Author: Gabriel Rivera
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Layered Vocals, Danceable Beat: “Crashing With You” by Paris WYA Reviewed
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Been playing Paris WYA’s “Crashing With You” all week and it might be the most…
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Maryann Connolly’s New Single “Crashing Down” Has the Kind of Chorus That Makes an Immediate Replay Inevitable
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Maryann Connolly’s new single Crashing Down gets to its most useful part very quickly: the…
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“My Career Is Just Beginning”: Jah Decko Introduces His First English-Language Album Love Who Loves You Back
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At a certain point in a long career, experience stops being a biography and becomes…
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Sam Christian’s On My Phone Pushes Heartbreak Toward Musical Theatre and Rock-Ballad Excess
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Nineteen-year-old Kansas songwriter Sam Christian recently moved to Nashville to study at Belmont after Berklee.…
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Wild West: American Stories: Grant Maloy Smith’s Double Album Comes With Its Own History Book
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Grant Maloy Smith walks into Wild West: American Stories with eighteen songs, a hardcover companion…
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Exclusive Premiere: We Ate Alone Finds Art Schop Hiding a Confession Between Courses
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Today, Indie Boulevard premieres We Ate Alone, the first single from Art Schop’s forthcoming album…
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Can Recovery Ever Sound This Messy, Funny and Alive? Inside JOHKES’s Peace I Can’t Wake To
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The title Peace I Can’t Wake To makes a disturbing bargain before the album begins:…
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“I Generally Consider Each Album as a Single Work”: Longboat Defends the Album Format
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I have always thought the British postcode carries an unreasonable amount of social information for…
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“I Still Enjoy Being a Beginner Whenever I’m Surprised”: Sasi Shalom on Curiosity After Five Albums
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Ask Sasi Shalom what he does and prepare for a long answer. Pianist, composer, producer…
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Ari Selva & Vaynex Pack Camera di Pressione With Italian Flow and Swiss Boom-Bap Precision
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Before Camera di Pressione, Italian rapper Ari Selva and Swiss producer Vaynex had already tested…
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“Adam and I spent a lot of time trading reference tracks” — Inside the Making of Alight by The Sympathy of All Things
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Dominic Parker (mastermind behind The Sympathy of All Things) has a theory about love: that…
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New Single “Alight” Finds The Sympathy Of All Things at the Edge of Tears
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“Alight” is acoustic folk pretending to be psychedelia, and the disguise keeps slipping at exactly…
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Son Tensei Confronts Corporate Speed and Digital Pressure on Virtual Island
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Christopher R. Kramer spent fifteen years producing as half of Son Tensei before placing his…
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Punk, Folk and Private Damage Collide Across Bellends’ Rowdy New Album So It Goes
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Bad weeks, late nights and one final attempt to get your life together all fit…
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Jon-Olov Woxlin Turns Stubborn Habits Into Country Gold on The Mountains of My Home
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By album eleven, I expect either immaculate self-knowledge or a spectacularly stubborn set of habits.…
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Paul Stone & The Basement Collective: “We All Have Input to Create That Human Vibe”
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Paul Stone has built his musical life around patience, close relationships and work that carries…
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Anemones For Aphrodite Has Funk, Fog and Several Giraffes Sudden Merganzer Still Need to Explain
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I called Anemones For Aphrodite eighties cosplay during its opening minute and had to withdraw…
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The Beautifully Messy Ambition Behind Rupit’s Debut Album NEU
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Rupit enters public view carrying an entire mythology, with Bernardo van Bemmelen presenting music, fiction,…
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Tara Craig Doesn’t Pick Between New Romance and World-Weariness. She Just Writes Both.
