Category: Music
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The Singles Bar: Blond in Car & Jack Newsome – How to Be a Mystery
The great indie-pop mastermind Blond in Car teams up with Jack Newsome for a new collaboration called “How to Be a Mystery.” Robyn, eat your heart out. The scorching duet lights up the night sky with its seductive backbeat and strawberry-lipped vocals that kiss for days. “Do you want to be her?” the pair sing…
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The Singles Bar: Cooper Greer – Mustangs
Cooper Greer heads to the dusty streets of the West with his smoky new song, “Mustangs.” The giddy-up of the arrangement barrels ahead like a, well, mustang skittering to the horizon. “I’d love to let you love me, girl,” he bays. “But this life ain’t always pretty…” Instead, he gallops onward into the setting sun.…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Cade Hoppe – Lake Michigan
Life doesn’t always work out the way you planned. That’s the pulsing core of Cade Hoppe‘s foamy new track, “Lake Michigan.” He uses the story of driving from the East Coast to the West Coast to see the Pacific Ocean, but the trip has other plans. And he ends up stopping at Lake Michigan instead.…
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The Singles Bar: Shannon Clark – Postcards
“Could have been around the world in 80 days,” sings the rasp-voiced Shannon Clark, “but I fell asleep upon the train.” His new song, “Postcards,” sees him trekking through the plains, cities, and woodlands of every single continent, looking for long-lost love. He grips tightly upon her memory, which fuels him on his wearisome journey.…
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The Singles Bar: Bryan Andrews – Backwoods Backwards
If you follow Bryan Andrews on social media, you know he stands on business, firmly on the right side of history. With his new song “Backwoods Backwards,” he targets the MAGA and Christian Nationalist crowds who rally behind a rapist in the White House and billionaires who couldn’t give two shits about the poor. “I…
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The Singles Bar: Western Gringa – Two Steps In
Western Gringa boot scoots around the bar with her new song, “Two Steps In.” The hoedown is hoppin’ on a Friday night, the amber lights glow, and the beer on tap flows. “They sparked a love that will last forever,” she sings. The power of dance in some honky-tonk electrifies. And there’s no way you…
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Record Revue: CJ Sooy – Is Anything Real
CJ Sooy‘s debut EP, Is Anything Real, feels like one of those dusty, scrappy cassette tapes that had to be hidden from strict, overbearing parents. Dripping in influences (Oasis and Goo Goo Dolls, the most obvious ones), the five-track project switches between static-y alt-rock radio stations but carries Sooy’s signature voice ringing in your ears.…
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The Singles Bar: Janet Devlin – Diane
Janet Devlin takes cues from Cam and Ashley McBryde with her new song, “Diane.” She not only possesses all the grit and spirit of her predecessors, but she also delights in some wordplay. “But I say, go die, Anne,” she sings, referencing the single title. It’s a raucous and fearless song that sees Devlin spit…
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The Singles Bar: Echo Bird – Summer of ’99
Riffing on Bryan Adams’ “Summer of ’69,” Echo Bird revamps the feel-good summer anthem into “Summer of ’99,” updating the references and giving it a ’90s polish. The band—comprised of Bryan Sua (lead vocals, guitar), Levi Larkin (guitar, multi-instrumentalist, backing vocals), Michael Villaclara (guitar, backing vocals), Wyatt Whaley (drums), and Rob Paterson (bass)—thumbs their way…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Todd Adelman – Hot as the Hinges
Todd Adelman‘s “Hot as the Hinges” has the boot scootin’ spirit of ’90s country. A soft amber glow radiates from inside its gruff hoedown exterior. The visual carries that essence into images of abandoned Wild, Wild West imagery, such as a saloon and the dusty mainstream of some secluded gold town out in Nevada. It…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: almost monday – delicate
We wear masks to hide our insecurities. In the digital age, social detachment allows us to behave in a way that contradicts what we really feel. With their new song, almost monday explores this idea through a groove-gripped “delicate,” in which they muse: “Take a drink, pretend that I’m relevant / Try to love it…
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The Singles Bar: maxfield – Sandpaper
maxfield‘s “Sandpaper” never feels like it’s condescendingly preaching down to people. It’s simply relaying a message of deep, personal redemption. “Sandpaper my heart, get rid of my sin,” he sings, shedding the skin of his past and being reborn. His voice is sandpaper-y in texture and allows him to extract a rich emotional core from…
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The Singles Bar: Eva Rose – Next Girl
Eva Rose empties her lyrical clip with her “Next Girl.” Drums crash against electric guitars like snakes attacking their prey. “If you hate the late-night phone calls, it’s because you’re insecure. My friends will hate him, and he’ll swear they’re the problem,” she sings with poison dripping off her tongue. She sinks her teeth into…
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The Singles Bar: Tanner Lee Gray – Time and Money
Debut singles serve a very crucial purpose: to cause a stir. With his debut song, “Time and Money,” singer-songwriter Tanner Lee Gray muses on transactional relationships, platonic and otherwise, and his epiphany regarding someone in his own life. “She said, ‘I got time, if you got the money,'” he sings. He funnels in a realization…
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The Singles Bar: colby! + Jady – Take What You Want
“I don’t wanna watch while you suffocate,” colby! and Jady belt in their new collab. “Take What You Want” juices up a power-pop melody with intense and scorching lyrics about a one-sided relationship. Production sizzles like blacktop in the height of summer, heat rising to a deadly degree. The track arrives just as summer gets…
Recent Posts
- The Singles Bar: Blond in Car & Jack Newsome – How to Be a Mystery
- The Singles Bar: Cooper Greer – Mustangs
- Video Killed the Radio Star: Cade Hoppe – Lake Michigan
- The Singles Bar: Shannon Clark – Postcards
- The Singles Bar: Bryan Andrews – Backwoods Backwards
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