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James Vincent McMorrow has crafted one hell of an infectious upbeat in his latest single ‘Gone.’ The Irish singer-songwriter that captured everyone’s heart with his rapturous cover of Chris Isaak’s ‘Wicked Game’ is dabbling with some unique R&B/pop sounds in the most recent piece.

Birdy laments her lost, wandering soul through a heartwrenching melody in her new single ‘Just Like a River Does’. As can be expected from any Birdy venture, the tune is rife with poignant piano chords and impassioned vocal work that will simultaneously soothe and sadden you.

When American rockers Foo Fighters confirmed they would be appearing as the musical guests on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” fans were hopefully wondering if they would be playing some new music. With their previously announced forthcoming album being delayed due to COVID-19, leading up to their appearance on the show, they had offered teasers of a new track on their social media.

With the Coronavirus pandemic resulting in widespread lockdown, Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods holed up in a makeshift recording studio in his Toronto home and got to work on his seventh album, the aptly named Without People. It marked something of a change for Woods, whose blend of country-folk and sublime storytelling has garnered widespread critical acclaim, close to 300 million streams to date, and a JUNO Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year for his 2018 offering Both Ways.

Dutch DJ and producer Oliver Heldens founded his Heldeep Records label in 2015, and in the years since it has gained a reputation for giving young and talented, and more established producers a platform to let the world hear their sound. With his latest release though, Heldens didn’t feel it was quite right for Heldeep, and so he has founded a new label – OH2 Records – which has released the track.

Hailing from Sweden and otherwise known as Svea Virginia Kågemark, SVEA turned a lot of heads with her debut single Don’t Mind Me back in 2018, a smart, confident pop track with a message of empowerment. It marked her out as a rising star, and her follow up track Selfish only accelerated that reputation. Her 2019 single, Complicated, with Alexander Oscar has racked up millions of streams on Spotify.

Jade Bird’s latest single ‘Headstart’ explores the restlessness of an infatuation through a magical, saccharine melody. The English singer-songwriter doesn’t hesitate to lean on her vibrant, sweet-as-molasses voice that glides through the notes with ease. Her personality is beaming through the composition, and the instrumentation only heightens the spellbinding allure of Bird’s vocals.

After fifteen long years, heavy metal fans have been stunned by legendary American quartet, System of a Down, dropping new music. Prior to this, their last release had been 2015’s “Hypnotize.”

Up and coming Moroccan Canadian singer / songwriter Faouzia has joined forces with American pop and RnB artists John Legend and Charlie Puth to create a stunning new track, “Minefields.” The single dropped this week and is already receiving rave reviews and the praise of fans everywhere.

Swedish singer and songwriter LÉON, otherwise known as Lotta Lindgren, dropped her self-titled debut album last year, four years after the release of her first single. In the intervening years, Lindgren spent time writing in LA, with the recording process taking place in London. The album received solid reviews and established her as an artist to watch.

WizKid, the alias of Lagos-born singer and songwriter Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, is undeniably one of Nigeria’s biggest stars. Since his hit single Holla At Your Boy blew up back in 2011, and his smash hit collaboration with Drake – One Dance – went to number one in no fewer than fifteen countries in 2016, WizKid and his eclectic mix of R&B, Afrobeats, dancehall, reggae, pop and hip hop has been on a collision course with global superstardom. With his new album Made In Lagos, it feels like he has finally fully arrived at that destination.

Passenger is an English singer-songwriter and musician primarily known for his massive hit 'Let Her Go,' which gained multi-platinum status in numerous countries around the world. After hitting platinum four times in the U.K., and six times in the U.S., the song then went on to gain 19 #1 chart positions. Additionally, it has now reached over three billion Youtube views and similar figures in Spotify streams.

American shock rocker Rob Zombie is set to release his first studio album in five years, with the awesomely titled “The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy” set to land in March 2021 through Nuclear Blast. When announcing the album, Zombie treated us to the first single from the upcoming release, “The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition).”

Josh Groban is a multi-platinum selling singer, songwriter, musician and actor from California, who's known for his distinctive baritone voice. He has sold over 25 million records worldwide, charting as the best selling USA artist back in 2007. In addition to a successful music career, he has also appeared in a substantial amount of popular movies and TV shows.

Model, actress, and now singer Paris Jackson took many listeners’ hearts with the release of her newest, and first, single: let down. For those who might’ve been keeping tabs on the entertainer, her foray into music might not have seemed like such a surprise, not only considering her background, but also with her current band, the Sound Flowers. However, judging on their music, to say this single was a surprise is a massive understatement.

Let me begin this review with a short story, one that many most likely shared in the last week. Like many others, I launched Spotify to begin a day of work, and was greeted by the cover for a new single titled Can’t Put It In The Hands Of Fate featuring artists like Rapsody, Cordae, Busta Rhymes and… Stevie Wonder? I wiped my eyes, morning coffee still kicking in, and stared blankly at my desktop’s screen.

American west coast singer, songwriter and keyboardist Jarrod Lawson won a whole host of fans with his self-titled debut album back in 2014. That record’s smooth blend of R&B and soul-infused jazz led to sold-out shows at London’s Ronnie Scott’s, gigs in China, Australia and Tokyo, and festival appearances at Rotterdam’s North Sea Jazz, Indonesia’s Java Jazz, and the UK’s Love Supreme events. His follow-up EP Jarrod Lawson at the BBC was recorded at the legendary Maida Vale studio, and he’s taken the title of Soul Artist Of The Year at the Jazz FM Awards.

The ever reclusive Mark Oliver Everett caught everyone slightly off guard this year when he dropped two surprise songs into the world. Baby Let’s Make It Real and Who You Say You Are marked a triumphant return for Everett, who under the Eels band name has released some dark albums charting his own intense personal pain and loss since the group’s superb debut album Beautiful Freak captivated legions of listeners back in the mid-1990s.

Dutch singer-songwriter Romy Dya is perhaps best known on UK shores for providing vocals for the 2019 Martin Garrix and David Guetta track So Far Away. In her homeland though, Dya has carved out a niche for penning tracks for a host of Dutch artists including The Voice of Holland winner of 2016 Maan, Sharon Doorson and Roxeanne Hazes. She’s also worked with the likes of Ghostface Killah and Busta Rhymes.

RuthAnne has had a remarkable career already. At just seventeen years of age, she relocated from Dublin to Los Angeles to chase her dream of a career in music. The very first song she wrote for a major artist was Jojo’s Too Little, Too Late, a top 5 hit in the Billboard Hot 100 back in 2006. She’s also written songs for the likes of Niall Horan and Britney Spears.

My Echo, the eleventh studio album from country legend Laura Veirs, must have been a devastatingly difficult body of work to complete. Her husband, Tucker Martine, produced the album while the couple went through couples therapy, only for their relationship to ultimately end in divorce before the album was released. But while there’s plenty of introspection and even sadness on My Echo, it is far from a bitter breakup record.