In The Spotlight

Kate Vargas – “Nothing Turns My Lock”

Raised in New Mexico, this singer and songwriter spent her teens as a wild child. Now New York based, she’s turned a new corner and chose a path of meditation, yoga and a renewed focus on her music. She took her folk-rock sound, dipped in blues and jazz and played venues from The Troubadour in London to New York’s Bowery Electric. She released her debut album “Down To My Soul” in 2014.

Her new single opens the door to a dark and smoky bar, where the jazz is as dusty as the booze. From a dim, foggy corner, a melancholy saxophone tells its woeful tale to a smooth brush drum. Sitting on a bar stool next to the beaten-up lounge piano, Kate chronicles her own bluesy saga. With anĀ Eartha Kitt touched, whiskey-soaked vocal grit, she unlocked the twilit secrets of sultry vintage jazz.

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In The Spotlight

Kate Vargas – “This Affliction”

Raised in New Mexico and now based in New York, this powerhouse performer grew up in a folklore-rich community. Her inherent creativity led to an interest in music, particularly jazz. She attended Berklee College Of Music, which rekindled a love for songwriting. She played copious live shows all over the world, showcasing her melodious blend of dreampop, folk and junkyard blues.

Taken from her latest album “For The Wolfish And Wandering”, this single is a spellbinding jam filled to the brim with dark blues-pop grit. Merging a prowling rhythm and anguished guitar into a vintage-dipped, heart-wrenching blues, it’s the smoky roughness of her hard-hitting, charismatic vocals, which have an unexplainable bewitching quality, that give it an otherworldly attraction.

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