Oaken Wires shared their new single "Parakeets", introducing a remarkably chaotic sort of survival energy into the current alternative rock space. The Tottenham duo, Jake and Tim, crossed paths while looking after their kids at a local park, blending vastly different musical backgrounds into a project they pitch as a clash between man and machine. https://open.spotify.com/track/7lLqbPyZI3oPMRy6kT79W5?si=a0c8741a902d401e You can physically feel that friction in the track. A...

The moment the jaunty guitar kicks in on John Smyths’ new single, "Now I'm Wiser", you feel a familiar, comfortable warmth. It’s the sound of a good chair in a bar where the floor is sticky with spilled truths. And then the story starts, a classic yarn of a hard-living past yielding to a peaceful present. Smyths, a Dutch ex-metalhead singing country out of...