Bittersweet and a little smokier than I was expecting it to be, there’s no debate as to whether or not Howlin’ Whale’s voice is what makes the single and music video for “Many Lives” the breakout release it truly is. As the most important component...
With a flood of overdriven melodicism waiting to greet us in its first couple of bars, Hot Shot Kixxx’s new single and music video “Tadpoles” sees the band wasting no time laying on the beats as thick as we can take them. There’s a tension...
Soft but stained with a smokiness that is hard for even the most discriminating of country fans to resist, there’s no dismissing the lead vocal Kailey Nicole lends to her new single “Change My Ways.” Whether consumed in the music video for the song or...
Montana’s Desperate Electric sweep the listener press up against their heart and soul in “Right Next To Me”. Big sounds, big voices and a sky full of quirky beats and fresh vibes, Desperate Electric is a duo ready to pounce onto the national music scene....
“Queen” speaks to the listener in a way that feels like a movie. The soul of the song is deep, fleshed out in a bayou of marshy blues and reverb riffs. The camera turns slowly to the funkified, deep barrel of a voice laced with...
Netflix’s Tiger King has transfixed the globe, and let’s face it, it’s hard to get some of the documentary’s images and songs from our memories . Let’s add a completely different tiger into the ring. A band that isn’t quite on the world’s purview, yet,...
“I know wherever I go, I’ll take a little bit of Texas back with me” sings a passionate Carlos Washington in the new single “Little Bit of Texas,” the title track of his new album. Verses like this one are par for the course in...
The aptly-named duo, Wild Fire, have already etched out their summer plans. Their new song “We Got The Summer” pretty much sums up their anticipated schedule with hitting all the cool spots, take in a concert or two, oh, and spending as much time with...
Have you ever felt like a puzzle that has lost its missing piece? Have you thought if your great-great-grandmother felt the same? Derw, a band from Cardiff, Wales, discovered that part of discovering who you are, and finding those clues, means digging back into the...
The piano drives forth a rhythmic discharge of melodies as strong as any word Philly Black will sing or rap to us in his new single “On My Way,” and when examining the passion this player invests into his lyricism, this is no small statement...