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As they so bluntly tell us in the subtext of their new song “Devil In Your Crown,” Intruder 424 are living like there’s no tomorrow through their music, and whether it be this white-hot single or any of the other songs you might find their name hanging on in the …

The Rocket Summer has released a string of albums that, all puffery aside, blaze a singular trail through the modern musical landscape. No one else produces the sort of music Bryce Avary does on a regular basis. The multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and all-around one-man creative dynamo has garnered considerable critical …

You can’t put a price on natural charisma in the music business; hence, when an artist like Miss Kaniyah comes along, there’s going to be a lot of buzz surrounding the golden touch she has in the recording studio. Rather than having to fluff up this young woman’s sound with …

Old-school mambo duets aren’t just pretty good for the genre; they’re essential to grasping the identity that the style has been built around since day one. Although he commands a lot of attention on his own, Gilberto Santa Rosa’s contribution to the new single “El Rey del Timbal” is largely …

It’s a new chapter in the history of romantic pop music, and singer/songwriters like Bruce Sudano are composing it by hand. Sudano isn’t a part of any specific movement in his scene but is instead reaching out to the audience from a truly independent place in his new single “Two …

“How Do You Feel” might be a new song and not quite a celebrated classic in the alternative rock lexicon as of this moment, but this season it’s getting a wonderful presentation from an act as devoted to masterful melodies as the influences behind this track’s construction were. BlueNevada takes …

  This spring has been one of the more memorable in recent years for pop fans, with a virtual watershed of content pouring through the underground and the international mainstream the same. Saying competition is hot just wouldn’t be doing this generation of talent justice; to break into the modern …

Ivan Kelley, known best by his stage name Ivan the Greatness, has a lot of energy to spend in his new single “Power 2030,” but if you think he’s going to use all of his pent-up emotion to run a diatribe on the audience, you’d better think again. Keeping it …

Lyrically, Rich Wyman and Lisa Needham are all heart and soul in the new single “Forgiveness,” which features a dexterous arrangement supplying him with a backdrop fit for a king. Both players are belting out line after line in this track with the kind of passion that normally we’d hear …

The numbers speak for themselves – just in the brief time people have been talking about him, ADVM has brought in a lot of attention online through the release of his lead single “Weekend,” which is a track that borrows a little from pop and a whole lot from hip-hop …

In pop music, and especially hip-hop, you’ve got to be a little more daring than the other folks to stand out in the crowd. With the destruction of traditional scenes and the regional professional politics that came with them, the internationalization of cloud rap and trap was inevitable, but no …

It’s hard to break into the music industry, but in terms of sheer difficulty on the professional level, I don’t know of another genre in the pop lexicon that is quite as difficult to penetrate as hip-hop is. From the beats to the fashion and the culture this music helps …