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Covenant School Tragedy Inspires Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Pam Ross’ Emotional Tribute

Pam Ross, an award-winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spent most of her life in Houston, and currently resides in North Carolina. However, it was her time spent in Nashville that truly solidified her position as one of the Up-and-coming Songwriters to Watch on the Nashville circuit. Ross performed for BMI industry showcases and had multiple stints at the renowned Bluebird Café and other local venues, establishing herself as an accomplished and talented artist.

It was her deep connection to Music City that inspired Pam to write her latest single, “Falling Off the Merry Go Round.” This poignant song was born out of the frustration and heartbreak she felt in the face of the ongoing plague of school shootings that continues to devastate communities across the country. As a society, we are failing our children and each other, and Pam believes that we all play a role in creating the world we live in. With over 175 deaths in school shootings since Columbine, it’s time to take action and develop real solutions to this ongoing crisis.

“Falling Off the Merry Go Round” will be available on April 21, 2023, accompanied by a music video that is currently in production.

Pam Ross has an unmistakable style that blends rock, Americana, and country into a unique sound that her fans have dubbed “Pam Music.” In June 2022, she began recording her album, “When Therapy Fails,” with a group of incredibly talented musicians at Goodluck Studio in Chapel Hill, NC. The album features ten songs, with the first single, “Fire In The Hole,” released on November 28, 2022. The song quickly garnered rave reviews from radio and top playlisters, and the music video, produced by Rob Underhill and Evelyn Putnam, received Official Selection in the Europe Music Awards. It has also been nominated for Best Music Video in the Carolina Film Festival 2023 and the Franklin Flix Indie Film Festival 2023.

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For more information about Pam Ross and her music, please visit her website at https://pamrossmusic.com/home.

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Kayla Marque’s “Heartbeat Chemtrail” is a love song laced with venom

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On her new single, “Heartbeat Chemtrail,” Kayla Marque has given us a combination of intimacy and toxicity, forging a landscape as beautiful to the ear as it is bruising to the heart. This is a slow burn of a romantic demise. “Heartbeat Chemtrail” surges with an emotional electricity. Just the title conjures an image of love that lingers in the sky, beautiful and shining but deadly, perhaps. Marque blurs the boundaries between vulnerability and risk, matching heartbeats with fallout and close feelings with collateral.

This is a lush production, but never a florid one, allowing Marque’s vocal to ache and simmer. Her delivery is like a dark secret, whispered in the dark, delicately balanced between nothing and creeping doom. Each word feels selected, every pause is intentional, and each moment draws listeners further into a story that feels universal and achingly personal. The real tool here is emotion. You can hear the heft of each note bearing down on your chest, the push and pull of a relationship that sustains and corrodes in equal measure. It all feels cinematic, like watching a love story unfold slowly, knowing it’s heading toward an exquisite collapse. But that’s the genius of “Heartbeat Chemtrail.”

It doesn’t flinch from the turned-silver double-edged blade of love, the sweetness of it and the sting, the hope and the damage. Instead, it embraces them and dares to romanticize the wreckage without glamorizing the pain. It’s about the path to heartbreak, the chemical trail love leaves behind. Kayla Marque has created an experience. “Heartbeat Chemtrail” is a reminder that love goes as thick and heady, seductive, and suffocating. And at other times, the most intoxicating connections are those with a warning label. “Heartbeat Chemtrail” hangs in the air long after the last note, like smoke in the air or a thought you can’t quite stop.

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Stephan Folkes paints truth in slow motion on soulful single “Incomplete”

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Amidst a landscape where lines between genres are crossed effortlessly, and feelings are the new currency, UK artist Stephan Folkes offers an unforgettable moment with “Incomplete,” a brilliant single from his recent debut album Hazard. Folkes, popular for his own dream pop, alt-R&B, soul, funk, and indie fusion, has been building a language of feeling. “Incomplete” is an emotional calculation upholstered in velvet production. With honeyed vocals and clean, generous instrumentation, Folkes looks at what it means to meet yourself directly when blame is no longer a shield.

It’s a meditation on the spiritual disconnection that sits on the edge of relationships, often unnamed but felt. The vulnerability here is evident, yet it’s a long way from fragile. Folkes sings not in surrender but from a place of radical emotional clarity. There is power in acknowledging when you are not whole, and “Incomplete” becomes a hymn for the self-aware. He spreads his palms. It’s accountability with heart and soul. Ghostly textures meld with low-end grooves, and melodic decisions nod gently to classic soul and indie R&B without ever coming across as derivative. The result is a song that’s as private as the tale of a confession but as heavy as a truth finally spoken after much time spent. Folkes’s voice is the compass here, fragile yet confident, thoroughly human.

Every word hits with purpose and intention, turning “Incomplete” into an experience shared between the artist and the audience. It’s the type of track that tells you to slow down and take it all in, even if the feelings are all over the place. And “Incomplete” smartly reminds us that emotional depth doesn’t have to shout to be heard. It just needs honesty. With this single, Stephan Folkes proves he’s not afraid to go there to sit in discomfort, to make art that doesn’t pat things up all nice. If he’s giving even the smallest glimpse of what he has to offer, we’re in for a reflective ride that’s as purifying as it is fearless.

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