Category: The Singles Bar
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The Singles Bar: The Cedar Shakers – Dance with Me
The Cedar Shakers send flames from their fingertips with their new song. “Dance with Me” is that first spark from a campfire, just as it breaks into the cool night air and brightens up the woodlands. Guitars and other strings vibrate with a giddy-up gallop that drives the vocals further and further to the edge.…
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The Singles Bar: Tristan Tritt – Living the Dream
Tristan Tritt tries to understand a generation that’s constantly circling the drain with his new song. “Living the Dream” finds him cherishing the here and now, such as the creek down by the house. It’s equally anthemic and vulnerable. “Oh, say can you see, is this living the dream,” Tritt sings in the hook. It’s…
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The Singles Bar: Tom Sless – Country Butter
There’s nothing like the summer heat. It just does something to the body and mind. “Hot like dew in a copper summer, meltin’ hearts into country butter,” sings Tom Sless in his new song “Country Butter.” Thumping drums drive like a convertible with its top down, roaring down back roads. The melody and caramel-smooth guitars…
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The Singles Bar: Luna Keller – Temporary Disarray
B-Sides & Badlands favorite Luna Keller considers that she doesn’t have all the answers to life’s constant barrage of questions. “Temporary Disarray” is a carousel listening experience, as Keller bobs up and in time to the melody’s fluidity. “Come closer, I’ll bite,” she sings. Banjo, guitar, and drums cast a warm ambient glow that’s both…
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The Singles Bar: Eric Richard – Borrowed Time
“I don’t mind the pain,” crows Eric Richard, drenching his song “Borrowed Time” with a sweltering mid-summer rasp. As all artists can recognize, the price of making art is a mighty one. Richard contemplates the blood, sweat, and tears he’s funneled into songwriting over the years. For better or worse, he discovers catharsis but also…
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The Singles Bar: KYTES – Epa
KYTES creates a rain stick of sonic waves with their new song, “Epa.” The band โ consisting of childhood friends Michael Spieler, Kerim Oฬke, and Timothy Lush โ crack open the wonderfully profound summer banger about identity with a marimba polyrhythm so addicting that it certainly sets a feel-good vibe. “Late at night a whisper…
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The Singles Bar: Alex Rogers – The Chase
Alex Rogers possesses a voice as smooth as Southern whiskey. Look no further than his new song “The Chase,” a gospel-soaked lamentation about an on-again, off-again relationship. “Baby, you don’t love me / You love the chase,” he crows. His voice drenches you in the pain of a lost love, arresting you into a place…
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The Singles Bar: NURKO & Kiesza – Back Home
Producer NURKO knows exactly how to deliver potent, fang-toothed lyrics nestled inside dance-club electricity. With a new song called “Back Home,” featuring pop vocalist Kiesza, NURKO offers a light in the darkness, a lighthouse on the shore, and an explosive flair in the dead of night. “I’ll be everywhere you go till you find your…
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The Singles Bar: Albatross – Little More Than Strangers
“Don’t you think it’s sad when you consider what we had?” asks Albatross through a gentle haze. His new song “Little More Than Strangers” aches with throbbing wistfulness that you can only truly feel if you’ve gone through real, raw, and visceral heartache. Horns echo in the arrangement, furthering the emotional weight of the song.…
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The Singles Bar: Zak Smith – Fix Me
There’s a brokenness in the world that’s best summed up with Zak Smith‘s new song “Fix Me.” Smith coats you in a dark strawberry rasp that yanks your heartstrings. “Turn your face to the wall,” he sings. “You won’t fix me, baby.” He takes the emotional temperature of not only his own self-destructive behavior but…
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The Singles Bar: Tara Macri – Grace
We all have people who’ve completely changed the course of our lives. That becomes the root of Tara Macri‘s new song, “Grace,” a bubbly summertime anthem about those connections, no matter how fleeting. Sometimes, those people rush into our lives unexpectedly and rush out of our lives unexpectedly. Either way, we’re forever changed. “I always…
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The Singles Bar: Alexa Kate – good for long
Having anxiety is the suffocating eeriness that descends upon you as you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Everything could be in your favor, and you’d still wait quietly for it all to collapse. With her new song “good for long,” Alexa Kate bottles up that trembling, frantic energy with a silky smoothness. The…
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The Singles Bar: Jens Rude – Magic of the Moment
Music has a way of connecting people that other art forms do not. With their new song, “Magic of the Moment,” indie band Jens Rude invites the listener to reminisce about the, well, magical moments with music that found them reliving the glorious moments of home. Home can mean many things to many different people.…
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The Singles Bar: Jonathan Something – Country Rose
B-Sides & Badlands favorite Jonathan Something ventures down the dusty trail to Western folk music with his new song, “Country Rose.” Cosmic finger-plucking and the soft tear of country & western spin together into a puff of purple smoke. “We could take the dirt road back to heaven,” he sings. “We could take the highway…
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The Singles Bar: Babbling April – All the Shine is Gone
Babbling April have had about enough. All they can do is scream until the veins pop out of their necks and their lungs deflate. That’s the experience of listening to their fuzzy new song “All the Shine is Gone,” with guitars thrashing and clattering against their ribs. Its groove is woolly like a fleece blanket…
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