Reviews

After years of pressing pause to raise her five kids (yep, including two sets of twins), Stefanie Michaela comes roaring back with Turning Pages, a six-track reminder that it’s never too late to flip the script on your life. Dropped on February 13, 2025, the album is steeped in resilience,…

Emerging alternative project 23 Fields lean all the way into the feeling of drifting through modern life on The Vacant Stars of Wandering Souls, an evocative album that treats isolation and memory like constellations you can trace in the dark. Built from Step’s reflections on his own life and the…

By day, Hidden Shores is shaping young minds in a Belgian classroom; by night, they’re sculpting emotive electronic worlds where human feeling and AI voices quietly collide. Their EP Neon Silence leans right into that tension between circuitry and soul, using artificial vocals as a ghostly narrator for grief, memory,…

The Nightbirds crash-land into 2026 with ART., a snarling, basement-born album that sounds like it crawled out of some cold Maine rehearsal room with its teeth still bared. Though the band hails from Auburn, their heart seems welded to the underground, favoring tension over comfort, momentum over polish, and emotional…

Cleveland alt-indie outfit Empty Kodiak zoom back into orbit with “we’re gonna be ok,” a defiant slice of heart-on-sleeve stargazing from their year-long Flighty project. The song was born on a fraught Thanksgiving, out of a broken-down car, a newborn in arms, parents stranded an hour and a half away,…

Kwun has never been the kind of artist to sit neatly in one lane. The UK singer, songwriter, and producer pulls from rock, soul, Americana, funk, and more, wrapping big philosophical ideas in music that still hits you in the gut first. With a background in healing and consciousness work…

Frezya drops in as a virtual vocalist fronting a seven-minute heist movie in audio form. “Furtiva (Feat. LPSV)” is a cinematic banger and a fully licensed asset built for creators: streamers, VTubers, RPG storytellers, game devs, anyone who needs a long, tension-laced track they can use without worrying about copyright…

BruceBAn$hee comes swinging with “$trawberry Blues,” an emotionally loaded shout into the void. Hailing from Maryland, he pulls from a wide palette, with grunge angst, alt-rock gloss, hardcore urgency, and twists it into something deeply personal. At its core, this track is about loss: the death of a closest friend…

Carla Patullo doubles down on a GRAMMY win. Fresh off back-to-back trophies, she closes her new album NOMADICA with the devastating “Fly Under,” a collaboration with Martha Wainwright that comes like a final exhale after a long, hard journey through grief. The record itself is built from the shock of…

Mechelen, Belgium-based artist Berang is back with his latest Does It Ever Get Better? An emotionally driven album that should just be right up your alley if you are into anything like The Weakerthans and Bob Dylan. Released on the 30th of January, the Belgian singer-songwriter, Bert Janssens, is already…