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Mitch Currie Plays the Hand He’s Been Dealt on ‘Good Enough for Now’

Mitch Currie. Twenty-six years old. Ageing rock star.

It’s a precarious position to find oneself in; the tail-end of a burgeoning music career as the window of possibilities grows increasingly narrow. Whether that holds true or not is an entirely different matter—with countless examples to the contrary—and what truly matters is that the near-side of thirty has lit a fire under Currie’s butt.

Good Enough For Now, Currie’s debut solo EP, is the result: a lesson that something is almost always better than nothing. Good Enough For Now even skews a bit humble in that regard. Continue reading Mitch Currie Plays the Hand He’s Been Dealt on ‘Good Enough for Now’

Jon Mullane Puts a New Edge on the Holidays with ‘Feels Like Christmas’

Snow flutters about, strings of lights illuminate the night sky and one mitten stretches forth in search of another. The music then swells and Jon Mullane encapsulates the moment as his rasping vocals expel the joys of this season for one and all. The soundtrack to the season is cliché but has never been more fitting. Continue reading Jon Mullane Puts a New Edge on the Holidays with ‘Feels Like Christmas’

Hilary Adams Captures the Loneliness of a Christmas Away From Family With ‘Sending Love’

We’re seeing a trend in Christmas songs being released this year. There’s a strong theme of “oh, gosh, what we can’t be together for the holidays?” Given the requirement for lockdowns and circuit breakers, protocols and social distancing guidelines we’ve experienced over the last couple of years, it’s not surprising that “Sending Love,” the new holiday single from Dartmouth-based and singer-songwriter Hilary Adams, is about longing to be together with loved ones.

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Matt Mays Throws his Hat into the Christmas Canon with ‘Christmas Eve Day’

I’m likely the only oddball on the planet that plays the mental game of ‘What Would an Original Christmas Song By X Sound Like?’. In the unlikely event that this very niche gameshow is ever greenlit, I don’t think we’d ever struggle too hard during the Matt Mays round and that is by no means a bad thing. His new holiday single, “Christmas Eve Day”, is unquestionably 100% Mays. Continue reading Matt Mays Throws his Hat into the Christmas Canon with ‘Christmas Eve Day’