The acoustic guitar and plucky ukulele never sounded so decorous as it does alongside the alchemy-laced voice of Anna May. May’s exquisite I’m Still Thinking Of You weaves its wonderful thread through poetic tapestry and stirring echoes of folk singers before her and the droplets of coffee house sojourners wanting to mimic someone like May.
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K-Roll is the recording moniker for rapper and singer, Kevin Rollinson. Aptly named, his new track “Real Quick” serves as a bit of a crystal ball. Anticipating that his song is a hit, “Real Quick” actually is about the recording process. Featuring Quesh, $DOE$ and Simon Sayz, “Real Quick” is the Greenville, S.C.-based rapper’s debut
Arina Mai’s new song “Get Closer” swoons the listener into a mesmerizing self-reflection. Mai’s inner voice and outward charisma solidify her appeal. This new track, reminiscent of the vocals of the late Marie Fredriksson (Roxette), is a solid pop offering. Her moving, full of emotion, pleas hit straight to the heart and soul. URL: https://www.arinamai.com/
Mixing true R&B charisma with a faith-based conceptualism in his lyrics and overall delivery, singer and songwriter HeIsTheArtist offers listeners a fantastic new single in “Boom – Love Version” this summer that is almost certain to stir your soul. Structured around a lush lead vocal from our leading man, “Boom – Love Version” is a
Just listening to the beat in “Get the Funk,” the new single from Billy Ray Rock, is enough to conjure memories of a historical funk sound for anyone who appreciates the genre’s best moments, but don’t get me wrong – this track is hardly a pure throwback. Straddling the rhythm with a smoky vocal that
“I’m back from the river / Don’t you worry ‘bout me / I’ll be what I wanna be / I’m back from the river” sings a smoky-voiced Brendan Staunton, who has his heart on his sleeve in “River,” one of the nine songs found on the new album Last of the Light. “River” is absolutely one
Punishing with its beats, steady and unshaken in its flow, the menacingly melodic but ultimately evenhanded “Buddha” from Elz Bentley might be one of the more reasonable and rhythmically intriguing tracks to come out of the southern hip-hop underground this summer. Clocking in at less than a minute and a half in total length, “Buddha”
What do you get when you combine the love for Prince and all things 80s music with a modern R&B and hip-hop track? Singer and songwriter Brandon Agustus shows his sensitive side and confident side in “Let Your Heart Break” out now via his new record Days of Wasted Youth. Agustus is a Florida-born, New
Undisputedly as captivating and visually-stimulating as anything you would see in a conventional music video, the imagery found in the new lyric video for Johnnie Mikel’s single “Nothing to Lose” definitely presents us with a fun take on the intriguing pop song. In more ways than one, Mikel’s vibrant personality bleeds into this unique video
In their latest album, titled simply Gravity, Paul Mark & the Van Dorens prove that they’ve yet to lose their touch in a dozen of tracks drawing as much from the discographies of Tom Waits and Warren Zevon as they do contemporary life. Right out of the gate in “Gravity is Failing,” Mark makes it clear
Slowly creeping from the darkness like some sort of demonic figure in the night, we find the beginnings of 8rooklyn 8atman’s “Chitty Bang” ready to spellbind anything and anyone who comes within earshot of the growing malice in the melody. Long before he begins to regale us with stories of life, strife and wisdom through
Heartache fills the air not long after hitting play on the new single “All Night Again” from Manny Cabo, but this isn’t because of any flaw in the meticulous melody we’re listening to. Even before Cabo begins to sing, there’s a passion in the instrumentation that will become his central backdrop that even the most
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2020 has been a solid year for emerging pop singers, and this summer, yet another fascinating new face is entering the mix in the form of Hewas. Pop singer/songwriter Hewas is dishing out the melodic goods like nobody’s business in the new single “Lemon,” which arrives just in time for a season known for celebrating
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Time may march along, but the album Hughie Mac Sings Some Great Songs Part 4, is a time stamp to the song’s that have captivated audiences for numerous decades. A sort of grab bag approach, Philadelphia’s Hughie Mac sings the American music staples, dabbing in songs from Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and even Jimmy
