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doubleVee, Songs for Birds and Bats
In music and our culture at large, we’ve had enough alliterative bird and bees metaphors to last multiple lifetimes. So perhaps it was...
Jonathan Widran
Apr 10, 2019

ASHLEY DELIMA, "Fire in the Sky"
Although she is only three singles into her career as an independent singer-songwriter, New York/New Jersey based Brazilian-American pop...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 23, 2019


KREE HARRISON, "I Love The Lie"
Long before she won the hearts of millions on American Idol in her early 20s, Kree Harrison was immersed in the musical aesthetic of...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 21, 2019


PARA LIA, Soap Bubble Dreams
If you like your indie/alt rock served via with a loud and crunchy wall of sound, with dark, offbeat atmospheres, coolly droning,...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 18, 2019


MATT SHAPIRO, Fade In
Matt Shapiro’s burgeoning success as an indie artist is bound to lift the spirits of manic expressives who follow mainstream paths out of...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 18, 2019


TIFFANY BYNOE, Timeless Dance EP
True to her trademark tantalizing way of inviting us to her door before seducing us full throttle, multi-talented genre-transcendent...
Jonathan Widran
Mar 18, 2019


THE CHORDAES, What We Breathe In
With a fascinating hybrid vibe that fuses alternative indie rock, contemporary soft rock and soul with occasional and well placed classic...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 28, 2019


DR King, It's My Life
If somehow you failed to see Donald Ray King’s electrifying performances as a Top 12 contestant on Season 14 of The Voice last year, the...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 26, 2019


SONJA MIDTUNE, "My Light"
An uncommonly intuitive singer/songwriter and storyteller, Sonja Midtune took the deeply intimate emotions shared to her by a close...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 21, 2019


URBANITY
The seeds of the uniquely fluid, silky and soulful smooth jazz duo Urbanity were planted narly 30 years ago when guitarist Albert Dadon...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 20, 2019

JONATHAN, To Hold
Growing up with the name “Jonathan,” I always felt a bit of a spring in my step when I thought of its biblical origin and meaning: gift...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 19, 2019

CHINA, And Then Nothing Happened
When it comes to sizing up indie bands and albums, don’t let monikers and titles fool you. San Francisco contemporary folk rockers China,...
Jonathan Widran
Feb 19, 2019
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