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MOMARZ Brings the ’90s Dance Floor Back with THE NEW MAINSTREAM
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MOMARZ returns with his album, THE NEW MAINSTREAM a fourteen-track record arriving on December 4…
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“Life Happens, and When It Does, It Brings Its Songs to Us”: Ivy Flindt Introduce Sphinx
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Calling a pop record Sphinx invites trouble before anyone hears a note. The word arrives…
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Thirty Years Together Pays Off on Ned Farr & The Good Red Road’s Ruminations
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Ned Farr & The Good Red Road is a New York band that has played…
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Rose Franco’s Margaret Theresa Is the Mother-Daughter Pop Song I Actually Wanted to Replay
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Rose Franco has a new single called Margaret Theresa, written about her mother, and the…
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2ŁØT’s RE/SOLVE Is a Rave Having an Existential Crisis
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After two full plays of RE/SOLVE, I gave up trying to sort 2ŁØT into a…
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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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Val Made Heartbreak Sound Dangerously Polite on embers
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Val’s second album, embers, gives the Chilean singer-songwriter ten songs to answer a difficult question:…
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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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Reggie Pryor and Jeremy Monteiro Bring Two Generations of Singapore Jazz Into Close Conversation
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Indonesian-born, Singapore-based vocalist Reggie Pryor returns with his second full-length project six years after Love…
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“These Songs Were Meant to Be Together”: YASMINA KAÏNA on Shaping the Final Tracklist of BITTERSWEET
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Pop has always preferred its lovers decisive: they fall hard, leave dramatically, block the number…
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After the Crowd, Before the Next Town: Finn Pearson in Transit
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An EP called Rush Hour at The Servo begins with a joke about scale, reducing…
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Beyond the Bright Lights: How Jimi Young’s Michigan Roots Shape His Raw Sound
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Jimi Young composes country music in Michigan, a long way from the usual area associated…
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What Happens When Simon Talbot Meets RG Williamson? Collaborate Gets Loud
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By the time the guitars have fully taken over Collaborate, the album has already established…
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Easy Is Anything But: Irina Imme Unleashes Her Heaviest Side
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More than 300 songs is a ridiculous amount of material for any songwriter to have…
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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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Is MONNE’s Jack in the Box the Strangest Pop Song You Will Remember All Week?
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MONNE’s Jack in the Box occupies an awkward and unusually productive space between art-pop eccentricity…
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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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Too Close by Elephant Captures the Moment Tenderness Becomes Damage
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Across several releases as Elephant, Dundalk multi-instrumentalist Shane Clarke has treated genre as movable territory,…
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Alvie & the Breakfast Pigs Reach the End of Their Patience on the Ferocious We Want Change
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Everything in We Want Change depends on its plural voice, which turns private grief into…
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What Would Aliens Think of Humanity? Fella Cederbaum Searches for Answers on Aliens Are Watching
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On her third poetry album, Fella Cederbaum gives extraterrestrials the best seat in the house…
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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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“The Music Is Almost a Private Language Between Them”: F M Wilson Introduces the Friendship at the Heart of Facing the Music
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The 1913 C. Bechstein grand piano in F M Wilson’s Dorset home predates the opening…
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‘Ars Erotica: Volume I’ Review: -ii- Build a Whole Religion Around Desire
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Three songs into Ars Erotica: Volume I, I had heard sin, saints, leather, pearls, group…
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Psychedelic House with Balkan Nerve: Paradiso by Mèraque
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Amsterdam-based collective Mèraque grew from the shared fascination of percussionist and sound artist Jorick Bronius…
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Jérémie Soyan’s “Boys Gone Wild” Review: Emotional Wreckage on the Dance Floor
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The party in Boys Gone Wild already has emotional wreckage on the floor. Jérémie Croisic,…
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scared’s ‘Sorry (I Get It)’ Leaves the Summer With One Final Eye-Roll
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‘Sorry (I Get It)’ has the grin of a comeback that arrives once the romance…
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ViVii Find a Reason to Dance Through the End on “Temporary”
