New Music Spotlight with Shawn Mendes, Classified and More
New Music From Shawn Mendes, Classified, Train ft. Cam & Travie McCoy, Coleman Hell, CHVRCHES, and Lindsay Ell
We’re back with another edition of the New Music Spotlight. And this time we’re bringing you pop and country selections that have us singing along non-stop.
Check out the Canadian, American, and Scottish selections and leave a comment telling us which of these new tracks are going to land on your playlists.
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Artist: Shawn Mendes
Hometown: Pickering, ON
Genre: Pop
Related: Justin Bieber, Niall Horan, Demi Lovato
Song: Nervous
Notes: From his brand new self-titled album, Mendes comes out swinging on Nervous. With 14 tracks on the album, this is a great entry point. Hit play, listen to the young Canadian pop star as he works through another pop smash.
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Artist: Classified
Hometown: Enfield, NS
Genre: Hip Hop
Related: Sweatshop Union, Grieves, K-OS
Song: She Ain’t Gotta Do Much
Notes: Classified’s She Ain’t Gotta Do Much may be the most relatable “looking for a girl” track that we’ve heard in a long time, especially in hip-hop. It’s humble, it’s catchy, and we’re here for it.
“She ain’t a boss bitch, she’s the boss bitch. Literally, her job is to run the office.”
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Artist: Train ft. Cam & Travie McCoy
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Genre: Pop
Related: Matchbox Twenty, Sister Hazel, The Goo Goo Dolls
Song: Call Me Sir
Notes: Train recruits country star Cam and rapper/ singer-songwriter Travie McCoy to add a little something fresh to Call Me Sir. In the YouTube description, we get a message from Pat Monahan, “It’s a true story and I love what these 2 bring to the song. Hope everyone will like this one as much as we love performing it. Love, Pat”.
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Artist: Coleman Hell
Hometown: Thunder Bay, ON
Genre: Pop
Related: Shawn Hook, Scott Helman, Arkells
Song: Hold On Me
Notes: Coleman Hell continues to show us who he is and what he wants his sound to be with every release. Hold On Me is catchy, with lyrics and a beat that fit together perfectly. And as we wait for the full-length follow-up to 2016’s Summerland, we’ll be listening to this one often.
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Artist: CHVRCHES
Hometown: Glasgow, SCT
Genre: Pop
Related: MS MR, The Naked And Famous, HAIM
Song: Graffiti
Notes: From the brand new album, Love Is Dead, CHVRCHES makes us want to move with Graffiti. It’s a winner, and we have a feeling that we’ll be singing along to this one for a while.
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Artist: Lindsay Ell
Hometown: Calgary, AB
Genre: Country
Related: Meghan Patrick, Carly Pearce, Jess Moskaluke
Song: Gravity
Notes: The release of The Continuum Project includes covers of all 12 tracks from John Mayer’s 2006 Continuum. And while we could have picked any of the songs to share here… Gravity was the one that we were looking forward to most, so here it is!
Related: The Continuum Project – Lindsay Ell Album Review
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