Just Breathe is a rock-n-roll romp that seeks to inspire and empower you! The new album from Singer/songwriter Pidgie is a tour-de-force of creative perseverance and personal triumph. Pidgie is a disability rights activist who was born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Pidgie was mentored by her older sister (who also had SMA) on how
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The Brian Shapiro Band will soon carve out a place for themselves as one of the brightest and most idiosyncratic musical units working today. Shapiro is an university instructor in his life away from music, but there’s nothing stuffed-shirt or stolidly academic about how he treats his songwriting. The ten tracks included on his sophomore
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Steve Markoff and Patricia Lazzara continue building a reputation as one of the pre-eminent instrumental interpreters of popular songs emerging in recent years. Their new single “Layla” doesn’t look back to the original Derek and the Dominos version full of soaring lead guitar and a full rock band performance. Instead, the alto and concert flutist
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“I know I’m impatient, you think I got somethin’ to hide / But all I want is for you to be on my side,” pleads a heartfelt David Sparrow in his song “On My Side,” much of his vocal tone reflecting the eminent warmth of its parent album as a whole. In Beggars & Choosers, Sparrow’s
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Project Grand Slam has a lot of clout in the American underground, and it isn’t solely because of the weight that leader Robert Miller’s name carries in indie circles. On the contrary, it might be the chemistry, so brilliantly exhibited in the new live single “I’m Falling off of the World,” that brings so many
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Wreckless Strangers’ “You Just Hurt” is the third single from their impending album release When the Sun and a Blue Star Collide and arguably the best yet. The six piece band’s memorable foray into outright electric blues jettisons anything country in favor of a gritty yet joyful expression of well-loved style. It is unquestionably retro in the sense
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Lamenting in one verse, optimistic in the next, Morten Nygaard comes across as a man as conflicted as he is certain of his own mortality in the new single “Trespassing,” and though a lot of his longtime listeners are already aware of his multidimensionality as a songwriter, this is by far the most accessible of
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There’s no denying the stranglehold that the Covid-19 pandemic had on the world for the last two and a half years, but the way it bodied the souls and minds of those with high-functioning anxiety (and similar quirks) is indescribable. Introverts already dreaded leaving their homes and now there was a literal killer on the
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The Americana element has been everywhere in pop music over the past year, to the point where a lot of critics have deemed its use a bit too predictable for the artists who have been adopting its key aesthetics. That said, when a player like Brooke Josephson decides to take her music in a different
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