Track Review

Some moments simply make more sense when they’re turned into songs—and even better with a little fuzz and volume. That’s exactly how Reetoxa uncapped Bottle: a thirty-year-old memory now playing with grit and nostalgia. Hailing from Melbourne, Reetoxa is fronted by Jason McKee, who teamed up with producer Simon Moro to bring three decades’ worth […]

Some cover songs take a classic song for a politely restrained reinterpretation. They’ll adjust the chords slightly, or maybe swap an acoustic for a piano. They’ll slow things down by 10 BPM and assume that’s job done. Others seem to take the approach that is marked “Crazy ideas”. Magumbo’s “cover” of Mariah Carey’s “We Belong

Nothing sounds cooler (and hotter) than resilience rising through distortion and booming rock layers. That’s the exact energy Dean RÖK unleashes in his newest single Fire & Stars. Dean RÖK is a Portuguese rocker with a soulful fire in his voice, along with a knack for fusing blues depth, modern grit, and a cinematic sense

Some days call for a track like High Noon by Moon and Aries, the kind that’s not too loud, not chaotic, but enough to sit with you when your thoughts won’t simply settle. Moon and Aries is a transatlantic music duo connecting Canada and Germany through a sound they describe as Electronic Cinematic Soul. True

At some point, every artist delivers a track that blurs the line between performance and their personal truth. And for Ray Gibbz, it has to be his latest release, Hope and Need. Hope and Need is a testament to the technical and artistic growth of Ray Gibbz, a self-taught producer, songwriter, and rapper from San

In a move that is both incredibly sweet and a bit on the dark side, LY@TT have penned a tribute song to Pete Ham, one of music’s most unfortunate lost souls, and decided that the best way to honor him was to leave the painful parts in all their jagged glory. For listeners only familiar

Some songs show up with the subtleness of a brick through a window. They do exactly what they say they’re going to do, point out who the baddies are and then proceed to scream their message at you until you either agree with them or take yourselves and your attitudes somewhere else. Deportee’s “Black Women

There are no other ways to describe fear aside from how Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard built The Shadow Remains. Here, fear isn’t just a theme or a mood, it’s a whole structure embedded in every detail until it seeps into your bones like it belongs. Joseph Turner writes from the Dutch delta,