Articles by mindymccall

It’s clear after a single listen to Little Hurt’s Lovely Hours that songwriter Colin Dieden needed to purge himself. It isn’t always pretty. The ten songs on this [...]

Singers of all styles and backgrounds are coming out of the indie channels and taking over the narrative of pop music in the last few years, and on the R&B/crossover [...]

“Calaveras County” opens Jason Barie’s new bluegrass release Radioactive. Barie, aka The Ramblin’ Fiddler, and sets an early tone. Barie’s playing is omnipresent [...]

Austin Avenue’s debut album, Little Boy’s Cards, is a refreshing breath of fresh air in the world of modern country and folk music. While the genre has been [...]

Nimble in his execution but never rushed in his words, Mike Knowlton is a true force to be reckoned with in the song “Sin Sip,” the closing anchor in his [...]

Medical Maps’ third album That is That is a sprawling fourteen-track opus. Their ambition is unmistakable. The Boston-based band is an extended unit, often working in a [...]

I’m glad I’ve discovered him with his new single. I believe “Run! Run! Run!” is a model of pop songcraft. It isn’t fluff pop, however. He’s created a substantive [...]

Few songwriters/performers invest as much of themselves into their music as Ranzel X. Kendrick, aka Alias Wayne. Now based out of Costa Rica, the Texas born artist has a [...]

There are more than a couple of rock artists trying to get as spacey as the pop movement has been getting on both sides of the dial in the past [...]

So excited to talk more with the talented Cinder Ernst. We love your voice! You have a new single you just dropped. How are you feeling [...]

Comprised of little more than raw pastoral charisma, smart lyricism, wildly attractive string play, and rustic harmonies straight out of country’s golden era, there’s an [...]

The first couple of bars in any track as essential to setting up a mood, and Michelle Shafer doesn’t come into her new single “Stranger” with any degree of hesitance [...]

Smart songwriting is taking on many forms in 2023, and you needn’t look much further than Kirsten Collins’ Floura EP to understand exactly what I mean. Where just a few [...]

The indie culture in music has been holding up through 2023 a lot better than the mainstream end of the spectrum has been, and you don’t need to look much [...]

I love these kind of albums. Toy City’s self-titled debut is a happy accident of sorts, a project dictated by circumstance, yet full of vibrant songwriting and [...]

The new EP “Under the Stars” is a stunning collection of folk and Americana tracks that showcase Arwen Lewis’s hauntingly beautiful voice and songwriting [...]

Strung together quite literally out of the brooding sounds of an old-school alternative rock we don’t get to hear enough of on the mainstream anymore, gloryBots’ new [...]

Quaint and simple with us in “Hallelujah, I’m Ready,” furious in his melding of tense melodic ribbonry in “Tennessee” and alive with gentle decadence in “You Win [...]

Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Sean James Boyer’s reputation as a first rate scorer continues growing with each new job. It’s apparent, however, that Boyer isn’t merely [...]