Category: More News
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Electric Violins Replace Guitars in The Violution’s Ferocious Take on Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper”
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Distorted violins where guitars should be, drums that punch through the mix with genuine intent,…
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‘Amplify’ Proves CATCH THE YOUNG Are Ready for the Next Level
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Are you looking for something new and energetic? The alternative rock single ‘Amplify’ by CATCH…
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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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On Undecided, Cam Elise Strips Everything Back and Finds More
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Somewhere around the fourth listen of Undecided, I caught myself doing something I rarely do…
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“Billie Eilish Ignored My Track” — Vegan Rapper ColdPoison Calls Out the Biggest Name in Plant-Based Pop
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ColdPoison is an independent vocalist and rapper from the vegan movement, and if you just…
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“Cherry” Signals a New Phase for Sam Plourd — and She Sounds Ready
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“Cherry” opens with an energy that feels almost confrontational for indie rock. Punk-adjacent drums shove…
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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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‘Raíz y Recuerdo’ by Jordi Forniés: Quiet, Careful, and Harder to Shake Than Expected
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I should admit something up front: I’ve been listening to Raíz y Recuerdo in a…
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“The Stories Belong to Me. The Emotions Belong to Everyone.” Laura Mazon Franqui on Making a Personal Album Public
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Classical guitar rarely becomes the occasion for a conversation about grief, identity, and the color…
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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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Tickets Are Selling Out Fast and Here’s Why Cordell Winter’s Tour Is the One Show You Can’t Miss This Year
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Cordell Winter has a story that works in his favor from the first moment you…
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Longfield & Super Skeleton Kick Off Summer With Their Most Unguarded Rock Album Yet
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Twenty-seven syllables and a comma. That is how much space the title of Longfield &…
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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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Clay Goodman — Listen To The Rain: Rain Won’t Feel Grey Ever Again After This Song
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Clay Goodman has released the single “Listen To The Rain” — a loner folk track…
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Matt DeAngelis and the Ballad That Earns Its Darkness
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Matt DeAngelis has unveiled his new single “Helpless To The Fire” — a rock ballad…
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Ava Valianti Calls Her Second EP a Failure — and Proves the Opposite Across Six Tracks
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The term “sophomore slump” has a specific history. It was coined by American journalists to…
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Robert Bridge Drops the “F!nally.” M/V — and Closes the LUV2H8U Chapter as a Blonde
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California singer, rapper, and actor Robert Bridge from Palmdale has released the music video for…
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Let’s Trip — Boundary Passage: A Way Home: Six Days on an Island. One Route Back to Yourself.
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I’ve long noticed a habit of mine: when I genuinely like an album, I put…
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Kaikuluotain’s “Step by Step”: This Is What Finland Sounds Like When It’s Not Showing Off
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Finnish acoustic duo Kaikuluotain — Jorma “Jore” Vartiainen and Marjut Salonen — release their single…
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Can One Song Change Everything? Lila Holler’s ‘Bruising’ Might Just Do That
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Songs can be different. Some are like a flash of lightning, others like a long…
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Daniella Binyamin Stuns with Raw Honesty in Her Latest Track ‘Rock n Roll’
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I want to share with you a new song performed by the singer Daniella Binyamin…
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‘Penci’ By Ryann Ross —A Track That Reshapes The Perception Of Modern Indie Pop Sound
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Today I want to introduce you to the new mysterious and light single ‘Irish Exit’…
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‘Every Kind of Way’ Proves Stephània Has One of the Most Addictive Voices in R&B
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Stephània has released the single ‘Every Kind of Way’ — and this is one of…
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Annika Catharina Finds Her Own Space in Country With ‘You and Me’
