With North Star, Matthew Robert Hunt constructed an interstellar corridor between existential rawness and avant-garde elevation. While the distortion-laced vocal refrains drag flickers of pain from the peripheries into focus, the effervescent textures send them back into orbit. It…
With Push & Pull, Nashville-born, Liverpool-based artist Janessa takes the conflicting emotional trajectories of love and constructs a funk-wrapped, soul-drenched sonic sugar for the pill of being torn between distance and closeness within a dynamic you know is ebbing…
Woody Bradshaw may have taken on one of the most relentlessly reworked songs in modern music, but in his hauntingly orchestrated cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, he found fresh soil to sink new imaginings into. With an accord between…
With Speak to Me in Silence, UK singer-songwriter Paul James Project candidly cracks open the consuming complexity of grief after the loss of a parent and pours the bitter-sweet mourning into an anthemic synthesis of Britpop and shimmers of…
With their latest track, Crooked Cranes set a reel of vintage college radio static on fire with proto-punk soul and surf rock swagger. Hailing from Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, this group of lifelong friends, Josh Faw, Dylan Hornaday, Andrew…
This isn’t a drill. It’s Aye Pizzle Payne hyper-charging the genre with a polyphonic riot of eccentricity and ambition. The Lo$+ B0¥s are On Lock doesn’t ask permission to enter your psyche, it hijacks it. The beats slap with…
Pam Messer reimagined indie balladry through a lens of cinematic opulence and spectral artistry in ‘Only This Song’. The South Devon multi-instrumentalist orchestrated a waltz that pulses with soul and sensuality, transforming traditional ballad conventions into a living, breathing…
Guillermo Marigliano brings a kinetic charge to the jazz tradition in ‘My New Old Friends’, letting his guitar strings extend his reverence for the genre beyond the airwaves and into our cultural fabric. Fluid in his stylistic command, Marigliano…
There was a time when the social side of the internet was a haven for anyone with a creative itch to scratch. Musicians, producers, and songwriters found spaces where they could let their souls bleed onto the digital canvas,…
With her debut LP, ExWife’s frontwoman, Ria, throws open the windows on a decade’s worth of songwriting shaped by chaos, rebirth, and a hunger for the unvarnished truth. In this candid interview, Ria traces the arc from whispered phone demos—recorded…