Canadian OBGYN turned singer-songwriter, Kristina Dervaitis, is sharing the first single from her second solo album due this April.

The powerful, piano-led track “Everything & Nothing” focuses on the concept of denial. “Some signs just can’t be ignored without grave consequences,” explains Dervaitis. 

The song’s moody vocals and ominous production underscore Dervaitis’ exploration of how we can over analyze situations and twist any information in order to justify our wants, which often aren’t in line with our true needs.

Climate change denial came to mind when Dervaitis sat down to create the lyric video for “Everything & Nothing.” 

“When you consider the growing number of forest fires worldwide, as just one example, it’s astounding to think that there are still those who deny the role that climate change is playing,” says Dervaitis. 

“It’s right in front of our face – everything is pointing to it – but there are those that so badly want to believe that nothing’s wrong.”

Nickelas Smokey Johnson (Field+Stream) is a musician and multidisciplinary artist from the Northern forests of Alberta, Canada. Drawing from western folk traditions and the avant garde, he creates a kind of gothic country music defined by Edmonton Journal as “a claustrophobic yet cinematic expression of prairie life, of potential threats, of existential discontent.”

He splits his time between Edmonton and Mossy Trails, his family’s off-grid property where he works as caretaker and curator of a forest populated by a pantheon of large handmade wooden gods, and hosts live music on the Boreal Vegas stage, an open-air, solar powered venue he built with his retired folks. It was here where “Horsecock” was written and the accompanying video was recorded.

“It’s a composite memory of growing up with rural men whose fears forbid them from experiencing awe,” Smokey notes. “In the video, the outer frame captures the trees I gazed out at to empty my mind to make room for this very important equine phallus ballad.

Using a mix of dusty acoustic and electric instruments, wobbly synths and lofi field recordings, Smokey croons through a cinematic dream world of regret and desire. A doomed scout, he wanders the woods holding aloft humor and horror like flashlights in each hand.

Smokey’s previously released music was supported by The Feeelings, a rotating group of top-tier artists that included Peter Sagar (Homeshake, Mac Demarco), Paul Arnusch (the Bobby Tenderloin Universe, Faunts, Whitsundays), Aaron Parker (Cantoo, Whitsundays), and Tom Murray (Eamon McGrath). 

Your daily dose of indie goodness! Dive into these epic tracks below!

Your daily dose of indie goodness! Dive into these epic tracks below!

Your daily dose of indie goodness! Dive into these epic tracks below!

Bill Majoros aka The Foreign Films is an award-winning singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. Deeply fascinated by the musical alchemy of the past and the present, he creates retro-futurism: sparkling melodies that dream of tomorrow. 

Imagine yourself as a ghost floating away from this earthly life. Free from everything yet forever tethered to your memories. That’s the premise of “Perfect Future” from new full-length album, Magic Shadows.

Sparked by the magical realism of The Twilight Zone (1959), “Perfect Future” is reminiscent of a lost summer deep in the memory. The nostalgic and dreamy pop track conjures up hazy imagery of summer twilight.

Magic Shadows is a time machine, connecting the dots between reality and the dream world, transitioning between the organic and synthetic sounds of the ‘70s and ‘80s.