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Nashville-based indie-folk artist Melissa Erin is getting ready to release a series of new singles, emblematic of her move to Music City, where she’s assembled a tribe of like-minded troubadours to embolden her already grounded and stirring folk acumen. Her songwriting partner and co-rambler, Phil Anthony, enlisted GRAMMY-winning recording engineer, Brandon Bell (The High Women, Blackberry […]

Born and raised on Minneapolis’s northside, Luke LeBlanc grew up listening to a wide variety of music, young and old, from Bob Dylan and The Band, to John Prine, to The Wallflowers and The Avett Brothers. Now 25, LeBlanc who taught himself how to play guitar at 11 years old and decided to write his […]

Over the course of the last two years, Sour Ops — led by guitarist, songwriter and singer Price Harrison — has mined a rich lode of glammy power pop. Their flair for addictive guitar pop marks their 2018 album Family Circuit and 2019’s Tinder Flame, a superb EP. In addition, they’ve released a cool half-dozen singles in 2020. Each shows a […]

Paper Idol is more than just another indie pop band; it is a multi-dimensional art project with Matan KG as the mastermind. He writes, records, and produces the music himself, in addition to designing and creating the artwork. Inspired by nu-disco and dance music as much as art pop and indie rock, Paper Idol offers a rare combination of new-school production […]

Raised in Los Angeles, Jordi Up Late grew up absorbing the love of filmmaking and music production by osmosis. With the encouragement of her family, she found a love for visual arts and music very early on in her life and often sequestered herself in her room to paint for hours into the night. As a teenager, she […]

Singer-songwriter Matthew Ryan has reunited with his former musical partner, Neilson Hubbard, as Strays Don’t Sleep to release a new four-song EP titled A Short Film For a Long Story (out 10/30). As each artist’s solo career began to take off, Strays Don’t Sleep proved to be short-lived ended up being on the backburner. While […]

Zombie Americana’s self titled debut LP (out 10/30) is a rock opera set to the tone of a country on the brink of a societal collapse. Singer-songwriter Bryce Fox and songwriter-producer Ross Ryan (whom engineered, produced and mixed the entire 10 songs) came together in the summer of 2018 to begin work on a collaborative […]

Australian-via-California songwriter Mimi Gilbert is back with a stellar new track “Taught to Build Walls” which is a passionate plea about disconnection. The melody is textured and familiar, yet fresh-feeling at the same time. Gilbert’s powerful vocal shine bright in her forthcoming new album Grew Inside the Water that tackles her struggles with body image, sexuality, […]

Zach Tabori is a multi-instrumentalist whose creativity, drive and love of performing and writing music has been a huge part of his life since youth. The musician, producer, film composer and songwriter grew up in Los Angeles and spent his teenage years doing odd jobs in the industry for producers, songwriters and composers, all the […]

Lee DeWyze has as colorful a music history as almost anyone. The Mount Prospect, Illinois native won American Idol in 2010 with a heavier raspy voice and guitar tone that gave the show a blast of straightforward rock credibility. After that Wow achievement, DeWyze has continued telling his story through his earnest voice over the […]

Brooks Hudgins is a long origin story, but we’ll give you the Spark Notes. Dallas born, Tennessee baptised, and raised in LA in an aspiring Hollywood family, the root of the fruit came from a guitar and an early interest in the potency of booze and prose. Much of the music was gleaned from teenage […]

It can be easily argued — and successfully as well — that those songs that truly resonate are the ones that speak to our humanity and inspire us to peer well beyond the horizon. Beth Snapp’s striking new single a cover of the Steve Winwood classic “Higher Love” does just that. It’s sung for a […]

On his new studio recording, Liminal Space, (out 10/23) Seattle, WA songwriter Devin Sinha pairs his eloquent lyric-focused composition with elevated instrumental virtuosity to craft a record that will secure his place among the greats of the contemporary folk-rock canon. Sinha excels at eloquently intermingling the intimate and the grand, and that strength is brought seamlessly […]

By now most of us are familiar with the great blues-based music, oft trance-like music that emanates from the war-torn, chronically divisive Mali in West Africa. You know the artists – Tinarawen, Ali Farke Toure, Afel Boucoum, Omou Sungare, Toumani Diabete, and many others, not to mention albums recorded there by Eric Bibb, Bela Fleck, […]

FUZZ, the Los Angeles-based trio of Ty Segall (drums, vocals), Charles Moothart (guitar, vocals), and Chad Ubovich (bass, vocals), will release their first album in five years, III, this Friday, October 23rd on In The Red Recordings. Today, they present a final pre-release offering, “Mirror.” “Mirror” rides the previous tracks’ energies, with drums that pummel through high-power guitar riffs. It’s prime FUZZ, using III’s […]

Mirage on the Meadow is the sophomore release from Philadelphia-based Pine Barons, a record consisting of ten of the band’s most honest and emotionally evocative songs. Written by frontman and multi-instrumentalist, Keith Abrams, the album explores themes of feeling like time is running out, longing for love and death’s inevitability. A psychedelic amalgamation of graveyard […]

Andrew Grimm is singer-songwriter behind the long-running Baltimore, Maryland band, June Star. The group formed in 1998, and over the last 20 years, he has been blurring country and rock and roll sounds while writing songs about love, reminiscent of The Replacements, Lou Reed, Big Star, and Chuck Prophet. It’s time for a change and […]

The words jack of trades or Renaissance man, still might not be enough to properly describe Dr. Zwig—bilingual psychologist, clinical director, international workshop leader, singer-songwriter, recording artist, touring musician, author, podcaster, lecturer, and teacher. This artist surely has more on his lyric sheet then your average local musician. Whether he’s working with clients, inspiring at […]

The pop/funk/R&B/soul singer that is Dylan Chambers has journeyed from Arlington, TX to Los Angeles, where the powerhouse vocalist has dug his heels in, coming a long way since the singer-songwriter tact of his debut record Vol. 1, expanding his oeuvre to meet the crest of a fuller, more robust sound, rooted in soul. Spinning up […]

Juno nominated and pipes of steel vocal dynamo Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar return with their upcoming album, The Reckless One on November 20 via Gypsy Soul Records. Reckless One is produced by Darcy Yates and Renan Yildizdogan. The album focuses on stories of “Love: desire, disappointment, and when everything works out emotional and sexual satisfaction.”  The 12 track album features […]