The fun thing about curating these lists is seeing how they play out. Sometimes the tracks I think are the best end up getting a handful of votes, while others bring in dozens. I hope that you’ll share this post with your music …
Category: Rock
Three of the Most Interesting Tracks We Heard This Week
New Mystics – “Sparrows” I have to be honest; I fell in love with this band before I even heard their lead single. The only description on their bio is this: “I’ve made a lot of music in my life, I’ve created and …
The Falling Birds – New Grunge For a New Year
I don’t know where you currently reside, but where I am, we are experiencing a cold snap that crushes even the most cheerful of spirits. The months after the holidays are always rough here. It is crucial during these times that we find …
New Music Friday – Episode 30 – Vote in the poll to decide who wins a full album review!
When we started this series, we weren’t sure if anyone would even notice. After years of ticket giveaways and trying to get people to “enter” into all sorts of drawings, we never found a way to drive traffic to the site and to …
Five Female Fronted Acts to Rock You to the Weekend
Blame it on my youthful crush on Joan Jett, but I have always thought there was something badass about a female led rock band. Perhaps it was the lack of coverage or the way promoters shamelessly prioritized their looks over their art that …
Album Review: Crawford Mack – Mack 1 (Winner NewMusicFriday Ep 18)
Crawford Mack defies genres, so it might be easiest to put him in a generic “rock” style. There is a base in classic rock, for sure, but then shades of other pop styles and even a bit of jazz. It’s an eclectic style, …
Artist Spotlight: August Hotel – Cool electro rock pop (NewMusicFriday Episode 17 Winner)
Photo credit: Rinus Lammers/August Hotel IG I’ve been using the adjective “cool” a lot lately not for temperature or even the 50s term from “groovy,” but more as a mood of being chill. It’s like the songs don’t take themselves too seriously. They …
2017: Two Artists Ready for a Huge Year
Ah, it’s finally here. For many, 2016 was a train wreck and now we are just a few short hours from its demise. While this year was an interesting one for music, 2017 is set to be an extraordinary year for some of …
New Music Friday – Episode 29 – Vote in the poll to decide who wins a full album review!
Well this is the last NMF of 2016 so let’s make it a good one. These are some fantastic tracks from a variety of genres. We’ve been privileged to field a lot of submissions over the past month, so these are some of …
Matt’s 2016 Album of the Year: 5-1
5. Aaron Gillespie – Out of the Badlands Recently, Aaron Gillespie released an album that is a voice crying out from the wilderness. Gillespie, who you may know from Underoath and The Almost, dropped one of the more personal albums we have came …
