There is a particular kind of clarity that only surfaces when a body has nothing left to give, the kind found on the last night of a run of shows, in a stairwell or a car park, somewhere between one place and the next. It was in exactly this kind of setting, a multi-story car park in Dublin, that Cork singer-songwriter Cathal Fitz wrote "A...

The first listen to The Sun Harmonic’s single "Glory Days" is a jarringly familiar experience, like finding a hot-rodded engine inside your grandfather's once-sturdy grandfather clock. It’s all driving, muscular rock and roll, a glorious punk-adjacent racket built by Kaleb Hikele, Dave Skrtich, and Ian McLennan to peel the paint from the walls. Yet, nestled inside that furious momentum is a narrator stuck fast,...