Dutch-born multi-instrumentalist Harry Kappen confronts the water's brutal indifference on his new single "Distant Shore", the emotional anchor of his latest full-length album, "After the Crossing". Kappen handles everything you hear on the track writing, performing, and producing. He’s a veteran music therapist who spent decades in youth care, and he clearly carries that observant, deeply empathetic gaze into his own atmospheric art-rock. https://open.spotify.com/track/0iosbAodNvyBdnwClZDFG0?si=76a854348bef47cf His recent...

Atlanta band Lotus Grove has shared "Ordinary People," the roaring second single pulled from their upcoming 12-track album project. Built upon a 15-year friendship forged in the sweaty anxiety of middle school, the group synthesizes their incredibly diverse backgrounds into something intensely physical. This latest cut leans hard into alternative rock and emo-pop, throwing a fast-paced, urgently emotional melody against a dense, fiercely propulsive...