LGBTQ
Laius, “archaic dreams” | Track Review 🎵
Gifted Australian queer pop musician Laius makes our ears perk up on his ambitious, poetic, and conceptual single, “archaic dreams.”
![Awesome Songs: July 2022 [📷: Brent Faulkner, Gordon Johnson, Mbiydzela Edwin Tatah, The Musical Hype,Nice Life, Pexels, Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/awesome-songs-july-2022.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Evergreen
Awesome Songs: July 2022 | Playlist 🎧
Awesome Songs: July 2022 features brakence, City Girls, Ethan Bortnick, Lizzo, Panic! At the Disco, and Steve Lacy.
![Shivum Sharma, In Transit (EP) [📷: Shivum Sharma]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/shivum-sharma-in-transit-1.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Album 💿
Shivum Sharma, In Transit (EP) | Album Review 💿
Southeast London singer, songwriter, producer, and DJ Shivum Sharma makes our ears perk up on his incredibly sweet, four-song project, In Transit (EP).
![Middle: 5ive Songs No. 41 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Clovis Cheminot, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pavel Danilyuk, Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/middle-5ive-songs-41-2022.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Evergreen
Middle | 5ive Songs
In the 41st edition of 5ive Songs (2022), we select five songs that are associated with MIDDLE in some form or fashion.
![Getting to Know… Dying Vision: Interview No. 295 [📷: Alfred Derks from Pixabay, Brent Faulkner, Darkmoon_Art from Pixabay, Dying Visions, The Musical Hype]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/getting-to-know-dying-vision-interview-295.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Interviews
Getting to Know… Dying Visions | Interview 🎤
In the 295th Q&A in our Getting to Know… series, we get the inside scoop from London extreme metal band, Dying Vision.
![Cynthia Erivo, “Stand Up”: Music Lifts No. 7 (2022) [📷: Arek Socha, Back Lot Music, Benjamin Balazs, Brent Faulkner, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Curb, Focus Features LLC, Ketut Subiyanto, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Word Entertainment]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cynthia-erivo-stand-up-lit-music-that-lifts-7-2022.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Columns
Cynthia Erivo, “Stand Up” | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋
In the 7th edition of Lit Music That Lifts, we’re uplifted by Cynthia Erivo performing, “Stand Up” from the motion picture, Harriet.
![13 Compelling 1st, 2nd + two 3rds’ Songs [📷: Brent Faulkner, GThe Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Michał Jamro, Nataliya Vaitkevich, RODNAE Productions]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13-compelling-1st-2nd-two-3rds-songs.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Evergreen
13 Compelling 1st, 2nd + two 3rds’ Songs | Playlist 🎧
13 Compelling 1st, 2nd + two 3rds’ Songs features music courtesy of Fleetwood Mac, Halestorm, Jack Harlow, Monica & Chris Stapleton.
![Benson Boone, “Better Alone” [📷: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, Night Street, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay, Warner]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/benson-boone-better-alone.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Music
Benson Boone, “Better Alone” | Track Review 🎵
Emerging pop musician Benson Boone shines on the pop ballad, “Better Alone,” which appears on his debut EP, Walk Me Home.
![Catch or Caught: 5ive Songs No. 40 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, Clovis Cheminot, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors, Pexels, Pixabay, wendel moretti]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/catch-or-caught-5ive-songs-40-2022.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Evergreen
Catch or Caught | 5ive Songs
In the 40th edition of 5ive Songs (2022), we select five songs that are associated with CATCH or CAUGHT in some form or fashion.
![dvsn, “If I Get Caught” [📷: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay, OVO Sound, Warner]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/dvsn-if-i-get-caught-1.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Music
dvsn, “If I Get Caught” | Track Review 🎵
Canadian R&B duo dvsn – Daniel Daley and Nineteen85 – come back strong on their first single of 2022, “If I Get Caught.”
![Panic! At the Disco, “Middle of a Breakup” [📷: Brent Faulkner, Fueled By Ramen, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/panic-at-the-disco-middle-of-a-breakup.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
LGBTQ
Panic! At The Disco, “Middle of a Breakup” | Track Review 🎵
Brendon Urie and Panic! At The Disco shine on “Middle of a Breakup,” the second single from their seventh studio album, Viva Las Vengeance.
![Megan Thee Stallion, “Pressurelicious” [📷: 1501 Certified Entertainment / 300 Entertainment, Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/megan-thee-stallion-pressurelicious-1.jpg?resize=360%2C240&ssl=1)
Music
Megan Thee Stallion, “Pressurelicious” | Track Review 🎵
Megan Thee Stallion taps Future for “Pressurelicious,” a respectable banger that ultimately does little to move the needle for either rapper.