Hi Beth! Thank you for being here! We are obsessed with your fashion style! How do you stay so current? Well, thank you! I stay current through watching runway shows, attending music festivals, and, most importantly, staying creative in my fashion. What do you think goes into the perfect outfit? I’m very much a “dress from
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Set to a chicken-pickin’ melody that quickly finds a rock n’ roll-inspired groove to get in front of, “That Right There” from Russ Still and the Moonshiners isn’t the first fiery melodic country song to have caught my attention this autumn, but it’s one of the few to have been sourced from a purely independent
Thank you for doing our interview! Tell our readers more about how you got started and where you are located! Thanks so much for inviting me to interview! I’m excited for my recent album. It’s available on all streaming platforms 9/25. I got started in performance and singing when I was really young. I started through
2020 has been a crazy year without question, but it’s also been a year in which we’ve seen one of the better summers for indie pop fans collectively experienced in the new millennium. Amidst a season of pure isolation for most of the world’s recording artists, incredible material has begun to come out of the
Fast, furious and packing far more of a sonic punch than most anything I’ve heard out of the mainstream lately, Jupiter in Velvet’s “Not Again” is definitely one of the more brutish moments to behold in Punk Goes the Velvet, but I wouldn’t say it’s the lone track sporting some muscle in this latest EP from
Who or what is the “Invisible Stranger?” For that Matter who and what are The PondHawks? An indie group out of Chicago, The PondHawks are one of music’s best kept secret treasures. Their release of “Invisible Stranger” serves to make them even more valuable to the music industry as well as to the history of
Origins: Singers and Songs that Made Me is the latest solo release from former Chicago bassist and vocalist Jeff Coffey. The album’s fourteen songs are covers from a wide spectrum of artists who Coffey has admired over the course of his life, but these are reverential treatments akin to pinning butterflies under glass. Coffey, instead, brings
West coast rap has evolved a lot in the last thirty years, but in some ways, it hasn’t changed at all. Take for instance the attitude exuded by its most exciting players – whether we’re talking 1991 or 2020, there’s a swagger that puts Los Angeles-based rappers like OG Cuicide in a league of their
Wild Fire’s “Damaged (But We Still Work)’ is a thoughtful musical reminder of the pervasive and often destructive power social media and celebrity culture exert on our daily lives. It’s a natural subject for two young women to explore; Kayla and Kelli Iutzwig are up to the task. They perform under the name Wild Fire
Elz Bentley’s latest release “Buddha” comes with a matching music video further reinforcing the song’s potential impact. It’s a hallmark of Bentley’s career, thus far, that he pairs each new release with complementary visual material bursting with the same inspiration and skill heard in the song. It wraps its arms around the same urban imagery
“Relationship” is the new single from Danish singer Arina Mai. Proving once again she sings with passion, Mai’s words glide from her voice as if they were straight from her heart. Like a balm to a bad abrasion, Mai’s soothing voice is no match for the unsettled and sporadic music bed. Exciting as it is,
It’s evident from just a few Facebook posts that musician and artist Manny Cabo is an upbeat, positive guy. He’s also always on the move. The former The Voice Season Nine contestant and rocker is back again with his latest single, “All Night Again”. The powerhouse vocalist assures the listener that his emotion is more
Country fans have been leaning on the genre a lot in 2020, and as periods of great strife tend to teach us, few mediums are as medicinal as music is in times like these. In his new single “Two Lane Airplane,” country artist Gary Burk III is steering clear of negativity and downtrodden dirges and
Supple and smoothly applied to the blank canvas afforded by silence in the backdrop, the strings we initially make contact with in Jeffrey Li’s debut single “Anniversary” are a masterfully melodic element to say the least. A near-perfect complement to Li’s stunningly warm lead vocal, this textured component of a much grander harmony is far
In his new extended play, titled Insane, Tom Tikka & The Missing Hubcaps put their artistic narrative on the line for everyone to appreciate, and I must say, it’s one that feels rather refreshing this summer. Although rock has been struggling to stay relevant in the past few years, there isn’t any retrospection on Tikka’s part
