Chanique Rogers – ‘I Can’

Chanique is not your average triple threat. She’s got singing and songwriting under her belt, as well as stage acting. But she’s also a professional model, and a more than competent chef. Basically, Chanique can put her hand to anything and come up a winner, but it’s been from her very earliest days, growing up on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and The Grenadines, that she’s known she was meant to make her name in the world of music, and her latest single, ‘I Can’, is possibly the perfect example, a Chanique primer if you will, of what she can do.

OK Mayday – ‘Blossoms’ 

Virginia Beach Fourpiece OK Mayday is made up of friends, including a couple of brothers, who write catchy, fully-realized, soulful indie that stands apart. While their sound could be characterised as basic rock, they also take some of their cues from pop, which ensures that their songs are just that bit more powerful. Their most recent single, ‘Blossoms’, probably stands against any characterisation, but it’s definitely one worth adding to your summer playlist.

Ocean Hills – ‘Death Or Liberty’ 

Zoli Téglás, the longest-serving lead vocalist for Orange County band political activist hardcore group Ignite, frontman for Misfits, and Pennywise, as well as actor, featuring in majors such as ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’, and ‘The Alienist’, has another string to his already considerably well-strung bow, that of a tireless champion of animal rights and environmental protection. With his new five-piece band, Ocean Hills, he has released the alt/hard rock track, ‘Death Or Liberty’, which absolutely oozes sonic rebellion, and defiance.

Bruce Sudano – ‘Back In The Neighborhood’

Veteran songwriter and guitarist Bruce Sudano has been a practitioner of pop-rock for nearly 60 years, seeing it as not just a place for big sounds and big beats, but big ideas too. He topped the charts back in the 60s with ‘Alive N Kickin’, and wrote country-pop gold for Dolly Parton, disco and electro-funk for wife Donna Summer, and and priceless radio ready tracks for Michael Jackson. In his solo career however, Sudano tackles those issues that others don’t touch. Things like every day life difficulties, mortality’s grip on us all, human experiences we all have in common.