Tag: singer/songwriter

  • Below is an email I received from the wonderful singer/songwriter Terra Naomi today.  I can honestly say that Terra is one of my favorite artists and that I’m genuinely excited about her making a new album.  I was just thinking that she’s overdue for one the other day and then this arrived in my inbox this…

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  • Totally #songoftheday worthy, but I already posted a song of the day today and I’m so excited about it that I don’t want to wait until tomorrow to post it!

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  • Last month fell in love with Long Island indie artist Rorie Kelly’s awesome new album Rising Rising Rising, which is why I recently brought you an exclusive interview with her. Following that, Rorie invited me to a concert she was doing, which was to be held in someone’s house. You see, Rorie crowd funded Rising…

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  • When David Lee Roth unveiled this thought provoking acoustic song on his online Roth Show, which we’d never heard of before, the internet went wild with speculation, everyone thinking it was his farewell to Van Halen. But David finally chimed in and said that it’s just poetry. So, keep that in mind and rest assured…

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  • I recently had the pleasure of talking with one of the world’s biggest hit songwriters, a gentlemen named Even Stevens. (Awesome name, right?) When I was growing up, back when I was a kid listening to my parent’s radio station of choice, I heard some of his hits hundreds of times. There was Eddie Rabbit’s…

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  • by Michael McCarthy all photos by: Bryan Downey except where noted When many people think of indie music, the artists they often think of are artists who are actually on record labels, just small ones outside of the major label scene. Which is entirely cool, of course. Most of my favorite artists are on indie labels…

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  • by Michael McCarthy I was recently introduced to the music of indie singer/songwriter bitter’s kiss (real name: Chloe Baker) and soon fell madly in love with it. Her always emotive voice immediately grabs you, sounding like a genetic cross between Lorde, Banks and Cœur de Pirate, three of my favorite artists. At times she sounds…

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  • When it comes to indie singer/songwriter Emm Gryner, I always have very high expectations. This might have something to do with the fact that her album Northern Gospel was my #1 album of 2011 and that her album Torrential was my #12 album of 2014. Suffice to say she’s one of my favorites, so forgive…

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  • Everyone knows I’m a sucker for a good ballad, but today’s #songoftheday is much, much better than good. It’s touching with its perfect arrangement, not to mention his beautiful voice and the haunting lyrics… I doubt I’ll hear many ballads this precious all year. It’s that moving.

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  • Emmy The Great once again lives up to her name! “Algorithm” finds Emmy’s voice at the forefront, as she gently sings things like “pumping through my brain, it’s an algorithm,”  her voice pretty as a peach.  “Talk to me like you’re walking me home / Tell me something nobody knows,” goes one of the verses.…

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  • Singer/songwriter Angéline was originally from Loire Atlantique in France but is now based out of London, which is where she earned her music degree. Although most of her songs are now in English, there’s clearly a French folk music influence to her sound. Additionally, she’d just visited Cuba — she loves Salsa dancing — and…

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  • If you liked Rilo Kiley, you’ll fall deeply in love with this one…

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  • Kind of soulful, a bit bluesy, totally intoxicating… Johnson’s smokey voice will leave you feeling like you’re floating on a magic carpet as she makes her way into your heart…

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  • Vanessa Carlton has been a piano pop sort of singer/songwriter for a long time now, but somehow her beautiful new song “Blue Pool” sounds very different from her previous music. Perhaps it’s the production, as the song sounds like it was recorded outside, which gives the vocals a spacious quality. It also sounds as though…

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