ROCK

Shristy steps boldly into her Fractured era with “Waiting 4 U,” a cinematic pop anthem that fuses emotional vulnerability with a crackling 2000s pop-punk edge. Following her breakout EP Summer Solstice, this new single is edgier, louder, and shaped by the sting of a breakup that forced her to confront…

AMELINA rings in the season with “A New Year’s Wish,” a sparkling pop-rock anthem that folds teen-pop nostalgia, holiday shimmer, and a healthy shot of self-belief into a track built for anyone standing at the edge of a new beginning. Fresh off her growing momentum across pop platforms, she leans…

Madrid’s long-running one-man experimental project The Kiss That Took A Trip, the visionary work of M.D. Trello, returns with “The Kiss That Took A Trip,” a sprawling almost 21-minute epic that pushes his ambient–post-rock–art-pop universe into a new, unrulier dimension. Trello has spent nearly two decades crafting music that refuses…

Stellan Wahlström Drift Band’s new release The Sleeper – A Live Collection stitches together decades of performances into one immersive document, offering a rare window into the band’s evolution from New York clubs to Stockholm’s literary salons. Rather than a typical live album, it feels like a curated time capsule…

Minneapolis punk icon Cindy Lawson is back with “The Reckoning” — a fiery, no-holds-barred anthem for anyone who’s ever been burned or betrayed. After walking away from the scene she helped build alongside The Replacements and Soul Asylum, Lawson returns with a vengeance on Hygh Tension Records (TLG)/Virgin Records. The…

John Michael Hersey steps back into the spotlight with “Democracy,” a standout track from his twenty-first album, the rock musical Democracy. The album’s concept is classic Hersey, picturing a dive bar somewhere in America on election night, a handful of ordinary people, a singer/songwriter past his prime, an actress between…

Melbourne heavy-rock upstarts The Cyber Project crank the voltage straight into the red with their new single “Dejavu,” arriving November 14, 2025. The band have been steadily carving a reputation for big, cinematic aggression paired with hook-driven modern rock, and this track doubles down on every one of those strengths.…

Broken Romeo come roaring out of Tucson with “Chaos Habitual,” the newest single from their album Infirmus Orbis, and it lands like a controlled detonation. The track arrived just this November 25, 2025, as part of the band’s ongoing short-film project of the same name, which blends their music with…

Effusion 35 storms into the holiday season with “ALL CAPS” wicked smugness on “Rockin’ Coal In My Stocking,” their delightfully unhinged Christmas single arrived this November 17. It’s a tongue-in-cheek blast shaped by songwriter Pat Manley, who set out to flip the Christmas-song script, ditching sentimentality and leaning into mischief,…

Ripsime steps into a new era with the re-release of “I’ll Understand,” “Dare,” and “Colours of Your Eyes,” three early works now revived under her new imprint, RIP Records. After a year shaped by the spellbinding releases from Capsule II and a cross-continental creative stretch between Yerevan and London, she’s…