Nashville-based singer-songwriter and instrumentalist John Salaway sings about an inspiring relationship on the breezy “Good For Me,” the latest from his forthcoming album Americana Dreams (out Oct. 25). The song, which Salaway wrote with Craig Wilson and Jason Lane, is about finding someone who makes you want to be a better person.
She’s been making music for more than a decade now, following a successful career as a television actress. Now, with the help of a long-standing yoga practice, meditation, and an thoughtful new EP, Sara Melson might be coming to terms with, well, everything.
Digging into the L.A. singer-songwriter’s backstory leads into a wonderful wormhole of ’90s TV viewing. As a wide-eyed ingenue and Geena Davis doppelganger, she starred, for instance, opposite Kelsey Grammer in Fraiser and Fred Savage in The Wonder Years. But by the early aughts she was releasing her own music, and sharing the stage with the likes of Ben Folds, Juliana Hatfield and Lissie, while performing backing vocal duties for Moby and the Dandy Warhols.
Wyatt Blair goes old school with “Fear To Fight,” a song from his soon-to-be-released EP, For The First Time. Sporting a sound reminiscent of the ’80s biggest hits, its guitar-pop sound is an endearing, energetic spin for lyrics focusing on the fear of embracing mental health help. Blair’s new EP is out Dec. 6. READ MORE…
Hailing from the southern music Mecca of Nashville, TN, indie artist Slark Moan is the latest artist to combine modern alternative rock with touches of decades-old psychedelia and chamber pop. Today, we’ve got the premiere of the video for his latest song, a catchy, compact and thoughtfully-arranged track called “Working Stiff.” READ MORE…
Karen & the Sorrows do something better than most: Reveal the true reach and ache of sorrow. Leader Karen Pittelman proves this via their latest cut, “Why Won’t You Come Back to Me”. With all the accoutrements of country music, the New York outfit breaks our hearts bar-by-bar, line by line in this song. Are we in church or merely the church of the flesh? Where does one draw the line?
Josh Rennie-Hynes has an excellent new album out on the 27th of this month, called ‘Patterns‘ (read the full review here) which the Australian borne musician has recorded in his new home of Nashville. It’s got a country feel, but it also has a good sized portion of Neil Youngesque guitar fireworks. This song, ‘Home to You‘, is something of an anomaly on the album – it’s far more lo-fi, has a wonderful intimacy and shows off another side to Josh Rennie-Hynes. And it’s also a duet with Erin Rae.