For their fifth studio album, the Geneva-based indie rock outfit Sonic Rade shares "Berlin", an intensely resonant record heavily steeped in the aura of its namesake city. Relocating to the legendary Meistersaal the former Hansa Studios where acts like Bowie and Depeche Mode once operated the band allowed the physical walls of the room to hijack their live tracking. You feel those historical reverberations...

Midnite Radio just dropped their soaring new single "Fear No Stars", offering a luminous glimpse into the euphoric ecosystem of their debut EP, "Auntie". The group a geographic collision of friends between Tennessee and Los Angeles composed of Lee Coram, Beak Wing, Ken Christianson, Miles Martin, and Jon Shearer excels at a peculiar sort of theatrical world-building. You press play, and suddenly the gravity...