This year has been a great year for music thus far, and I believe the monthly mixtapes here at Musical Pairings have been a testament to that. Eac...
The Memphis, Tennessee-based Magic Kids write some of the most delicious, youthfully exuberant pop songs I've heard in some time--well-written pop c...
Longstay is a San Diego-based band led by primary songwriter Nik Ewing (vox/guitar/piano), and featuring Jordan Groth (guitar), Josh Dunn (bass/vox), ...
Welcome to the Musical Pairings' My Brightest Diamond rarities collection. It consists of a few of my MP3s I recorded from some of the live sets...
We Are Trees is a Virgina Beach, Virginia 4-piece band that meticulously weave together beautiful acoustic, folk-pop melodies reminiscent of folks lik...
Innocent Wildlife is the project of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Brian Johnson. On his website, Very Arbitrary, Brian notes that he has been recording...
You know what I love? When I discover things that are "awesome." It's even better when I discover something that I should have discovered befo...
Guadalajara, Mexico's DannielRadall crafts a hip hop-influenced, mashed up, slowed down, dismantled and reassembled form of electro-pop that will get ...
Raleigh, North Carolina producer Tim Gunter sent me this great mixtape he recently put together, and I definitely wanted to share it with our readers....
Vancouver based Teen Daze will soon be California bound for some live performances including a set this Thursday, August 12, with Blackbird Blackbird ...
Our readers may have noticed from previous posts that John Vanderslice is one of my favorite people in independent music for a number of reasons: he...