Category: Album
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The Debut Album by Heisenberg Principle “Icarus” Is Here! I’ve Been Listening To It Non-Stop, and I Have a Lot To Say!
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I think you’re familiar with the feeling when you’ve been following a musician for a…
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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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Thirteen Fragments, One Paradox: Deconstructing The Beginning of Eternity by Archangel One
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Archangel One exists in the musical space as a phantom—a figure devoid of biography, media…
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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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One Song at a Time: Gregory McLoughlin and the Radical Act of Human Contact
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Do you feel a certain irony in the fact that a musician who spent years…
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Phantom Pat Maps the Many Faces of Night Across 11 Cinematic Tracks
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You know how all the facets of night can easily unfold across 11 tracks? That’s…
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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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Between the Highway and the Stars: Trans Atlantic J. and the New Coordinates of Sound
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Psychedelic rock has long ceased to be a monolithic genre. For decades, musicians have been…
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Bailey Grey Bet Everything on Authenticity—And Won! Love It All Shows Why That Matters
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In the career of any musician, there comes a moment when one must choose between…
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Jon-Olov Woxlin’s One-way Ticket from Earth: A Scandinavian Kitchen Becomes Hallowed Country Ground
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When a Swedish musician sits down to record American country music in his own kitchen…
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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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Jung Stratmann Quartet Finally Recorded What They’ve Been Playing for Years: In-Depth Review of the New Album
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When Sujae Jung and Wolf Robert Stratmann were studying at The New School in Manhattan,…
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Three Years in the Making, Lunar Lock’s Debut Shows a Band Learning to Question Its Influences
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Cold wave in 2025 exists in a strange temporal paradox. A genre born in the…
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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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Drowning in Reverb: Steven Bonaventure’s ‘Delirium’ and the Aesthetics of Fog
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An EP of four tracks – a format Steven Bonaventure approached deliberately while recording Delirium…
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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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Future Analog Spins the Disco Ball Into 2025 on Hope, Vol. 2
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Paul Aston, working under the pseudonym Future Analog, belongs to a generation of musicians for…
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On Debut ICHI, UZU Delivers Hard Rock as Liturgy for a Blackened Sun
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Rock music has long exhausted its vocabulary of revelations, truly. Every attempt to invoke the…
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Shani Weiss – All About Life: An Intimate Examination of Human Relationships at the Crossroads of Confession and Artistic Statement
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Turning forty is a strange threshold for a musician. Too early for summative statements, too…
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ØRBITA: Gravity Review: A Flawless Trip to a Future That Already Happened
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Balinese palms bow under the weight of invisible waves. Frangipani exudes a fragrance impossible to…
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On 21 grammi, Giuseppe Cucè Measures the Immeasurable Weight of the Soul
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There’s an old legend born from Duncan MacDougall’s 1907 experiment: the soul weighs 21 grams.…
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Nada UV: Vaporwave and Alien Vintage Without the Irony
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No one has yet learned to play with music, turning it inside out, the way…
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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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Defiance and Avant-Garde in Pop Music: A Sound Revolution with Marina Laduda’s Debut Album ‘Hot Mess’
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Twenty years old—an age when identity becomes a battlefield. When every decision feels final, emotions—well,…
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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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Got a Vinyl From Dar Stellabotta Directly, and It’s the First Time I’ve Heard a Cigar Box Guitar Sound This Good
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There’s a paradox in how we consume music today. Spotify’s algorithms analyze our preferences down…
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Simon Talbot and Peter Toussaint’s Simon Called Peter II: Layered, Improvised, and Unapologetically Excessive
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Simon Talbot & Peter Toussaint returns with Simon Called Peter II—a sequel to the original…
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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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A Groundbreaking AI Remake of the Debut Album ‘American Split’ by Eddie Sing & The 31 Days Changes the Game’s Rules
