Lisa Hafey

Bringing all the ingredients necessary to make the perfect sonic confection, Brooklyn’s Makes My Blood Dance are delighting the sound waves with their new single and video, ‘Heavy Metal Armour’.

One of the thousands caught and immobilised between countries at the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Orit Shimoni found herself in Manitoba, unable to get to where she wanted to be. While it was frustrating, it gave her pause for thought, and her single, ‘Winnipeg’, captures the hopes, and confusion of that time, for not just the Canadian folk and acoustic blues singer-songwriter, but for much of the world who experienced it.

Ben E. Davis addresses his critics who ask why he left LA for London in 2014, “swapping sunshine for rain” in new single, ‘American Boy In London’.

Is November too early to be releasing Christmas songs? Ben E. Davis doesn’t think so. His new single, ‘All I Need For Christmas Is You’, sees the “American Boy” who found his second home in London, utilise his unique gift for genre blending to craft the perfect, catchy track for the festive season.

We can hardly believe it, but it’s been three years since Australian-European quintet Parcels released their second album, the double disc, ‘Day/Night’. Now they’ve returned, with the band picking up right where they left off, with the gorgeously sleek and shiny, ‘Leaveyourlove’.

While he was born in Oklahoma, and honed his craft in Nashville, Roger Jaeger’s sound nevertheless is more that of the world-traveller, taking some of each part of the world he’s lived in. He moved to the former logging city of Redding, in California, at the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic, and it was here that he discovered the serenity that’s evident in ‘Wander’, the title track of his latest album.

With effortless ease, The Tano Jones Revelry taps into a sense of magic by staying true to the Americana troubadour tradition, while adding a sliver of rock ‘n’ roll, as well as some Midwest soul. The group came together in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, and while their music aims to reflect the feeling of being in the “middle of the storm”, they’ve since evolved to incorporate lively melodies and rhythms into their sound, with their mantra being that as humans, we should strive to help those we love get to a better place.

Following on from ‘Wander ‘, Roger Jaeger’s single, ‘Grandpa’s Ghost’, builds a sense of both nostalgia and longing, with his soft haunting vocals, and gentle acoustic guitar strums.

Released on November 18, ‘Best Friend’ is the new single from multi-faceted musician, Nolah Young. The track is Nolah’s heartfelt dedication to those people who are our companions in life.

Vapour Trail drops ‘Time Flies’, the final song from their latest album, ‘RMT CNTRL’. Recorded on the premise that none of the instrumentalists were allowed to occupy the same physical space as any of the others at the same time, the album is the perfect reflection of what we went through during the Covid-19 pandemic, and perhaps signifies what is to be standard practice in 21st century music making.