KARI KIRKLAND, Wild is the Wind
As your ears attune to the pin drop purity and transcendent exquisiteness of Kari Kirkland’s soulful yet ethereal vocals on her lush,...
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Jonathan Widran
Feb 10, 2021
GREYE, "Growing Pains"
Hannah Summer, unpredictable musical provocateur and fiery front person for Daytona Beach, FL indie powerhouse Greye, says that when...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 9, 2021
AV SUPER SUNSHINE, "Super Cool"
“Super Cool” is more than the name of rising international hitmaker AV Super Sunshine’s latest infectious 80’s techno inflected single....
Jonathan Widran
Feb 9, 2021
MICHAEL MESEY and AMERICAN GREED, "Together"
"In this moment, we are sharing ‘TOGETHER’ with the world. In my heart, this is the rock song for the moment we are living in.” As the...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 9, 2021
EMODULARI, "Craniotomy"
Caught up in the maelstrom of bad to worse news in the New York Times one morning, Eli Soiefer spotted an uplifting article offering...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 9, 2021
SHIMMER JOHNSON, "Priceless"
No matter what level of success they’re at, whether they’ve been selling/steaming platinum for years or just starting independently with...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 5, 2021
JENNA LAURENZO, "The River"
In 2015, with an eye towards creating a “proof of concept” to ultimately sell a larger feature film concept, actress, writer and indie...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2021
WAXFLIGHT, Flowers
From song inspiration to digital, distant recording processes, one of the stranger phenomena when it comes to the promotion of indie...
Jonathan Widran
Jan 30, 2021
OBERON ROSE, Holographic Blues
With its Peter Green-esque, early Fleetwood Mac flavored guitar vibes, cool languid melody, tippy mellotron and the gorgeous lead and...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 30, 2020
GITIT SHOVAL, Connected
Released late in a year in which our individual and collective feeling of connection to other people and especially loved ones has been...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 16, 2020
DEVON, Sitting Up Straight
Though her sound and songwriting acumen has evolved since ultra-indie, super hipster singer/songwriter Devon dropped her critically...
Jonathan Widran
Dec 14, 2020
DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS, The Greatest Hits of Christmas 2020
Not that our sense of what qualifies as “normal” will ever quite be the same after this, but in a normal year, a review of the annual...
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