Northern Irish singer-songwriter Deborah Fitz has shared her new single "Home", an acoustic pop ballad that neatly dismantles our collective obsession with brick-and-mortar geography. https://open.spotify.com/album/2lQWFryJWoohNeg7gt9t7F?si=prIVwQU3TEysyrNZ37lvxg Raised on an eclectic diet of 1960s hits and Irish traditional music, Fitz has been honing her craft in local pubs around County Down since the age of fourteen. You can hear that rugged, unfussy stamina in her delivery today. Created...

When Indianapolis-based progressive metal project Pentrilox announced "Apotheosis: The New Frontier", I genuinely didn't expect to be handed a literal digital antidepressant. But here we are. Operating entirely out of their in-house production studio, this independent outfit utterly rejects the exhausted, dystopian sci-fi tropes we've all been choking on lately. Instead, they’ve engineered a massive, heavy sonic blueprint for celestial optimism. https://open.spotify.com/album/1lXMirFmYCFLZ8CJ8LJGfi?si=oXWz-hzbSV-i2MNymOiwDA The physical force of...