There is something almost sacred about five o'clock on a Friday afternoon. For the factory worker whose hands have carried the week's weight, the waitress who's smiled through another double shift, or...
Kory Montgomery had his first taste of the road at fifteen, when his band landed an opening slot for B.B. King. Since then, he has opened for Earth, Wind & Fire and...
Peter Hutchison has been writing songs for decades, and Healers 2 is his tenth full-length release. It revives the acoustic-based ensemble he first assembled in the 1990s, and it follows The Healers'...
Würzburg artist Elias Dream centers a quiet kind of guilt in "The Love I Hide," released on August 14th. The song follows a man lying awake beside someone who truly loves him...
You spot them across the room. For a second, everything feels familiar; then reality catches up. The person you once knew so well suddenly feels like a stranger, and all those supposedly...
Country music has always understood that the family story is never entirely private. A mother’s sacrifice, a father’s words, a child growing up, a person facing addiction, a survivor reclaiming her identity—these...
There are songs that make noise, and then there are songs that make silence matter. Richard Lynch's "Wait For Me" belongs squarely in the second camp. It doesn't chase trends, flex production...
Stephen H. Cumberbatch, working as C'batch, has been part of New York's dance music lineage since the early 80s, co-writing tracks like "I Need You Now" for Sinnamon, a foundational New York...
John Miller works solo out of Paris, and "Sexy Blueberry" out June 25th, is, by his own account, a genuinely raw piece of work, written during a period of real personal suffering...
Russ Harris, once a Billboard Dance Chart-charting producer and remixer, shifted his focus in 2020 toward Contemporary Christian music under the name Fishburn, and "Take It Away," out July 3rd, is the...
Naoko Hiranuma spent years living by the ocean before music became her full-time focus, working as a diving instructor in Japan, the Maldives, and Fiji before running a surf camp of her...
I was already sold on "funky, soulful and gospel-inspired" music, but this project is even more than that. Kinshift is the house band of KinShift Music Studio out of St. Louis, led...
Blending retro pop-rock textures with polished contemporary production, Mick J. Clark's "Anuther Sunny Hulliday" arrives as a cheerful celebration of sunshine, travel, and the simple joy of stepping away from everyday routines....
Kemi Ray releases "Back To Work (Naija Anthem)" on July 13th through Bright Halogen Sound Labs, the North London independent label run by Raymond Austin. The track is built explicitly around the...
