ROCK

Lyndo Jaco turns the uncertainty of chasing a win into something gritty, warm and slightly surreal with “Feeling.” A solo singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Jaco draws from the Southern and hard rock of the past. The song opens into grinding, gritty guitars, their rough textures giving the track a grounded heaviness.…

Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Anton Lewis looks backward without getting stuck in the past on Someday // Yesterday, an album built from songs that have followed him through different chapters of his life. Released September 5, 2026, the record brings together compositions first written in his late teens and early twenties alongside…

1. Your roots can often shape your journey. Can you share a story or moment from your early life that had a significant impact on your path into music? D.D.R.: I grew up in the 1980s, so maybe that gives me an unfair advantage or just a different appreciation for…

Hamilton, New Zealand artist Stillwater Lines makes music for the hours when everything outside seems to have gone quiet. Riverlights EP, released May 14, 2026, gathers six songs that look back across different seasons of life, balancing indie-rock textures with a calming, faith-forward warmth. The EP feels intimate, like someone…

Translucent Veil brings the shadowy grandeur of classic psychedelic rock into the present with “The Veil,” the focus track from their self-titled album. What began as a Sunday afternoon jam eventually grew into a full band of local-rock veterans, united by a love for the expansive, unpredictable spirit of rock’s…

Some stories take decades to be properly heard. “Now Is Near” by Grumbeaux was written for a documentary following Tim Z. Hernandez’s extraordinary journey to uncover the identities of passengers killed in a 1948 plane crash that became, at the time, California’s worst aviation disaster. Newspapers reduced the victims to…

AzeriahVII makes obsession feel less like a confession and more like a slow descent on “I’m Obsessed With You.” Released August 28, the debut single places bass, vocals and dark electronic textures at the center of an atmosphere. The tension is allowed to linger, becoming increasingly intimate and unsettling as…

Aaron Thompson’s “Swing That Hammer” turns a civic message into something far more inviting than a political lecture. The Sacramento songwriter and multi-instrumentalist builds the track around a simple idea, use the tools you have, do the work and, when it is time, vote. The hammer becomes a metaphor for…

C’batch turns one musical idea into another on “Our Little Pooh Pea (The Last Light) 4 – Cinematic,” an instrumental that feels like watching a familiar memory through a completely different lens. The White Plains composer, guitarist, and producer has taken a guitar solo originally performed over his composition “Round…

The Masquerade feels like a love letter to the darker corners of the internet-era music scene—the kind of songs you might once have stumbled across late at night and immediately felt belonged to you. Drawing from the emotional intensity of Evanescence, Paramore, Christina Perri, and Avril Lavigne, this five-track EP…