Protected: Pavel Ishanov’s “The Year Starts Early With Spring” Is A Beautiful Thing To Listen To Slowly
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The Ruffles’ “Baby Blue Bronco” Feels Like A Memory You Get To Borrow
Let’s be honest. A baby-blue Bronco, a few questionable driving decisions, and two sisters figuring out life behind the wheel sounds like a bad idea. But something about Baby Blue Bronco by The Ruffles makes it sound so, so damn fun. And perhaps this latest single feels so adventurous because of the bond shared by
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Apparently, Rock Sounds Better With A Good Story and “3” By Lyndo Jaco Proves It
Rock doesn’t always need volume to prove a point. Sometimes all it needs are fuzzy guitars, rough vocals, and a good story to picture a whole life behind every track. That’s exactly what Lyndo Jaco gives in his latest EP, “3”. Somewhere in Happy Valley, South Australia, Lyndo Jaco is busy making rock the old-fashioned
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Protected: Love Songs Should Sound More Like “End of the Day” by CAR287
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Dorian’s “RECONNECTED” Is An Honest Conversation Between Generations
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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Making Peace With The Past Sounds Like “Ghosts and Logic” by Eli Wise
Ghosts and Logic don’t exactly sound like they belong in the same sentence, yet for Eli Wise, this might just be the most accurate way to describe all the contradictions that come with the past and the present. There’s a lot of life packed into the nearly decade-long gap between Eli Wise’s earlier days as
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Energy Whores’ “Invisible” Comes In Four Ways, And Somehow They All Work
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)
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
Rhythm Meets Atmosphere: Jimmy Codean’s 757
Think: a quiet speakeasy that doesn’t get too crowded, or a dimly lit lounge in the middle of the day. You can hear the room around the music. You feel the atmosphere first, and logic comes second. It’s raw, punchy, and steady—this is how I describe Jimmy Codean’s latest release, 757. What starts off laid
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Listen to “West Palm Beach” By Crosby Cash If You Feel Like Living Fancy
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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