Artist Spotlight: ONYXRED

Editor’s Pick: ONYXRED’s catchy riff’s and lush audio layers are the perfect mix for any modern hard rock band. Their music echoes current heavy-weights like Godsmack or Disturbed, but with a more melodic touch to the vocals. These guys will be a band to watch in coming years. ONYXRED is currently working hard on a [...]

Artist Spotlight: Citizen Icon

Editor’s Pick: Citizen Icon has a very distinctive sound. A sound grounded in tight hooks and punctuated by the fantastic performance of vocalist Chris Cummings. The music sounds great and if they only manage to bring half the energy of these songs to their live shows they will have a much larger spotlight on them [...]

Artist Spotlight: Rachel Austin

Editor’s Pick: My words simply cannot do justice to describe the beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Rachel Austin. Her music seems to be from another time when the world was a little simpler, and life moved at a naturally stimulated pace. Originally from Virginia, Austin has been making waves in the Belfast, Northern Ireland music scene [...]

Artist Spotlight: Modena

Editor’s Pick: The first thing that hits you about this North Carolina quartet is that they don’t sound like the typical young band on the rise. Their music is interesting and well-thought-out. With a good producer on board, and more gigs under their belt, I’d be willing to bet that they’d sound even more impressive. [...]

Artist Spotlight: Boxcar Collision

Editor’s Pick: Boxcar Collision brings together many great things about alternative pop into one package. Not content to try to emulate just one sound, the music has a few twists and turns and can go from “Someone” a lamenting Cowboy Junkies-like piece, to faster up-tempo rockers like the song “Boxful”. I immediately liked what I [...]