Lee Cole is beginning to make noise with the track I Don’t Wanna Wait in South Africa. The song has cracked the iTunes chart and was added to several stations. Cole first gained attention in his home country with the cover ‘Akanamali’ – which has clocked over 300,000 views YouTube views. Splitting his time between Johannesburg and NY, he directed the music video at the Long Branch Train Station in New Jersey.  Cole could be categorized as a post-teen pop artist ala Capaldi, Dean Lewis and James Arthur.

It seems like Post Malone was born to rock .  The genre bending artist will host a livestream concert tribute to Nirvana this Friday, April 24th at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET.

The show will livestream from from Malone’s home and air on his official YouTube channel. He’ll perform the Nirvana hits and fan favorites. For more info, fans can text 817-270-6440, which is a number Post Malone offered up on his social media pages earlier this week alongside the note, “text me.”

Malone will raise money for COVID-19 while Google will match all donations at up to $5 million, with all proceeds going to the UN Foundation.

Jotsey delivers a melancholic track titled Heroine. If you’re depressed, you’ll have double depression after getting through the 3:20 second banger. That’s the point of music, it’s supposed to make you feel. Right? If not, then what’s the point.  Citing influences such as James Bay, Bon Iver, Ed Sheeran and Lauv – the 22 year old singer-songwriter hails from from Manchester UK, in a small town called Bolton. His debut track Colours garnered support from tastemakers. Give it a listen.

I stumbled on a track I really like by Estherlivia (Esther Ribbstedt Österman). It’s called Limbo and which is taken from her upcoming debut EP.  The 22 year old singer-songwriter and producer hails from Sweden. The song was featured on Sounds of Sweden Playlist via Apple Music and Spotify’s GRL PWR. Give it a stream on Indie Invaders Playlist.

Did anyone watch ‘One World Together At Home’? I did not.  But I sifted through the some headlines which were more or less negative and watched some clips. Mind you, I’m not looking for negativity. I want the pot at the end of the rainbow.   I wanted to be uplifted but most of the artists chose to sing sad songs. I’m not sure why? Maybe because most their shows were forced to cancel for the remainder of 2020.

I’ll be honest, the two hour live stream put on by the World Health Organization and Global Citizen was hard to watch.  Regardless, it was put together to raise awareness and money. Hence, stay home and save lives is a motto to live by for today.