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UMC20: The Return Edition!

It’s been a looooooooong time since we provided you with a 20-track offering of fresh, piping hot FIRE!

So, let us waste no time: we’ve got a lot of songs to feature on UMC20 over the next few weeks, and as always, you’re welcome to give us more. Here are some of our favorites we’ve received since we decided to be a music publication again!

As for today’s bonus track: It’s our final Quinn Spinn episode of 2023, featuring #GoodFriendoftheShow Lauren Gomance of Soul Fit Counseling. We talk about the lessons learned along life’s journey throughout the year.

Track listing:
DaChri – Moving Day
ROM COM – Tom Cruisin’
f1oater. – Don’t Know Why
Ren Richards – Myself With You
Quickdraw Kid – Bittersweet Tennessee
Fame & Fiction – Famous
Paul Nestler – That Dance We Do
Jon Worthy – Things Are Looking Up
Lone Tree – Holding On
Marcus Grimaldi – Forbidden Love
Donny Apollo – 811 Freestyle
JASCE – Another Way
Leather Baby – Weapons
Arih SK – Hold It TogetherCooper Carr – Blank Page
Brandon Padier & Black Gold – Still Learning
Andi Jane – Hide the Key
Cass Noelle – Someone to Help You
The Bankshafts – Don’t Mess with Old Smoky
Black Venus – Evil Sky

LISTEN: Over a Wintry Soundscape, JASCE Looks for ‘Another Way’ to Love

By this point, we’ve had a chance to get to know Philly-based electronica producer JASCE quite well through her music. Her artful production style — employing rich EDM sounds influenced by her classical training on violin — creates enchanting, thoughtful tunes for the music lover in all of us.

Her latest single, “Another Way,” sets a brilliant tone for this time of year. Hushed vocals sweep in like the winter wind over shimmering, glitchy piano tones and bellowing bass drops, creating an atmosphere as vibrant as holiday lights illuminating the season’s first snowfall.

“The sound is intimate yet large, driving yet vulnerable,” JASCE notes. “It’s a hopeful and determined love song about wanting another way to love you. It’s a celebration of music and living.”

Celebrate life this holiday season with “Another Way.” Get a taste below!

UMC20: Summertime Magic (June 21, 2023)

Hold it right there!

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Anyway, onto this week’s edition of UMC20

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UMC20: It’s a Wild One! (May 9, 2023)

This week’s UMC20 playlist will take you through some unexpected turns!

The genres are plentiful. You want hip hop and R&B? There’s a big block of it, right at the beginning. Want experimental electronica? We got you, fam. Want hard rock and metalcore? You’ll find it within these 20 tracks!

Oh, and because we missed last week — sorry, we were busy launching an agency — we included not one, but two episodes of The Quinn Spinn as bonus tracks at the end!

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UMC20: Experimental Vibes (Mar. 22, 2023)

Hold it right there!

Did you know that you can support Underground Music Collective, any time of year? By making a tax-deductible donation to UMC via The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, you ensure that we can keep sharing songs and stories from independent creatives everywhere, for years to come. Click here to get started!

Anyway, onto this week’s edition of UMC20

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UMC20: Back from the Beach (Sept. 6, 2022)

Summer is unofficially over, and that means it’s time to get down to brass tacks by delivering you some fresh, recently-submitted HEAT.

OK, so maybe one of these songs wasn’t submitted, and is included here simply because I’m vibing on it, post-sabbatical. Which one? Well, here’s a hint: it’s from Dirty Heads’ new album, Midnight Control, which released on August 26 and, personally speaking, is already one of my favorite albums of all time. Sometimes, a new record just hits the spot.

After that, though? You’ll enjoy a multitude of multi-genre flavors straight from our submission form. Hope you’re ready!

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UMC20: Upcoming Shows, Interview Guests, and More (Aug. 2, 2022)

We have so much to get to with this week’s edition of UMC20, and that includes providing clues about what’s coming down the pike in the near future.

We have upcoming (and previous) Quinn Spinn guests featured here, as well as artists set for forthcoming NashLive! shows this fall. We have submissions from multiple different continents and, of course, we touch as many genres as possible across these 20 tracks.

Sound exciting to you? Good, because it does to us. Let’s go!

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Songs You Should Hear: Genre-Bending Adventures

This Friday, we will continue to diversify your sonic palettes with multi-colored soundscapes full of imagination.

We’re excited to present this week’s Songs You Should Hear, because all three of this week’s selections stretch genres past perceived boundaries. Craftily-woven, diverse influences are the name of the game this week — and it’s a game we’re delighted to play!

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Songs You Should Hear: Songs for the Dumped

Who hurt all of you?

I ask out of genuine concern, because I did not have to look far into the submission form to find three songs about breakups and their aftermath for this week’s Songs You Should Hear. While each one is sonically different, they share a common thread: love has a dark side, and some of us handle its charismatic embrace better than others.

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