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Canadian singer Annika Catharina has released an amazing country track, ‘You and Me,’ which at…
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Alex Kilroy — “Break My Chains”: The Blues That Unchained Itself
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Blues has always been honest music. It was born on porches, in smoke-filled clubs, among…
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Kaya Q’s ‘primer amor’: The Latin Pop Ballad That Will Haunt Your Heart Forever
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The slow, romantic and dreamy ballad ‘primer amor’ by Kaya Q in the Latin Pop…
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BURN’s Chopped and Shattered Is Best Heard at Night, With Your Eyes Closed
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Trip-hop has always possessed a strange quality — it aged beautifully. Massive Attack records from…
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Alternative Heartache, Carnival Glitter, and Tarot Storms — Welcome to Howard Louis’ World
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Howard Louis from Philadelphia took everything he knows how to do — rock, alternative, pop,…
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Lawrence Kim Finally Steps Out From Behind the Curtain — And the View Is Worth the Wait
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Four decades is enough time for a musician to put out a discography the size…
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On “Rungs of Love,” Jenny Gillespie Mason Makes Stillness Feel Like Revelation
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Jenny Gillespie Mason has a rare quality: the ability to sound as though the recording…
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Michael V. Doane Breaks Silence on Years Away From Music: “I Finally Had Something to Say”
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Michael V. Doane has worked on both sides of the cultural divide — an indie…
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Dream a Little Deeper: Louis Torre Captures Something Rare on ‘where did the time go?’
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‘where did the time go?’ by Louis Torre is a bright, commercial indie pop single.…
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Unwed Sailor Return With ‘Cinnamon’ and Reaffirm Their Place at the Forefront of Indie Rock
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The band Unwed Sailor has once again delighted and surprised us with their new indie…
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Town Called Us Redefine Modern Romance With Their Stunning Debut Single ‘Better Half’
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The British duo Town Called Us delighted us with an incredibly successful debut. The song…
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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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On Still High…, Raw Soul Proves That Independence Has Its Own Kind of Gravity
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Eight tracks — and you realize someone has spent the last few years alone with…
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Alden Hellmuth Ignites Anticipation for Tether with ‘Face The Wall’
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Alden Hellmuth has presented a new single ‘Face The Wall’, and this release is also…
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Dumomi The Jig Drops ‘Time 2 Time’ and Instantly Sets the Mood
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Dumomi The Jig continues to consistently build his artistic identity, presenting the new single ‘Time…
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Orange Oak’s ‘well, well, well’: The Track You Can’t Get Out Of Your Head
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Orange Oak have released a new single ‘well, well, well’, another chapter in their carefully…
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The New Single ‘Same Shit, Different Century’ by Cyrena Wages Captures a Familiar Sense of Repetition
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Cyrena Wages once again makes people talk about herself with the single ‘Same Shit, Different…
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The Nth Power’s Never Alone Is a Jazz-Funk Album That Trusts the Listener
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The Nth Power have a habit that says a lot about this band: they release…
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Louis Emory and The Reckless Few Built The Siege to Be Lived In
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I’ve long noticed a habit of mine: whenever someone puts on a new rock record…
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“I’ve Been Using Music to Write About My Emotions Since I Was 6”: Maria Ellis on “Relapse”
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Maria Ellis grew up in a Greek Orthodox family on Long Island, writing songs before…
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“Hollywood X Vine,” Moving to the West Coast, and “April’s Fool.” A Candid Interview With Matt Nation
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Matt Nation is an independent artist from Brooklyn who at some point packed his bags…
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Paul Kahn’s Forgotten Songs Finally Found the Right Voice — Catherine Russell’s
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Songwriter Paul Kahn has released Willingness, a six-track country EP recorded with Grammy® winner Catherine…
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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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Somewhere Between Sleep and a Séance: Outsideness Drops “…From What?”