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Six songs is not a lot of real estate to cover new love, self-preservation, getting…
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Just Ask Wyn by Wilson Wyn: A Three-Act Digital Soul Story for the Algorithmic Age
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Most music now reaches the listener through a screen that rewards speed. A title appears,…
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The Best Moment on Floyds Row’s The Carlisle Sessions Caught Me Off Guard
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George Washington danced to the song that opens this record. I have every reason to…
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Merchant Seaman, Rapper, Filmmaker: Sk8tie Is Building Something Bigger Than a Single
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The streets where Khiry Bivins grew up carry names like Pinocchio, Tinkerbell, and Goldilocks. He…
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Miist: “I Couldn’t Convince Myself That Anything I Would Write Would Be Good Enough”
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Miist was 34, working as a bookkeeper, when a friend kept insisting she could write…
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Six Friends From Missouri, One Promise: Amenazar’s “Here For You”
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The promise to stay. As song material, it’s among the riskiest things a band can…
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Simon Talbot’s Compendium Is Heavier and Sharper Than Anything He’s Made Before
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Thirty-three albums. I want to stay with that number for a second before talking about…
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“I Don’t Know That I’m Capable of Being Inauthentic” — Bernie Sirelson on Staying True to Sound Over Strategy
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Some artists chase relevance. Bernie Sirelson chases something else entirely — a 22-minute track named…
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San Antonio’s Jet Lag Motel Debuts With Self-Produced No Vacancy, Bigger Plans Already on the Way
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San Antonio has been quietly building a rock scene that runs on its own energy.…
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Kayze’s Renaissance Wraps Its Sharpest Ideas in Glitter
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The first thirty seconds of “Demons” glitter. Wide-screen synths, a stereo field that seems to…
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Victoria George Came Back From the Hardest Year of Her Life and Made Her Loosest Record
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Albums born from real suffering have a reliable instinct: open with the suffering. They front-load…
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“I Have to Approach Improvisation NOT as a Jazz Player” — Steve Wilson on the Billy Childs Concerto That Changed How He Hears Himself
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There are musicians who chase the spotlight, and there are musicians the spotlight has to…
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Shell Games’ “It’s Been a Blast” Gets Stuck in Your Head Before You Even Make Up Your Mind
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Most pop-rock tracks live or die on the hook. “It’s Been a Blast” lives on…
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Chris Roach’s Only the Night: The Darkest Thing to Come Out of Nashville This Year
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“Dark-fantasy noir anthem” is the kind of genre tag that should collapse under its own…
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Peruvian Rock Rarely Sounds This Bold: B’RESHITH’s Gemido de Hoguera Reviewed
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I have a theory — unproven, possibly stupid — that the best rock albums from…
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Bryan Halo Drops New Single “Throw It Around”, a Y2K Electronic Track Built on Analog Warmth
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Bryan Halo, an independent Filipino musician, songwriter, and producer working out of Manila since 2018,…
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“Reality” Is Where Simon Called Peter III Finally Shows Its Hand
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Simon Called Peter III came out on May 1st, but Simon Talbot and Peter Toussaint…
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The Twelve Acts of The Hensyn Night Blues: D.O.C.C Music Find Magic in Structure
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D.O.C.C Music have released The Hensyn Night Blues (An Audio Drama Written By Carlos A.…
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“Muscle Memory Is a Myth”: Pete Cater on What It Really Means to Play in the Moment
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Born in Staffordshire in 1963, he was drawn into jazz almost before he could walk,…
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Bernice Marsala and Charles Connolly Lock In on “Crazy One”
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Bernice Marsala, a multiple award-winning singer-songwriter out of Nashville, Tennessee, has dropped a fresh single…
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Mystic Meets Muse: Gerry Morgan’s Sensual Eastern Fairy Tale That Will Steal Your Heart
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You know dreams aren’t useless, that they can give you more than they appear to…
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Matt Hansen — ‘Orchid’: A Debut Album That Risks Being Too Honest
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Matt Hansen, a twenty-five-year-old from Los Angeles with a billion streams behind him and no…
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“Somebody’s Maybe” by Aleeda Blu Is an All-or-Nothing Bet You Want to Lose
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I turned on “Somebody’s Maybe“ with the lazy expectation of yet another cosmic façade, and…
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PREMIERE! “Waking Up Dead” — Jim Stanard Reimagines Love’s Final Moment with Crystal Gayle
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Premiere on Indie Boulevard! A single from his third album, Magical (digital release — May…
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Pete Scales: The Bluesman Who Filed His Entire Career Under One Shade of Blue
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Pete Scales spent half a century playing blues, jazz, and country, balancing on the borders…
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Jada Di’Larosa Made an Album That Smells Like Black Lipstick and Tastes Like Bourbon
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Jada Di’Larosa turned a vanity table into a stage and a sleepless night into a…
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Legend Is Back! Jernej Zoran’s Eighth Album Proves Patience Is the Ultimate Rock Virtue
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An eighth album is a strange point in a career. The first is a debut.…
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Izzy Skinner’s Chapter Six: The Art Pop EP Where Violin Finally Takes the Lead
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Izzy Skinner has released Chapter Six — a five-track art pop EP built around violin,…
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Guitars with the Density of a Well-Tailored Suit: By Million Wires Master the Slow Flex
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Geography in indie rock long ago lost its status as a mandatory parameter. A genre…
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Sixteen Doors Into the Neon Abyss: MOMARZ Builds a Full-Length Universe Where Most Artists Stop at the Doorway
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Most synthwave albums hold that geometry for five or six tracks before they start repeating…
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Red Desert, Cosmic Spacecraft, and a Scoreboard Frozen Mid-Match: Welcome to “Bald Chewbacca at the World Cup”
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Bald Chewbacca has released “Bald Chewbacca at the World Cup“ — an experimental album in…
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After a Long Silence, Adrienne Leska Returns — With a Swing-Folk Love Letter to Her 92-Year-Old Grandfather
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Songs about loved ones are the riskiest genre in music. And risky for a reason…
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DJOUHER, “I Killed Her”: The Title Promised a Thriller. The Music Delivered a Sunrise.
