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Every day my inbox overflows with music. Similar genres too from decades past but with a modern take. And I get that. People miss the real-deal musicians, the greats who innovated their own styles and sounds. They were artists of firsts. These 50 modern blues, rock, and Southern soul artists are some of my personal favorites. This is just my desire to share superb music. But the best part for many of us, is that these musicians play actual instruments and sing using their natural voices. That says a lot.
Signed to Nettwerk Records after she took her musical pursuits to LA, Boston's Rosie Darling debuts as a singer-songwriter who brings a soothing voice and peace of mind to these turbulent times. There's a lightness to Jennifer Castle's songwriting and performance on Monarch Season. She's not lonesome or abandoned; she's simply solitary in her thoughts and feelings. Ariana Grande's Positions is a perfect pop album in a very conservative sense of the term. Now available on digital formats, This Heat made what might have been a casual release into a statement of pure ambition. Classically trained pianist Holly Bowling is releasing her latest recording of Grateful Dead songs in a few weeks. PopMatters catches up with the virtuoso to discuss the intersection of jazz and rock with classical technique.
Neo-soul was born out of a necessity for the representation of the black alternative. For more than two decades, the neo-soul sound has produced some of the most prolific artists of generations including Maxwell , Floetry, Frank Ocean, Anderson. Paak , and Thundercat. We are now in and the movement is as strong as ever. Okayplayer has highlighted 23 artists that are pushing neo-soul forward. Q is from the ilk of Bilal with a falsetto that can pierce through any indifference and a penchant for snatching your attention with the tantalizingly abstract. The calming assertiveness of her voice is borderline therapeutic and with the world currently burning in civil unrest , she may emerge from the flames a shining star that soothed the souls of many. With St. His voice is smoldering in the way a lit candle is, illuminating in its slow burn and relaxing in its effects.