Music

The Raw Urgency of Michellar’s “LOVE PEACE WAR- acoustic remix”

There is something frantically urgent about the way Michellar delivers "LOVE PEACE WAR- acoustic remix". After a staggering forty-year silence, a gap wide enough to fit entire lifetimes into this San Francisco songwriter broke the seal in 2023 and hasn’t stopped since. This track, inspired by the invasion of Ukraine, captures that specific, dusty nostalgia of Haight-Ashbury, seemingly channelling the ghosts of 1960s protest...

Liz Nash Finds Resilience in “Little Box House”

When I first heard Liz Nash and her latest single, "Little Box House", my mind immediately wandered to the structural integrity of a hermit crab’s shell. There is something profoundly architectural about this track, yet soft like a blueprint drawn on a velvet napkin. Nash, hailing from Mount Dora, Florida, seems to have distilled the specific heavy humidity of a Southern downpour into a...

RCee Releases ‘Young Daddy’ EP, Cementing His Status As A Leading Force In Highlife

Ghanaian highlife powerhouse RCee has officially unveiled his highly anticipated EP, Young Daddy; a bold, fully realized body of work that reaffirms his position...

Maddy Carty Drops the Emotional Guillotine on “Otherhood”

When Maddy Carty opens her new EP, "Otherhood", she bypasses the shiny veneer of typical pop releases and aims squarely for the marrow of...

Swaying Through the Sorrow with Tomasz Kowalczyk and Benita Rose’s “Benita Rose Plays Tomasz Kowalczyk”

Tomasz Kowalczyk and Benita Rose have delivered something beautifully startling with their collaborative album, "Benita Rose Plays Tomasz Kowalczyk". It takes a staggering amount...

Stadium-Sized Catharsis: Sonic Rade Unveils “Berlin”

For their fifth studio album, the Geneva-based indie rock outfit Sonic Rade shares "Berlin", an intensely resonant record heavily steeped in the aura of...

Harsh Language Delivers a Jagged Sonic Shock on “Helium Heart”

London-based band Harsh Language recently dropped their staggering new single "Helium Heart," successfully capturing the untethered, dizzying panic of sudden grief. The three-piece Sean...

Teen Angst Meets Aggressive Fuzz: LED Unveils “YOUR PERFECT”

When the Los Angeles teen trio LED dropped their new single "YOUR PERFECT", I was violently thrown back into the absolute, suffocating gravity of...

Litiges! Channels The Weight Of The Past Into A Post-Punk Anthem In ‘You’re Freakin’ Me Out’

The Parisian Litiges! quartet delivers a visceral debut single 'You're Freakin' Me Out' that explores the exhaustion of conditional love. There is a distinct, heavy...

MILYAM Commands The Shadows In ‘Lost In The Jungle’

In the current environment of alternative pop, artists are increasingly expected to deliver music that functions as a multi-sensory experience. MILYAM, an independent artist...

Austin Feldman Engineers A Perpetual Motion Machine In ‘Time’

The club environment operates on its own internal clock. Minutes stretch into hours under the strobe lights, and hours compress into fleeting moments when...

Alex Winters Dismantles The Architecture of Self-Preservation In ‘Break In’

The Austin-based songwriter Alex Winters turns the terrifying act of emotional surrender into a towering alt-rock confession. There is a specific kind of silence that...

Disruption as Survival: Antoin Gibson Strikes Hard with “Diss Tribute”

London-based sonic architect Antoin Gibson throws us a jagged anchor in a sea of engineered algorithms with her ferocious new single, "Diss Tribute". The...

Two Whatevers Turn The Internet’s Noise Into a Dance Floor In ‘Punk Deluxe’

The Chicago duo Two Whatevers drops a genre-smashing, high-energy protest album 'Punk Deluxe' that makes fighting hyper-capitalism sound like the best party of the...