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Based in Los Angeles, Erik Maroney steps into the spotlight with “Relief from Me,” released December 9, 2025. Written and recorded at home with former bandmates and close friends, “Relief from Me” traces the fault lines between three relationships and the moments that changed everything, serving as the first single…

Samantha L. Keller makes a warm, confident entrance into the recording world with her debut single “Materializing Dog,” released on November 21, 2025, and it already feels like the kind of song that finds people rather than the other way around. The short context behind the track is as charming…

JCCutter’s latest release comes wrapped in lived experience and quiet resolve. Based in New Mexico, United States, JCCutter draws from years of global travel with his family, moving through personal hardships and natural disasters alike. That long road feeds directly into “We Live Through it All,” released on November 20,…

Amurrayz returns with “This Time of Year,” a reflective holiday release that steps far beyond the glitter and glow we usually associate with the season. Built around the emotional contradictions of Christmas and New Year, as joy braided with ache, celebration shadowed by memory, the song pulls together everything we…

Toronto duo June The Destroyer return with “Find Me In The Morning,” the fourth single leading into their debut album Hurry! arriving in early 2026, hits uncomfortably close to home in our screen-soaked era. Written in lockdown and reshaped in the world that came after, the song captures the daily…

Winston Man steps into deeply personal territory with “Isolation,” a song born from some of the darkest corners of his lived experience. Written and produced entirely by himself, no AI, no samples, this track confesses with a bare-handed attempt to turn a moment of emotional collapse into something listeners can…

Los Angeles singer-songwriter VANNGO keeps the momentum sky-high in 2025 with his eighth single of the year, “Avenue of Shattered Dreams,” a folk-rock confessional that walks straight into the bruised corners of life. Known for narrativizing vulnerability without sugar-coating it, he once again leans into grit over gloss, telling the…

Newcastle, NSW’s newest underground voice arrives with a punch of frustration and heart on “Misery Loves Company”, the debut demo from Mangy Mutt, a project born out of single-parent grit and late-night survival. The persona behind the name mixes humor, cynicism, and mythological self-narration, channeling the exhaustion of raising two…

Australian songwriter Julie Paschke continues to carve out her own spectral corner of the indie-folk universe with her latest self-recorded single, “Cold In Your Town.” Created entirely at home before being polished by Dan Duszynski at Dandy Sounds, the track dispatches from Paschke’s inward-looking world, where thoughts drift like winter…

Kansas City singer-songwriter Jared Bond continues carving his own lane with “Wild Guess,” released November 7, 2025. Recorded in the attic studio of longtime collaborator Jesse Kates, the track welcomes a small but mighty crew, with Mark Hamblin on upright bass and Rachel Jaggard, whose radiant harmonies glow behind Bond’s…