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I Have to Approach Improvisation NOT as a Jazz Player" " Steve Wilson on the Billy Childs Concerto That Changed How He Hears Himself
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (961+ words) Indie Boulevard Music Awards" Steve, it's wonderful to speak with you, and thank you for taking the time. You're in Highland Park through June 17th. Ravinia, young musicians, residency mode. That's a specific kind of daily life " you're not on tour,…...
Billie Eilish Ignored My Track" " Vegan Rapper Cold Poison Calls Out the Biggest Name in Plant-Based Pop
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (472+ words) Indie Boulevard Music Awards" Cold Poison is an independent vocalist and rapper from the vegan movement, and if you just rolled your eyes " honestly, that's exactly the reaction he's counting on. Because what comes next is a level of argumentation…...
Cherry" Signals a New Phase for Sam Plourd " and She Sounds Ready
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (374+ words) Cherry" opens with an energy that feels almost confrontational for indie rock. Punk-adjacent drums shove the track forward while retro synths " warm, slightly grainy, pulled from some alternate-universe FM dial " hover underneath. On my first listen I genuinely wondered if…...
Lost My Way" Positions Antti Everything as a Rising Force in Modern Indie
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (209+ words) The track "Lost My Way" was created by the duo Antti Everything, bringing together songwriters from Helsinki and Berlin. This Indie Rock song stands out with incredible energy and a light retro vibe. Antti Everything's indie electronic rock intertwines with…...
Maryann Connolly's Etched in Love: An Actress Who Knows Exactly When to Break Character
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (299+ words) By the time you clock what "Etched in Love" has actually done, it's over. Three minutes and fourty one second. You walked in through what felt like an acoustic pop song " clean guitar, soft vocal, everything gentle and predictable " and…...
Shell Games" "It"s Been a Blast" Gets Stuck in Your Head Before You Even Make Up Your Mind
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (176+ words) The riff could have been busier. It could have competed with Martinelli's vocal for the listener's ear. Instead, it stays in its lane " rhythmic, textured, almost conversational in its phrasing " and lets the voice do the heavy emotional lifting. All…...
Caroline Alves Remembers What It Felt Like Before the Guardrails
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (214+ words) Louis Ryan's production on Innocence does something clever " it gives Caroline Alves enough space to be cinematic without drowning her vocal, which is the whole anchor here. She wrote the track as a visual exercise, lyrics you could storyboard, and…...
Chris Roach's Only the Night: The Darkest Thing to Come Out of Nashville This Year
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (203+ words) The vocal is drawn out, smoky, hanging over the production like fog that refuses to lift. There's a thinness to it that feels deliberate, a restraint that keeps the performance on the edge of a whisper even as the instrumental…...
Iona Luke Holds Her Breath and Hopes You'll Call Back
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (203+ words) Somewhere around the second verse of Can We Still Hang Out? , Iona Luke's vocal shifts from restrained to nearly raw " and that's where the track finds its nerve. The guitars build in wide, moody layers, but the real tension lives…...
B. Miles Just Asked the Question We're All Too Afraid to Answer in "Choice I Would Choose
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (219+ words) New York singer-songwriter B. Miles has released her new single "Choice I Would Choose." And this is exactly the kind of release that makes you stop and listen. Behind B. Miles is a full-length album "Different Pages," dedicated to the outdated expectations…...