Articles by mindymccall

Gliding out of the silence with an exquisite melodicism that will only grow stronger over the next few minutes, a supple groove is waiting to greet all who press play on [...]

2020 has seen a lot of really intriguing live acts emerging from the American indie underground, but surprisingly enough, one of the best bands to come to my attention in [...]

With a venomous count-in from behind the drums, Chasing September’s “Miss You” erupts from the speakers and instantly fills the air around us with an overdriven but [...]

If you follow chill-hop’s underground pulse, the odds are you’ve probably already been hearing some good things about JD Lion, an Austin-originating musician whose [...]

In his latest album, appropriately titled Out Loud, Mike Rickard avoids the sonic subtleties adopted by many of pop’s biggest players in 2020 in favor of chasing after [...]

Wasting no time in throwing us right into the firestorm of beats that their latest single contains, BLXPLTN attack the rhythm of “Zzeerro (Dying for You to Get Rich)” as [...]

Singer/songwriters are having an incredible year right now, and on the independent side of the industry, I think this statement is twice as true as it is for major label [...]

Punk rock has, unsurprisingly, been enjoying quite the resurgence on the American side of the Atlantic in the last few years, and in their new music video for the song [...]

Set to the pace of a grinding groove that recalls both White Zombie and Soundgarden simultaneously (without borrowing too much from either influence), the guitars that come [...]

Matt Soren’s project The One Tonic scores in a big way with the EP Won’t Stop and, in a display of confidence, begins the release with its title track. I admire [...]

Badgertrap made some pretty big waves in the British and American undergrounds with the release of his album Human Sweet Shop back in 2009, and this year, he’s back in [...]

“Wake Up Call,” the sonic epilogue that precedes the decadent contents of We Are Vibrational Beings’ new album Return to Love, lasts a mere sixty seconds or so, [...]

The beats are rambunctious, the melody is lean, mean and sleekly tucked between the ridges of a chic percussive thrust. Ricky Comeaux starts to sing, and when he does, the [...]

Drenched in sorrow and pain, her words are therapeutic and confident. Caroline Blind’s artistic moment has come to fruition in The Spell Between. Ghoulishly driven with [...]

Hailing from Bangalore, India, Thermal and a Quarter is a veteran band who began their songwriting journey a little over two decades ago. They have released eight albums [...]

Music immerses Karluca’s life since the age of six when he first begins taking classical piano lessons at the conservatory. His exposure to different sorts of music during [...]

On the back of a heavenly cloud of harmonizing tones which seem to have no origin, we’re led down an eerie but entirely melodic path into thick sonic forestry, the light [...]

In her debut release as a solo artist, the all-new single “Show Me You,” Dynamyte fuses together a bit of old fashioned R&B swing with a sleek pop hook amidst a [...]

Summer, like every season, has a very unique soundtrack that makes it particularly special for music fans, and in the case of Andrew Wiscombe’s new album Strangest [...]

The quality gap between indie songwriters and mainstream players has seemingly never been wider than it is today in 2020, and when listening to Rob Alexander’s new single [...]