French composer, keyboardist and producer Nadjib Krim brings disco’s glittering surface together with a much more unsettled emotional core in “Without You.” Based in the Austin, Texas area, Krim moves freely across pop, soul, funk, rock and jazz, with melody and harmony anchoring his genre-hopping approach. Here, though, he leans…

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.…

After three Grammy nominations and decades spent producing, engineering, and making music, Anthony Casuccio knows his way around a studio. But “The Man That I Am,” released August 28, 2026, is more interested in capturing something honest. The Alt/Pop single turns the familiar tension between love and independence into an…

Mississauga, Canada artist Zellie Bride captures the strange loneliness that can arrive after a good night out on “Coming Undone,” released September 3, 2026. Built around the emotional whiplash of going from surrounded by people to suddenly being alone, the song finds Bride turning an ordinary quiet moment into something…

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…

Italian producer Marco Rovere brings the pulse of the city after dark to the dancefloor with “Street Muse,” released July 17, 2026. Blending techno’s driving force with the warmer movement of house and tech house, the track feels designed for those hours when streets empty out and club lights take…

Hamilton, New Zealand artist Stillwater Lines makes music for the hours when everything outside seems to have gone quiet. Riverlights EP, released May 14, 2026, gathers six songs that look back across different seasons of life, balancing indie-rock textures with a calming, faith-forward warmth. The EP feels intimate, like someone…

Hertfordshire indie/alternative rock artist Conor Bond turns grief into something surprisingly bright on “Too Emotional To Be A Cynic,” an emotionally charged track about loss, guilt and the uneasy search for something to believe in when life stops making sense. Rather than sinking entirely into sadness, Bond surrounds his reflections…

Oklahoma rapper Jasoh turns inward on ROOFIEZ, a gritty snapshot of the distance between who he was in high school and the person he has become. Released May 14, 2026, the album marks a major step forward in his production, moving from bedroom recordings toward a fuller, more deliberate sound.…

Robbie Rosen and Interstate Snake turn a basketball broadcast into a supernatural party with “Bring The Madness,” a high-energy collision of pop, hip-hop and cinematic spectacle. Written by Beth Franco, Rosen and Rob Aster, the track found an especially fitting stage in CBS Sports’ coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball…

Sometimes the people closest to you are the ones who know exactly where to press. Scott A. Flaxman turns that painful realization into “The Love of Strangers,” a moody indie singer-songwriter ballad about creative isolation, dismissal and the unexpected comfort of being understood by people who barely know you. The…