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Atlantic Records signee Max Frost released a new EP titled “Intoxication” a couple of weeks ago and it contains one of my current obsessions, “Withdrawal” - a catchy song where heartbreak lyrics, blues and soul, a brilliant use of the lo-fi vocal effect and ‘2015 realness’ all combine. This…

It’s time for you to get to know pop band After Romeo a little better. Composed of members Blake English, Drew Ryan Scott, Jayk Purdy and T.C. Carter, After Romeo has been in the music scene since 2013 when they released their first single ever. A few later, and now in 2015, the band hit the road…

Country singer Canaan Smith has entered a few “ones to watch” lists after his single “Love You Like That” reached #1 on Country airplay in the US this summer. The song is off the Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s debut album “Bronco”, which he dropped in June via Mercury Nashville. The 11-song…

Meet up-and-coming country singer Ashley Clark. He released earlier this year his debut EP "Greyhound", which was executive produced by the legend that is Mutt Lange (Shania Twain, AC/DC), his manager is the very powerful Simon Fuller and certainly in near future we'll be seeing Ashley selling out…

You have to love her like you mean it. That’s the only possible way to love country rising star Kelsea Ballerini. This 21 year old, hailing from Mascot, Tennessee, is taking the country music scene by storm… and fast. Kelsea’s breakthrough single “Love Me Like You Mean It” hit the #1 spot on US…

Who doesn’t know Melanie Martinez? She’s the NY-born picturesque, and quirky singer who stole our hearts with her Britney Spears “Toxic” acoustic cover during her blind audition on “The Voice” back in 2012’s season 3; where she managed to stay in until the Top 6. And just a year and a half later…

Alyxx Dione is the very first signee to superstar Jason Derulo’s Future History label, which he has created in partnership with Sony’s RCA Records, and her debut single “Chingalinga”, produced by hitmakers Jonas Jeberg (“Sledgehammer”) and Jason Evigan (“Heartbeat Song”), can currently be heard on…

We were really excited we got the chance to interview indie-pop duo Oh Honey. You must know them from their song “Be Okay” which became a super huge hit last year. I mean, it was literally everywhere; on commercials, featured in TV series and films, it was even covered on “Glee”, I mean,…

With the pop punk band’s new album “Future Hearts” to be released in stores in about a month, All Time Low’s frontman Alex Gaskarth granted Directlyrics.com an exclusive interview in which he discussed; what it meant to be finally giving fans new music since 2013’s “Don’t Panic”, the new album…

Get to know Australian independent artist Mel Jade. She just released a new single called “Bliss” which we are completely obsessed with. Mel initiated her music career in 2011 when her unreleased song “Alien” was remixed by production team Pretty Boys, after a private hearing, and suddenly was…

Prince Royce is a popular name within the Latin music culture in the U.S and amongst the Latin American countries and even Spain. Born in The Bronx, New York in 1989, and raised by Dominican parents, the talented bi-lingual individual knew from a very young age music was meant to be his career of…

Asher Monroe is a multi-talent force. He’s a singer, dancer, actor and entrepreneur. Born in Arlington, Virginia in 1988, Asher is slowly but surely making a name in the US. He started out in a boyband in the mid-2000s, then appeared on a whole bunch of TV shows, including Nickelodeon’s “Zoey…

If you love country music and OneRepublic’s “Counting Stars” then you must get to know April Kry, an up-and-coming, super sweet singer-songwriter who recently moved to Nashville, in order to take a step forward in her music career, after releasing a couple EPs and scoring song placements on Oxygen…

There are still a few artists left in the industry who don’t like to get easy popularity by recording catchy yet soulless records about sex, booze, drugs or twerking but create quality music, tell honest and relatable stories through their songs and evoke positive feelings from their listeners.…

We recently had the privilege to interview Ms. Jessica Sutta and she was generous enough to discuss all the subjects we inquired her about. Are you ready for the “Feline Resurrection”? Don’t understand what we’re saying? Then get to reading: As you should know, after the split of pop group The…

Milwaukee-based quartet Vinyl Theater are Fueled By Ramen’s latest “acquisition” and I feel like this band is going to bring much joy to the Atlantic/Warner Music label from now on. Vinyl Theatre is made of Chris Senner, Keegan Calmes, Josh Pothier, and Nick Cesarz and they have a really cool…

A #1 album? Opening for Justin Bieber at three consecutive sold-out shows? Winning an “Innovator of the Year” award? Coming to the USA? So many exciting things have happened to The Fooo Conspiracy over the course of a year. They are Sweden’s latest boy-band export but not your typical,…

9AM (PT) of Sunday, October 12th. I have a conference call with Ms. Mila J and everything flows on time. After being passed to the rising urban star by a deep-voiced person from his management team, I receive an energetic “Hello!". It's time to commence my 10-minute interview with Mila J. The…

Born in Germany, raven black-haired singer Lola Blanc will soon be releasing her debut EP - which she says will be filled with "quirky urban pop" songs. The writer of Britney Spears' "Ooh La La" smash it has quite a story. She was born in the south German city of Augsburg to a CIA worker father…

Hailing from New Zealand - a country that’s exported a lot of amazing talent in recent times (Lorde, Kimbra) – indie-pop duo Broods may be in the early stages of their career but everything they’ve achieved thus far is definitely something to be envied. The Nott siblings dropped their…