Clandestine harmonies are the main draw in surreal pop at the moment, but they’re only one of the reasons why Amanda Holley’s new single and music video “Run Away” feels like a pivotal track for the emerging subgenre. Rather than taking influence from psychedelia, Holley...
Acoustic pop/rock needs strong charisma to sell well, and if there’s one thing that Jack Ryan has going for him in spades, it’s a natural charm that can turn any verse he sings into an agent of evocative warmth. Ryan’s new single “Like a Fire”...
The power of rock guitar is undeniably limitless, as has been demonstrated by its use in scores of emotionally provocative songs throughout the better part of the last seventy years. Slammin’ Gladys have a lot of respect for the history of their genre - you...
With a handle like Spider Rockets, you know the music is going to be a little unconventional, and the critically acclaimed rockers live up to their name in the track “Rip Your Heart Out” and its award-winning music video. Borrowing its beat from a Butthole...
Stacy Gabel is known for going her own way in pop music, and her iconic sleeper hit “Straight to Voicemail” verifies as much. While the staple elements of her sound are on full display here - perky harmonies, fun groove, easy-going lyrical attitude - there’s...
The frustrating experience of being an American teenager has produced some memorable moments in the history of pop music, and contributing her own two cents on the subject this summer is none other than rising star Jojo Engelbert in her new single “Grown Up.” Although...
In her debut single “Mirror Mirror,” Morgan King depicts emotionality in fable-like terms, but her lyrical charm isn’t defined wholly by poeticisms alone. As a singer, King is both direct and bewitchingly melodic, utilizing a post-gothic sensibility that allows her to straddle the line between...
Being retro in style without recycling anything from the past is incredibly hard, but somehow the Annie Minogue Band manage to make it sound pretty simple in their new single “Sandbox” this July. None of the righteousness that often infects a retrospective on classic aesthetics...
Although there are melodic points of interest between the start and finish lines in “Do You Really Wanna” by Omar Veluz, the real bread and butter of this all-new single and music video is the punch the collective force of its instruments produces. There’s so...
Hard rock is nothing without a red-hot harmony at the center of its distorted chaos, and in her cover of the Slaughter classic “Mad About You,” the multitalented Kari Wahlgren reminds audiences that modern heavy music needs to live by this standard. Melodicism is a...