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Two years later, musician Eddie Sing & The 31 Days returns with a remake of…
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Lux Griffith Is Creating Flowers on Scars—And Monsters Kinder Than People
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Cinema exists at the border between illusion and reality, and the best films know how…
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Erik Flaa Recorded Where ABBA Made Joy—He Brought the Opposite: Inside the Fog-Soaked Revelation of ‘What Is Not’
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When a musician disappears for seventeen years, either they’ve left the stage permanently, or they’re…
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The Irish Lassies Chart a Course Between Two Worlds on Immigration Stories
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Despite being together for just three years, The Irish Lassies have made a meteoric rise…
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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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Ava Valianti Is 16 and Already Better at Honesty Than Most of Your Favorite Artists
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Adolescent life remains one of the central themes of art—relevant, eternal, inexhaustible. The reason lies…
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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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Act of Self-Rescue and the Poetry of the Soul In Marlene Oak’s New Album ‘Welcome to Oak Land’
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The line between artistic catharsis and emotional dissolution has always been gossamer-thin. I have often…
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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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On Searching/Finding, Sloe Paul Proves Vulnerability Is the Highest Form of Courage
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Nineteenth-century Romantics transformed autumn into an aesthetic object worthy of philosophical contemplation. Kerouac sought eternal…
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Why Andreas Wolff Waited Six Years to Release His Most Vulnerable Work
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The journey as a metaphor for transformation has long been embedded in cultural discourse, yet…
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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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Tavia Rhodes Waited Years to Make Her Debut! ‘HER SAY’ Sounds Like She’s Been Holding This In Forever
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A Seattle singer releases her debut album that transforms personal pain into a universal anthem…
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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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Kitty Coen’s ‘Conversations with the Moon’ Reclaims the Night as Creative Sanctuary
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Night arrives as a portal. Within its boundaries, inspiration crystallizes into worlds when reality becomes…
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The Art of Restraint: Rob Hao’s Palimpsest Recontextualizes Tradition Without Disruption
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An Australian pianist creates a temporal collage where Schubert meets contemporary minimalists, and the Romantic…
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Terra Renae Goes Unplugged and Takes It Back to Basics on All I Have (Acoustic Sessions)
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Fate moves along unpredictable trajectories, especially when it comes to calling. Terra Renae knows this…
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HIRIE’s Phases Proves She’s Contemporary Reggae’s Most Essential Voice
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Motherhood reshapes everything it touches—the body, the psyche, the perception of time itself. On Phases,…
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Maria Lane’s Kiss Me, I’m Haunted: Dark Pop That Breathes in Shadows and Desire
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Maria Lane returns with her sophomore album Kiss Me, I’m Haunted—ten tracks that paint an…
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On ‘Feeling Good,’ Sunny Luwe Discovers Freedom in Perpetual Reinvention
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Can a song or simple melody without lyrics change people’s minds? Unlikely. Yet when a…
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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…
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Human Creativity Collides With The Digital Frontier On Fondly Kip’s New Album ‘The Velvet Way Home’
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Humanity evolves, and musicians’ creativity finds new paths of self-expression. In this sense, the phenomenon…
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On Prospect Gallery, Morning Wars Trade Ambition for Precision: Album Review
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Music remains one of the most malleable art forms, a medium where the collective anxieties…
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Zack King’s Songs I Wrote Instead of Texting You: Twelve Tracks of Rebellion and Relentless Forward Motion
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When Zack King abandoned his former life for Los Angeles, he carried with him the…
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This Ain’t Real, but It Feels Essential: HalfCutLemon’s Radical New Chapter
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HalfCutLemon are back. After a period of silence, the Danish experimentalists arrive with the album…
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Allow Yourself to Hear the Voice of Art: How Elise Trouw’s Satirical Single “All You Need Is Lust” Unveils the Mysteries of the Upcoming Album
