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DIY Spotlight: Charlie Angel
Norfolk, VA rapper Charlie Angel recently scored an impressive 8.0 in a New Music Critique, prompting MC to feel excited about digging deeper. After all, ... -
DIY Spotlight: Leilani Kilgore
When bluesy rocker Leilani Kilgore scored an impressive 8.4 in the batch of New Music Critiques published in MC’s January issue, we knew that she ... -
DIY Spotlight: Kellie Rose
For Kellie Rose, her love for songwriting grew out of her passion for words. “I love writing them and rewriting them and thinking out loud,” ... -
DIY Spotlight: Marina Fleming
Singer and songwriter Marina Fleming started writing songs in middle school to make sense of her changing emotions. “Music has always been there for me ... -
DIY Spotlight: Kiesza
Dance music singer and instrumentalist Kiesza wrote her first songs as a child on the piano. “My early writing was all instrumental, and it was ... -
DIY Spotlight: AINA
Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer AINA says that she wrote her first song when she was just nine years old. By the time she ... -
DIY Spotlight: Lips Speak Louder
Angela Lese of Nashville-based rock duo Lips Speak Louder has dreamt of playing the drums since seeing Taylor Hawkins performing in Alanis Morissette’s band in ... -
DIY Spotlight: Charlotte Morris
Philadelphia folk artist Charlotte Morris was highly scored in a recent New Music Critique, so impressed were we with the songs from her Both Sides ... -
DIY Spotlight: Heidi Vincent
Country-pop-rock artist Heidi Vincent received a favorable New Music Critique review in these very pages a couple of months ago, and for good reason. Authentic, ... -
DIY Spotlight: Cloe Wilder
Rising folk/Americana/pop artist Cloe Wilder released her third EP, Life’s a Bitch, in March as she continues to build on an impressive start to her ... -
DIY Spotlight: Juanita and Juan
Juanita and Juan is the name of a thrilling new project featuring the talents of punk rock luminaries Alice Bag (The Bags) and Kid Congo ... -
The National Independent Venue Association
Back in 2020, when the global COVID-19 pandemic led to necessary but financially devastating lockdowns, the impact on the live music industry led to the ... -
DIY SPOTLIGHT: LORRAINE LEWIS
Back in the hair metal heyday of the ‘80s, Lorraine Lewis led powerhouse project Femme Fatale, finding herself scoring international hits and popping up on ... -
DIY Spotlight: Clay & Kelsy
Electro-pop duo Clay & Kelsy have been playing music since they were kids. “Kelsy [Kemper] recorded her first song when she was 11, and I ... -
DIY Spotlight: Alexa Villa
Dance-pop artist Alexa Villa has been playing piano and writing poetry for as long as she can remember. “I was able to put the two ... -
DIY Spotlight: The Fantastic Fellinis
Californian power-pop/mod-rock outfit The Fantastic Fellinis is the brainchild of Vitta Quinn and Kenneth Wessel. “I was a musical theater kid,” says Quinn. “When I ... -
DIY Spotlight with Polartropica
Los Angeles-based Asian-American pop singer-songwriter Polartropica started singing and playing music at a young age. [I began] with classical guitar and then playing trumpet as ... -
DIY Spotlight: Snifters
Dilana Ismailova fronts Snifters, a hard rock band that regulars at the Whisky A Go Go on the Sunset Strip may have seen on numerous ... -
DIY Spotlight: Rainbow City Park
Dani Judith fronts Northern Californian indie dream-pop outfit Rainbow City Park, having been found online by guitarist and founding member Chris O’Keefe. Judith says that ... -
DIY Spotlight with Britta Raci
Indie-pop artist Britta Raci started singing in church, after her parents took her when she was three years old. “I’d been performing in church choirs ...
