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The Mind of a Musician: When did you make up your mind that you wanted to be a musician?  I’ve wanted to be a performer for as long as I can remember. About: The Uneasy The Uneasy is an independent collaborative collective of like and unlike minded artists creating emotionally charged music and visuals. The Uneasy
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Presented to us with a delicate vocal and a barebones instrumental backdrop to maximize the effect of the lyrics, “Jubal Takes a Wife” is one of the more memorable tracks in Sun King Rising’s Signs & Wonders, but unmistakably only a single chapter in a vast, personal story that is the album in its entirety. Throughout
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Danny Hughes (DCPA) is an electronic music producer and DJ from Aledo, Texas. His story began like many musicians’ growing up. Born into a family of musicians, he learned to play the piano, trumpet, guitar, and work with production software in academic music programs as a kid. Danny built a solid foundation in the craft,
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Rebellion is getting to be one of the most overrated qualities in all of pop music mostly because it’s everywhere we look these days, but that being said, the new album Justice Now by Barista puts the concept in perspective for hardcore rockers once again. Barista isn’t looking to recycle a lot of the elements
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Little Hurt is the solo project, of a sort, for former Mowglis front-man Colin Dieden and its new single “Cooler If U Did” sticks with you like a particularly artful rant. Dieden’s aims and overall tone are very different with this project than the work he put in with his one-time bandmates, but they share
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I applaud the industry and ambition that Tia McGraff has parlayed into a long and ongoing musical career. She hasn’t stopped there, however. The Ontario-born and based writer, singer, and musician branched off into other areas such as children’s literature not out of craven financial need or worse but, instead, driven by restless creativity she
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Milanis Clark’s meteoric ascent from obscurity as another pretty three-year-old face eight short years ago to the position she occupies now as one of the most promising young acting talents working in television or film, the Internet or even the Broadway stage. Clark hails from an environment rife with powerhouse performers so it is, perhaps,
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FM: Thank you for your time. We are so excited to chat Bulat with NELA Records. For those of us who don’t know – give us a little insight to what NELA Records is and what you do. We are a Music Marketing Agency that focuses on running campaigns on social media, Facebook/Instagram/Youtube. Also we
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For designer Emily Daccarett fashion and music cannot be separated. Daccarett creates an immersive world of storytelling through music, film, and fashion. Each artistic direction begins with a beat that forms a story. From the start of her brand, she has fused those worlds together, creating a symbiotic flow between the two. What were your musical influences that inspired your
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I’ll admit, I was a little shocked to see that Vineet had decided to take on country music as his next single with “City Roads.” Before listening to it, there was more than a little hesitation to be had, as Vineet’s general artistic portfolio wasn’t something I would assume to be primed for country rock
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When it comes to being a songwriter, there’s a necessary knack for anthropology and people skills that comes with it. If you can’t write a song about walking a day in someone else’s shoes, there are probably only so many songs you can write from personal experience before the creative well dries up and writer’s
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Coco O’Connor’s new album Big Reveal is one of her best songwriting collections yet. The fifth album from this Alabama raised singer/songwriter blossoms with Southern influences galore, country, blues, jazz, and R&B all exist well within her wheelhouse, and she sounds comfortable working in any style. She’s surrounded by a first-class crew of some of the Americana
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Her new single “Sun’s Gonna Shine” only reinforces Dale Ann Bradley’s near-peerless reputation within the bluegrass community. She collaborates with fellow Kentuckian J.P. Pennington on this track from her new full-length album Kentucky for Me. Pennington’s pedigree as a member of country music supergroup Exile gives Bradley’s single a little added cachet, but the song ultimately
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Though they’re just a touch on the murky side and definitely devoid of the pop varnish that has been showing up in a dangerous amount of rock music lately, there’s something about the aggression in the guitar parts of “Tense” that makes Dark Below sound all the more sincere this August. Rather than trying to
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At first glance, there’s not much in the instrumental construct of B.B. Cole’s Outgrowing Ourselves that feels different from what you’d hear in most mainstream country music. There’s a lot of guitar twang, a gentle piano harmony here and there, and a pastoral sensibility in Cole’s lyrics that makes every song feel like a drive down an
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Known for her dynamic performances and infectious energy, divaDanielle started her career after catching a record that the infamous Darren Emerson threw into the crowd in 2003 (Grant Nelson’s “Free & Switch” for those who were wondering). After many years in the LA underground scene, she started releasing original tracks through InStereo Recordings. Her debut
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You can try pigeonholing Alex Wellkers’ music. It’s just going to look and sound foolish, however, once anyone else hears him. His latest solo release famous now does a wildly impressive job of building on its preceding work without ever abandoning or else compromising the strengths that brought him initial attention. “Get This Far” will
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“Open When” is the vibrant new single from SistersJ you didn’t know you needed this summer. SistersJ consists of real life sisters Elizabeth and Lily Jackson. Music runs through Elizabeth and Lily’s veins, Elizabeth received her degree in music education with honors and Lily is a salutatorian who placed third in the nation with her
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Brooding singer/songwriters are just about everywhere we look and listen in the American underground at the moment, but while the market is flooded with a lot of interesting and provocative talent, it’s still easy to differentiate the legitimate gems from the stand-ins you’ll find on the left side of the dial just about anywhere on
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With the signature snarl its guitars emit at the start of the song, there’s never any doubting the country-rock tone of the new single “Who You Are” by Cody Jasper. Whether you’re listening to this track at a modest volume or cranking it loud whilst rolling down an old backwoods highway, the unabashedly pastoral accent
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Danny Burns released his first roots music collection in 2019 entitled North Country and, since then, has only expanded his reputation as one of the genre’s rising artistic forces. His latest collection Promised Land seems poised to elevate his profile to previously unknown heights and, if good fortune prevails, his new single “Someone Like You” will play a pivotal
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Great music tends to start with a vibe, and no matter which version of Lisa G. Allen’s new single “Big Momma” you check out this summer, I think you’re going to find that vibes are produced from beats and verses alike. Allen is assisted by Ronnue in her endeavors here, and although there’s something to
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James T. McKim, Jr.’s new book is genuinely something we haven’t seen before. An elaborate, literary roadmap of sorts that makes the case interactively for optimizing diverse practices for both established and burgeoning workplace hierarchies in the postmodernist era. McKim Jr. is wise in that he never shames the reader into a certain state –
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