Reviews

Jacksonville-based singer-songwriter Kevin Driscoll lays his heart bare in “Last Ditch Effort,” a slow-burning, soulful reflection on what it means to keep trying when you’re nearly out of strength. Recorded at Long Jump Records with sound engineer Richard Dudley and mixed in folk, blues, and alternative grit. What makes this…

The Synthwave Brothers return with “Only Love Remains,” built with the duo’s signature sense of emotional storytelling through sound. Making synth-driven music like a memory, a dream, or a scene from a film you swear you’ve lived before, they lean deep into nostalgia that communicates to the kernel. The duo…

The musical project New Laconia continues its interstellar storytelling with the new single “New Laconia,” an instrumental odyssey that blurs the line between cosmic fantasy and cinematic soundscape. This is a new chapter in the ongoing saga of the Traveler, whose journey through portals, planets, and forgotten universes began in…

Rising alt-pop-rock artist Sabina Beyli returns with “Bad Habits,” out October 24, 2025, digging straight into the patterns we swear we’ve left behind but somehow find ourselves repeating. At 22, Sabina has already built a reputation for blunt emotional honesty smoothened in sweeping hooks, and here she leans fully into…

Italian multi-disciplinary artist Piergiorgio Corallo steps into the music world with In via di sviluppo, his debut album released November 10, 2025 via CD Baby. Known as a painter, sculptor, and photographer, Corallo brings that same tactile, layered sensibility to his sound with his alt-rock guitars against the electronic pulses…

Chicago alt-metal band Bullet to the Heart draw the curtain on their journey with ECHOES: THE FINAL CHAPTER. Vocalist Audrey Queen, drummer Draven DC, and multi-instrumentalist Jake “SIX” LoGiudice approached this album knowing it would be their last, and that decision hangs over every note. You can get the gist…

Under the name The Floodshark, William Blake Hyatt continues to build his own self-contained sonic world, where composition, instrumentation, production, artwork, and concept all come from a single creative source. Through Hallow Leaves is a two-track release that leans into mood and atmosphere over conventional structure, drawing on influences that…

“Older” is a reflective electronic piece from producer and visual artist DJ Thommek. He’s always treated music and visual art as an intertwined language, and this release continues that approach with minimal elements, big feeling, and movement happening within you. The production stays intentionally sparse. A steady, lightly pulsing beat…

Sixteen-year-old singer-songwriter Ava Valianti captures how nostalgia works when you are just starting to grow up and realize the bittersweet ways in which memory and growing up works in her poignant track “Running on Empty” from her debut EP petunias. At this age, already turning the personal into the universal,…

With “Harbor Boulevard,” Denver-based artist Blind Man’s Daughter (Ashley Wolfe) opens her heart wide with a poignant country-pop ballad that feels like a love letter wrapped in melody. Released on October 31, 2025, the song honors Wolfe’s father, who lives with Alzheimer’s, taking his memory and timeless storytellingband making it…