He hasn’t merely broken into the Top 200 Airplay chart on Digital Radio Tracker; he’s cut into its upper tier. That’s on top of owning the NACC Hip-Hop adds, the #2 slot on NumberOneMusic’s Seattle chart and #48 on Record World Magazine, just to name some of the January highlights. 130 radio stations added his
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Gilded strings fight their way through a misty master mix as Ilja Alexander’s new single and music video “Someday” starts to play. Soon in their wake, we hear the strikingly smoky voice of Mr. Alexander join their eager melody, intertwining and capturing our attention instantly. The chill-inducing harmonies are just beginning to catch fire at
Glistening guitars embrace us with open arms in “Chasin’ My Tail.” The labored melody of a supple piano is also quite similar in “To Be Real.” At times, White Collar Crime are soft, vulnerable and unguarded, as in “Leaving You,” while in others, they’re relentlessly angst-ridden, unapproachable and full of bitter emotion. This is 30 Years
A fiddle cries out to us with a solemn melody ever so gently. A vocal as heavy with emotion isn’t far behind its instrumental intro to “Devil on the Side,” but for as short a start as it is, the mood that these strings create will stay with us throughout this song from Flat River
You won’t find any of the inauthentic props that have become commonplace in pop music in the video for Andy Michaels’ new single “Darling It Hurts.” You also won’t find any false foundations, like synthetic harmonies or a badly recycled rhythm, in the song’s parent album, Incendiary Heart. Fake admissions are nowhere to be heard in
With the blunt end of a pick, Dave Vargo finds his way over the strings with a delicate hesitance as “Nowhere Else” begins to play, every note seeming to reverberate into the atmosphere and come chasing back after his words but moments later. In songs like this one and its Spaces in Between neighbor (and lead single)
Las Vegas based band Forgotten Door is garnering a lot of attention and positive press thanks to their deft combination of songwriting fundamentals, modern production values, and retro influences. Their self-titled EP includes six tracks revealing the full breadth of their talents. It is little surprise they come across as such a complete act considering
Wisconsin based AV Super Sunshine, working in tandem with talented producer/musician Michael Bradford, Earlier efforts from Sunshine such as “Candyland”, in its various mixes, established the talented singer, musician, and songwriter as one of the finest stylists in popular music today. His latest single “Crazy Love” follows the template of the aforementioned single in some
Philadelphia’s Hughie Mac returns with the fourth installment of his Sings Some Great Songs series and many will feel it is the best yet. Mac’s swing through popular music over the course of these four albums is reminiscent, in some ways, of Rod Stewart’s Great American Songbook releases, but Mac’s vision is arguably wider and more all encompassing than
A lush vocal harmony. A volley of slightly electrified strings. Simple beats that slide into focus on a whimsical rhythm. This is “#2020,” the new single from part-time pop group and full-time family Avni Vir Vineet, and to say that it’s an aesthetically amalgamative track would be simply too big an understatement for any credible
Hello Emily! So happy we could chat today. Can you walk us through your musical journey? Give us the story of where you started and what is going on now for you. I started playing violin when I was 11 years old. I had asked my parents for lessons since I was 5, but I
As the central point of communication in the all-new album Benny’s TV Repair, the strings that adorn Irene Kelley’s “Out of Arkansas,” “The Hills Of Home,” “Bluegrass Radio” and “Something About A Train Sound” are as important as any of the words Kelley sings to us in her latest 11-track masterpiece, but they aren’t overstated in
Western Reserve by Howard Simon is a thoughtful record from an artist with some recent background worth mentioning because of how his songwriting has evolved into more uplifting stories and themes with more characters. The view and concept of one of the songs involved an assignment given to Simon by Shawn Colvin at a guitar
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/griffinholtby/ It is little wonder, given how much Griffin Holtby has already experienced of life, that the young singer/songwriter brings such palpable passion to his single “Overgrown”. The potent imagery underlying the song title is well chosen and Holtby’s writing, its melody first composed during his high school years and later fleshed out with
On the last frame of Anastasia’s video to the explosive debut single “Evaporate” are the words “you are not alone.” The words are dedicated to “everyone that has suffered from an eating disorder.” Anastasia, born in Russia is now NYC-based and garnered a degree from Berklee School of Music. Her rich, powerful vocals are the
“Atomic Bomb” is as fun as a rock song gets, and The Push from Austin, TX keep their roots firmly planted on their debut album No Light In The Darkness. Talk about a ticket to ride, they’ve got a stack of eleven of them, starting with the sneaky “Atomic Bomb” and a video to match
How would you classify your music? Song-driven Celtic soul & roots Americana Who are some of your top 5 musical influences? Darrell Scott, Marcus Hummon, Hothouse Flowers, Waterboys, Blue Nile What do you want fans to take from your music? I want them to connect something in their own lives with a lyric or a
Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene’s “City of Love” is a rambunctious and rollicking musical ride courtesy of the most talented music unit to emerge in recent memory from the Denver, Colorado musical scene. They are well versed in the style and that’s obvious during every second of this near four-minute track, but the most