Let’s be clear about Social Gravy’s re-released single, “Fools”: this is not a song that uses metaphor as a shield. From its first snarling chords, this track, a furious time capsule from 2016 unearthed by Brad Kohn and Vee Bordukov, feels less like a composition and more like a brick heaved through a stained-glass window. It’s a raw-throated accusation, a two-by-four of a protest...

Bavarian solo project MICHAEL & THE GUILLOTINE returns with “The Hydra Blues,” a ferocious blues-rock single fueled by sheer defiance and hard-won survival. Built around an uncompromising rhythm, the track immediately sets up an immovable boundary against moralizing critics and self-appointed messiahs. https://open.spotify.com/track/0TSO5mklMtr7tAyLJS0YMZ?si=6478248449204129 The instrumentation crawls forward on a massive, relentless stomp, shadowed by a distorted, high-pitched wail that weaves throughout the mix like static on...