by DuskArts | Nov 2, 2025 | Alt Rock, Alternative, Dream Pop, Music, Music Review, New Release, Review, Rock, Singer Songwriter
Album cover by Hypnodoll™ / Photos by Alice Teeple Singer-songwriter-producer-Renaissance man Charlie Nieland’s album Stories From The Borderlines offers a smoothly impressionistic, almost eccentric, obliquely uplifting, and often life-affirming set of timely songs...
by DuskArts | Jul 6, 2025 | Artist, Interview, Pop, Rock, Singer Songwriter
[This article was originally posted in 2020 and has been reposted with minor edits and slight changes to its format.] Billy Mick is on a mission to spread acceptance, empowerment, and joy as far and wide as possible–all with a smile on his face and dance in his...
by DuskArts | Jul 5, 2025 | Artist, Interview, Music, New Release, Pop, Singer Songwriter
[This article was originally posted in 2020 and has been reposted with slight changes to its format.] daena [name not capitalized!] has put out a transcendently uplifting new single “Bright Enough” just in time for National Coming Out Day two days later. Picking up...
by DuskArts | Jun 30, 2025 | Music, Music Review, Pop, Review, Singer Songwriter
photo by Acacia Evans It’s interesting that daena brands herself as an “indie” pop artist because I’ve seen no press pictures in which she looks like a Middle American dad from the 80s. No trucker caps, no ironic mustaches—not even one jort! And her music doesn’t...
by DuskArts | May 24, 2025 | Music, Music Review, Pop, Rock, Singer Songwriter
photos by Oceanna [This article was originally posted on July 6, 2022 and has been reposted with minor edits.] Little-known fact: there’s a version of FOMO that’s much worse than any other. It’s called FOMOOD: “fear of missing out on...
by DuskArts | May 17, 2025 | Alt Pop, Alt Rock, Alternative, Ambient, BIPOC, Electronic, EMO, Folk, indie, indie pop, Indie Rock, Music, Pop, Pop Punk, Punk, Rock, Singer Songwriter
[This article was originally posted on 8/2/2021 and has been slightly revised to respect the change in pronouns of at least one artist and may now have a slightly different format and different images as compared with its original upload.] At the time of this writing...
