VANNGO crashes onto the scene with "We’ll Rise LA!", and honestly, the first listen is like stepping out for coffee only to find the horizon unexpectedly painted in emergency orange. A sudden, arresting jolt. This Southern California singer-songwriter wastes no time getting personal, tackling the gut-punch of wildfire devastation with a sound that feels dug out of the earth itself. https://open.spotify.com/album/7BFK9hmXIr9qVVm3sa6ICj?si=ku1ZgTxQTCeDWkldfS7s4g There’s a moment of unsettling...

The worst person to deliver bad news helped create it. Lyons Lane makes that ugly truth the calling card for “You’ll Talk About It!”, its debut EP. The Detroit five-piece places love, loss, obsession and ego at the record’s centre, but opener “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” gives those ideas a proper complication: a man tells another man that his girlfriend cheated on him, yet he...