Southern California singer/guitarist/pianist Irene Diaz has a voice that puts a modern twist on that classic jazz-y, blues-y sound. Her songs are full of emotion and make you empathize with things you’ve never previously felt yourself. She can border cutesy in a way that never crosses into novelty, and instead she maintains a genuine authenticity. I got […]
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I just stumbled across this video, and I am in love. The actual song and dance begins at 1:49. The words of the song warm my heart and rejuvenate my belief that there are still good guys out there. While the title may be “Chivalry Is Dead,” this song by Trevor Wesley is pointing out what it […]
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“‘Apathy’ is one of our staple live songs, our ‘punk’ hit, and one of the most fun songs to play in our set. It’s also one of our oldest songs; it was the first song we figured out as a band for the album Help, I Need an Adult!, and it was part of our […]
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“During the 2008 Prop 8 campaigns, I was constantly heading out to Long Beach and West Hollywood to partake in the protests. I then started my own rally in Buena Park that ended up being like 3 times as big as I was expecting. This song is about the voices that were searching to be […]
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Listen to the rest of Briana Harley’s Christmas album — An Acoustic Christmas — on SoundCloud.
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“This song is a rebellion in itself on how we so often find our place in society by just doing what we think we have to do. Because that momentum is driven by a part of our brain that tells us who we have to be, the days drag by as we just barely show up. […]
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Charlotte Eriksson shares the story behind her new single “The Fall.” Read about how she overcame her writing struggle after months of feeling like a “bird stuck on the ground” as she began to doubt whether she had anything left to say. And then one night changed everything. . . . You can […]
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It was a long winter, and I spent endless days and nights staring at that blank page with nothing to say. I was a songwriter with no songs to sing, a writer with nothing to write, and I felt dried up. I pushed myself to write anyway, and the songs ended up well-shaped and polished, […]
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“I wrote ‘Unsteady’ about a boy. I think that’s pretty obvious, but it came to me as I was trying to explain to my friends how I felt about him. I couldn’t gather the words, so naturally I wrote a song instead. I know in many cases being unsteady can be a negative thing, but […]
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