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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Detroit born Clayton John cut his teeth on the best pop music of the 1960’s and 1970’s growing up and those influences shine bright in his new single “River”. Now living in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, Clayton has busied himself in recent years playing live at a wide variety of venues whenever opportunity presents itself.
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The duo Migrant Motel is an alt-pop unit marrying the talents of drummer and Mexican native Chava Ilizaliturri with Peruvian/American bassist and vocalist David Stewart Jr. into an unique pairing. The tandem first connected during their college years in the Boston area and soon established an ever-growing fanbase throughout Latin America, Mexico, and the United
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Gargantuan grooves are just waiting to come alive as we enter Energy’s debut album Rock Party, and as we soon learn in the eight tracks comprising its totality, there isn’t any stop that this band won’t pull out in their mission to engage us with their broad-shouldered musicality. “Rock Party” gets us rolling with brute
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Raised in suburban Connecticut, Filipino-American Jeremy Calvar embodies the real American Dream, not some cliché. Adopting the work hard and dream big ethos of his parents has served him well as a musician and his new single “Lightfoot Sunflower” reflects that discipline in action. It’s his latest musical foray since the act formed with his
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The new single “Ain’t the Beer” that Buffalo, Wyoming’s Geoff Buell isn’t your everyday country artist. The vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist is carving out a reputation fast for his traditional yet thoroughly contemporary approach. He relocated to Nashville with his mother at the age of two so she might have the opportunity to pursue her
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Vocal charisma has always been Ezra Vancil’s strongest suit, but it might take a backseat to the compositional diversity of his new EP We Were Wild this month. Produced at the highest of standards and made to represent so much more than just another pop record in a sea of interesting releases this year, We Were Wild invites its
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