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How often do you encounter satire and irony in commercial pop music? It’s a fascinating…
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DF Tram’s “Bittersweet Afternoon” Is a Pandemic Artifact That Refuses to Acknowledge Its Own Darkness
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When a musician takes on a new project, only a general direction opens before them—a…
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Adam Camm “EP2” Review: The Art of Remembering Without Regret
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Creativity is born in a collective. It absorbs the scents of childhood, the voices of…
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Against the Algorithm of Productivity: Chris Lafe King Stages a Beautiful Uprising on His Debut
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The relentless pursuit of high work efficiency represents one of the defining scourges of modern…
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Aura Noctis Dismantle the Barrier Between “Serious Music” and “Music That Actually Matters” on Their Most Uncompromising Statement Yet
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A decade of a musical career rarely ends with an uplifting documentary testimony. Even more…
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The Cinematic Sound of Sex, Freedom, and Real Madrid in EME’s Debut Album ‘gangster‑ish’
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Music often becomes the truest medium for revealing what’s hidden deep inside the soul and…
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Love Ghost Explores The Architecture Of Pain In The New Album ‘Gas Mask Wedding’
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Love has fueled creative work for centuries. But lately, something’s shifted. Artists across every medium…
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Dan Rose’s Voice Carries Grit, Heart, and Urgency Across “To The Bitter End”
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Dan Rose’s origin story sounds almost perversely backwards: he wrote lyrics before he learned to…
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New LP ‘Apostles of the Flesh’ by -ii- Is a Cinematic Seduction of Darkness, Desire, and Spiritual Depth
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Music is immense in its manifestations and in the way it influences imagination, atmosphere, and…
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Tara Craig & Goodbye, Beautiful: Two Songs, Two Organizations, One Fight
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Opposing emotional states have always been fertile ground for artists—joy and sorrow, love and hate—the…
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‘METRO9’ by Case Trick Is a Soundtrack That Thinks Like a Novel, Breathes Like a Film
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Film soundtracks have always been a crucial part of the art form: they shape atmosphere,…
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Vinyl, Mutation, and Memory: Inside Chris Portka’s Expansive New Record
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This vinyl showed up in my mailbox straight from Chris Portka himself, and that’s the…
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SOZI Explores the Cost of Stardom on Deceptively Bright ‘Dream’ EP
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SOZI grew up in a household filled with music. She and her sister spent their…
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Ten Years Later, Kim Edwards’ “Vignettes” Justifies Every Month of Its Meticulous Creation
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Time works better for Kim Edwards than it does for most artists. She spent ten…
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Pateka’s Triumphant Return: Childhood Mates Prove That the Best Art Emerges From Life’s Darkest Moments
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Grief hits differently when you’re a musician. It becomes this raw, unfiltered energy source that…
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Jordan Corey: “The Tunnel + the Light” Is Functional Art for Impossible Times
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“The Tunnel + the Light” was created during the most difficult period of Jordan Corey’s…
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Stefan Lovin’s Traditional Romanian Songs (Live): A Haunting Bridge Between Ages and Aches
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Classical works are an inexhaustible source of creativity in any direction. When used properly, even…
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Side Project Skip Proves Retirement Can Be Revolutionary on the Uneven but Passionate ‘The Friday Night Detour’
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You’ve put in the work, paid your dues, and now it’s time to chase those…
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What Does Magic Sound Like? Shugorei’s Memories of Magic—魔法の記憶—Mahō no Kioku Weaves East and West with Invisible Mystical Threads
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Music can be born out of completely unexpected fusions of cultures and the energy of…
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Noise, Drone, and Dictators: On TWIN, Sybax Stretch the Edges of Sound Until Genre Breaks
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When describing certain music bands, we are always inclined to attach a kind of label:…
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River Westin: Saturnine Review – When Visual Artists Turn to Music, Magic Sometimes Happens
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I’ve become convinced time and again that there is creativity that stands above time and…
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Dewey Kincade & The Navigators Channels Parental Exhaustion Into Career-Best “The Dark Ages”
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Career or happy family life? Any answer is a kind of loss. And, unfortunately, such…
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‘Tidal Wave’ Finds Jaden Sade Swimming Upstream Against His Own Melancholia
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Sometimes it happens that art is created not for outsiders’ eyes, but primarily for oneself.…
