Articles by mindymccall

“Some call it a conscience, maybe you wonder where yours went, you’re lost in the darkness, don’t you wonder where you’ve been,” sings Dark Below’s Josh Campbell [...]

Depth in a rock band means more than just big guitars and bigger personalities; it means making complicated statements simple via the majestic tonal bond that comes from [...]

David Kahn is a hard-working and seemingly humble Singer/Songwriter. His approach is to come from a place of humility and sincerity, and he strives for his music to reflect [...]

This November, Steve Junot is making big waves in the blues underground with the release of his new album Last Shot, and for those who follow the blues underground and [...]

Fiery guitars and grunge-style beats are something of a commodity to the mainstream pop consumer these days, but for those of us who live on the left side of the [...]

Sisters J is ready to snatch up countless new fans with their latest single “Clearly”. The immaculate build of the song from muted beginnings into a vibrant and surging [...]

Rock music does not get much more unadulterated and physical than Of Limbo’s “Let’s Go”. The new single from this Southern California-based trio roars off the [...]

Andy Victor, otherwise known as AV Super Sunshine, has labored for several years to create and shape a personal vision of music that scours every genre before achieving its [...]

Bobby and The Crew blend 80s and 90s styles on “Prince Of Charm,” with a modern energy. The vocals are delivered in flawless English, and it’s unclear/unlikely that a [...]

The synthesizer has been pretty much everywhere you look and listen in pop music right now. Whether it’s in hip-hop or something more rock-oriented, the synthesizer has [...]

Modern rock music couldn’t be further from the rock ’n’ roll roots that started the genre more than half a hundred years ago, and that might be the problem as [...]

When it comes to the eclectic, Treneti, we’ve come to expect the unexpected. On her previously released single, “Black Mirror,” she observed humanity’s unyielding [...]

A faint melody shines a blinding light through an ominous bassline as we enter the guts of “Buttercup,” the new single from Little Hurt featuring none other than The [...]

“And we can’t take it back / Even if we could try / Ain’t it funny how we always try / It keeps staring us straight in the eye,” sings [...]

Relaxed and yet driven by a sense of urgency brilliantly complemented by the cadence of our leading man’s verse, the beat in “Shower Thoughts,” the brand new single and [...]

Lately, it seems as though avoiding the buzz surrounding gospel’s burgeoning underground is just about impossible. From one end of the scene to the next, artists of many [...]

Joe Bermudez and Louise Carver simply do not have time for the sonic filler that a lot of their closest rivals on the mainstream side of the dial would contend [...]

There are a lot of different elements that make up the melodic fabric of “Voices In My Head” by Sp8ce Owl. The winds, the strings, the percussion, the vocal that [...]

“You had me shook up, look what we’ve become / Took what you wanted, but / Somehow, somehow, now I got self-love / Without a doubt I’m more than enough.” [...]

For some of us who keep up with the pop beat on both sides of the dial, the insularity of the mainstream and its most popular artists’ output has become [...]