Author: News Team
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Pop Rock Done Right: Astrid Yan Delivers on “Aqui Ya No”
Today I want to go through the single ‘Aqui Ya No’ by Astrid Yan. It hit my mood right away, and, well, that doesn’t happen all the time. Here’s everything…
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Tessa Rae Explores the Cost of Love on New Single ‘Lovers Always Lose’
Sometimes I come across tracks that are very quiet but at the same time very loud. Not in a bad sense, though — I mean that they seem to creep…
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Tara Craig’s I’ve Been Looking for You: Caregiving, Exhaustion and Everyday Grace
Falling in love adds another item to the schedule. The world keeps asking for attention, your own mind keeps sending reminders, and somebody has left the Winter Olympics running beside…
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Wild West: Grant Maloy Smith Puts Bass Reeves, Sacajawea, and the Trail of Tears Alongside Cowboy Mythology
The hardcover book arrived first in my thinking, before the music. Grant Maloy Smith wrote it, illustrated it, ninety pages, companion to the double album. That detail keeps pulling at…
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Paul Stone & The Basement Collective build “Brother” around loyalty and hope
Property development and songwriting occupy equal space in Paul Stone’s working life. The Yorkshire musician runs businesses, raises four children and records with six trusted players in a professional studio…
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Alex Solely’s Cascade: Essential Minimalism with a Quietly Complicated Personality
On my first listen to Alex Solely’s forthcoming Cascade, I admired the calm, marked Cascade of Nothing as the obvious centerpiece, and assumed the album had already disclosed its entire…
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New York’s Newest Pop-Rock Diary Entry: Igor Delivers “My Number One”
Okay so I stumbled onto this one through the submission pile and honestly, I clicked play expecting background noise and ended up sitting through the whole thing twice. Igor’s got…
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Monnekÿn’s New Single “SPEAK WITH MY GHOST” Is a Slow Walk Through a Haunted House
Okay, so I hit play on this expecting another nu-metal revival cash-grab, and honestly, Monnekÿn caught me off guard. “Speak With My Ghost” opens their EP The Hundredth Night like…
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Cam Ezra Turns Anxiety Into Art On “Dead Internet”
There’s a moment early on the title track where Cam Ezra opens with the line “Do you ever wonder if your life is really yours?,” and honestly, that’s the whole…
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“Cold in California” by Max Maryott: The Sound of Ambition Freezing Out Love
There’s a particular kind of ache that only shows up once the sun goes down, and Max Maryott bottles it perfectly on “Cold in California.” Southern California kid turns the…