Austria’s B.B. Cole spins together an Americana, pop and country palette in the new album, Outgrowing Ourselves. Perhaps a nod to challenging her own feelings and putting them to song, the title congers up ideas of pushing ourselves beyond our own limitations. Cole delights with her motivating lyrics and rowdy guitars. Songs like “Emotional Baggage” and
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JR and the RetroRyders serve up classic British-influenced rock ran through an American garage band aesthetic and topped off with a dollop of singer/songwriter sensibilities. It makes for an invigorating blend of the personal and familiar, the latter quality dominating, and will effortlessly translate over to the band’s stage work. That is the place where
There’s no doubt ViennaCC’s music has tremendous European flavor. The experienced songwriter, musician, and performer’s music smashes through arbitrary borders, however, and creates a truly “world” musical work with his new single “Cook for Me”. One is hard-pressed to identify any culture on earth where questions about men and women’s respective roles in romantic relationships
Colorful, left of center and iconoclastic, the new single from Julian Brooks and Paris King is a fast-paced thrill ride. “Snakebite” is a small collision of genres that manages to both evoke nostalgia and feel current. Based out of the Berkeley/Oakland area, Brooks and King are an auspicious pairing if there ever was one. They
If diversity of discography is one of the great points of judgment in all of indie music, AV Super Sunshine is far ahead of his peers. He’s recorded a bevy of different genres and compositional concepts through the years, and in his new single “Sink or Swim,” he’s giving us some of the most straightforward
Cinemartyr has set quite a high standard for themselves coming into the making of their new album Opt Out, and while it’s easy to get caught up in your own ambitions when you’re working with the kind of collective skillset these New Yorkers are, they’ve got the artistic maturity to stay in their lane while giving
There’s no shortage of favors that a good beat can do for a song, and no matter how you cut up the new work “Big Momma” from Lisa G. Allen, rhythm is absolutely one of the best things this song has going for it. While Allen doesn’t have to lean on the groove to make
Austin, Texas quintet Hog Branch is the kind of act that reminds the despairing that, yes, there are still musicians out there forging their own path. Rick Watson and his collaborators stand out in a crowded and competitive environment, Austin still retains a significant cachet for a certain kind of songwriter and musician. Many have
Francesca Beghe is a long, long way removed from her late 1980’s-early 1990’s commercial height. The hit songwriter and vocalist didn’t reach Mariah Carey or comparable icon status during that era, but she wasn’t in this for the Fame Game. She placed a hit song on the gazillion selling soundtrack for the Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston
Patricia Lazzara started off with Steve Markoff in a much different place than where they are today. It’s safe to say that neither musician saw them, five plus years later, promoting their third instrumental release together when Markoff contacted Lazzara over five years ago looking for flute lessons. Something creative sparked between them and they
Determinedly softer than the string play it adorns, Karen Turner’s lead vocal in “If the World Is Ending” crushes us with its melancholic yearning, its very presence highlighting a contrast between her delivery and the tone of the instrumentation. There’s something quite fetching about her hesitation in some of these verses, but the eagerness with
Glitter, formerly known as Glitter Rose, started making music at twelve years old and, now in her thirties, finds herself immersed as deep as ever in that world. Her new single “Pretend Love” does not entirely abandon her initial direction as a southern rocker, she is still working with her bandmates Marc Bain, David Crandall,
Harmonies are at the foundation of every great country song, and in his new single “Weary Old Highway,” singer/songwriter Jim Hurst creates some of the best that I’ve heard all year in this genre alongside Darin and Brooke Aldridge. While the chemistry between the Aldridges is already something well-known to fans, what they do with
Based out of Seattle, Rebecca Kathryn Perez has been making a name for herself as the enigmatic ExoGeo, an art-rock noise artist with an unplaceable sound and an unpredictable future. Her latest offering comes in the form of The Nightmare Lottery, a truly distinct testament to the ever-growing wave of nu-noise rock, and while it
The Wreckless Strangers write and sing with a gusto and a nuance that splatters its way into several genres. You might be into blues, Americana, soul, bluegrass and traditional country – the songs on When the Sun and a Blue Star Collide. Hailing from the California Bay Area, this wonderful stew of sounds has definite whispers
Pidgie delivers a breath of fresh air with her new album Just Breathe. Pidgie’s album is a celebration of empowerment and creative perseverance, Just Breathe features multiple rock anthems and a brilliant cover of Nina Simone’s “I Wish I knew How It Would Feel To be Free.” Pidgie is no stranger to overcoming obstacles in
Talon David’s “Love at a Distance” isn’t your typical “love” song. There is a poetic delicacy present in every aspect of the song – the singing, vocal arrangement, lyrics, and interplay between the guitar and percussion has a reach far exceeding what pop songs attempt usually. It isn’t lowest common denominator in any way. Writing
There’s nothing wrong with incorporating a little indulgence into your sound when you’ve got as melodic a disposition as The Little Wretches do, and in tracks like “Heaven Was Open,” this group makes a case against the stripped-down sound of their peers that doesn’t need much to appeal to the masses. The Little Wretches make
The subject of Joe Rantz and the 1936 Washington Huskies rowing team who represented the United States and competed for the Gold at that year’s Olympic games isn’t as well-known as other American triumphs that year. It’s the same Olympic games, held in Berlin, where Jesse Owens outdistanced Germany’s finest runners before a stunned audience
You can go home again. If someone really loves something, and truly feels it in their DNA, they are always going to come back. If they can. Life and its circumstances may send them down detours, blind alleys, or even carry them to success along other paths, but it doesn’t matter. They will always hear
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