Riri Rose refuses the sensible exit on “I Don’t Want That Colour,” an indie-rock single about loving someone so completely that the affection starts chewing through the walls. The Lincolnshire songwriter, raised in a small village and singing her whole life, formally began making music in 2023 to work through a severe health flare-up that derailed everything. She draws from that lived journey and...

There is a specific kind of atmospheric pressure that descends in December, and with Mick J. Clark dropping his single "It's Christmas Party Time ", the barometer just shattered. Clark isn’t exactly a stranger to the heavy machinery of the music industry what with his major publishing ties and that serious brush with the Grammy conversation for his album Causes but here, he isn’t...