ROCK

Brendan McKinney & The 99 Brown Dogs swagger back into the spotlight with “Get On With It,” a whiskey-soaked alt-blues rocker pulled from their album Skin a Cat, released on November 22, 2024. Hailing from the Americana crossroads of grit and groove, McKinney and his band grease the wheel, spin…

Seattle indie-rock project The Higher Desires delivers a stirring and soul-searching tribute with “Unknown Soldiers (Veterans Edition)”, released through Def Garage Records. The track, written and produced by William Walbaum with lead guitar contributions from Michael Stoican, stands as a moving homage to those who have served and sacrificed. More…

The Tone Renegades’ debut album, The Singles (Volume 1), released on October 16, 2025, feels like a time capsule of rebellion bottled up and shaken until it explodes. This is for the ones who crave distortion, chaos, and lyrics that flirt with madness. The band, made up of Brain Dead,…

German pop-rock duo Seßler/Zeeb return with a soul-stirring new single, “Anonymous Date,” released on October 24, 2025, a haunting yet uplifting ballad that captures grief, hope, and transcendence in one sweeping breath. Comprised of vocalist and songwriter Kurt Seßler and producer and multi-instrumentalist Werner Zeeb, the southern Germany-based pair have…

Australian-American band Satellite Train revs up nostalgia and innovation with their electrifying single “James Dean,” pulled from the ambitious album The Melbourne Sessions Multiverse Experience. True to its name, the project releases worlds with each playback platform offering a slightly different version of the same track, in alternate rhythms, spatial…

Spanish experimental outfit Sehore returns with their second full-length album Husfikbur, a genre-defying collection that doubles as a musical mirror and a surreal joke, one that only the bold and the humorously inclined will fully appreciate. Following their award-winning debut Ladencia (which bagged a Silver Medal at the Global Music…

Chicago-based artist Joseph Schwartz returns with a daring new project, Ready for Doom, a four-track EP that blurs the lines between human storytelling and AI innovation. Released on October 15, 2025, the record showcases Schwartz’s fearless experimentation, melding his own lyricism with AI-generated instrumentation and vocals via Suno. A writer…

Bogotá guitarist and composer Juan Cortés steps boldly into new territory with Camino x la ciudad, released October 20, 2025, a kaleidoscopic album that feels like walking through a living city where every street corner hums with a different rhythm. Known for his virtuosity and fearless genre-blending, Cortés distills decades…

At just 13 years old, Amelie proves that music can move mountains with her profoundly touching new single “Blessed,” released on October 24, 2025, a date chosen to honor Oliver, the young fan whose story inspired it. The blues-indie-rock prodigy from the UK has already turned heads with her raw…

Veteran guitarist, vocalist, and Grammy-nominated engineer Carmen Grillo lights up the blues-rock world with his electrifying new album Walkin’ The Tightrope, out October 7, 2025. A project five years in the making, it’s a tour de force of groove, grit, and class that reminds you why live musicianship still reigns…