J Michaels & The Wanna-Be-A Band deliver a stirring anthem with their latest single, I Like Daisies, released March 6, 2025. Hailing from Kelso/Longview and recording out of Fremont Recording in Portland, OR, the band crafts a slow-building, emotionally honest track. Inspired by a real-life dysfunctional relationship, the song is…

Coolonaut’s Dark Energy is a warning flare. Rooted in the swirling aesthetics of 60s psychedelia and mod rock, the Scottish-born, rural Australia-based artist fuses analogue warmth with urgent, modern-day dread. Recorded entirely on an 8-track tape machine, the album captures the rawness and real-time humanity of music made with just…

In What’s The Point, Akron-based artist Zhake pulls no punches. This self-produced single is a visceral outcry against the crushing weight of invisibility, evoking the ache of working hard, speaking loud, and still having no one listen. Released on March 15, 2025, the track carries a rawness that’s hard to…

“Music Is My Life Remix” by Tally Koren is a dancefloor anthem wrapped in trance euphoria, driven by a deep emotional heartbeat. The remix, crafted in collaboration with rising trance producer Omniks, fuses a glitzy European EDM aesthetic with Koren’s signature emotional lyricism. From the first second, shimmering piano notes…

Mona Lissa Chanda’s debut full-length album, Queen Of Games, is a sultry, cinematic journey through the messy middle of love and heartbreak, delivered with the smoky allure of old-school jazz clubs and the clever bite of modern pop. The Montreal-based singer-songwriter, who brings a rich cultural palette from her German…

Saint Nick the Lesser’s latest single, “God Bless,” drops with all the fire and frenzy of a tent revival, laced with biting punk satire and alt-country grit. Hailing from Upland, California, Saint Nick the Lesser brings a raw, rootsy energy to the fourth single off his upcoming album Growing up,…

Chucky Trading Co’s latest single, “Make Your Own Sunshine,” from the upcoming album A Sky of Hopes, is a warm, reflective, and gently uplifting slice of folk-rock that glows with retro charm and contemporary resonance. The brother-sister duo, CS and Patricia “Danger” Taber, lean into their signature Laurel Canyon-inspired sound…

“The Song I Scream in the Shower” by Ettie is a cathartic outburst you’d expect from someone whose sanctuary is steam and soap and sonic honesty. The track, packed with confessional lyrics and electric emotional shifts, proves Ettie spills diary pages and sets them on fire with her guitar. It…

BITEZ’s new single “Performative Love” is a genre-melting, electrified triumph amalgamating R&B, Electronic Pop, and Hip Hop with a lyrical affirmation. With a voice like velvet dipped in steel, the British-Jamaican-Nigerian polymath transforms pain into power, channeling betrayal and alienation into a slow-burning anthem of self-worth and defiance. The track…

Richard Tyler Epperson’s latest release, Fragmented Night, arrives as a subtle storm of emotion and introspection, becoming an intimate chapter in the seasoned singer-songwriter’s journey. With over a decade of experience behind him, Epperson offers his most cohesive and compelling work to date—an album that shimmers with dreamlike ambience while…

The crackle in the air comes from the scorching electricity of “See the Fires (Radio Edit)” by Robots in Love. This track, a standout single from their debut album ACTIVATE!, detonates. An industrial-pop banger with teeth, it melds the raw urgency of alt-rock with the sleek aggression of cyberpunk electronica.…

Wattmore have returned with their signature smirk and a bottle of something strong in “Romantic Side”, a raucous, twang-laced singalong that skewers dating culture with a wink and a wallop. The Brisbane-based duo, made up of brothers Aiden and Kai Boak, turned heads with their debut Circus Life in both…

With “How Love Can Start,” Lisa Goldin offers a heartfelt, emotionally rich pop ballad that gently peels back the layers of love, memory, and longing. Released on May 16, 2025, as the eighth track off her upcoming third album, the single continues Goldin’s tradition of infusing vulnerability with melodic strength.…

Neverland, the latest single by German rock band Para Lia, is a searing psychedelic rock anthem that pulls no punches, sonically or lyrically. Known for their poetic unease and dense atmospheric textures, Para Lia delivers an intense, guitar-driven track that’s as heavy in its message as it is in its…

In Fractured Reality, the debut EP by Riverlabs, Chilean architect-turned-producer Cristian Ríos builds an atmosphere. True to his design background, each track is meticulously layered, merging glitchy abrasion with ambient warmth to evoke a strangely intimate alienation. Since launching Riverlabs in 2024, Ríos has taken a uniquely architectural approach to…

There’s something irresistibly cinematic about habits of a complex mind, the debut LP from Norwegian indie artist ST. NIKLAS. It’s like stepping into a coming-of-age movie where the camera lingers on dusk-lit streets and hearts get broken in slow motion. Full of bittersweet yearning, 80s-drenched synths, and fuzzed-out guitars, the…

Subwater Beats II by Beatdenker (aka Jo Wespel) in collaboration with Felix Henkelhausen, and Max Santner is a full-bodied plunge into the shimmering unknown of rhythm-forward, postcontemporary sound. Recorded in a Berlin rehearsal room but sounding like it emerged from the deep end of an alien coral reef, the album,…

“Reversible Submersible” immerses. Released this May 23, 2025, via Music Factory Records, this psychedelic jazz-funk voyage from guitarist-composer Ari Joshua, organ wizard John Medeski, groove master Billy Martin, and bassist Jason Fraticelli delivers sonic depth and surface shimmer. Where their previous collaboration, “Blurry Face,” was a one-take live spark, “Reversible…

SadBoiSzns lays his heart bare on “I WISH,” a raw and emotionally charged single released on February 11, 2025, from the quiet corners of Winnipeg, Canada. Written, produced, and recorded entirely in his bedroom studio, the track signifies the self-taught grind of this rising artist. With influences drawn heavily from…

Repeat crashes back onto the scene with “Celebrate,” with lives up to its name by exploding with raw energy and unfiltered emotion. Released on May 16th via TH Records and distributed through Aloaded, “Celebrate” tears right in with blistering guitar riffs and a thundering rhythm section like a sprint through…

Noxious, the debut LP from Antigonish-based extreme metal project Paranormal Arson, pulls no punches in its apocalyptic commentary on modern society. The brainchild of Jamie MacDonald, Noxious is as musically suffocating as it is politically furious, layering death metal brutality with industrial clatter, sludge-drenched distortion, and unfiltered punk rage. The…

Martin Packwood is an instrumental music composer and rock guitarist. He is from Birmingham, UK and currently lives in Felixstowe, UK. Influences include Santana, Steely Dan, Eric Johnson, Jimmy Page. Check out the exclusive interview below: 1. Your roots can often shape your journey. Can you share a story or…

Tom Minor’s The Manic Phase is a raw, literate, and darkly charismatic four-track EP that captures the chaos, charm, and comedown of Soho’s nightlife with poetic precision and punk-pop swagger. From its heavy guitar riffs to falsetto choruses, the title track opens like a theatre curtain rising on a metaphorical…

“Dopamine Rush” by GINAxC is a fierce, electric whirlwind that lives up to its name. It’s an adrenaline-charged synthpop anthem pulsing with sensuality, edge, and unapologetic self-expression. From the very first beat drop, the song pulls you straight onto a neon-lit dancefloor of desire and defiance. Opening with vibrant, pumping…