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Authenticity on Display: The Bateleurs Share “For All To See”

Right then. The Bateleurs have dropped a new single, "For All To See," and it feels less like a simple release and more like someone throwing open the shutters on a sun-drenched Lisbon morning. This is Blues/Rock, clearly indebted to those early seventies giants, but carrying its own specific weight, its own regional accent humming underneath the swagger. https://open.spotify.com/album/3dGBpR6WGZ4bXJQjMqg5kh?si=9mA58maeTIOdopxn-cx9iA The track thrums with the energy of...

James King’s “Firefly” Illuminates The Shadows Of Personal Struggle

Edinburgh songwriter James King delivers a haunting solo debut "Firefly" that transforms trauma into raw, cathartic art It is very pleasant to hear an artist ready to bleed onto the recording in this day and age of over-production and automated music. This is exactly what James King's first solo record, "Firefly," does: it lets fans into the soul of an artist who is not afraid to...

Synth & Strut: Balwako Unleashes “B!tch Please.”

Balwako’s new single, "Bitch Please," doesn’t so much arrive as detonate – a burst of queer dark-pop that rattles the windows of expectation. This...