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...
“Labyrinth Of Life” is anything but subtle about its ambitions. Qymira isn’t presenting herself simply as a pop singer. She is building a world where contemporary pop, classical musicianship, film and fantasy...
Some songs take years to finish. Singer-songwriter Danny Lu (鹿晓丹) started "我渴望 (I Long for You)" in the high desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the end of a journey that...
Back when we covered Scottish producer and drummer Brannen with his debut "Tulips," a follow-up, "Keep Dancing With Me," was already on the way. It came out on September 24th, and it...
Meas & Riddie are two young brothers from Rotterdam, and "Keep T Moving" is their first independent release. According to their SoundCloud profile, Meas got started by watching his brother make music,...
"Coco" is addressed to two people in particular: a "coco girl" and a "coco boy." Wyn Starks wrote the song as reassurance for both, a reminder that their worth was never in...
Pieter Goemans' "Aan de Amsterdamse grachten" is a classic Dutch melody, and Sergiy Bolotny has given it to a solo violin. The result, "Little Dutch Rhapsody No. 3 (Capriccio Amsterdam)," came out...
The Washington, D.C. artist, songwriter, and producer R.Nelson took one song from his July album Songs and Music by R. Nelson, Vol. 1: Grown Man Energy and built an entire release around...
A home studio doesn’t necessarily mean a small sound. 50mething’s “Obsession” turns one artist’s relationship with music into a lively alternative indie R&B and blue-eyed soul track, built around the idea that...