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ViVii have always understood that dream-pop works best when beauty carries a little danger. On…
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My Favourite Song on Acacia Grace’s Moonchild Became Obvious Before I Had a Critical Reason
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Acacia Grace, an independent singer-songwriter working across neo-soul, R&B and jazz, spends her second album…
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“We Are Absolutely Allowed to Be Sensual”: Acacia Grace on Intimacy at Almost 50
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Listening to Moonchild, one word keeps returning: permission. Acacia Grace gives herself room to occupy…
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September Can Wait: Venus Niebres Taylor Keeps Summer Moving on New Single Falling For A Latino Love
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September has started inching toward shorter evenings, and I am already resisting the annual migration…
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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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First Flight by Jazz Veteran Judi Silvano: Free Improvisation, Bassoon and 33 Minutes of Beautiful Friction
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Three minutes into First Flight, I had already moved through curiosity, irritation, laughter and surrender.…
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Selkie Waits Until the Final Track to Give inWaves a Body
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Beginning before language and ending inside a defined rhythm section, inWaves turns six tracks into…
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“Playing God” Casts Matt DeAngelis as a Gloriously Vain Protagonist
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Matt DeAngelis has spent 2026 changing the distance between his songs and their subjects, moving…
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Ren Barlow Reimagines David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” as Guitar-Driven Indie Rock
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Space Oddity: when you hear a title like that, you might think of the epic…
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Outsideness’ …Then After? Examines Who Controls the Terms of Closeness
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I kept returning to the title because then and after occupy adjacent positions in time…
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“Music Has Always Been a Way for Me to Connect with Myself”: Tamari Discusses the Songwriting Behind Nice to Meet ME, Vol. 1
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Tamari arrives at her first EP with a creative résumé that already includes dance, music…
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oktehya Turns Genre Contrasts into the Core of New Single “complicated”
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oktehya has added to the collection of unusual indie music. The new single complicated lives…
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Simon Talbot and R.G. Williamson Launch Collaboration With the Bruised Romance of Iris
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Anyone who has survived an exhausting relationship already knows that love and irritation can share…
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AstroVoyager Searches for a Better Planet on Mission SuperHabitable and Finds Something Closer to Home
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A concept album about searching for a planet more liveable than Earth should logically produce…
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Freidrich$ Has Somebody on His Mind Across We’re A Long, Long Way From Home
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A second person occupies nearly every corner of We’re A Long, Long Way From Home.…
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The Secret Lover Gets Her Revenge on Sleeps Under Beams’ Vampire Girl (O.Y.D)
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With Vampire Girl (O.Y.D), Sleeps Under Beams take the erotic mythology of moonlight, secrecy and…
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in the dirt Sends NAYAN From a Full-Speed Start to a Pitch-Black Finish
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Nayan turned fifty, took the milestone into Magpie Cage, and came out with an EP…
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AJ Blakeney-Lewis Brings Polished Pop Back Into the Spotlight on Green Scene
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Somewhere along the way, independent pop learned to treat polish with suspicion, which makes AJ…
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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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“Those Sounds Are Very Deeply Embedded in Me”: Clíodhna Ní Aodáin Explores the Irish Roots of For the Love of Trees
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Before any of its melodies entered a studio, For the Love of Trees had already…
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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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East of West Let Every Instrument Take the Lead on Velella
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Eight years into playing together, East of West have reached the stage where three instruments…
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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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The Violution’s Undercover Made Me Hear “Toxicity” Differently After All These Years
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Cover albums usually arrive with a built-in argument about memory, loyalty and how much renovation…
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Before You Upload: Boom Effects, Platform Loudness and Licensing Explained
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Boom sound effects and loudness standards for indie release content Independent artists releasing a music…
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Paris WYA on MANNEQUIN: “I’m not asking, “Who am I?” anymore. I’m asking, “What kind of life do I want to create?””
