Megan Wheeler’s new single, "Now That I'm Gone," arrived. Not via carrier pigeon, thankfully, though wouldn't that be a marketing strategy? No, it arrived in the usual, utterly un-magical digital way, yet somehow, managed to feel like a little explosion of confetti made of pure, defiant self-respect. https://open.spotify.com/track/2m3tz4bSNELxdIbTjRWc92?si=546c28793c4443bc This isn't your typical "woe-is-me" breakup ballad. Wheeler, often drawing favorable comparisons to the songwriting queens, that Holy...

Some people enter your life and rearrange the furniture in your head. Lanusa’s “Jupiter” knows that feeling well. The 2026 indie folk and alternative rock single uses the planet’s gravitational force to describe a person whose presence can make everyone nearby feel off-course. It is dreamy, groove-driven, and quietly uneasy, a song about attraction that keeps checking the cost of giving another person too much influence. Lanusa...