
Roundup: the Hot Half dozen for August 17, 2020
reviews of the best that came across my desk this week

reviews of the best that came across my desk this week

Sugarcane Jane is a husband and wife duo from Alabama, creating easy-going and authentic country-rock tunes. Anthony Crawford and Savana

Rivers Garcia, the Toronto based singer/songwriter’s debut album entitled Santa Cruz, is an all-out acoustic but not altogether unplugged album

Izzie’s Caravan are back with a dynamo single, ‘On The Pull’. Typically raucous, the track is wild from the get-go.

I recently had the joy of checking out some great music by a band called Saving Jackie, recently, there have

“I guess air comes in many forms,” says indie artist and Chicago-based social activist Xoë Wise of her new album

Cold Heart. Single by Joe Stuckey. For my money the best song ever released by Stuckey. A mesmerizing blend of

The artist LeeMann Bassey aka HeIsTheArtist reappears on the music scene in 2020 with a new EP called Adam &

Amanda Abizaid’s new single, “When I Walk Away”: pure melancholy pleasure with a marketing twist In the constant struggle by

Gente/Salvajes and Gente. Double Single by Ulises Hadjis. Two beautifully playful and emotional tracks in Spanish from this Venezuelan alternative

Experimental jazz is an acquired taste, one that I made no attempt to acquire until this past year when I

Gospel is having a landmark year, and from where I sit, the independent pulse within the genre is primarily responsible.

Under the haze that precludes the opening stanza of lyrics in Shiadanni’s new single/video combo “Kitty Mama,” there lies a

There’s no such thing as a good rock song with a lackluster beat, and thus, Makes My Blood Dance weren’t

The charming song “Like that” is the latest single from Western Pennsylvania country artist, Gary Burk III. Since the debut

The Singer/Songwriter from Brockton, Massachusetts, Chris Bender is preparing his latest single “Glad in it”. The song can be preordered

Pittsburgh’s favorite band is back with an album that is sure to be your go-to summer jam. The Nied’s Hotel

If ‘Starting Now’ were paired with a film produced by its author’s namesake, avant-garde director David Lynch, it would be

If you can, take Athena’s new album, Out of Time, to a rooftop or a balcony or a cliff overlooking

Perhaps better known for her upbeat dance songs, Kristen Karma’s “Dear John” shows a more tender side of the pink-haired