Bethel Island singer-songwriter and producer Carl Kammeyer has shared a brand new track today; the upbeat but emotionally heavy synth-pop single "Since You Been Gone". Created from the intimacy of his home studio, the song taps directly into the confused, buzzing wreckage of a sudden breakup. https://open.spotify.com/track/3azLEBkEg3KBXf5E2kIp0S?si=67128b5ac4734270 He takes a fascinatingly bittersweet approach to loss. You immediately get hit by a bright, steady, and pulsating progression....

There's a curious jolt in hearing a title like "Us Against The World" from an act called The Cockney Cowboy. The name itself is a glorious contradiction, a pairing of gritty East London reality with the wide-open romance of Nashville. You half expect a joke, but what Justin Vella delivers is a dead-serious, straight-shooting country ballad that smells less of hay bales and more...