Credit: Original Painting by Perri Neri There’s a very particular type of optimism that can only be sustained after so much of it has been exhausted. “MIRROR BALL,” Ryan James Monroe‘s new glam-rock single, is more or less a prayer to the notion that the years somehow make you less appealing. The track reimagines the
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Grief is one of those feelings that seems impossible to put into words without making it sound bigger or smaller than it really is. Somehow, Starboard to Sunset finds its own way to navigate it with their latest single, Without You Here. That ability to express something as deeply personal as grief feels fitting for
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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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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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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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When the opening guitar riff kicks in on Euphoria by FROZENROOM, you instantly get the feeling of stepping out of a dark room into blinding sunlight. It starts with an urgent rhythm that grabs you by the collar and propels you straight into explosive rock territory reminiscent of classic arena rock records from the late 2000s. The
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Late night drives through the neon-soaked grids of Manhattan have a way of forcing an artist into absolute honesty and lando strikes that nerve with total precision on his thrilling new single Lonely Road Highway. Taking the raw confessionals of early 2000s pop punk and combining them with the muscular grit of modern alternative rock
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When PJ Abrol stomps on the overdrive pedal on Stubborn Zero he is not asking for permission to be heard after two decades in the dark. He launches straight into a wall of roaring guitar chords that feel like classic late-nineties alt-rock resurrected with modern muscle. The track hits with an immediate rush of energy
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