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,...

Annika Bellamy just dropped her original single "Palm Tree," and it instantly triggers an odd but deeply compelling sense of sunny existential whiplash. Based in Southern California with a vibrant mix of Dutch, Indonesian, and European Spanish heritage, Bellamy delivers electronic pop that vibrates with fascinatingly opposed energies. https://open.spotify.com/album/6ivAZ1C2GnRlXzS2F1NPVr It feels like a beach vacation booked mid-crisis. The track is built on a clear invitation to...