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Provocation in a track title is one of the oldest marketing tricks in pop music.…
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On Whispered Awakening, Tomas Rodriguez Proves That One Guitar Can Hold an Entire World
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Whispered Awakening is the fourth album from Tomas Rodriguez, a Brooklyn-based guitarist with Spanish roots…
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Northern Lights Meet an English Orchard: O.a.G.’s New Single Is Pure Frozen Magic
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O.a.G. have released their single “Tomorrow“ — and synthpop has a new address: somewhere between…
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Van Jams Vol. 1: The Hooten Hallers Return With Their Seventh Full-Length
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Country rock is a genre that knows too much about itself. It remembers its roots…
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PostOmnis feat. Talios Wing: The Single Where Dark Synthwave Finally Grew a Spine
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PostOmnis builds his sound on what most producers treat as decoration. His signature graves —…
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Friday the 13th Just Got Its Own Soundtrack: Maria Lane — “6 Feet Deep” Review
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Friday the 13th. A new single. Darkness that begins with sunlight. Maria Lane released a…
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“These Times Take Things” by Mission From Dog: Why This Self-Released Album Deserves Your Attention in March 2026
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Mission From Dog (Casey Hess) belongs to that breed of musicians the industry only remembers…
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The Fine Chairs Found the Soft Nerve Inside Garage Rock’s Leather Armor
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Rock has always divided men into those who wear leather and those who deserve it.…
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In the Room Where Knowing Ends: Zenekar’s Dialogue Between Intellect and Instinct
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There is an old argument about what happens to a musician who knows too much.…
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The Crown of Creation vs. The Regulatory Problem: ai12die Flips the Bible and Makes It Groove
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Humanity has spent millennia doing the same thing: recording itself. Hieroglyphs, manuscripts, novels, tweets —…
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Who Is The Ingrid? Three Lockdown Dreamers Who Decided to Ask the Uncomfortable Questions
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They named the band after someone who belongs to everyone and no one at the…
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Chamber Jazz at Its Most Honest: MAJA JAKU’s Blessed & Bewitched Earns Every Minute of Your Patience
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Jazz criticism has long developed a convenient way of talking about vocal albums — and…
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Broke Royals on Campr, Restraint, and Why the Loudest Are the Least Confident
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The new album by Broke Royals titled Campr came out in early 2025 and truly…
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EP 5: Rayhan Proves Toronto Rap Can Sound Like Anything If You’re Honest Enough
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Rayhan Jabbar sold drugs to pay for acting classes. It’s a detail so cinematic it…
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The Rare Concept Album You’ll Actually Want to Replay: King Rooster’s Royal Decree
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A conceptual hip-hop album about power and the collapse of systems sounds ambitious, but King…
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Matt DeAngelis’ “In This World” Is Defiantly Out of Time—And Asks If a Good Melody Can Outlast the Moment
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When Coldplay released “Clocks” in 2002, piano in rock became legitimate. By 2008, every other…
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Hard To Be Human: Jacob Tell’s Voice Balances Ice and Volcano Across Blues Confessional
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Jacob Tell arrives with a peculiar premise: an entire album addressed to a single, unnamed…
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Casting Assistant: Trans-Atlantic Bedroom Pop Project Revives Slacker-Era Warmth
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Oliver Hill from Birmingham launched Casting Assistant in November 2025 at a moment when indie guitar music was…
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Mt. Gribley Chronicles Three Years of Solo Parenting and Transatlantic Distance on Moss on the Stone
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Matt Jarrett, who records folk under the name Mt. Gribley, spent three years suspended between…
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Transitions by Tony – Grunge Meets Carnival Under the Northern Lights
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Therapists know things about the subconscious that others are even afraid to think about. Anthony…
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The Real Deal by The Noah Peterson Soul-Tet: A Love Letter to Blue Note That Never Left Texas
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Municipal arts funding in America is typically associated with experimental performances nobody voluntarily watches, or…
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JD Kucharik: Ease On Thru – Five Decades of Blues-Rock Mastery
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Blues-rock faded from the mainstream around 1974, enjoyed a brief revival in the nineties thanks…
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fhae: life in cycle Review: Ambient Music for Accepting Change
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The experimental ambient-folk project fhae, created by Ellena Ramsay and based in Meanjin, combines ethereal,…
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‘We’ll Be’: Tom Prowse Merges Radio-Wave Textures and Afro Hip-Hop Rhythms Into a Mantra For Our Time
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Tom Prowse music belongs to those musicians who prefer to ignore local heritage and construct…
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Summer Colds Makes Grunge Sound Hopeful on the New Album Missing Out
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Nic McNamara’s father’s Johannesburg studio became his first musical education. Lucky Dube recorded there, Ladysmith…
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The Songs We Leave Behind: Jeff Thomas’s Final Gift to the World
