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Sahej Turns Creative Frustration Into Quiet Resolve on ‘Not Yet’
The track arrived after Sahej spent months composing what he planned to release as his third song. A week away with his family gave him fresh ears, and when he…
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Zoe’s ‘Honest’: Eight Songs Somewhere Between Intimate Art Pop and Late-Night Unease
By the time Honest reached Holy Water, my first impression of Zoe’s second album had changed twice. What began with an expansive pop-rock ballad had passed through smoky jazz, bright…
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Inside ‘Lone Stardust’ with Rusty Reid: ‘Rusty Reid will be back “throwing musical fireballs at the citadel of conformity and all its many cults.”’
Rusty Reid’s musical life has taken him from Midland and Houston to Nashville, Los Angeles and, eventually, the Seattle area. Texas has remained at the heart of his writing throughout…
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“Smiling Through Pain and Frustration”: Queen Aster Discusses the Defiant Humour of Medication
Anyone who has watched American television after midnight knows the scene: a smiling couple strolls through a park while a calm voice lists side effects fast enough to qualify as…
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INOHA Find Their Own Voice on ‘Everything Is Nothing’
San Antonio’s INOHA have found a thrilling meeting point between indie, rock and dark-pop on their new single, ‘Everything Is Nothing’. The band’s real strength lies in contrast. Lyrically, the…
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‘Running Blind’ Finds Farline Reconnecting with Their Musical Past
Some songs arrive on schedule. Others spend more than three decades waiting for their moment. The foundations of Farline’s ‘Running Blind’ were laid back in 1992, buried among old rehearsal…
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&Tilly and Timberly Turn Alienation Into a Rush on ‘Following’
‘Following’, the new single from &Tilly and Timberly, has layers everywhere and every detail lands exactly where it should. The verses pull you in close. Acoustic textures sit around a…
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Camille Cano Prepares For The Worst On “Doomsday Prepping”
Camille Cano has written a song for anyone who plans the emotional fallout before anything has even happened. “doomsday prepping” takes that particular habit of overthinking and follows it all…
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Freedom Fry Turn Midnight Into a Dancefloor on ‘Tonight Is Forever’
Freedom Fry have always understood the romance of a great pop song: three minutes, one bright idea and enough melody to carry it deep into the night. “Tonight Is Forever”…
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Golden Fez and KAIT Let the Silence Speak on “All That You Need”
“All That You Need” carries the same warmth and vitality that first drew me to Golden Fez on “Pretty Blue Eyes.” That familiar spark arrives within the opening seconds. The…
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Joshua Hawkes Trades Introspection for Pure Adrenaline on “Eyes Like That”
Joshua Hawkes reveals the full extent of his range across his wider catalogue. Fans know him for guitar-led, deeply personal stories about the contradictions of everyday life. “Eyes Like That”…
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Awake & Dreaming’s Inevitable: Gothic Alt-Rock, Arena Ambition and One Killer Finale
Awake & Dreaming have a frontperson who sings inward and a band that plays outward, and their debut album Inevitable spends ten songs testing how long those instincts can occupy…
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Seattle Junior turns apocalypse into power-pop ammunition on ‘Long Angry Summer’
Seattle Junior has chosen a hefty subject for a compact rock song: modern civilisation staring into the bright screen of its own creation. Released at the beginning of summer, ‘Long…
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Petit Biscuit Gives Benny Benassi’s “Cinema” a Dream Pop Rebirth
Some songs survive every reinvention. Each remix and reworking brings them back to a fresh wave of popularity. belongs firmly in that category. “Cinema” by Benny Benassi dates back to…
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Dan Webb Announces Fifth Album “Lion Dance,” Featuring Musicians Behind Bowie, Prince and Radiohead
Dan Webb has spent the past 18 years making genre labels work overtime. Progressive keyboard rock, post-punk, electro-jazz and psychedelic fusion have all passed through his catalogue, usually colliding somewhere…
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Sink In Pack a Full Emotional Ride Into “Drive”
Sink In turn slightly over three minutes into a compact rush of pop-rock energy on “Drive,” a track built for immediate impact and repeat plays. Its anthemic scale comes with…
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No Love For The Middle Child Steps Forward With New Single “Guardian Angel”
Andrew Migliore has spent years writing and producing for other people, including work on Machine Gun Kelly’s “Lost Americana,” so you’ve probably heard him without knowing it. No Love For…