If you have never heard Paul Mark before listening to Gravity, this album asks you to make important decisions from the outset. It is true Mark’s work exists well within the wheelhouse of the singer/songwriter genre, but his performance moves in the realm of artists like Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and some Bob Dylan rather than
From the depths of one of the coolest albums of the year “Doves of War” by the alt rock band Trenched, comes their hot new single “Wild Rides and Alibis.” An emotionally charged rendezvous with love, cheating, passion, obsessions and possession….at least at first glance. Musically driven by bass riffs and pounding skins, catchy and
The glass is always half-full. Tomorrow is a new day. It’s going to be a bright, sun shiny day. The words that ignite a fire in our hearts are often best put to song. The Side Deal have joined the world in spreading positive thoughts and vibes. On any given day, no matter the year,
Vaulting between a machine gun-style intensity and a swaggering, carefully timed execution, the flow of 8rooklyn 8atman’s verses in the new single “Chitty Bang” is as agile, lean and mean as they come – but it’s not free of muscular moxie. 8rooklyn 8atman has a very raw versatility to his sound, but while his greatest
If Tom Tikka and the Missing Hubcaps prove nothing else, they conclusively show when you play something is even more important than what you play. Take the drumming for example – by any measure, the drumming featured throughout the three song EP Working Class Voodoo is the ideal of blue collar meat and potatoes drumming, nothing intricate,
ILYAH is the rare modern performer who transcends geographic and cultural borders alike. The performer, of Moroccan descent, works out of the Boston, Massachusetts area but possesses a talent that has across the board appeal. His latest single “Habibi” shows off his cultural range without ever smacking of pretension for even a second. It’s a
Country music is changing in a multitude of ways right now. From the alternative twang of a burgeoning scene in South Florida to a cocktail of Bakersfield swing and old school bluegrass finding quarter in the Denver underground, saying that country is diversifying in a fashion some would have never dreamed possible would likely be
Attracting the admiration of high profile artists like Lady Gaga, among others, AV Super Sunshine has amassed over 200,000 fans spanning an array of demo and geographic boundaries, the deceptively ambitious music spooling from his imagination has struck gold again with his new single “Smile”. He offers the track in two different mixes, an original
When we personalize our efforts to engage the world, the positive impact we create is powerful. Anyone can hold up a sign, march shoulder to shoulder with others in the name of a particular cause, or reel off a bevy of slogans and adages we believe illustrate solidarity with an issue. This observation does not
Linda Collins continues solidifying her positions as a major force in the independent film world with the critical success accorded her recent short film Perception. Directed and written by Andres Irias, the winner of Best International Film at the 2020 Brightside Tavern Shorts Film Festival in New York City tells two stories about immigration from very
Mark! Welcome. We heard you have a new single coming out – when can we expect to hear it? Hello! Thank you for having me! Yes I do. It’s coming out on Valentines Day. Right around the corner! We also saw on IG that you are putting out an EP. That is a big deal,
Today, we are incredibly pleased to sit down and talk with music industry executive and publicist Ken Cavalier to find out more about how he assists independent artists & indie labels with their promotions and marketing, and about what’s going on with his management and publicity firm Allure Media Entertainment Group. Hi ken – Great
Let’s jump right in – your new video for Roller Coaster just dropped. Congrats! Do you ever get nervous before you release something new or is it more of an exciting things for you? It is more exciting to release new material. If I release it, that means I believe in the project and I
Hello Guys! So happy we get to chat with you today! We know you have kicked off the Spectra tour – how is it going? Red: It’s going really well! This our first ever tour, so it’s been a lot of just getting used to being on the road, getting used to playing so often,
Hello Clo! So excited we get to chat today. Fill us in on what is new in your world! Hello! A lot of amazing things are currently in the works. I finished my E.P with my amazing producer Warren Huart. So we are now taking the next steps and working on live shows, music videos