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Underground listeners know Andrew X has a lot of talent to bring to the table in any given performance. This season, more mainstream fans have been getting to know him in an entirely different way thanks to his new single “Whatever It Takes,” which has arguably been spotlighting a sensibility …

Coming alive with moderate optimism, a fragile melody driven equally by a bass and a sexy sway emerges and imparts a chilling glow with every note that it emits. Something is coming for us just over the horizon, and whatever it is, it means business. The essence of the melody …

G Flip creatively opens up her arms in the brand new single “Good Enough” and welcomes us into a smart side of alternative pop/rock that relies more on suffocating grooves and haunting melodies than it does belligerent beats and mumbled vocals. In her latest cut, G Flip deliberately goes against …

Cody Howell is the one to watch this fall in country music. After listening to his single, “Any Way You Go” it is impossible to miss Howell’s perfectly gritty vocals, lyrical authenticity and pure love for the best of country life. It’s hard to believe that this is the up-and-coming …

As it’s been said by plenty of critics before me this autumn, you have to take this contemporary hard rock comeback with a grain of salt for a couple of reasons – chief among them being that so many of the new players trying to make it work as well …

A swinging drumbeat and soft but searing harmonica melodies are ready to come undone shortly after pressing play on the new single “Funky Rhetoric” from star player Lee Oskar, but while the chemistry they have in this intro to the song is quite stirring, I would be lying if I …

With her voice as the superb guiding light in the instrumental darkness that surrounds her, Amanda Holley launches into her single “Ride or Die (Shotgun)” sounding like she’s got nothing to lose. There’s a fearlessness to her voice that’s present even when she’s lamenting the past in the opening verses, …

Americana and country aesthetics have been coming back in a big way this year, and although she has a lot of external influence from outside the umbrella of the Nashville establishment, singer/songwriter FIREROSE takes great influence from the two schools in her new single beside beau Billy Ray Cyrus “Plans” …

The relationship between musicians that collaborate is undeniable and hard to ignore even in the most cursory examinations of history, and we’re reminded of this quite frequently in the new single “Take You Home” from Saynt Jaysn featuring Jônelle. Built like a top-heavy pop track but given enough breadth in …

In the haunting new single “Today I’m Gonna Friday,” Frankee Razor isn’t utilizing a blanket harmony to capture the mood he’s in, but instead something more specific, cutting, and sharply emotive around every turn. The melody is his backdrop, and every glaring beat a sitting judge before his statements, with …

If you want to be on Serious Voice’s level, she makes it pretty clear in the single “Kill Tha King” that following the word of God is what matters right here and right now. She’s assertive, up-front and to the point in her statements here, much of her direct approach …

Coming up in the hip-hop game has never been that easy compared to some of the other scenes out there, but it’s been especially tough coming off of the influx of major new talent we’ve seen in the last three years. A boon for concert promoters and the live music …