When the Los Angeles teen trio LED dropped their new single "YOUR PERFECT", I was violently thrown back into the absolute, suffocating gravity of toxic high school heartbreak. https://open.spotify.com/track/0rJAWp3Dgyob2Ao0kIbVw3?si=ac87993782c34a0a Edie Yvonne, Layne Olivia, and Lockett Pentz, kids who initially bumped into each other at a film camp have seemingly decided to skip cinematic pursuits in favor of crafting sheer, fuzzy vengeance. They construct the melody over...

Listening to the new EP from Mahto & The Loose Balloons, “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” is like opening a wooden box found in an attic. The contents aren't keepsakes, but vows—four jagged promises made to oneself in the quiet aftermath of a great uncoupling. https://open.spotify.com/album/3tCZ38eK4scP2ncv8ga7WM?si=RJGgjZhlQSWNOxxaRbKPZg This is music that breathes the air of the room it was born in. Mahto Addison-Browder’s voice...