Once in a while, you’ll come across records like You’ll Talk About It! by Lyons Lane, where every track feels like it has something to say. There’s no obvious weak link here, just one damn good song after another. And maybe it’s because the five-piece band from Michigan knows exactly how to make old-school influences
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Once in a while, there are records you stumble upon that let you be a little weird, a little hopeful, and a little less afraid of not having everything figured out. Today, it’s Reetoxa’s latest EP, Double A Side 2 (Akaroa / Erica And The Stars). Melbourne’s Reetoxa is fronted by Jason McKee, who spent
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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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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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Falling in love doesn’t always sound like poetry or candlelit dinners. Sometimes, it’s as mundane as End Of The Day by CAR287—like knowing someone’s favorite bands, hockey teams, or exactly how they like their eggs. This is the first single from their five-song EP, set for release in the new year, and it’s already sounding amazing.
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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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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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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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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