Boston-based indie electronic producer MOMARZ just dropped his new EP, "THE THEORY", delivering a fiercely human reaction to an increasingly automated musical landscape. He explicitly rejects AI. Instead, he burrows into his home studio with GarageBand and a curated setup of gear specifically a Yamaha P-125, KORG microKEY, and an M-VAVE MIDI piano. By operating this way, he effectively bleeds the natural, analog resonance...

Mike Stewart Theory’s new single, “It Reaches Us,” feels less like a piece of music and more like a strange meteorological event happening inside your head. You’re immediately dropped into a groove that has the smooth, shoulder-rolling confidence of 80s soul, but something is off in the atmosphere. The air is thick with a psychedelic haze, a sense of temporal displacement that is both...