The 1960s marked a seismic shift in the landscape of popular music. From the British Invasion to the rise of Motown and the explosion of psychedelic rock, the decade was filled with innovation, experimentation, and boundary-breaking artistry. Many albums from this era are still cherished by fans today and continue…

Dryadic’s new EP, Redevelop Our Souls, is a folk-rock firebrand that wears its politics and its heart on its sleeve. The opener, “Redevelop Our Souls,” kicks things off with flute melodies darting over steady drums before Zora’s rich, full-bodied voice enters. She sings with conviction, her lines slicing through the…

Le Concorde makes a dazzling return after fourteen years with Second Mansions, a relic of the past and a bold step forward. Spearheaded by Stephen Becker and shaped under the hand of Scottish producer Calum Malcolm, the record is steeped in the jewel-toned 1980s sophistipop while breathing with the urgency…

Stages, records, and touring are no longer the only things that make up the music industry. These days, it’s a whole ecosystem that includes marketing, education, analytics, technology, and, of course, creativity. Being on stage is no longer the only way to pursue a career in music; in fact, the…

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…

J Terrell is back with something sleek, playful, and dripping with confidence in his latest single, “Boyfriend Material.” Fresh off the buzz of his debut album Cowboy Tango, the artist teases a new chapter in his portfolio, hinting at his upcoming project Y2J. Dropped as a pleasant surprise, this song…

Ooberfuse, the London-based alt-pop duo of Hal St John and Cherrie Anderson, have teamed up with Manila’s fiery rap collective Tugista to drop a track that hits like a punch in the gut. Their new single, “Better Than Gold,” released on September 19, 2025, is a rallying cry born out…

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…

South West England songwriter The Boy Blue has returned with his latest single, “Penny To Drop,” released September 16, 2025. Steeped in themes of release, resilience, and struggle, his sound draws on influences as wide-ranging as Chris Cornell, Chris Stapleton, Pink Floyd, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. This track, recorded in Devon,…

The 1950s were a turning point in music history, an era that laid the foundation for nearly all modern popular music genres. If you’re a fan of rock, pop, jazz, or even R&B, the 1950s are where many of the sounds you know and love first came to life. This…

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…

Oliver Pinder, Bradford-born indie songwriter, shares his most personal single yet with “love of my life,” released September 19, a sparse-then-sweeping lament that kicks off the darker side of his forthcoming EP too late to tell you. The song was born from a single line his grandmother uttered about her…

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…

Columbus native Greg Owens has never been one to play it safe, and with Harmonic Soul: Live From Rehearsal, he strips away the polish to show the raw electricity of a band in motion. Recorded on-the-fly during prep for their Juneteenth performance at Mayme Moore Park, the project documents resilience,…

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…

New York composer Kevin Keller returns with his 15th album, Arcadia, a mesmerizing journey that bridges medieval music with modernism. Known for his ambient chamber music, Keller blends electronic effects, synthesizers, and classical instruments to create a timeless and contemporary soundscape. On this album, ethereal vocalist Sofía Campoamor brings a…

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…

The 1940s were a wild time for music, an era of transformation, resilience, and innovation that redefined the cultural landscape. Despite the global challenges of World War II, artists in the ‘40s pushed the boundaries of sound, creating timeless music that would influence generations to come. From jazz to blues,…

CHARLIE PEACOCK is a Nashville-based, (4x) Grammy® Award-winning record producer, composer, singer-songwriter and jazz musician. Peacock has major hits in three decades— Amy Grant’s “Every Heartbeat” (1991), Switchfoot’s “Dare You to Move” (2002), and The Civil Wars’ Gold debut album, BartonHollow (2011). He also produced the #1 Billboard Pop debut,…

Thessaloniki producer V.A.T has stepped into a new era with his latest release, Press Play, which dropped on August 29, 2025. Known for weaving melodic synths with pulsing beats, he takes the reins here not only in composition and production but also in mixing for the very first time. Featuring…

With Folklore, Irish rapper and producer GavinDaVinci reclaims one of Ireland’s oldest traditions, oral storytelling, and reframes it through the hard-edged reality of the 2000s and 2010s drug trade. Structured around the seven Catholic sacraments, the EP maps a cycle of entry, commitment, temptation, and reckoning, each track standing as…

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…

Bristol-born singer-songwriter Harri Mason returns with her third full-length album, Reality of Expectations, released on May 10, 2024. Entirely self-produced in her home studio, the 13-track project carries forward the intimate thread of her earlier records New Normal (2019) and Shadows (2022), but this time with a sharper resilience and…

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…