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Courtz continued dropping music while studying mechanical engineering in college, where he'd been recruited in track and field; eventually, releases like his slick four-song EP Invierno led to a record deal with Pitbull's Mr. 305 label. "YELLOWSTONE" FEVER EARLIER THIS YEAR, some of country music's most gifted songwriters, from Miranda Lambert and Aaron Raitiere to Sunny Sweeney and Jonathan Terrell, assembled on Nashville's Music Row to write songs for country and roots music's unexpected starmaker: Yellowstone. The upbeat love song, written and produced in collaboration with New Delhi-based singer-songwriter Bharg, quickly reached a million views on YouTube and boasts more than 4 million streams on Spotify - promising numbers for an artist who's still new on India's independent-music scene. "It's a shame the city let the soul of a downtown music scene that supported original songs slip away for a price tag.". [Extracted from the article]

While attending cosmetology school as a teen, Brooks discovered drag on Tumblr and would sneak out to see the drag luminary Chevelle Brooks perform at local gay clubs. T.M. NOLWEN CIFUENTES Mistress Isabelle Brooks "TRADITIONAL DRAG is a dying art form", says Mistress Isabelle Brooks, "and I feel like it's my job to keep it alive." Kerri Colby FOR KERRI COLBY, drag was like the wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia: Once she stepped inside that world, she could embrace who she truly was. [Extracted from the article]

The article features several up-and-coming leaders in the music industry as of June 2021. YellowHeart founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Josh Katz focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain to establish a more direct relationship between artists and fans. Other featured personalities include Asylum Records' Dallas Martin, Peloton's Gwen Bethel Riley, and Hillman Grad Records founder Lena Waithe.

The article features 10 up-and-coming musicians as of February 2021, including British pop musician Rina Sawayama, rapper Saint Jhn, and Puerto Rican Rauw Alejandro. Also cited are the growing popularity of singers like Teddy Swims, Canada's Allison Russell, and Benee of New Zealand, as well as the music of British singer-songwriter Anna B. Savage and singer Olivia Kaplan.

The article features singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun and her music. Topics discussed include her regular practice of meditating as her way of dealing with anxiety, her debut album "In Defense of My own Happiness," her life as a Nigerian immigrant in the U.S. as reflected in her album, and her love for rock music.

AFTER FORMING at Columbia University, the boat-shoe-wearing blog-loved indie-pop crew toned down the sunny globe-trotting guitars of their 2008 debut and stared down quarter-life crisis with a broodingly lovely album of reflections on morality, God, uncertainty, and romantic decay; fittingly, they debuted Modern Vampire's first single, "Unbelievers", dressed as skeletons on late-night TV just days after Hurricane Sandy shut down New York, and on songs like "Diane Young" and "Hannah Hunt", Ezra Koenig turns the search for faint glints of redemption in his own emotional wreckage into a drama of Dylan-esque grandeur. More impressive was the way she made her sonic wanderlust feel urgent, sculpting some of her most immediate songs, like the vulnerable, shimmering "Kiss It Better" and the Drake duet "Work", and how she capped off the album with a smoldering run of modern torch ballads. RECORDED in a secrecy that made the Manhattan Project look like a chill hang, Beyoncé's self- titled fifth album was the mother of all surprise releases when it hit in 2013 - an especially insane feat since Beyoncé came with a blockbuster visual album as well. My favorite album of the 2010s was: Beyoncé's 4, just because it has one of my favorite songs of all time, "Countdown.". [Extracted from the article]

Then Bieber hopped on the remix and the most popular mostlyin- Spanish song ever was born. IN THE EARLY 2010s, as R&B artists chased the hip-hop and EDM zeitgeist, this California upstart showed up out of nowhere sounding like a singer from another era; Miguel exuded the style and grace of a Motown romantic on his plush debut slow jam, a song that felt sweetly old-school right down to its anachronistic-sounding title. Considering the song's almost scientifically pop precision, it's no surprise its recording involved reworking the song "four or five" times to nail "that euphoric feeling of having a teenage love, all over again". WHERE WE HEARD IT Early in the decade, singers inexplicably started yelling "Wa-oh-wa-oh" in their songs - Katy Perry on "California Gurls", Kesha on "Tik Tok", Frank Ocean on "Ivy.". [Extracted from the article]

Like a lot of queer performers in country and folk music, Housman is working mainly on his own, without the help of major firms or even indie labels. WHEN BRANDY CLARK launched a country-music recording career in 2013, there wasn't any template for an openly gay artist in Nashville. " Chris Housman is one of a newer generation of young country songwriters who takes inspiration from Clark's and McAnally's work. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles several musicians, singers, and bands including singer Amara La Negra, the punk rock band Dream Wife, and rapper Saba.

