He plays into heavy gospel and folk as well, making Linden’s work most recognizable across Canada. According to his Apple Music profile, he has been delivering his own blues-oriented rock since the early ’70s. Wrapping up this week’s Best of What’s New is contemporary blues music by Canadian guitarist, producer and songwriter Colin Linden. Here’s a track from it titled Resentment, co-written by Diaz, Stephen Wrabel and Jamie Floyd. Diaz has since released three EPs and five full-length albums including her latest, History of a Feeling. Her debut album Skin and Bone came out in 2007. While attending Berklee, Diaz spent time in the indie rock outfit Talk Radio before embarking on a solo career in 2006. It was there that Diaz achieved minor celebrity status as one of the more precocious and engaging students in director Don Argott’s hit 2005 documentary about the Paul Green School of Rock Music. She switched to guitar in her early teens and began composing at the age of 16 after the family relocated to nearby Philadelphia. Her Apple Music profile characterizes her music as passionate, searching songs on indie rock, country and folk, synth pop, and more while always keeping emotion front and center. Here’s more from Apple Music: Madi Diaz spent her formative years in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she was home-schooled by her Peruvian mother and studied piano with her Danish father, a musician who introduced her to the likes of the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac as she grew up in the 1990s. Madi Diaz is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter. I don’t feel that I fully embody any particular genre-all of the music just comes from the universe that is my ever-shifting brain/heart/world,” says Indigo. This sonic range is unified by Indigo’s strikingly confessional and effortless approach to songwriting, a signature first introduced in her debut, self-released LP, I Love My Mom. “The album title is a nod to the many shapes I take musically. Here’s more from her label Saddle Creek’s website: Faithful to its name, Any Shape You Take changes form to match the tenor of each story it tells. Bad Dream is a track from De Souza’s new sophomore album Any Shape You Take. Even though De Souza has her own website, there is only limited official background information on her that’s publicly available, which is unfortunate. Kicking it off this time is Indigo De Souza, a young singer-songwriter from North Carolina, whose music includes elements of pop grunge and indie rock. All picks are on albums that were released yesterday (August 27), except the final track, which is from an upcoming album. Until not so long ago, I used to pretty much reject any contemporary music, unless it was something new from an “old artist.” Once I was willing to do the necessary digging, I quickly noticed how narrow-minded my initial stance was. In most cases, it’s the first time I encounter the artists who are oftentimes relatively young – all great! As somebody, who according to my dear wife grew up in the wrong decade (the ’80s as opposed to the ’60s), I find it encouraging that each week I continue to discover new music that sufficiently speaks to me. This week, Best of What’s New hits another mini-milestone with the 75th installment of the recurring feature.
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