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Dorian’s “RECONNECTED” Is An Honest Conversation Between Generations

Album Review, Pop

If you miss the emotional honesty of early-2000s R&B, Dorian’s RECONNECTED might be right up your alley, a record about opening up, healing, and finding your confidence along the way. Artists like Brian McKnight and Usher have long understood how to turn heartbreak and yearning into something almost comforting and easily digestible, something you could

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Energy Whores’ “Invisible” Comes In Four Ways, And Somehow They All Work

EP Review, Pop

Picture this. Four different people, all standing in the same room, telling the same story, yet none of them sounded quite the same. At some point, it felt like that’s what happened in the studio with Energy Whores while they were making Invisible. Energy Whores is the brainchild of Carrie Schoenfeld with Attilio Valenti and

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M & J’s “NOT A LOVE SONG”: Between Confession and Retrospection (But It’s Definitely Probably Not About Love)

Pop, Track Review

There’s a certain vulnerability to songwriting that is remarkably similar to love. In a way, both are acts of creation built from a series of deliberate choices. You begin with something small (a feeling) then you shape it. Along the process, you may find yourself with something entirely different from what you initially intended. That

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Listen to “West Palm Beach” By Crosby Cash If You Feel Like Living Fancy

Pop, Track Review

To write a song about Palm Beach Island is one thing, but to make it sound as glamorous and slightly untouchable is another. That’s where Crosby Cash gets it right. If Michael Bublé, Adele, and a James Bond film scorer met at a Bossa Nova lounge, independent Huntsville artist Crosby Cash is probably the result.

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“Cyberstalking” By One Empty Toybox Shouldn’t Be This Catchy

New Music, Pop, Track Review

Cyberstalking can sound good with electric, glitchy guitar work. And it shouldn’t even make sense, but One Empty Toybox pulls it off so well you’d forget it’s indeed about something as serious as cyberstalking. One Empty Toybox is built around friendship, creativity, and the kind of welcoming spaces where weird ideas can actually breathe. At

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“Going Up (To See Him)” by Garrett Anthony Rice Sounds Like the Side of Grief Nobody Writes About

International, New Music, Track Review

What does grief sound like when it’s stripped of metaphors or consolation? Garrett Anthony Rice answers that question with his latest release, Going Up (To See Him). Now based in Greystones, County Wicklow, Garrett Anthony Rice has set his sights on making a significant impact in the global music scene. With Going Up (To See

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George Styles’ “How Will I Ever Know” Sounds Like It Still Hurts

International, New Music, Track Review

There’s something so different about hearing grief sung by someone who has lived long enough to know it doesn’t always leave. It just sits there, still, until you’re left asking questions like, “How will I ever know?” George Styles is back with How Will I Ever Know, along with a 25-year history embedded in its

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