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  • KIA – “Loose Change”

    KIA – “Loose Change”

    When you first hear KIA’s voice it hits you like a ton of bricks. Powerful, resonating, and moving. It’s one of those voices that anyone aspiring to sing would wish they have.

  • The Mysterious Mr. Mavilio

    The Mysterious Mr. Mavilio

    “All I can say is that I hope this resonates with you somehow, the tone is frequently dark, the music is a result of my mental state, my well-being, or un-well-being. It depends on how you read into it.” Oliver Mavilio

  • Bad Blood and Demons

    Bad Blood and Demons

    “I kinda hate the idea that people might hold themself back or feel like they can’t express themselves for fear of being judged by others, that’s just not good for the soul.” Bad Soul

  • Attendant – “Failing Grace”

    Attendant – “Failing Grace”

    “The writing of Failing Grace started with the opening arpeggio. I was sat on the couch, mindlessly picking some chord patterns and the melody just came out. I recorded it, looped it, and played a bunch of different ideas over it, until it grew into a complete song.” Andy Wlaker / Attendant

  • Micki XO – “Fake Gold”

    Micki XO – “Fake Gold”

    “I write music that comes from a place of honesty and understanding. Music saved my life by making me feel understood and not alone for the first time, and that’s the ultimate goal with my music: to help someone else the way it helped me.” Micki XO

  • David McKinney Knows What He Needs

    David McKinney Knows What He Needs

    “For people who believe in the power of music to connect human beings in ways that transcend all other forms of communication. This single, “Exactly What I Need” is a surfy tinged pop rock gem about reconciling anxious expectation with the beauty of reality.” David McKinney

  • Monroe Moon – “¡Get up!”

    Monroe Moon – “¡Get up!”

    It’s nothing out of the ordinary to reach for pen and paper to hash out artistic muse when you are feeling despair, but for Bunny Monroe, the vocalist, keyboardist, and lyricist of the duo, she couples it with self-deprecating dark humor on their latest single, “¡Get Up.”

  • A “Proklaimation” of Rhymes on new single “Options”

    A “Proklaimation” of Rhymes on new single “Options”

    Proklaim returns with another banger spitting rapid fire rhymes over chilled out U.S. west coast sounding beats. A man on a mission it seems, not even letting the dust settle after “Solitude” epically closed out his last album.

  • Jackson Watson’s Love Story Second Album

    Jackson Watson’s Love Story Second Album

    “”Numb” is about what it’s like to find yourself into someone and feeling that you’ll never love yourself that much. Through the first half of the album, you can hear me ‘fall in love’ with this person and get completely infatuated by them. However, by track 9 and onward, I take a step back to…

  • The Incredible Ari Raine

    The Incredible Ari Raine

    I’ve listened to a lot of stuff across the spectrum of several genres and skill levels. Ari Raine’s songwriting, production, and vocal delivery is nothing short of incredibly impressive.

  • S J Denney’s Mind-Altering Moods

    S J Denney’s Mind-Altering Moods

    The first track on the EP, “The Art of the Possible” has a super tasty string arrangement at the bridge that definitely invokes sentimental feelings.

  • Tough on Fridays? You’re a Daisy if You Do

    Tough on Fridays? You’re a Daisy if You Do

    The lyrics are pretty dark. I love the opening line, “you are drugs on a silver plate and daisies on a single grave.” Carrying on metaphorically, Caleigh (making my best guess as to who’s singing based off of live performances I’ve watched) continues with “You could be my daisy” as if some nihilistic foreshadowing of…