There’s a moment in EJ’s new single “Fancy Car” — right after the second chorus crashes into a neon-lit guitar solo — where time dilates. It’s not just music. It’s memory, melancholy, and motion all at once. The kind of sonic vertigo that makes you remember every time you stood …
Read More »David Simmons “Jack the Lumberjack” (SINGLE/VIDEO)
On his latest single “Jack the Lumberjack,” from the upcoming album Disruptor Chronicles, David Simmons delivers a delightfully cheeky, acoustic-powered anthem that fuses whimsy with a quiet undercurrent of ecological reckoning. Clocking in at just under three minutes, the track plays like a fairy tale retold by someone with a …
Read More »Maddye Trew “Single of the Year” (SINGLE)
Country music is in its “main character era,” and honestly? It’s never been more fun. Gone are the days when the genre was boxed in by pickup trucks and porch swings. These days, the most exciting music coming out of Nashville isn’t afraid to flirt with pop, get a little …
Read More »Skyfactor “Master Plan” (LP)
In a landscape dominated by overproduction and hyper-polish, New York City’s Skyfactor offers a refreshing return to the fundamentals of great songwriting on their latest album, Master Plan. This ten-track collection doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel—instead, it polishes it until it glows. Skyfactor, fronted by singer-songwriter Bob Ziegler, has …
Read More »Different Moon “Phoenix Rising Soul” (SINGLE)
In the ever-expanding cosmos of indie rock, it’s rare to find a track that hits like a cinematic crescendo that never lets up. But “Phoenix Rising Soul” by Different Moon, the latest release from North Carolina-based songwriter-producer Jim Piper, is exactly that—an epic resurrection anthem that soars with mythic intensity …
Read More »Twilight Music “Collabs: Live at Garcia’s (LP)
Collabs: Live at Garcia’s at The Cap by Twilight Muse mostly slaps. Like, 85% slap. The vibes are there, the energy is on point, and the guest list is stacked. It’s not all fire, and that’s okay. “Living for the City” goes HARD. Randolph’s pedal steel and G. Love’s harmonica go …
Read More »Douglas Ray Jaffe “Douglas Ray Jaffe Project” (EP)
I haven’t heard of Douglas Ray Jaffe before, but that doesn’t mean anything. The artistic world is impossibly large these days and few have time for traversing every avenue and thoroughfare. There’s too much to read, see, and hear to possibly cover all of it. His debut Douglas Ray Jaffe Project doesn’t …
Read More »Sheri Miller “Chelsea Summer Nights (Acoustic) (SINGLE)
Sheri Miller’s “Chelsea Summer Nights (Acoustic)” stands as a poignant and thoughtfully constructed meditation on the temporality of love, artistic identity, and place, presented through the acoustic folk tradition. Rooted firmly in the lyrical and cultural lineage of 1960s Greenwich Village, the track is an evocative return to the stripped-back …
Read More »Limberlost “Beautiful Scars” (LP)
Northwest based, Limberlost, find their feats on the new full-length album entitled: Beautiful Scars, and it’s a powder keg full of ultrasonic gin and tonic, pulling no punches and leaving its mark on the hearts of their fans who will be surprised by what they hear to say the least …
Read More »Brielle Brown “Blessing” (SINGLE)
In an era where folk and Americana are often distilled into either nostalgic sentimentality or heavily produced radio-friendliness, Brielle Brown’s “Blessing” arrives as something altogether more profound. The lead single from her forthcoming album, In Art & Soil the Same, is not simply a song but an invocation, a meditation on …
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