Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Honey VHS has delivered their debut record, "With Pulp," and I have to confess, listening to it feels entirely like having your internal temperature abruptly recalibrated. Formed just last year in 2025, this Brooklyn-based independent alternative and folk-rock crew bypassed modern, glossy studio wizardry entirely. Cameron Roberts, Luca Moneti Schliemann, Lucas Saur, Alex Harwood and Pele Greenberg chose instead to record these songs live...