Articles by mindymccall

In 2022, we’re arguably witnessing pop music’s most diverse era unfold before our very ears, and you needn’t look much further than underground acts like up-and-comers [...]

A staggered beat is flanked by a bittersweet melody as we listen in on the first few seconds of “By Your Side,” the new single from singer/songwriter Tim Snider and [...]

Melodic rappers are taking charge of a new movement in American hip-hop right now, and whether we’re looking at the underground or the mainstream, their influence is just [...]

When it comes to capturing a specific sound and era of modern rock, there’s no harder itch to scratch than that mid-‘00s wave that came with Green Day’s American Idiot [...]

With the mild plucking of a colorful harp and the slow plodding of some distant percussion to serve as the canvas, the smooth sounds one Mariea Antoinette ushers forth in [...]

There are plenty of reasons you’re going to get lost in the new music video for “Over For Good” by Jim Jacobs, but in my opinion, the biggest one is [...]

In “Born For America,” his new single and music video, Noah Hoffeld relies more on rhythmic piano expressions than he does conventional lyricism to make a statement to [...]

It’s hard to remember the last time a rock song came out and absolutely shredded my expectations, making the genre proud beyond belief — a quick search has brought names [...]

Like a flickering candle flame made all the stronger against the winter wind, Jekalyn Carr’s “Great Christmas” comes to life out of nowhere and immediately forces [...]

In their new single and music video “Live Free,” The Refusers pay homage to the punk roots of their sound whilst blazing forward on an artistic path all their own. [...]

If you’re a fan who has been feeling like hard rock needs a hero this Christmas more than ever, you’re not alone. In the last decade, rock has struggled to [...]

As eclectic as it is endearing to the soul of anyone who loves offbeat alternative content, the music video for Palms Station’s new single “Blue Skies Back” seems to [...]

Drawing us into their web of melodicism like a sorcerer conjuring up some sort of ghostly pinwheel, the guitars in Palms Station’s new single (and its music video) [...]

Intermingled with deliciously melodic verses, dispatched via both traditional pop means and a flamboyant vocal from two equally talented vocalists, the rich instrumental [...]

Wasting no time in throwing us right into the firestorm of beats that their latest single contains, Pure Order attack the rhythm of “Sons Of Belial” as if their very [...]

“Dashing through the air / Flying to Africa / Got my Ghana, must go / Ready for Naija” announces Gbeke in her new single/video combo “Afro Bells,” her vocal echoing [...]

Bittersweet and a little smokier than I was expecting it to be, there’s no debate as to whether or not Kiani’s voice is what makes the single and music video [...]

At once reminiscent of the growling tonal menace of early alternative rock and perhaps something even further toward the center of the dial on the singer/songwriter front, [...]

A melody that is as soft as silk and yet stained with melancholic angst that doesn’t seem to ever go away welcomes us as we sink into the first minute [...]

Some might say it’s debatable, but from where I sit, America hasn’t been this musically active and engaged as a collective society in generations, and it’s in this [...]