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Freidrich$ and Azalias joined forces under a shared banner — and the result buries club…
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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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Reverb as Architecture: Why Sydney J’s New Single is the Most Atmospheric Track of the Season
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Sydney J has released the single “Regulate” — a pop track with a folk undertone,…
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Field Day Review: Darren Black and Hamilton Gross Make a Case for the Stubbornness of Folk
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The “guitar plus fiddle” format has been holding its place in British folk for a…
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Dan Johnson Returns With Salt Cedar Rebels II — a Decade of Living, Compressed Into One Record
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Ten years is long enough for entire eras to rise and fall in country music.…
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Kiki Cavazos Declines the Pedestal She’s Being Offered
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American folk has always trafficked in biography as costume, and Cavazos arrives with a provenance…
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Alive Again Is the Sound of Jon Valenzuela Playing on His Own Terms — All Seven Tracks of It
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Jon Valenzuela, a guitarist from Sydney, Australia, releases his debut full-length LP Alive Again —…
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Corner in Bloom — Tiny Apartment Review: A Debut Worth Paying Attention To
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Corner in Bloom have released their new album Tiny Apartment — nine tracks built around…
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Kieran’s “Dangerous”: Where the Bassline Becomes a Pulse and the City Becomes a Character
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Night in music is almost always about contemplation. About beautiful melancholy, about solitude with a…
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“I Knew Exactly What I Was Trying to Say”: Layla Z and the Making of “Filthy Dirt”
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Layla Z is an indie rock musician from New York, a mother of two, and…
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Jake Dryzal — “Untogether”: Eight Diary Entries, One Coastline, a Folk Album That Found Its Own Shape
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Every musician has a folder. A folder that lives somewhere on a hard drive, in…
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“Flourish” by Shaina Hayes Is Four Minutes of Pure Sonic Honey and We Are Not Okay
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On “Flourish,” Shaina Hayes does what she does best — turns a quiet, intimate feeling…
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Where the Ice Gleams Like Metal: The Matthew Shadley Band’s Seventh and Most Daring Hour
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The Matthew Shadley Band have released their seventh studio album, The Great Divide — ten…
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“I Had Homesickness for a Place I Had Never Visited”: Alex Kilroy on Romania, Nashville, and Break My Chains
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Getting time with Alex Kilroy isn’t easy — not because of handlers or label gatekeeping,…
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Doug Howard on Controlled Lunacy, Swallowing Bees Onstage, and Building a Show From an ICU Bed
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Doug Howard has spent 45 years in rock ‘n’ roll — and still calls his…
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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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“I Decided to Go Through With It While Being Terrified” — Jamma on Why She Waited a Decade to Release Music
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JAMMA is an Italian in Los Angeles who spent over a decade studying, performing live,…
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Rust and Redemption: The Garage Gospel of Christo Sedgewick and The Fabulous Regrets
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Christo Sedgewick and The Fabulous Regrets have released their second album “The Lonesome Tender Hollow…
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Charlie Aky’s Perfume Regret: One Breath in an Elevator, Three Minutes of Longing, and All of 2026 in a Single Pop Release
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Charlie Aky has released a single born from one breath in an elevator. The British…
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The Sound of Sleep: Inside Venetia Nadin’s Radical Experiment in Ambient Music
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Greek artist Venetia Nadin, based in Australia, has released a new single “Submerged” — a…
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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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Saxophones, Gothic Candelabras, and a Fallen Angel: Inside Andy Smythe’s Wildest Album Yet
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Andy Smythe has released his eighth studio album, Quiet Revolution — a continuation of the…
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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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Sleeps Under Beams Fused Dreampop and Indie Rock Until Neither Could Exist Alone
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Sleeps Under Beams have released a single that begs one question: how did three people…
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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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Ava Della Pietra Knows What Happens at 3AM: An Exclusive Interview
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Most people who land on Broadway before high school end up chasing that feeling forever.…
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Leather Over Glitter: How The Del-Viles Dragged Grunge Onto the Dance Floor
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What is grunge in 2026? Something behind glass at a museum. A flannel shirt on…
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The Boy Who Wrapped Pain in Stardust: Jeremie Soyan’s Debut in Four Acts
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Rap has a visual codex: dark tones, heavy bass, leather seats, gold chains, cigar smoke,…
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On Elegy for Euria, Classical Music Finally Learns How to Grieve Like a Goth
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Think it’s impossible to create gothic hits on classical instruments? Then you haven’t yet heard…
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Deborah Silver and the Count Basie Orchestra Prove That Rock Has Always Been Jazz’s Business
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A tribute album demands a concrete answer to a concrete question: why? The anniversary of…
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Alexis Strum Is Already Writing Album Four. She Admits This Might Be Insane.
