There is something oddly brave about Last Relapse dusting off “Throw Away the Key,” the very first song frontman David Holding ever wrote, back in 2006 when he was sixteen. The Atlanta indie and alternative rock band, once known as The Last Relapse, played heavily across the Southeast before vanishing into a 13-year hiatus. Reunited in 2025, they have finally given this teenage relic...

ErickOscar approaches modern alienation with an unexpected weapon on his expansive album, "I Choose Love": sheer, unabashed neighborliness. The Panamanian-born, U.S.-based songwriter carries over thirty-five years of acoustic guitar fretwork under his fingers, yet his creative engine hums at a curious contemporary crossroads. Oscar writes his own bilingual lyrics and establishes his acoustic strumming foundations before collaborating with AI-assisted music production tools to arrange...