If punk rock keeps evolving, then Joybomb is its latest incarnation.With its unique blend of power pop, alternative, and post-hardcore,this trio of Memphis mashers reels out a steady stream of sonic hooks designed to galvanize audiences and hit them with…
Nashville indie band The Cancellations originated as a studio project in the Midwest in 2017. The lineup featured Ellie Maybe on vocals and guitar, Joe Golemb on bass, and Derek Brady on lead guitar. Maybe had vowed to quit performing…
Dublin-based singer/songwriter Sammy Copley (pronouns: he/they) has grown up in a self-made spotlight. Inadvertently documenting his growth as a storyteller and a performer through weekly uploads to YouTube, his channel has almost a quarter of a million subscribers, in 2021…
The Mars McClanes are a rock band born in Dallas, TX, but currently based in Portland, OR. They cut their teeth in honky tonks around Texas, evidenced by the hard-hitting guitar slinging in “The Liar.” The song is frenetic with…
Kit Lindsey’s love of music shines through in her epic gothic tale “Appalachian Sunday.” The murder ballad — a feminist twist on an old tale with a modern morally ambiguous lens — soars with emotion and simmers with tension. In…
Led by Nashville-based songwriter Andrew Scott Wills (who can boast hits in both contemporary Christian country music and pop country), Hawken Horse speaks to the awe of West and the characters who populate its history: cowboys, Native people, the good,…
Andie Mechanic’s new single “down to size” gets raw — quickly. The folk song dives deep into Mechanic’s teenage body dysmorphia — so I would definitely advise a content warning for anyone with or recovering from an eating disorder. That…
Ask Riktor Johansen is a 28-year-old from the town Harstad in Northern Norway. He has been making music since he learned to write, and has, among other things, participated in Norwegian Idol as a semifinalist in 2016. He did his…