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Releasing a heartbreak single the day before Valentine’s Day is either a provocation or a…
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Léah Duque Just Made the Sweetest, Most Addictive Pop Song of February
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Léah Duque dropped a single and a video, and I genuinely don’t know how to…
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Mia Salazar Fuses Huapango Complexity With Glacial Nordic Electronics
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For Mia Salazar, Stockholm serves as a cold forge where Mexican and Andalusian roots undergo…
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The Beast Has a Name: Rage Unfold Draw First Blood With “Omen”
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Hundreds of artists convinced that volume and aggression are sufficient arguments for existence. Sometimes that’s…
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Elise Trouw Collected What Men Said to Her and Turned It Into the Best Album of Her Career
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Irony is a capricious genre. Many people know how to use it; few truly master…
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Background Noise as Protagonist: silent collision’s Air Vent Lullabies Rewrites the Rules of Ambient Inspiration
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silent collision found inspiration where most musicians never even think to look — in the…
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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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“Acoustic Is the Foundation. Electric Is the Color” — Blocks of Life Frontman Pete Wiley Breaks Down the Sound of Whisper in the Dark
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There’s a version of this story where Pete Wiley moves to a city, finds four…
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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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Vinyl Floor’s Balancing Act Asks How Far You Can Soften Rock Before It Loses Its Spine
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Rock has always been about breaking boundaries, but what happens when those boundaries begin to…
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Lily Forte On Live Recording, Shakespeare, and Why The Stage Is The Only Real Cure For Existential Emptiness
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We live in crazy times, because now more than ever the Industry demands content. Remixes,…
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Jennifer Femme Avoids Jazz Clichés, Embraces Theatricality on Private Show
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Jennifer Femme has spent years navigating jazz circles as both a vocalist and instrumentalist –…
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Fools Parade by Tambyrlane: The Debut Album From Connecticut Scene Veterans Proves That Sincerity Stand the Test Of Time
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When Mike Molina openly declares “we proudly carry the banner of rock music’s greatest era…
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Bernice Marsala Deconstructs the Ballerina Fantasy on Lush “Music Box”
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Forget the porcelain figurine and tinkling melodies you’d expect from a music box. Bernice Marsala…
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“They hope I Stay Small. That I Don’t Make Enough Noise” – ColdPoison’s Scandalous Interview on “Sung to Sleep” and the Future of Hip-Hop
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I think many will agree with me if I say that rap has now turned…
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Judith Owen: The “queen of the bitter sweet” on Finding Joy in New Orleans, Being a Front Woman, and Why Happiness Doesn’t Kill Your Muse
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Some artists spend their careers chasing happiness. Judith Owen spent hers learning how to mean…
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The Audacity of Best Actress Calling Their Album “I Know It Sounds Bad” When It’s This Good!
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Very soon, on February 13th, the new band Best Actress will release their album with…
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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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ColdPoison Takes Aim at Rampage Jackson on Confrontational New Single “Sung to Sleep”
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ColdPoison versus Rampage Jackson! Yes, you read that right — ColdPoison versus Rampage Jackson, the former UFC fighter whose media…
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Siqian Li on Her Debut Album — “There’s Still Room for Music That Invites People to Walk Through it”
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Getting in touch with Siqian Li turned out to be a quest. Between rehearsals, flights,…

