Sharp ticks and clacks are grouped around rounded pops and guttural rumbles in Backroad Gee's bars and raucous choruses. He skillfully transitions from brash street brags and tongue-rattling sound effects before returning to a throaty coo that wouldn't sound out of place in a chapel. The best illustration of this innovative strategy is found in Backroad's breakout single, "Party Popper." After... read full bio
MTM and business management consultant Blair Thielemier, PharmD, is a pharmacist with expertise in pharmacy billing methods. She provides advice on and creates e-learning courses for regional and international organizations, payers, pharmacy wholesalers and tech start-ups. For those seeking to apply their pharmacy expertise to monetized clinical initiatives, she offers books and online courses at PharmapreneurAcademy.com. She gives talks about global... read full bio
Growing up in Stockholm and being completely cut off from any kind of rap tradition, Bladee was forced to invent a new one. He patched together a variety of disparate internet influences with his own vibrant imagination to create a new wave of uncanny and immensely influential, highly unclassifiable type of music, either by himself or with the Drain Gang... read full bio
Since he has been named the winner of NBC's The Voice's 22nd season, Bryce Leatherwood has opened up more about his future professional goals. Leatherwood revealed in a recent interview with Music Mayhem that he intends to relocate from his native Georgia to Nashville and that one day he aims to perform at the Grand Ole Opry in addition to going to... read full bio
Australian stoner pop group Babe Rainbow is renowned for its boogie psychedelia and retro surf cult aesthetic f formed at Rainbow Bay by kiosk scroungers Elliot O'Reilly, Angus Dowling and Jack Crowther, aka Cool Breeze. The three of them once toiled in Duranbah, New South Wales, close to Tropical Fruit World for local grower John Cutts. The Babe's musical style has evolved... read full bio
Sasha Spielberg, a performer, writer and actor has a new artistic endeavor called Buzzy Lee. Sasha is naturally a storyteller and in her role as Buzzy Lee, she shows a special talent for condensing a horrific situation into a few lines. This is evident in the books within the margins and in the stark, vivid characters she creates. She is also a comedian,... read full bio
Nathan Stocker, a producer and songwriter from Minneapolis, created the solo project Brotherkenzie. Through it, he continues to operate on the periphery of the music business, a field in which he has grown less and less engaged as he gets older. Brotherkenzie's music is an honest, sincere chasm with sharp edges that teeters on the edge of pop and catchiness. On... read full bio
Blu DeTiger is a young pop icon and bass prodigy who was born and nurtured in New York City. Early on, she was drawn to the bass and at the age of seven, she performed on stage at CBGB before the legendary club closed. She was a mainstay of the city's artistic community. She excelled as a DJ while playing in... read full bio
Rolling Stone, HillyDilly, Ones To Watch, Complex and Lyrical Lemonade have all taken notice of the producer and artist Ben Kessler. Ben's earlier albums have been on Apple Music's New Music Daily and Spotify's New Music Friday. Ben has also been highlighted on playlists for Apple Music's A-List Pop, Easy Hits, Breaking Pop and Feels as well as Spotify's Indie Pop, Fresh... read full bio
Brimheim's lyrical fragility, which was born out of a beauty in brokenness, glitters in the sun while stormy guitar layers smash on the coast. Brimheim means "home of the breaking waves" in the literal sense. A moniker she adopted from her mother in honor of her Faroese ancestry and a tribute to the overwhelming emotions that characterize Brimheim's work. Critics... read full bio
The "devastating riffs and catchy hooks" game is played by a select few bands, but Beartooth's music is the difference between life and death. These young men may come across as laid-back, endearing and gregarious, yet there is an inner agony simmering beneath that is only quenched by the brutal music they perform. Songs like "Fed Up," "Sick of Me" and... read full bio
Beth McCarthy, a talented singer-songwriter from Yorkshire, is a featured artist. Beth has recently been working really hard in the studio to finish her new album. She has made available a live recording of the incredibly moving and intimate song "Left Behind" as a sample. We really like this one, and there are hints of Missy Higgins in it. Despite having... read full bio
Barbara Piévic, better known by her stage name Barbara Pravi, was born into an artistic and musical family in Paris. Her mother has Iranian ancestry, while her paternal grandpa was of Serbian descent. As a nod to the Serbian term prava, which signifies genuine, Barbara chose the stage name Pravi. First, a record agreement was presented to Barbara Pravi. She performed... read full bio
Bill Ryder-Jones, an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, songwriter and producer, began his musical career as the lead guitarist for the Coral, a well-known Hoylake-based psychedelic pop band, with whom he spent 12 years before launching a solo career. During this time, he wrote scores for movies like Bed and Piggy and released more song-based solo albums like the ambitious If... and... read full bio
Bino Rideaux, a rapper from Los Angeles, offers assured songs about the daily challenges of a life on the streets. He gained notoriety as a result of several projects he worked on with his close friend Nipsey Hussle, notably the mixtape No Pressure. He has also collaborated with rap artists Casey Veggies, G Perico and Blxst. His previous work was frequently... read full bio
It is no secret that R&B and Neo-Soul are underappreciated musical genres in the present. In order to fill the hole left by the lack of timeless music, devoted R&B fans are looking everywhere for the next generation of performers. Ballad enters the scene. Ballad is a soulful R&B performer from Angola who migrated into American society using music as a safe... read full bio
Brother Hawk gets dressed for the day, unties its wild horse and gallops out in the direction of a large pink home that is visible in the distance over the hills. The four-piece Atlanta band specializes on explosive hooks and furious guitars. As serpentine guitar lines uncoil and slither, punctuated with poisonous licks that can only be produced by a forked tongue,... read full bio
Willie Watkins and Matthew Meier, two residents of Massachusetts, have one objective: to rule the dubstep and bass music genres. The two producers, who are now residents of Long Beach, first connected while they were in middle school and developed a bond around their love of music. The two have been pioneering their genre as Barely Alive for almost ten years and... read full bio
You may have already come into contact with Branko without realizing it, either through the music he created with the adored group Buraka Som Sistema, through his record label Enchufada, or through his work creating, producing and presenting the travel program Club Atlas for Portuguese national television, his production work for MIA, or from listening to the monthly NTS radio show... read full bio
For more than 25 years, Bruce Beck has worked for NBC 4 New York. He is the popular Sunday night sports program Sports Final's host and the station's Lead Sports Anchor. Beck also serves as the sideline reporter for preseason football games involving the New York Giants. Beck has been honored "New York State Sportscaster of the Year" by the National... read full bio