In his new single “A Change,” Kendre Streeter channels soul and crossover R&B legends like Sam Cooke and Stevie Wonder while putting his own unique spin on a timeless brand of melodicism. From the moment that we press play forward, there’s a sense of sensuousness that follows us everywhere we travel in “A Change.” The
Tumbling from the heavens above like dewdrops on an early spring morning, Natalis’ “Praise You” comes alive ever so pendulously only to erupt in colorful harmonies less than sixty seconds into its complete running time. There’s an atmospheric sensibility to the instrumentation at the start of this track that immediately clues us in to the
Hey Sarah, welcome! To start off, tell our readers where you grew up? Thanks for having me! I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and when I was eight years old, I moved with my Mom to Knoxville, Tennessee and that is where I was raised. Music can be a great healer for many people. What
Welcome JaneliaSoul! Excited to chat with you today. We know you’re quite an advocate for affirmations. How important are affirmations in your day to day life? I think we all experience those voices, be it internal or external, that tries to tell us that we are not good enough or cannot achieve something. Affirmations serve
Every album has an identity, no matter how experimental that identity may be, but when it comes to pinning down the style of Impresario’s Songs from Inside, conventional genre terminology just doesn’t cut it. “Living in My Dreams,” the record’s first track, get us jazzed up with a cosmopolitan groover much in the same way that
As jubilant as they are strikingly rhythmic, even without the assistance of the rollicking drumbeat in the background, the strings we find in the song “Turn the Key” are perhaps even more intriguing than the lyrics in this selection from Julie Amici & Dean Mueller’s I Loved You So LP are, but this isn’t a dig at
Very familiar to the serious music enthusiast and yet completely fresh and original in tone and spirit, the vocal harmony we find in The Side Deal’s “I Can See Clearly Now” is definitely the cornerstone of the single and lyrics video’s charm. Perhaps even more defined here than it was in the iconic 1970’s original,
Chock full of more vitality than most any other component you’re going to hear in a country, bluegrass or roots record this spring, the banjo play in tracks like High Fidelity’s “Feudin’ Banjos” feels like aural joy personified for the pastoral-minded. There’s so much intensity to the strings that we find in this song and
Songs are simply stories. A great reminder to this comes in the new album Long Walk Home from New York-based singer/songwriter Tim Brandt. Giving listeners a glimpse into a man’s life that has been filled with love, and some disappointments, Brandt presses forward and spreads happiness in each note. Though he wrote his debut effort,
Swinging as hard as an out of control drunk stumbling out of the bar after last call in “Rocky Road Blues,” crushing a dexterous harmony in “The Rat Race” or unfurling a dark melodicism in the country-style title track of their debut album All Of These Years, Steve Thomas & The Time Machine are a band
Rock music, in every incarnation, respects no national border. Though marquee Hall of Fane acts typically hail from England and the United States, there are a number of talented and legendary acts hailing from an assortment of other European countries. Tom Tikka’s Scandinavian upbringing exposed him to rock music at a relatively tender age and,
Exotically Caribbean-flavored and driven by a pulsating percussive force as bold as any lyric ever could be, the beat we encounter in “Dream of Me” is arguably one of the most relaxed singer/songwriter Whitebeard has ever worked with. In this all-new single and music video, Whitebeard experiments with grooves as a means of expression, but
At first deceptively minimalistic and quickly as synthetically symphonic as its tracklist neighbors are, Heartour’s “Dear Future” is certainly one of the more melodically spellbinding songs on the new album, R U IN. Joined by colorful, drum-born eruptions of catharsis like “Refill the Fountain” and the crushingly heavy “The Persuadable One,” “Dear Future” is definitely among
In the last two decades, rock music has changed more than probably any other genre on earth, with many of its most lauded aesthetical hallmarks being abandoned by a young generation of experimentalists. Walker’s Cay aren’t looking to change the recipe for making spicy rock riffing in their new singles “Tell Me” and “Why Oh