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Santo Stereo returns with Lumbre, a blazing 2025 release that treats music like fire—alive, unpredictable, and rooted in the soil of the Americas. Conceived to burn, the album fuses cumbia, reggae, Latin hip-hop, Andean folk, and modern urban production into something that stems from ancient roots, while proving as relevant…

South Australian indie-pop/alt-rock collective THE MONDAYS step into their boldest era with Look How The Sky Turns Blue, a luminous, emotionally intelligent record released November 28, 2025. Spearheaded by songwriter-producer Peter Spiniello, who single-handedly shapes the band’s songwriting, sound design, mixing, and even live visuals, this album feels like the…

Eva Pagán steps into a new era with EP1, a vibrant, Spanglish electropop debut arriving November 28 via Too Lost. Formerly known as Eva Westphal, the NYC–LA–Miami artist introduces a fresh identity rooted in family, culture, and self-determination. After racking up more than 5 million streams, earning major editorial support…

Pittsburgh-born gospel vocalist Stephani Ezatoff steps boldly into sacred musical history with her new single “Precious Lord Take My Hand”, released March 28, 2025. The track is a reverent and lovingly modernized tribute to the iconic hymn written in 1932 by Reverend Thomas A. Dorsey, the father of gospel music,…

Brisbane alternative outfit Happy Valley make a fearless entrance with their debut EP Know What You Are, a five-track dive into grief, identity, and the growing pains that shape us. Recorded above a Fortitude Valley bar at La La Land Studios with producer Tom Megalos, the EP captures a band…

Israeli indie-rock outfit lizardream return with their fourth single, “Stories,” a track rooted in memory, generational longing, and inherited loneliness. The band calls the song a testimony to the child one of them once was, silently watching the adults around her, absorbing their unspoken grief, and carrying their untold histories…

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…

Born from an annual weekend retreat where friends gather purely to create, Two Words is a snapshot of collaboration in its most natural form. Vocalists, rappers, beat-makers, and producers came together with no grand plan, with only the instinct to make sound and see where it leads. That free-flowing approach…

Australian alternative rock project Highroad No. 28 continues its creative rebirth with “Thistroubledsoul,” the second single paving the way toward the upcoming album The Will to Endure. Released November 28, 2025, via The Orchard (Sony Music), the track strikes closer to the heart than ever before, confronting the emotional weight…

In the bittersweet time capsule of hovercraft’s Blown Away,  two tracks, “Angel” and “New Pine Overcoat,” stand out like a direct transmission from Charlie’s heart. The album, pieced together from songwriter Charlie “Pepper” Wildman’s lost 1995–96 recordings, the project exists because a few cardboard boxes outlasted time, memory, and the…