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Frank Hannon’s Reflections: Music Born in an Attic, Forged by Life’s Storms
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As sad as it may sound, it’s often life’s losses and hardships that allow a…
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Why Samer Fanek’s New Album Is The Antidepressant Of The New Generation
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What can simultaneously convey or create emotions and make one contemplate what’s happening in the…
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When Vinyl Restores Music’s Soul: Bad Self Portraits and Their Confessional ‘I Think I’m Going to Hell’
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I’m sitting here with this record in my hands, tilting it towards the light, staring…
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Mia Delamar’s Debut Is What Happens When Someone Finally Tells the Truth
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Where can you more fully and accurately convey your feelings, thoughts, and hopes from love?…
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Persistence, Obsession, and a Star-Studded Orchestra: Kent Parker’s Instrumental World of The Way
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You can conquer new heights in the realm of creativity at any age! Talent and…
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Aaron Amir Takes Risks on ‘AMIR’ and Delivers His Most Personal Work Yet
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Standing out on stage through one’s talent, and even more so in pop music, is…
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Broken Friendships and Quiet Melodies Collide in Ray Curenton’s ‘Ripples of the Past’
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Artists create for all sorts of reasons: some see it as their only form of…
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Songs That Breathe: How Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus’ “Two True Loves” Mirrors Human Experience
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Transforming ordinary stories that happen to every person in daily life into profound tales full…
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When Spanish Guitar Meets German Precision: Guitarra de Aventura’s El Silencio Interior Review
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What gives us the quickest reason to live, to move forward, and to achieve something…
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Garreson’s ‘Monte’ Honors Grandpa’s Legacy with Unfiltered Emotion and Twang
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What does a person experience after the death of someone who once guided them into…
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How One Daredevil Broke Every Musical Rule to Create a Genuine Treasure – Shu Lee “Fusion of Colours” Review
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Where do the strictest rules and norms exist? As ironic as it may sound, it…
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Mukura’s “Onward and Backward”: The Black Pearl That Bridges Ancient India and Modern Electropop
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The most challenging aspect of creativity is utilising folk motifs! It’s so easy to make…
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The Sympathy Of All Things’ “Amargi”: This Is What Happens When Grief Gets a Guitar
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The Sympathy Of All Things is a well-known musical project from Lancaster, a city in…
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Marina Elezovic – ‘Mixtapes’ Review: Intimacy and Expansiveness In Perfect Balance
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Marina Elezovic is an artist shaped by two worlds. Canada left her with a sense…
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Meet Del Roscoe, This Year’s Most Unexpected Musical Discovery
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Gothic indie Americana? That’s the question Del Roscoe poses with their self-titled debut, and honestly,…
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FEVER by The Imaginaries Makes You Believe in American music again
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The Oklahoma-based duo The Imaginaries (Maggie McClure and Shane Henry) have released their new studio…
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Robert Jon & The Wreck Drop Explosive New Album ‘Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes’ The Southern Rock Masterclass of 2025
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The ninth album by Robert Jon & The Wreck, ‘Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes,‘ is a…
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Freidrich$ and the Secret Garden of ‘Wish’ — What’s Waiting Inside?
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Finding the album ‘Wish’ by Freidrich$ is like stumbling upon a secret garden right in…
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New Artist Spotlight: Benjamin Steer and the Magic of ‘Figuring It Out’
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I love those moments when music finds you exactly when you need it most. That’s…
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Apres Pompeii Unleashes New Album ‘PAINT’ and It’s Dangerously Addictive
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These days, the music world — industry, business, call it whatever you like — streaming…
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Mexican Rock Quartet Captain Mantis Channel Monterrey Heat Into ‘Vice Market’
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Do you ever have those moments when you press “play” and the universe around you…
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Who Is Maddison Kate? Her Story and the Complete Guide to Her Debut EP ‘What I’d Say To You’
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Each of us has a whole archive of unspoken words. Entire dialogues, monologues, and passionate…
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Why Meena’s Debut Album ‘Different Now’ Is a Portal Into a New Manchester
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Today I’m clearing my schedule. Notifications off, the strongest tea brewing, because I already know…

