Rolling into April with Great New Indie Music!
We're getting into the busy season here at The Ark, which means we have a ton of great new music to introduce you to this month! From music-comedy hybrids to hard-hitting rap, as usual we've got a little something for every musical palatte. Happy listening!
-The Ark of Music Team
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Just this past January we got our hands on singer-songwriter Brian Cooney's latest single, a special edition of his modern, anthemic piano ballad Nothing Greater, released on Bongo Boy Records. This month he's back with a full-length project of the [Click here to open...]
GENRE: AMERICANA, FAITH, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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Back in 2019, we got our hands on the most recent single from Philly-based group All This Huxley - a track titled Comrade II. Not only did we find it to be a gentle, cohesive, and colorful work - we were so impressed by it that it landed at #6 in our [Click here to open...]
GENRE: FOLK, MULTI-GENRE, ROCK
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Minneapolis, MN-based artist Tony Molek is quickly breaking musical ground under the artist name Son Called Soul. He's a true one-man-band in this project, playing every instrument as well as arranging and producing every track. A follow up to his [Click here to open...]
GENRE: BLUES, R&B / SOUL, ROCK, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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Toronto-based artist Tia McGraff is well on her way to carving herself out an impressive niche in the international singer-songwriter space. McGraff is an award-winning, inspirational musician, with nine international CD releases under her belt [Click here to open...]
GENRE: AMERICANA, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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Longtime readers of The Ark will be extremely familiar with the music work of Costa Rica-based ex-pat Toby Tune (aka Harley Toberman) - we last introduced you to his instrumental album Introspection, where he created "intricate stories without words [Click here to open...]
GENRE: WORLD
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The five-piece alt-Americana group The Willing is well on their way to carving out their own distinctive niche in their chosen genre. Previously known as Ultima Thule, the band toured across much of the midwest in the 1970s. Each of the five members [Click here to open...]
GENRE: ADULT CONTEMPORARY, ALTERNATIVE, AMERICANA
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For the last few years, Bongo Boy Records has kept with a tradition - they round up all of their artists that made the first voting ballot for the Grammy Awards, and then they showcase that talent on one single, comprehensive compilation album. [Click here to open...]
GENRE: REVIEWS:
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Based in Rochester, NY, artist Jeffrey Hull has taken his time deciding on the right moniker for his music. He's released fifty albums under various names, including JiBaH, Hania Yiska. Mad Hugs, and Nostalgic Afterlife, and has over 20 years of [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: ELECTRONIC, INSTRUMENTAL, TRIP-HOP
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Is it too early to start naming contenders for "Song of the Summer" yet? Because the most recent release from alt-pop songstress Devon is checking off all those boxes. Based in NYC and writing and producing all of her own material, Devon is preparing [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: ALTERNATIVE, POP,
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One of the newest releases from the Bongo Boy Records endless vault of talent is a single from country/Americana singer-songwriter Junior Burke. Residing in rural Colorado, Burke's music has been recorded by a multitude of artists, earning him both a [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: AMERICANA, COUNTRY, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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Singer-songwriter David Omlor might describe himself as an average guy, but the music he's created on his most recent album Entropy proves that he is anything but. Beginning his music career in the 80s in Philadelphia, he currently resides in Florida [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: ACOUSTIC, AMERICANA, FOLK, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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Queensland, Australia based artist Tim Oksanen has been perfecting his craft for most of his life. Starting his foray into music as a performer in special church events in his youth, Oksanen started writing and recording his own music at the age of [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: EASY LISTENING, POP,
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We last got our hands on the work of Junior Burke earlier this month, with the release of his single Any Eyes But Mine, a track we found to be full of "nuanced but uncomplicated melodies and brilliant lyricism." Burke is now back with a full-length [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: ACOUSTIC, AMERICANA, FOLK, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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Wales, UK-based artist Mr. Majik calls his artistic work "Music for the Revolution". He releases all of his music with a Collaborative Artists Music House called Sound Legion that he started with his wife (artist Bonnie Legion) in 2015. Mr. Majik [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: HIP-HOP / RAP, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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Seattle-based singer-songwriter Dan Hamann has spent a great deal of his life working to blend music and comedy. He studied music in his youth, and his first foray into the arts was as a part of a touring music/comedy duo he was involved in during [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: MULTI-GENRE
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We first heard from adult-pop artist E.G. Holmes by way of his single Time to Rest, which we found to be "a powerful track with a universally understood message". Now Holmes is back with a full-length album by the same name, just released on Bongo [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: POP, ROCK
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Based in Cambridge, UK, Borer Treetops is a project whose music and lyrics are developed solely by Roberto P. They've recently released their first full-length album titled Loud Silence, and this debut effort is full of high notes. With a great [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: ELECTRO-POP, ELECTRONIC, POP,
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Strong emotions often create equally powerful songs. That's most definitely the case with artist Steve Ryan's most recent release. Ryan is a tenured artist within the music industry, with substantial songwriting work as well as an EP and multiple [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: POP, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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New Jersey-based folk singer Loretta Hagen has been refining her craft since the age of 9 when her father started her on guitar lessons. Throughout her career, which has taken her from Jersey to Nashville and back again, she's released quite a bit of [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: AMERICANA, FOLK, REVIEWS:, ROCK
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Country singer-songwriter Alex Smart has been refining his craft for most of his life. Born in Greenville, SC, he received his first guitar at the age of 10 and cemented his passion for music in his teenage years. Smart is set to release his EP [Click here to open...]
CATEGORY: AMERICANA, COUNTRY, SINGER / SONGWRITER
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