Colour Of Rice – “Coming Home” -This song from Colour Of Rice is full of the genuineness that we search for with music. There’s no excess performance; the heart comes through the strings with clarity and precision. The vocal lays over the acoustic …
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The Ten Most Popular Blogs on SubmitHub.com
As many of you know, we use SubmitHub.com to process our submissions. It streamlines the process for us and really helps us cover more music in an efficient way. But we are a very, very small fish in this massive ocean of the …
A feel-good fun playlist – Lunchtime Playlist April 3
The Majestic Ones – “I’ll be there” -I put this song on my “song of the year candidates” list immediately after hearing it. There’s something just wonderful about the composition here. It reminds me of a bygone era in pop music that, frankly, …
Lunchtime Playlist April 3 – A rock n’ roll variety
Dessie Magee – “Bandit” -Dessie Magee has some of the best pure rock vocals we’ve heard in a long time. The overall composition feels genuine. He’s a bit like Dustin Kensrue and that’s pretty high praise for us. We’re definitely into the layered …
Do you have any playlists? Why YES we do.
We get asked fairly frequently if we ever curate playlists. Yes, we do! We actually have handful on our Spotify account, but the meat and potatoes of our playlisting has been on Soundcloud. Are you following us there? Here are a few lists …
Lunchtime Playlist April 2 – Five endearing singer songwriters
Tryon – “Come Kiss Me” -If ever a song was written to be played at a wedding, this is it. It’s basically written from the groom’s perspective, watching a woman in her wedding dress come toward him. It’s actually really good. The pop …
Lunchtime Playlist March 30 – An Americana and folk adventure
Leathan Milne – “Our Ghosts” -Okay so technically this is Canadiana, but I don’t want to split hairs. Let’s just enjoy the beautiful layered sounds from Leathan Milne here. I appreciate that he has the articulation and subtlety to make the song meander …
Lunchtime Playlist March 29 – An alt rock mix
Yon Ort – “What You Feel” -They bill themselves as psych rock and I think that’s about right for this creative art rock vibe from Yon Ort. “What you feel” gets you to question emotions, but also reality. What is real? Who are …
Guest Editorial: Cultural Opportunity Cost by Dominic Go
I’d like for you to take a moment to think about two types of experiences that you’ve had. First, think about a moment when you heard a song for the first time, and it absolutely floored you. You couldn’t explain why, but right …
Lunchtime Playlist March 28 – An exciting five-song electro pop list
Heather Jayne – “Better than this” -One of the qualities of electro pop that we most enjoy is when it has a cool intimacy to it. Something about the synths weaving with a well-delivered vocal can make it connect so much stronger. That …
