Author: News Team
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First Listen: Jeanie Aird’s “Teenage Dreams” Hits Straight From the Heart
Had this one on repeat since yesterday and I’m still trying to figure out why it hits so hard for a track this simple. Aird opens with this amazing guitar…
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MUANH Turns Late-Night Doubt into Quietly Gripping Alt Pop
MUANH keeps “the dream” close to the skin. The beat moves at a slow pulse, the synths hang low in the mix, and her vocal carries the song with a…
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Loose Buttons Race Through The City Lights On “Sure Thing”
Loose Buttons launch “Sure Thing” with a quick flare of feedback, then slam straight into a guitar riff carrying enough voltage to power half of Manhattan. The New York quartet…
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Tessa Marie Sends Her Heart Straight Into the Open on “Dear Love”
Tessa Marie arrives with a debut that knows exactly where to place its emotional weight. “Dear Love” begins inside a polished cinematic-pop setting, while the centre of gravity remains her…
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Tainted by Geoffrey Lewis: An Experimental Indie Rock Album Worth Discussing
I tend to grow suspicious when a home studio becomes the headline of an album. The phrase can excuse unfinished decisions or lend ordinary recordings an instant mythology of solitude.…
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Loco Dice Pushes the Room to Breaking Point on Hold Up (You Feel That)
Loco Dice has spent more than twenty years learning what makes a dancefloor twitch, surge and finally lose control. On Hold Up (You Feel That), he goes straight for that…
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Pleasant, Persuasive and Slightly Vintage: Nina Mae Harper on A Long Time Coming
photo by Alex Baker A Long Time Coming is almost suspiciously easy to enjoy. Nina Mae Harper gives it a light country-folk step, a cheerful vocal and the faint polish…
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Fifth Floor Cologne Brings Pop to Indie Rock on ‘Full Motion’
Cologne-based producer and songwriter Jonathan Moho has spent the past few years shaping Fifth Floor Cologne into a project built around warmth, groove and melody. His new single Full Motion…
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Matilde G’s “GELATO” Is the Sweetest Heartbreak of the Summer
Matilde G just dropped a new single called GELATO, and it’s an instant heart-shatterer. Good pop-rock has always been my weak spot. Across her catalogue, Matilde G blends her Italian…
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Halfway Through Orbitheory: Apex, Vincent Projects Erases the Word “Compilation”
Some albums introduce themselves immediately. Orbitheory: Apex spent its first few minutes doing something far more irritating: it kept making me forget that I was listening to a compilation. I…