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When Paris WYA talks about music, she often returns to one question: how do you…
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My Unexpected Favorite on Jaden Sade’s Stardust Through Decades
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Jaden Sade has spent enough time inside his own head to know the furniture, and…
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Riven by Ravens Plot a Darker Comeback With the Seven-Song EP Hunter
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Venerate gave Riven by Ravens fourteen songs to carry across the West Coast, and the…
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Romantic Friction with a Bluesy Pulse on La Descente by SUPER FREDDY
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French rap has always occupied a separate shelf in my head, partly because its phrasing…
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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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Lia Sky’s it isn’t real Review: A Breakup EP with Its Doubts Fully Audible
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Halfway through my first play of it isn’t real, I had already written “confidence” twice…
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Bozeman Dreamgaze Band Stonefruit and the Expansive Sound of Good News Only
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Four people left Bozeman with ten songs and drove through the night toward Washington. By…
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Exclusive Review! The Long View of Hope on My Girl The River’s Manifest Good Things
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The phrase “emerging artist” carries an invisible date stamp. By the time a songwriter reaches…
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Young Allies’ Fingers Entwined: Good Taste, Careful Songwriting and a Debut EP Ready for Greater Risks
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Fingers Entwined made me think about good taste, a slightly dangerous compliment in a record…
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Simon Talbot’s Tangerine Dream and the Audacity of Naming an Album After Your Heroes
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Putting Tangerine Dream on the sleeve of your thirty-fourth album takes nerve. It also creates…
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Today’s Malaise by Celestial Skies: A Restless Portrait of Britain’s Online Present
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By 2026, “content” can mean a song, a face, a political crisis or a sandwich…
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TEHYA’s “Love Overdose” Is a Chamber-Pop Study of Almost-Love
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Today’s spotlight goes to TEHYA, a rising indie-pop voice out of Toronto, and her new…
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Atticus Roness’ Wives’ Tale Already Feels Like a Rock Classic
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I can’t listen to Wives’ Tale without my brain insisting it has existed for decades.…
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Beautiful Mess Is the Return Album That Goes Louder and Stranger the Further You Get Into It
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Eight years is a long time to be away from music when music is what…
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Prima Apollinaare: “Today I Know Where I Stand, What I Want, and Most of All, Who I Am”
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Prima Apollinaare grew up in a house with a piano she was not allowed to…
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Deep Wimp’s Name Always Sounded Like a Joke. Longtime Beginner Changes That.
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Band names are a commitment you make before you know what you’re committing to. Deep…
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ZIRO Captures the Spirit of Resilience on “Corazon de Leon”
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“Corazon de Leon” by ZIRO hooks you straight into the chest from the first listen.…
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Martin Luther McCoy: “I Don’t Drop Songs Every Day or Week or Month. When Purpose Finds Me, I Respond”
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Martin Luther McCoy has never done things the way you’d expect. He grew up in…
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Stephanie Seymour on Recording With Her Husband: “Things Will Get Heated — Then We Start Laughing Because It’s So Typical”
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Stephanie Seymour spent sixteen years inside the music industry at Island Records and Virgin Records,…
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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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Omen Is Pierre to a degree’s Case That Electronic Music Can Follow Invisible Signs
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Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is one of those books that divides a room cleanly in…
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Steven Keene: “The Win Is the Finished Song. Everything Else Is Pure Bullshit”
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Steven Keene has spent four decades writing folk music without a major label, without a…
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On The Dangerous Unc, BLIZM Finds the Corner of Hip-Hop Nobody Else Is Working
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You could file The Dangerous Unc under hip-hop and be technically correct, but you’d be…
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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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Stephanie Babirak’s Rotten Fruit Asks If You’re Born Bad or Built That Way
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photo on the cover by David Zayas Jr Naming a harp album Rotten Fruit is…
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The Danish Singer-Songwriter Scene Has a New Earworm: Gabriel Jacobsen’s “Never More Believing”
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The goodbye gets a lot of songs. The recovery gets a lot of songs. The…
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“Forty Winks” Finds Jay Madera at His Most Reflective
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Jay Madera is an artist from the category of those who unhurriedly and thoroughly tell…
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“I Was on a Plane in Amsterdam, Dealing with Anxiety About Being Away from My Kids” — Wyatt Lowe on the Real Story Behind “The Road Back to You”
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Wyatt Lowe released his first record at thirteen. Was touring nationally by fifteen. Not as…
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Rose Franco Comes Back With “Limbo” and Makes You Trust Her Immediately
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Rose Franco has been gone a while. I say that upfront because it matters —…
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Ruby Greenberg Turns Simplicity into Something Deeply Moving with “Pictures of Us”
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Today I want to tell you about the song “Pictures of Us” by Ruby Greenberg.…
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Octopus Fox: Shu Lee’s MFDM Experiment Is Sprawling, Uneven, and Frequently Remarkable
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Shu Lee‘s third solo album arrives with the kind of ambition that makes a critic…
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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…

