Denver’s YaSi brings the melodic hip-hop heat in her latest single “Issues,” which sees the burgeoning singer/songwriter dabbling in elements of surreal R&B and taking her sound in an exciting experimental direction. In this track, ambient rhythm wraps around a tightly arranged collection of slow-churning beats and monolithic harmonies that...
There’s definitely a garage rock feel to RV Farms’ latest single “July”, but there’s much more. Dan English’s project has made its mark on the indie music world thanks to his continual willingness to tackle traditional song structures with imagination and skill and the percussion and guitars framing the...
Neon grooves and brute basslines come together in a juicy juggernaut of melodic sounds in the new extended play from doubleVee, titled Songs for Birds and Bats. Due to be released this April, Songs for Birds and Bats has a very springtime feel to its content, with the blistering...
Portland’s The Hugs deliver a fiery indie rock jam that’s worth taking a second glance at in their new single and music video “Mile High Lady,” which is out now worldwide. While The Hugs have been going strong now for twelve years, after emerging from the MySpace era of...
Self-described disco-metal outfit Makes My Blood Dance lay down a chest-pounding metallic anthem in their debut single “Beaming Right Up,” and it’s garnering some notable attention from critics and audiophiles this spring. Right from the jump, Makes My Blood Dance are firing off one gargantuan riff after another with a...
The forthcoming album from Austin synthwave act TC Superstar, R&D, promises to be a transformative moment in the trajectory of this stylish Texas based eight piece musical collective based on the quality of singles like their latest “One and Only”. Primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist Connor McCampbell boasts a...
Swimming Bell, the solo vehicle for folk singer Katie Schottland, is back in the spotlight this April with a sensationally surreal album titled Wild Sight, and it’s a brilliant way to follow-up the critically acclaimed EP The Golden Heart, to say the least. Featuring a newfound swagger in “Quietly Calling,” “Got Things”...
Seattle garage rockers Forest Ray lay down some incredibly cerebral melodies in their new single “What Goes Down” (from their joint release with Austin psych-rock syndicated Lasso Spells), and present us with a music video for the song that is equally as spellbinding. “What Goes Down” opens with...
Jas Frank & the Intoits are making some incredible noise in their debut full-length album The Girl from Cherry Valley, and with stirring songs like “High in Space,” “So Far Away,” “In Early Mornings,” “In a Hole” and “All the Highs All the Lows” making up only half of its...
A fierce stomping beat ushers us into a firestorm of electrified riffs just itching to crush us with their bass-heavy weight. The drums are assaulting us from both the left and the right with impunity, but they aren’t enough to drown out the smoky vocal acting as a linchpin...