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Thanks for your time today! So, before we jump into specific questions, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story? Where you started and where you are now. Thank’s for having me! I’m New England born and bred. Maine is where I call home but I was born and partially raised […]
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In a violent stomp that sets the tone for all of the melodic carnage soon to follow, a fiery riff lays out a rhythm for Jupiter in Velvet’s “Forever & a Day” within moments of pressing play on this fifth song in the tracklist of Anthems 2 Love, Jupiter in Velvet’s latest EP. “Forever & […]
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Shot in Hong Kong and filmed in Moscow by Luca Lovisetto and Sam Regan, the companion video to “Hong Kong Hike” is a myriad of images and captures the simplicities of everyday life. Transportation and the pulse of large cities emerge at their core it’s all about the human existence. The smiles are as optimistic […]
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Kerry Pastine and her husband/guitarist Paul Shellooe have with “City of Love” a single leaning hard on vintage musical values yet sounding thoroughly modern and never imitative. Yes, Pastine works within an established tradition on this release, but it doesn’t stop her, Shellooe, or the other members of the Crime Scene from recasting these time-tested […]
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Based on the song title alone, listeners may expect Jesse Rundle’s “Captain Profundo” to be some sort of psychedelic musical trip, but they couldn’t be more wrong. This is a folk song, through and through, with some modern adornments helping ground it in the present. “Captain Profundo” isn’t purist folk, a musical butterfly trapped under […]
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The piano melody that signals the start of White Collar Crime’s “To Be Real,” one of two songs that they’re releasing ahead of their latest record 30 Years In The New York Rain, is glittery and bright, adorned with a gentle drumbeat that persists through the whole of the track. A soft lead vocal joins […]
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If you follow independent pop music out of the southeastern United States, you’re probably already aware of an artist by the name of Rob Alexander, an MD by day and a soft rock balladist by night, whose work has been generating a lot of critical adulation in the past couple of years. Alexander’s latest album, Being […]
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When you’ve got a voice as strong as David Leask’s is, you don’t need the bells and whistles that most pop songwriters do, and hence, listeners will not find any in his new single “When You Think No One Loves You,” which is out now everywhere that independent music is sold and streamed. Leask executes […]
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In a carefree swing that is as inviting as the vocal harmony soon to shadow its start is, gorgeous strings come pouring through our speakers in a deluge of melodicism in “Carolina Line,” one of ten songs comprising Time Has Made a Change, the new record from Jeff Parker & Company. “Carolina Line” is probably one […]
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The Criticals’ Mimosa Hygiene packs quite a punch despite featuring only six tracks. It is a testament to how quick Cole Shugart and Parker Forbes established a shared language for their songwriting as The Criticals; these tracks play with all the confidence of a far more traditionally established unit than a neophyte band marking their debut release. […]
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