Persian-American singer-songwriter SHAB has returned with her euphoric new single, "Best Of All Time," an electropop celebration that treats shared joy as an act of absolute courage. Having escaped fundamentalism in Iran as a child, she carries an undercurrent of hard-won resilience into modern club music, using her platform to champion women’s freedom while crafting soaring disco-pop escapism. https://open.spotify.com/track/3ACO7jZT1W8OlLSHmw20io?si=apcuVdMySGKO4PvMBoy_mg The track wastes no time finding its...

Listening to Bloomfield Machine's new seventeen-track instrumental album, “Copium,” feels a bit like stepping into a terrarium during a quiet downpour. The title itself suggests a kind of modern, knowing self-delusion, the balm we apply just to get by. Yet, the music crafted by Huntington Beach’s Brian Kassan is far too sincere for pure cynicism. This isn’t the sound of giving up; it’s the...