Listening to RIOT SON’s new single, “Loneliest at Best,” is a curious exercise in emotional time-travel. The sound pulls you back to the early 2000s, to a time of angular guitars and heartfelt, frayed-collar vocals. It has that nervous, shimmering energy of indie rock that always sounded best on a pair of wired headphones, the beat prodding you forward even as the lyrics confess...

ReetoxA fundamentally disrupts our modern, fragmented listening habits with the release of "Soliloquy", an epic double album that essentially demands to be swallowed whole. After thirty years of stockpiling thoughts, melodies, and regrets, frontman Jason McKee (operating as lead singer, music composer, and lyric writer) finally lets the dam burst. Birthed from pandemic isolation, this cinematic indie-rock sprawl pulls massive classical elements specifically a...