ROCK

Euphoria lights up the local scene with their new single “Love Me So,” released September 17th. The song was honed in the band’s home studio over a month and winds up feeling spontaneous while carefully designed. These university-age players have paid their dues on stages from The Camden Assembly to…

Rusty Reid, the Texas-born, Pacific Northwest-based indie-folk-pop-country-rock singer-songwriter, has unearthed a piece of buried treasure with his new album The Unreasonables. Written and recorded decades ago but only now seeing the light of day, the record leans less on Reid’s usual philosophical musings and more on raw, unfiltered rock and…

Hudson Valley’s newest sonic explorers, Lodo, make their mark with The Process of Remembering, a debut that thrives on contradiction, with beauty colliding with chaos and serenity breaking into storms. Formed in 2023 from a serendipitous jam session, drummer Wyatt, bassist/singer/synth player Tommy, guitarist/singer/synth player James, and classically trained flautist…

At just 15, Chloe Sofia is carving out her own lane in the crowded pop landscape, balancing youthful honesty with a confidence that is well beyond her years. After her debut single “Pulse” quickly picked up over 14,000 streams on Spotify, she’s back with “The Girl Next Door,” a track…

Melbourne’s rising pop/indie/rock voice Jacqui Beaa has stepped up her game with “Grid Me,” her third single and arguably her boldest yet. Out now on all streaming platforms, the track takes the classic insecurities of modern relationships and spins them into something playful, catchy, and disarmingly real. Beaa, who’s been…

My Life As A Moth arrives with a dark edge on her new single, “Time Thief,” released September 5th, 2025, as the first taste of her forthcoming album The Parade Of The Starlet & The Broken Hearted. Known for blending eccentric inventiveness with emotional candor, the rising singer-songwriter captures the…

Christian rock finds a fresh new voice in Reynosa, Mexico, where eight musicians came together earlier this year to form Él es Jesús. Their debut, Vol. 1 Side A or Vol. 1: A New Sound of Faith and Hope, released on September 12, carries the weight of years of careful…

Scottish alt-rock trio Closer return with “Glimpses,” their long-awaited record dropping September 19th. Known since the early 2000s for their stormy riffs and chest-thumping live shows, Closer have walked through fire, setbacks, reinventions, and a bruising industry grind, to arrive here. Frontman David Wason describes the album as “fragments of…

HMRC returns with their newest single, “Flat Circle,” turning towards darker, more existential territory. Known for their gritty rock edge and biting social commentary, the band now leans into something heavier, where singer Lloyd Holmes bares despair and empathy in a way that feels unflinching. Recorded intensely, the song plunges…

Southwest Michigan’s Vineyard Chicks, the sister trio of Kayla, Trie, and Bunkie, step into new emotional territory with their latest single, “Power in the Pain,” released on August 29, 2025. With their energetic live sets and classic rock covers, the band began carving out their own path in 2024 with…