Once in a while, you’ll stumble upon a song that makes you stare blankly at the wall because it touches some buried wound you thought you’ve forgotten. This time, that song is Harry Kappen‘s latest single, The Longing. Harry Kappen is an acclaimed Dutch multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer. Now, he steps on the stage with […]
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You’ll definitely know when an artist loves to create. There’s no hesitation, no attempt to sound acceptable or perfect. quilium‘s debut album “holy shit” will give you a hundred percent of that energy, where impulse and guts dominate more than resemblance and predictability. Bedroom producer quilium debuts with 20-part album holy shit. This record is
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Hip-hop will always be more than just empty flexes about money, power, and grind. roar taylor‘s latest album “kostner” proves that point. Beneath the surface lies ambition, survival, and above all, authenticity — the DNA of the culture itself. kostner is a 10-part project from Chicago-based hip-hop artist roar taylor. This album has been in
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There’s a certain type of rapper who doesn’t need to scream about how authentic they are because the authenticity is baked into every syllable. Black Silver, better known as The Navigator, falls squarely into that camp. His new single “It Was Written” doesn’t so much announce itself as it does loom into view, slow and
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You can’t call it pop music if it doesn’t play between chaos and sleek hooks. And there are rare cuts like Eylsia Nicolas’ “A Beautiful Mess” thriving in that duality, the kind that will leave you aching and glistening at the same time. Eylsia Nicolas is an American singer-songwriter of Irish and Filipino heritage. From
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Dee Dasher’s Conscious Home is an album that’s simultaneously grounded in her Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania roots and ambitious enough to flirt with big legacy energy. Let’s get one thing out of the way: Dee Dasher’s voice. If Stevie Nicks ever wandered into the 21st century folk-pop landscape, clutching a ukulele instead of a tambourine, she
Every once in a while, a love song sneaks up on you, not because it’s saying anything particularly groundbreaking, but because it’s delivered with such brutal sincerity that you’re forced to sit down and reckon with it. Enter Cydan’s “falling 4 u,” a track that feels less like a song and more like the emotional
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Heartbreaks doesn’t always need to be disguised in raging percussion hits and overly-dramatic lyrics to be relatable. Michellar’s latest single Never Say Sorry takes a soft, quieter road to prove it still hurts—even more when it’s delivered in a soul-stirring voice. Commemorating their one-year milestone in the music scene, Michellar is back with another evocative,
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So, Meena put out an album called Different Now. And honestly? It is. Different, that is. It’s one of those records that refuses to sit down politely and say, “Here’s a genre you can file me under.” Instead, it leaps across shoegaze, trip-hop, electronics, and whatever other moods happen to pass through the studio, then
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Breakup songs are a dime a dozen. Half of Spotify’s indie playlists are padded with them, and most sound like someone opened GarageBand, whispered into a USB mic, and called it “vulnerable.” But “terminal”, the new single from Ottawa duo Wotts, does something different. It doesn’t cry at you. It doesn’t romanticize collapse. Instead, it