Aficionados of folk music and singer/songwriter material will gravitate to Australian Jason Freddi’s work. A seasoned veteran of regional band projects and possessing a daring imagination, Dreaming Australia is his first solo release and won’t be the last. His work with multi-instrumentalist and producer Isaac Barter gives the nine song collection a consistent and unified vision seldom
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Austin Avenue’s record Little Boy’s Cards is a revelation in the Americana music scene, inviting even the most unsuspecting listeners into a world brimming with heartfelt storytelling and captivating melodies. Released on May 1st, this album defies the boundaries of genre, proving that great music transcends preconceived notions and TikTok’s algorithms. In a world where
Ranzel X. Kendrick, otherwise known as Alias Wayne, comes by his art honestly. The Texas native, now living in Costa Rica, is the nephew of country music legend Roger Miller, songwriter and singer of countless Nashville classics, and his early forays as a fledgling musician and songwriter are full of lessons derived from his uncle.
Encountering someone who makes music for the sheer joy of it is always a satisfying experience. It’s especially so in a day and age when so many artists obviously view the creative act as a means to fame and nothing more. There’s no question that Rob Alexander wouldn’t mind scoring a number-one hit or filling
Indie rock fans don’t need to be told about the deficit in mainstream talent that their favorite genre has been experiencing lately – if you turn on the radio, you’re going to notice. From one end of the rock n’ roll lexicon to the next, it often feels like some of the best artists in
Bill McBirnie has carved out a richly deserved reputation as one of the finest flutists of his generation. It hasn’t stopped him, however, from continuing to explore the limits of his creativity and, in collaboration with electroacoustic player Eugene Martynec and piano player Bill Gilliam, his recent output ranks among the finest in his career.
Fleeting melodicism seemingly made of gold circles preparing to go in for the kill in “Smokey Mountain Memories.” Fiery harmonies are made compressed into a bout of Americana as emotive as it is stirring in “I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home.” Nathan Stanley dazzles us with vocal showmanship in “Hallelujah, I’m Ready”
Brea Fournier & the Dream Ballet is a talented and unique band that we are so excited to talk further with. Big welcome! You just released a new single. Congrats! Talk with me on the single and how it came together. Hi! Thank you so much for having me! My name is Brea Fournier, and as you might have
Colin Dieden writes about a plethora of little hurts scarring the songs on his new Alt.Pop solo project album, Lovely Hours. The sanguine disappointments of everyday life, the internalized pressures of wrestling with identity, and cure-alls for emotional maladies that ultimately prove transient and superficial. The songs he’s written for Lovely Hours lay his little hurts bare. He never flinches
Classic alternative rock is making a big return to the spotlight in 2023, and if you’re a little skeptical of this statement, I honestly don’t blame you – as a critic, it’s rather hard to deny that rock hasn’t exactly been on top of the world for a while. Even with this being the case,
Lyrics can both tell us a story and offer us deeper insight into the emotional depth of the person composing them, but in the new single from Leo Sawikin, the aptly-titled “Hold On,” they undisputedly do both. Sawikin relates to the listener in poetic terminology on the conventional level only when it is convenient to
So excited to talk more with the talented Keegan Jacko. We love your voice! You have a new single you just dropped. How are you feeling about it? Excited? Nervous? Both? To be honest I’m just happy to finally get that song out there for people to hear. I worked on that song 2 years
While there’s no denying the wealth of the instrumentation that Daniel Grindstaff presents in his new single “Three Arrows” collectively, if there’s one element worth singling out in a breakdown of this track, it’s likely the sterling banjo parts. If you’re as much a fan of indie music as I am, you’re already aware of
There are some instances in which a single strand of melodic ribbonry can communicate more without lyrics than it can with their company, but that’s not quite what transpires in the “Dangerous Love,” “Shadows,” and “Thinking Bout You,” the three songs comprising the new record from Kirsten Collins, Floura, which is out this spring everywhere quality
When a musician manages to release a few well-received LPs throughout their career, history tells us that everything we need to learn about the depth of the player’s craft can be found in the tracklist of the first and last of this set. Enter Sasha Leonov’s Nomad; in his latest release, the noted singer/songwriter is committed
When you’ve got as unique a sound as Elektragaaz’s, it can be difficult to fit all of the monolithic power of your music into a single disc, but even with that being the case for most artists, the underground band still manages to pull off such a feat in their new EP Your Own Private Cinema Part 1. Your
Scores for television programs and movies are all too often an unappreciated musical genre. We take them for granted. Remove these musical pieces from the aforementioned mediums, however, and you’d notice their absence fast. Such scores enhance the dramatic bent of programming and narrative alike and the best composers in that style tailor their music
In the new music video for his single “Two Bleeding Hearts,” singer/songwriter Bruce Sudano once again establishes himself as much more than just another independent pop musician looking to break the mold in this unfolding era for the genre; for this release, he demonstrates how important magnetizing poetry is to his songcraft. URL: https://www.brucesudano.com/ Here,
Denmark’s Thomas Charlie Pedersen’s dazzling songwriting skill covers all the bases. His fifteen song release Employees Must Wash Hands always returns, in the end, to a core neo-folk sound, but there are so many digressions along the way that I come away from hearing this album for the first time convinced there’s little he cannot do.
Harmonizing in an almost divine fashion, the intertwining melodies that define “Gorilla” behind the physical part of the track are some of the most heavenly you’re going to hear on Project Grand Slam’s It’s Alive! LP, but make no mistakes about it – they’re hardly the only element that makes this disc worth taking a peek at
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