sold and streamed. In this latest cut ahead of her debut extended play, Delima paints …

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/album/1stc6RmpcWwkIb2bkDQGV7 Bumping basslines waging war with a moaning organ. A grizzly guitar riff that is brutally subdued by a vocal that knows nothing of the boundaries that a stereophonic recording would usually create for a melody. Harmonies that rise like a tidal wave and crash into a pulsating percussion. …

Croatian indie rockers Jas Frank & the Intoits release pure pop prowess in their engrossing debut album, The Girl from Cherry Valley, which was released on January 31st of this year to critical acclaim. Featuring the single “All the Highs All the Lows,” which is given the Hollywood-treatment in an adjoining …

Cynister, a three piece featuring two men and a female vocalist, is a bit of an oddity. The unusual appearance of the band’s two male members, particularly juxtaposed against their vocalist, obviously nods to the band’s theatrical sense and makes an effective visual hook for listeners to delve deeper into …

Based out of the Miami, Florida area, Pocket of Lollipops is a musical duo featuring the talents of vocalist, bassist, cellist, pianist and guitar player Maitejosune Urrechaga and her creative partner drummer, vocalist, pianist, keyboard player and guitarist Tony Kapel. The project first coalesced in 2009 and established themselves as …

Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” is an undisputed rock n’ roll legend just as much as its composer is, and in his latest trip to the studio, Andrew Hendryx (with the assistance of singer Dan Lotti) gives it a tasteful touchup fit for today’s discriminating generation of music connoisseurs. As …

URL: https://www.theamericanrevival.net/ Music has always been a means of communicating emotions that mere humans have a hard time expressing any other way, and while some groups admittedly take a halfhearted approach to constructing pop hooks and swinging beats with relatable lyrics, this just can’t be said of The American Revival. …

There are musicians that play to their strengths and this can very useful in the music business: better to do the simple stuff right than the fancy things wrong. This is something that Kristen Karma understands very well and her latest single, Party Heroes, shows her doing what she does …

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/track/3HrWQkjt40OlJjWftJtTkn Enter Zuma Beach, California on an overcast afternoon in spring and you’ll likely find the same wondrous view that Sonja Midtune is joined by in her new music video for the single “My Light,” which itself is as beautiful as the landscape featured in the video. Gilded guitar strings come apart …

BANDCAMP: https://poorxcuse.bandcamp.com/track/miss-you-babe The earth shakes beneath our feet as Poorxcuse drop a bass-heavy hammer in their brand new single “Miss You Babe.” In the video for the song, we look on as the band passionately warms up a cramped studio with their white hot tonality and tube-amplified riffs, and though …

URL: https://www.melissaruthmusic.co An exotic, blustery melody penetrates our speakers and is soon met with a whimsical percussive beat that is full of vibrancy but, nevertheless, finds itself contained by a growing bassline simmering just beneath the surface of the master mix. The tension builds as the drums find their stride …

DEEZER: https://www.deezer.com/us/track/556919502?autoplay=true Reverberating rhythm that fills the atmosphere around us with its buoyancy. Acoustic guitars that are as bold and stunning as the electrified basslines that accompany them. Vocals as sweet as honey dispensing illustrious lyricism. Even in healthy samples of songs like “Mardi Gras,” “Wheel in My Hand” and …