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Fifteen years between albums is an entire era. Children grow up, cities change, people pass…
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The Dangerous, Unpredictable Electronic Music Returns: ShiShi’s Blood Tape Reviewed
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You know how the otherworldly is closer than it seems? And how music can convey…
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CO-ED DORMS: Post-Punk Dressed in Formal Wear, Then Dragged Through Broken Glass
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Violin occupies rare air in rock music. Warren Ellis turned his bow into prophecy with…
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AMERICAN DREAMERS, Vol. 3: Carver Jones Concludes His Trilogy With More Questions Than Answers
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The romance of abandoning stability for art continues to work as a narrative, although in…
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A Voice That Knows How to Hold Loss and Light at Once: Inside Marilyn Hucek’s Debut Album
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Marilyn Hucek feels. You can hear it from the first bars, though you understand it…
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Artillery Saints Craft the Coldest Music Industry Satire of the Streaming Era
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Artillery Saints’ aka Ally McKenzie,”Control & The Cousins” sits in a lineage that includes The…
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Shell Games Reject Revenge on Tense New Single “Let Me Have It”
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What do you do if you can’t leave a toxic, difficult person? Some will suggest…
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EXCLUSIVE: Precious Pepala Making Jealousy Sound This Good Should Be Illegal! Discussing the New Single “Dream Cheater”
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Betrayal in a dream? That specific kind of deception that happens behind closed eyelids, in…
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Odhran Murphy Brings Country Music Home to Its Celtic Roots on “Dance To You All Night”
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Ireland, with its emerald valleys and ancient stone walls, has always spoken its own musical…
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The Hype Machine: Grammar Tha God’s ‘RIDER’ and the Art of Anticipation
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Grammar Tha God knows how to keep an audience on the hook. Each of his…
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Me Then You: Ehson Hashemian Makes the Case That Love Conquers All, One Track at a Time
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What do you do when the world is falling apart? This question has been asked…
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Last Relapse: The Return of Psychedelic Trailblazers
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I remember how in the mid-2000s we all lived in some kind of intoxicating state…
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Firerose Returns From Hell With New Vocal Range on “Shining Armor (Rise Again)”
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Firerose‘s story fits into a Hollywood drama with a countdown: a girl from Sydney who…
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Modest Tyler Explodes Genre Boundaries on “Okay(K) Presents: Modest Tyler”
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Words possess power. They can kill, they can resurrect, they can create a legend out…
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“Provocation Is Just Another Way of Asking Our Listeners to Pay Attention” — ShitNoise: Unmasking Experimental Rock
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The French troublemakers’ fourth album is a genre-bending statement. Frontman Aleksejs Macions explains why they’re…
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The Story Behind ‘Next’: How Ali and the Wild Geese Turned Crisis Into Art
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Tragedy in life is a kind of threshold or boundary where life divides into before…
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2ŁØT Recast Their Entropy as Euphoria on The Albert Harvey Mix
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2ŁØT with their new EP “The Albert Harvey Mix” in which the absolute don of…
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Neil Potter Emerges From Decades in the Shadows With a Debut Worth the Wait
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It is no secret that the creative path represents an extended odyssey through territories of…
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Experience The Gothic Ritual Touch Of Scandinavian Aesthetics With The Second Album “Being Human” By Killing Kind
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There exist moments in history when geographic identity and global turbulence merge into a single…
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Grace de Gier’s “Done” Is the Sound of Burnt-Out Millennials Fighting Back
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When your body craves a bright, energizing drink, it somehow always turns out to be…
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Percheye: The Sofa as a Metaphor for Transformation — “Music Didn’t Kill My Shyness — It Just Taught Me How To Live With It”
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Paris-based musician Tristan Rolland, frontman of the band Percheye, assembled a full band and released…
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Percheye Turns the Therapist’s Couch Into an Altar on SOFA
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There’s something almost comical about how we romanticize bedroom pop. We call it “intimate,” “honest,”…
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Sybax: “We Don’t Identify With This Logic” The Caen Duo Talk Canceled Gigs, Buried EPs, and Why Their 22-Minute Track Isn’t For TikTok
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When French post-rock duo Sybax name their songs after English towns—Bolton, Poole, Fareham—it’s not wanderlust.…
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Paul Nourigat: Curious Directions Album Review: Late-Blooming Wisdom Takes Center Stage
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Life always offers choices. Therefore, a person can always decide for themselves: to forgive or…
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The Wait Is Over! Color Theory Releases ‘This Bright Circumstance’: 12 Tracks Against Anxiety, Recorded from a Couch
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The bedroom producer transforms personal trauma into a groovebox-powered meditation manual, offering solace through retro-futuristic…

