Daily Discovery

While his peers are off at college, Griffin Holtby works diligently in a studio right by the Dallas Love Field Airport, plotting his inevitable fame as a musical artist. He can practically see...

This year has been the time for everyone to experiment, whether that’s by digging old roller skates out of the closet to take a spin, learning to sew masks, or diving into home recording studios to lay down new tracks....

“I was tired of waiting for permission to exist,” Monique DeBose told American Songwriter. “I wanted to let any other black people who were also feeling that way know that we do not have to ask for...

A few years ago, Dominican Republic-raised, Brooklyn-based percussionist Charlie Garmendia struck up a conversation with a Cuban artist named Maytego, in Paris, that would eventually lead him to start his new project, La China de la Gasolina,...

In this - the age of the Coronavirus - many of us are stuck at home, isolated with only TV screens and the glow of laptops and phones to keep us connected. In other words, there isn’t much to...

Genre has always been a confusing thing for the music industry to figure out. Between juggernaut acts who jump between genres — like Shania Twain or Lady Gaga — and all of the innovations in streaming technology,...

It seems like everywhere you turn in today’s musical world, artists are opening up about mental health. Of course, this comes in a wide variety of forms — some folks are attempting to normalize their struggles with...

Royse’s newest single “Ride The Bull” is like the edgier, older, doo-wop-less version of Meghan Trainor’s “All That Bass”.  Starting with the defiant sound of clicking boots on the pavement overtop the harmony of...

The end of a relationship will always spawn an impassioned breakup song. When it hit Brian Erickson, the Asbury Park-based songwriter stoically faced Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ famed ‘five stages of grief’ and put it into song, laying it...

“I write a fuck-ton of songs,” Anjimile Chithambo recently told me over the phone, reflecting on the making of his debut album, Giver Taker, out today via Father/Daughter. “So I just pulled together a...