Music

As rich as it is uncompromising, Vin Mack’s vocal in the new contemporary gospel jam “I Need You Lord” would have been enough to win a lot of favor from [...]

The greatest irony in the history of alternative rock is how redundant the term became as the bands who brought it out of the shadows won immense commercial success. Thirty [...]

In his latest single, titled “In Shadowland,” Bruce Sudano isn’t content to pick up the simplistic folk harmonies he’s been touting in his last couple of releases for [...]

Neil Nathan doesn’t need three-minute guitar solos, outrageous rap accents, nor a lot of instrumental or lyrical luster of any kind to sound like a real star in his new [...]

“Regeden” is the exceptional new single from Switzerland singer/songwriter Johanna Rittiner Sermier. Sung in English, this stirring sonic journey is truly like no other. [...]

Luis Mojica’s Songs from the Land concludes the New York based singer/songwriter’s initial trio of albums. His 2016 full-length debut Wholesome scored Mojica a [...]

Patronage of the arts is an idea whose time should come again. San Antonio based performer and entrepreneur Studd Da Kidd is the driving force behind a vision for what [...]

Constructing a hook in modern hip-hop that doesn’t sound similar to the scores of intriguing climaxes coming out of the rap underground at the moment is hardly an easy [...]

Poetically dancing together like lovers reunited after an extended absence, we find the string section in Foundry Town Survivors’ “Mississippi Rising” led by a singular [...]

Industrial rock went from deep underground content to full-blown mainstream commerciality back in the 1990s, but this shift in public acceptance didn’t stop a lot of the [...]

Surreal melodicism has been found at the heart of almost every hot track in pop, hip-hop, and beyond in 2021, and it’s what ties the new single “Seeds” from daFinchi [...]

The Long Island music scene’s history is rich with rebellion, and Quiet Like a Thief is keeping that legacy alive in the new single and music video “Travel in Time” [...]

Americana is making the sort of comeback that legends are made of in 2021, and you needn’t look much further than the pristine melodies of the new single “It’s My [...]

Summer Rain’s “Hold Her Hand” has all the standard features you’d expect in a rock song – the big guitars, the sly beat, a charisma-drenched bassline, and a [...]

A ripcord-like guitar riff. A wave of harmonies. A catchy tune indeed. The new single “Sugar Sugar Summertime”, just as its name suggests, is sweet and beach approved. [...]

Rather than piling onto a bold beat with melodic vocals as stirring as they are seductive, Jerrica White wants to take things a little slower in her new single “I [...]

If you keep tabs on the national hip-hop scene, odds are you’ve noticed the same thing I have lately – the mainstream is feeling remarkably unmuscular. Gone are the [...]

Lately, it’s been so much of the same in mainstream hip-hop – fast rhymes and trap beats, usually manipulated into some faux-melodic surreal backdrop that only serves [...]

This summer, the classic partnership of songwriters Ryan Smith and Kathie Hixon-Smith take their indie rock roots and blend in superior craftmanship to build up a compelling [...]

Big guitars and even bigger harmonies are rolling out of the silence like burning rubber hitting the pavement in the Cali homage track “Highway 101” by Greg Hoy, and [...]