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Home By Dawn Releases New Single “Sober” Featuring Gabriel Eli
Summer playlists still dominate the season, and my favourite release for the coming autumn has already arrived, with September firmly covered. Home By Dawn returns with the new single “Sober,”…
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The Old Dream Still Has a Key to the House on Rob Carranza’s Realign
Somewhere between college plans, a first serious paycheck and a baby arriving, the future in Realign changes its measurements. Rob Carranza gives that turn fatigue, pride and the lingering appetite…
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“The World Slows Down” Marks NOVEMBER KID’s Latest Release
Speed usually creates urgency. NOVEMBER KID uses it to create intimacy. Across two and a half minutes, “The World Slows Down” places a private romantic moment inside the constant movement…
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ViVii Capture the Beauty of Change on New Single “Temporary”
There is a beautiful Japanese concept called wabi sabi. It is entirely devoted to the ability to see beauty in imperfection and impermanence. The Swedish trio ViVii translated that concept…
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[FRESH EP] Nogonomas! – WORK | Dusty AmericanaRecorded Live
After the genre-mixing looseness of Songs 4 Sale, Nogonomas! returns with a tighter and tougher proposition. WORK succeeds because its lo-fi surface comes from actual performance pressure: two musicians commit…
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Femi, Dave Todd and Rrell Unite Country and Pop Rock on “Don’t Lie To Me” Remix
Femi, Dave Todd and Rrell bring country and pop rock together on their collaborative remix of “Don’t Lie To Me,” shaping a warm, intimate track around acoustic instrumentation and a…
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Mcclendon Leaves the Door Open on Warm Single “Change Your Mind”
Sometimes the best love story ends with an ellipsis rather than a full stop. Mcclendon’s “Change Your Mind” ends with an invitation rather than a breakup: the musician admits that,…
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“Nimble” reveals how pop-oriented Kylo’s songwriting has always been
Removing the dreamy electronic haze associated with Kylo’s earlier releases reveals how firmly her songwriting has always belonged to pop. “Nimble” introduces live instrumentation and a folk-oriented surface, although its…
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Tom Sless Quit His Job, Bought a Van, and Wrote “Country Butter” On the Road
Some songs only come together once you stop watching the clock. “Country Butter” is one of them. Tom Sless walked away from his job, bought a van, and drove off…
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New Band OURBIRTHDAY Releases Debut Single “SQUEEZY”
The relatively new band OURBIRTHDAY burst onto the scene not too long ago with their debut single “SQUEEZY.” Genre-wise it’s dance pop, though I’d even say there’s a nice lean…
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My Honest Take on Outsideness’ Wildly Overloaded Second Album
…Then After? has the glorious problem of caring too much, with Freidrich$ and Azalias packing every available minute with melodies, samples, acoustic guitar, piano, electronic percussion and the occasional studio…
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Dan Rose Explores Heartbreak and Self-Reflection on “How About You”
In January, Dan Rose released “Let You Go,” a song about the pain of being dumped when you have absolutely no idea why. In May, he returned with “How About…
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Aestrea Releases “Space,” a DreamPop Track Built Around Weightlessness
Aestrea has released a new single titled “Space” this summer, and the track has already reached thousands of listeners since its debut. The song leans into dreampop territory, with a…
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CA in LA Turns Inner Struggle Into Melodic Bloom on “Waking Up”
Los Angeles duo CA in LA — Courtney Birk and Ashleigh Coffelt — have released “Waking Up,” a track that folds dream pop haze around indie rock bones, with alternative…
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Katiuska McLean Introduces LoveLight With New Single “I Care”
Katiuska McLean has introduced her LoveLight era with “I Care”, a dance-pop single built around a central philosophy: “Caring is a Superpower.” The new release takes compassion, something often treated…
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2AP Release New Single “Sweet Harmony” Following the Success of “Real Little Wild”
Released today, August 21, Sweet Harmony arrives after Real Little Wild, which earned 2AP more than 50,000 streams, landed on over 3,000 playlists and picked up support from more than…
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“This Song Brought Out Everything in Me”: Ferdinand Rennie on Recording You Wrote Hallelujah
An early demo of You Wrote Hallelujah prompted Ferdinand Rennie to consider the emotional experience behind songs that remain with audiences across generations. Written by Michael Andrew Storm and Meg…
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Dolours Deliver Raw Post-Punk Devotion on ‘I Am the Dog’
