Articles by mindymccall

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Calling Adam doesn’t dillydally in the first track of his new album The Year of My Manifestation, “In the Game We All Lose,” when it comes to dishing out some of [...]