Today I am listening to the latest track from Puerto Rican songwriter Ivelisse Del Carmen, and it has been on repeat all morning. Titled “Before I’m Done,” this new single tackles the heavy feeling of jumping back into your passion after a long break. Ivelisse took some time away from music due to burnout, and …
I came across Victims of the New Math a few weeks ago, and their latest album, The Stories That You Weave, has been glued to my turntable ever since. There is a raw, basement-tape quality to the production that hits right if you miss late-nineties indie rock, and the opening track hooks you immediately with …
I found a great new electronic track today that immediately put a massive smile on my face. Jamythyst, a solo artist crafting vibrant pop tunes directly from her Jersey City apartment , recently dropped a fresh single called “Skyline”. Anyone who deeply misses the glorious golden age of mid-2000s indie-pop should definitely pay attention here. …
I first found the Hamilton indie scene through random Bandcamp deep dives, and Bleach Dreamer has been on my personal radar for quite a while now. Their new four-song EP, Surrender, came out on May 19th, and I have been living with these tracks for the past week. It is a great little record that …
Hey friends, I just stumbled across Sasha Joy’s new track, and it completely blew me away. In a world full of digital, highly synthetic pop songs, this tune lands like a massive breath of fresh air. What really caught my attention is her commitment to entirely live instrumentation, and you can actually feel the warmth …
Most punk songs about politics come from people who eat, sleep, and breathe the stuff. Reetoxa is the opposite. Former navy sailor, self-described political know-nothing, and apparently someone who nearly killed himself writing 1800 songs during Melbourne’s lockdown. “War Killer” is the odd one out in his catalog, and honestly, that’s what makes it interesting. …
You have to wonder if Lisa knows. Somewhere out there, a chance encounter at a Spiderbait gig became a full track on a Melbourne double album, and the woman at the center of it may have no clue. That framing alone makes “The Lisa Song” feel different before it even starts. Jason McKee wrote this …
The title alone sets up the whole thing. A question mark on a word that should feel definitive. That’s kind of the thesis of the record right there. HZPROD keeps the instrumental tight and atmospheric. It’s not trying to compete with the rappers, which is the right move because both guys show up with something …
Mary Knoblock’s new album PEACH is a lot to sit with, and I mean that as a compliment. The Portland singer-songwriter has been quietly building a catalog for years now, and this one feels like she finally said everything she’d been saving up. Think hushed piano, wide open spaces in the mix, and Mary’s voice …
Remaking your own song is a risky move. Hand it to a producer, strip it back to just the vocals, and let someone else rebuild the whole thing from scratch? Even riskier. Night Wolf pulls it off though, and the result doesn’t sound like a compromise. The marimba adds this bright, almost playful texture that …
Okay so I wasn’t expecting to be this into a song by a band whose members are still dealing with homework, but here we are. “Your Perfect” by LA trio LED is a pop punk single about that specific, awful feeling of being compared to someone and losing. Not a general breakup song. Not vague …
Dark New Days is Blueprint Tokyo’s latest release and you will enjoy it. The Oklahoma City band has this thing where the songs feel like they were written for a specific moment rather than a general audience, and that specificity is what makes them stick. “Orange Tiger” opens with a synth pulse that immediately sets …
This one genuinely caught me off guard. FURTHER have built something that feels pulled from several different musical timelines at once, and somehow it all holds together. The album revolves around a concept: a spirit called FURTHER carrying blueprints of creation gathered from distant galaxies and forgotten timelines. That mythology could easily tip into pretension. …
Okay, so Sophia Bolinder is a name you’re going to want to remember. The Malmö-based pop/R&B singer just dropped her new single “My Own Company” featuring John Soul, and it’s genuinely one of those tracks that sneaks up on you. The song sits in that sweet spot between smooth R&B and polished pop. Sophia’s vocals …
Audren is a French indie artist with a background that spans Lyme disease, a video game character modeled after her, and a bestselling writing career. She’s lived a lot, and weirdly, you can feel that in a dance track. There’s something grounded about this song that most pure pop-funk releases miss. The production is tight. …
There’s a certain kind of song that can stick in your head from the first listen. “Bells of Silver” from Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends is that kind of track. The project belongs to Arne Floryd, formerly of Swedish band Redmoon, and this one comes from his upcoming album “The King and the Sparrow?”, …
Okay, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting this one to hit me the way it did. Blake Madison’s new single “Wait My Dear” showed up in my rotation this week and I kept going back to it more than I planned to. The song has this unhurried, almost suspended quality to it. It doesn’t rush …
Swiss rock band Rivermind dropped their third single. “Nightlight” has this low-simmering energy that sneaks up on you. It opens with a thick, distorted bass pulse that immediately sets the mood, and the guitars layer in gradually, adding texture rather than just noise. There’s real restraint here, which is harder to pull off than people …
