New Music from Grace Lionato, Michelle Rose, Sophia B, Alexa Name, Gracie Modean, Sofia Devitt

"Breathe U In" - by Grace Lionato

Release Date: December 27, 2024

What You Should Know: "This song has been such an amazing experience and the people I’ve gotten to work with are incredible."

Find It: Everywhere, like  Apple or Spotify

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"When We're Rich" - by Michelle Rose

Release Date: December 27, 2024

What You Should Know: "This is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever worked on. Huge thank you to everyone who worked on this project!"

Find It: Everywhere, like  Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounded Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Michelle Rose Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Mr. Wrong" - by Sophia B

Release Date: December 28, 2024

What You Should Know: "If you need to take that difficult step of saying goodbye to Mr. Wrong, Let this be your anthem this New Year. Whether he has a dismissive avoidant attachment style, a narcissist, a player or he’s just the wrong guy for you. You deserve better. Walk away from Mr. Wrong to the beat of this New Song."

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "What 2024 Sounded Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Sophia B Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"No Words" - Alexa Name 

Release Date: January 3, 2025

What You Should Know: "This track is seriously one of my absolute favorites, and there’s so much behind it that makes it so special to me."

Find It: Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "It's 2025 in Section 36", "What 2024 Sounded Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Alexa Name Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Face It" - by Gracie Modean

Release Date: January 3, 2025

What You Should Know: "This single from Gracie is definitely one you won't want to miss!"

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: "It's 2025 in Section 36", "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Gracie Modean Visits Section 36 Music!"

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"Good For Me" - by Sofia Devitt

Release Date: January 3, 2025

What You Should Know: "Around this time last year I was home for winter break and itching to record this song so me and @joshwurzmusic started COOKIN. We recorded all of the parts within that day and I looove the way it turned out, it sounds like you’re right in the room with us!."

Find It: Everywhere, like Apple or Spotify

Her Spotify Playlist Inclusions: ""It's 2025 in Section 36", "What 2024 Sounds Like From Section 36", "Women Going Places, from Section 36"

Previously on Section 36: "Sofia Devitt Visits Section 36 Music!"

I Hereby Resolve

Typically, the end of the year is a time for people to reflect on their life, and to make any changes they see the need for. Why do it for the first of the year? No particular reason. Although, I suppose, a July 2 Resolution doesn’t have the same ring to it. A New Year’s Resolution also has the added benefit of only occurring once a year. If you make a New Month Resolution, and fail after three days…you have some obligation to make the same resolution the next month. If you make a resolution on January 1, but flop by January 2, you can wait an entire year before you have to try and make yourself a better person. That’s a handy feature. People also find it nicer to write these resolutions down. Anything written down automatically has more weight. After all, if you take the time to type it out and share it with others, it must be important. Plus, anyone why knows about your resolution will obviously shun you if you don’t stick to it. If you make a resolution in silence, it’s pretty easy to ignore it. Of course, that presumes that anyone is listening, or cares enough to hold you to it. That’s probably not the case here. But, what else am I going to write about on January 1st? 

My main resolution really requires you to all help along. I really want to be able to feature more amazing women more often in 2025. So, I could use your help in letting me know who you are and what you're up to. Are you a female artist in Boston I haven't heard about? Reach out and tell me who you are. If we've worked togethe, do you have a new song coming out? Reach out and tell me about it. With so many artists out there, its hard for me to keep track sometimes. I little heads up from you will go a long way. 

While that part depends on you, there are some things I can do to help you along with that.

I want to work on making this a place where you're more likely to want to reach out to. Starting with viewership. I want to make a dedicated effort to make sure as many eyes as possible are on your releases when we post about them. Whether that's with promotion or persistence, I need to get moving. The Instagram account passing 1300 followers is a result of similar efforts on that front. I'd like to do similar things here.

I also want to be more visible elsewhere in the music landscape. Whether that's following and commenting on social media, or reading and commenting on websites and blogs, or whatever else it may be. Part of that is, simply, your music is worthy of my support wherever it may be. The other part is just making Section 36 Music more of a community that you'll love being a part of. Reaching the point where every woman at Berklee that releases a song thinks "I better reach out to Section 36 soon". It will be on everyone's mind. That's my goal.

So, there we go. Things I want to try and do in the coming year. If you care, feel free to try and keep me honest. Mocking comments if I’m going astray are encouraged. Or, help me out by contributing to the resolutions. Or both. Or, ignore it all completely. Your call.

Happy New Year Everyone!