ROCK

Sophia Garvey has never sounded particularly interested in making uncomfortable subjects comfortable. Her new single “Ur just a man,” featuring Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder, takes aim at the inflated mythology surrounding male ego and turns it into something deliberately cheeky, gritty and confrontational. The track comes charging in with…

Chet Nordy, the DIY project of Freeland, Michigan multi-instrumentalist and producer Dave Nordstrom, turns a 15-year-old wedding song into a full-bodied rock love ballad with “For You.” Originally written as an acoustic piece for his wedding, the song now returns with electric energy while keeping the sincerity of its original…

Sehore dives into the strange, unstable relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence with “IA,” the first single from the art-pop and experimental pop project’s third album. The track makes its subject feel fragmented and slightly uncanny, using an unusual rhythmic structure to reflect a world where machines can imitate human…

London trio Weekday Social turn romantic hesitation into a loud, restless rush on their latest single, “So Close.” Released September 15, 2026, the track takes a sharper and more aggressive direction than the band’s previous release, “Five Years or So,” trading melancholy introspection for the messy excitement of getting closer…

The Timbre Project turns years of musical chemistry into a gritty, hook-heavy collection on Bass River Sessions, released June 5, 2026. Recorded across multiple sessions on Bass River Street in Massachusetts, the album carries the rough-edged immediacy of musicians playing together in a room rather than polishing every corner away.…

The Liberators have spent more than four decades carrying blues, soul and rock ’n’ roll across Europe, and One Take sounds like a band finally letting the walls come down around that experience. Recorded live in Maastricht with no overdubs or excessive studio polishing, the seven-track album captures the musicians…

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…