EP Review

Mystic Highway Road Trip By Downtown Mystic Brings Back the Earnest Spirit of Rock N’ Roll

Don’t you ever miss when rock n’ roll was at its earnest? When it felt like it had already lived a few lives that even the smallest moments feel cinematic? Mystic Highway Road Trip is a reminder that there’s still room for this kind of music. DownTown Mystic is the brainchild of American Rocker Robert […]

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Live Unapologetically With 4fro Nick’s “Don’t Waste My Time (LA mix)”

Some of the most striking EPs aren’t the ones with the loudest statements or boldest concepts. Sometimes they sound like 4fro Nick’s Don’t Waste My Time (LA mix), the one that grabs your shoulders and reminds you that time is moving. Don’t Waste My Time (LA mix) is an EP from 4fro Nick (Nick Anastasakis),

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Music Can Still Be As Sincere As Ceyeo’s “Walls of Love” EP

These days, it’s hard to find songs that feel like Ceyeo’s Walls of Love. Not because it’s too unique or complicated but because its honesty isn’t something you can simply replicate—it only comes through when you’ve stopped trying to make things sound right and just let it be true. Classically-trained Ceyeo is a songwriter, vocalist, and

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The Game Leads the Charge on WarTorn: Inside HZPROD’s Fully Independent, Producer-Driven EP

WarTorn is the first EP from HZPROD, a producer born in Bosnia and raised in New York, now being reintroduced with a clearer story and a stronger push behind it. The project highlights his background, his mindset, and the bigger vision shaping his sound. It also brings in strong collaborations with The Game, KXNG Crooked,

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Nevler’s “A Handful of Moons” Is A Creative Journal Of Everything Fleeting and Uncertain

When an artist makes everything feel intricate and soft without stripping weight and emotions, it just hits differently. That’s the exact atmosphere Nevler’s debut EP A Handful of Moons settles in, giving you something delicate and fragile yet vast at the same time. Nevler is known for her moody production, ambient violin lines, and sweet

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Mark Moule’s “Only Love” Isn’t Afraid To Take Up Space

Sometimes, all it needs is a friend, his music room, and a stubborn idea that kept looping for years to create a masterpiece like Mark Moule’s debut EP, Only Love. Mark Moule is a singer-songwriter from Busselton, Australia, whose deeply emotional writing style carries traces of legends like Cat Stevens and Phil Collins. And that

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Blueprint Tokyo Aren’t Trying to Convince You That Everything Will Be Okay on Dark New Days EP

There is a very specific emotional space that rock bands love to gesture toward but almost never commit to living in, and that space is the middle of things. Not the cinematic beginning where everything is charged with meaning, not the triumphant or devastating ending where everything finally makes sense, but the long, ambiguous stretch

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I.K.P.’s PSYCHE Is For Those Who Want Hip-Hop Lived Not Performed

When an artist knows how not to get lost in bravado and noise, you’ll get something like I.K.P’s latest EP, PSYCHE. And it’s not your average hip-hop because at its core are lived experiences that make each track feel earned instead of performed. Kenny M. Alvarez, known artistically as I.K.P. (The Infamous King of Positivity),

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Wild River Is Built for Ecstatic Dance Floors, Conscious Festivals and Late-Night Club Systems Alike

There was a very specific moment in the early ’90s when producers collectively decided that the solution to any musical idea was, simply, to put a house beat under it. Didn’t matter what “it” was. Folk song? Add a four-on-the-floor. Eurodance hook? Obviously. Traditional tune your uncle plays at weddings? Give it a kick drum

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