On the single "Free Yourself", Ware flips into disco-diva mode with an anthem of sexual liberation for queer and straight people alike. Sometimes Ware just embraces the feeling of being unabashedly horny. The title track - co-penned by Ware - opens with an orgy of breathy voices uttering the title phrase before transforming into a limber disco-funk jam somewhere between Prince and Stevie Wonder. [Extracted from the article]

The Venue Group has plans to open a smaller club near downtown Huntsville, rounding out an ecosystem that now includes music stores like Vertical House and Tangled String Studios at Lowe Mill. ALABAMA SHAKING A world-class outdoor venue inspired by ancient Roman designs is probably the last thing you'd expect to find in Huntsville, Alabama, but the city's new ORION AMPHITHEATER is all about exceeding expectations. "Once I got it locked in, I was like, 'Man, this is what I wanted to show the people of Huntsville, what we're trying to achieve,'" says Ryan Murphy, GM of Orion and Huntsville Venue Group (a division of Lovett's TVG). [Extracted from the article]

The worst bit sounds like Pere Ubu doing ironic nightclub jazz. Black midi Hellfire Rough Trade BLACK SHITTY Once a very cool post-punk band, London's black midi take a serious detour into pretentious overreach here. [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE) Superorganism World Wide Pop Domino TOO-HYPER POP Psychedelic indie-pop crew Superorganism had a great hit a few years back with "Something for Your M.I.N.D." This fire hose of arch-pop cleverness will overload even the sharpest mind. [Extracted from the article]

Jack White Entering Heaven Alive Third Man LAID-BACK JACK White's second album of the year is a mostly acoustic set that reins in some of the zanier impulses of his recent work to make one of his more enjoyable LPs in a while. PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE). [Extracted from the article]

PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE) Tedeschi Trucks Band I Am the Moon Fantasy LONG HAUL This ambitious rock band is spreading its new 24-song release over a series of mini LPs, each worth your while; they make Southern-rock and classic-rock history seem present in our time. [Extracted from the article]

Amanda Shires Take It Like a Man ATO BIG COUNTRY One of Nashville's mostgifted singer-songwriters continues to expand her folk-based sound, mixing Radiohead-style atmospherics, Seventies pop melodies, and even a splash of soul. PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE). [Extracted from the article]

The article features masked country singer Orville Peck and his recording session with musicians at Neon Cross studio in East Nashville, Tennessee.

Palomino, Lambert's eighth solo album, is full of departures too. Reviews Music Miranda Lambert Palomino RCA Nashville Rated 4 out of 5 stars MIRANDA LAMBERT'S 2021 collaborative album The Marfa Tapes, with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, was a stripped-down set that helped resituate the Texas-born Lambert in the tradition of Lone Star singer-songwriters like Guy Clark and Robert Earl Keen. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles Nashville, Tennessee-based singers and married couple Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, dealing with topics including his prior work in the band Drive-By Truckers and her new LP, "To the Sunset."

The article features Kentucky singer-songwriter S. G. Goodman.

After being featured in Netflix rom-com Someone Great, "Truth Hurts" became the summer's most unstoppable breakup anthem, and with punchlines like "You're 'posed to hold me down, but you're holding me back/And that's the sound of me not calling you back", a self-love declaration for the ages. LIKE SO MANY songs in the Swift's pantheon, "Cruel Summer" rides the knife edge of a crush - reckless, anticipating the crash, but consumed by the feeling. "I FEEL THIS is the first time there is pure Afro-beats from Nigeria in the pop scene", Nigerian singer Mr Eazi said of "Como Un Bebe", his killer collaboration with Bad Bunny and Colombian reggaeton king J Balvin. [Extracted from the article]

EILISH DISMANTLED and rebuilt the pop song on her debut LP. DEL REY'S latest, greatest effort is a lush soft-rock album in the style of 1970s Laurel Canyon, filled with characters whose dreams have long gone up in wild- fire smoke. "I love that we have songs on this album about shattering female stereotypes to a gay country love song, and songs about losing loved ones", Morris told Rolling Stone ahead of the LP's release. [Extracted from the article]

The article provides information on "Cocaine and Rhinestones," a podcast on the history of country music hosted by Tyler Mahan Coe.