The new single “I Am the Dog” by the band Dolours is worth checking out, after one listen, it’s been stuck in the head all day. “I Am the Dog”…
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Townsend Shares Warm, Heartfelt New Single ‘slipping’
Recently, one incredibly cozy track has surfaced, impossible not to share it. It’s the single “slipping” by Townsend, who plays amazing alternative. The song hits right in the heart. And,…
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ELROD Captures Raw Analog Magic on ‘I Am, I Am (Live To Tape)’
Listeners who have heard the new track “I Am, I Am (Live To Tape)” by ELROD just can’t stay quiet: this is some kind of absolutely magical indie rock. It…
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ØZWALD Release New Single “Stream of Dreams” Ahead of Eighth Studio Album
This week brought a new track worth discovering: “Stream of Dreams” by ØZWALD. Genre-wise it’s dreampop with a psych-indie texture, but the duo, it seems, managed to take it beyond…
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“The Music Is an Invitation to Slow Down, Listen and Reconnect”: Clíodhna Ní Aodáin on For the Love of Trees
Clíodhna Ní Aodáin built For the Love of Trees from a practice of carrying her cello into forests, sitting beneath individual trees and waiting for a melody to emerge through…
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The Wheel Workers Dominate with the Single “One More Thing To Say”
One incredibly deep song is worth recommending, “One More Thing To Say”. It’s a track by the band The Wheel Workers. This single became a real discovery, musically speaking. Well,…
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MACKER Releases New Tech-House Single “Set It Off”
There is a certain authority that comes from spending years on the other side of the booth, reading rooms, controlling momentum and knowing exactly when a dancefloor wants the next…
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gunshots or fireworks Return With Their Second EP “DÉSORDRE”
There’s a particular kind of desert-band restlessness running through DÉSORDRE, the second EP from Arizona’s gunshots or fireworks. All four tracks on the EP DÉSORDRE have ’90s indie-rock DNA running…
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‘Down Wit Dat (Cold Killa)’ Puts DAPS Over a Moody S.W.A.T.-Inspired Beat
There’s a certain grit that comes only from West Philly, and DAPS carries it like a second skin on his new single ‘Down Wit Dat (Cold Killa),‘ dropped August 4th…
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Dr. M. Introduces “Adult Metal” on New Album ‘Follow Me’
Okay, so somebody decided heavy metal and adult contemporary needed to get married. Weird pitch. Weirder that it kind of works. Dr. M. is 39, does everything himself: writes the…
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Bunny X Put the American Dream in a Corner Office on Love on a High Floor
Bunny X have spent over a decade treating the 1980s as a language they can continue speaking in the present, and their third album arrives at the point where fluency…
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With “Little Death,” Steady Sun Add a New Layer to Their Psychedelic Sound
Steady Sun have added another song to the collection of psychedelic music. The new track, “Little Death”, starts with light motifs, more in the spirit of Blur and Gorillaz. Slight…
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“Cold Shoulder” Sees Awake & Dreaming Go From Piano to Arena-Scale Rock
Awake & Dreaming come from Waterloo, Ontario, with Kristoff joined by guitarist Stefan Schneider, bassist Phil Lee and drummer Ryan Dugal. On “Cold Shoulder”, the four-piece work somewhere between alternative…
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Sal Weston Made an Album About Growing Up That Actually Sounds Lived-In
On Darlin’, Sal Weston gives the awkward process of growing into yourself a pulse, then lets fourteen songs test how many forms that movement can take. Love becomes tangled with…
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MILYAM Sharpens Her Atmospheric R&B Sound on “Lost In The Jungle”
MILYAM is an independent singer-songwriter with a taste for atmospheric R&B and cinematic pop. The music by MILYAM tends to centre on a smoky vocal presence, amazing arrangements and a…
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Nearly Skulls Release New Single “Wear The Scars”
“Wear The Scars” by Nearly Skulls is a pinch of melancholy that gradually turns into joy. At first glance, Nearly Skulls present a typical sound. Standard, slightly minor-key indie rock,…
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After Her Debut Album, Emilie Reid Introduces “House of the Silent”
Actress and singer Emilie Reid has presented a new song that takes us into a world of retrofuturism with a touch of pop culture. This year, Emilie Reid started with…
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MONSTA X Reveal Member-Produced Mini Album The Phase Ahead of September 4 Comeback
The album arrives during a period of extensive individual activity for the MONSTA X members. Alongside the group’s activities, the members have continued expanding their individual careers through solo and…
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