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Robert Leonard’s full-length album Pieces of Me, released October 24, 2025, arrives as a homecoming. An independent Nashville artist with roots deep in Eastern North Carolina, Leonard frames this record as a map of the places and people who shaped him.“Every song is a piece of my story,” he says,…

Wyatt Espalin returns with a reflective new single, “Losing Track of Time,” an Americana gem arriving October 31, 2025, and recorded at Gavin Calzaretta’s 460 Sound Studios in Cleveland, Georgia, the same home base for his upcoming album Lies from the Lonesome Valley. Rooted in the creative ecosystem of the…

Less Of Me, the fourth studio album from rising alt-country shapeshifter Podge Lane, lands like a dusty postcard torn from seven months of sweat-stained stages, endless highways, and it arrives like it’s uprooting your whole life. After the rock-leaning theatrics of Multiple Dead Ends and a full European tour, Lane…

Andy Crowe & The Eisen Family return with “Hold Me Close,” a soul-stirring single released October 29, 2025, that digs into the band’s own punch of soul, blues, and rock. After years of building momentum, from headlining the Tower Stage at the first Sonic Boom Festival to supporting Ariel Posen…

Johan Smits aka John Smyths was born in March 1961 in the old town of Nijmegen and was introduced to the world of music by his parents and older brother. Although it wasn’t the kind of music he liked, it was music. When his wild years were over, he got…

Bluebird arrives as Ste Forshaw’s most open-hearted work yet. He’s rooted in St Helens and Liverpool’s creative orbit, but the emotional geography of this record reaches far wider, tracing the arc from brokenness to devotion, from wandering to homecoming. The backstory matters here. Bluebird grew out of the night he…

Out November 1, 2025, “Smile of Beauty” has Dan Szyller stepping straight into the emotional core of his ArtRock sensibilities. Szyller already sits at an unusual crossroads, as a Brazilian-born artist shaped by life in Israel, the U.S., and France, drawing heavily from The Doors’ mysticism, Pink Floyd’s atmosphere, and…

Anna Josephine’s new single “You’re So Lucky” slips in soft, moody, and subtly devastating tones. Set against lightly strummed guitars and an autumn haze, the track captures the strange tenderness of being honest about your own emotional distance. Anna’s songwriting leans into that bittersweet knowing when she can’t offer stability…

Jacksonville-based singer-songwriter Kevin Driscoll lays his heart bare in “Last Ditch Effort,” a slow-burning, soulful reflection on what it means to keep trying when you’re nearly out of strength. Recorded at Long Jump Records with sound engineer Richard Dudley and mixed in folk, blues, and alternative grit. What makes this…

Sixteen-year-old singer-songwriter Ava Valianti captures how nostalgia works when you are just starting to grow up and realize the bittersweet ways in which memory and growing up works in her poignant track “Running on Empty” from her debut EP petunias. At this age, already turning the personal into the universal,…