Track Review

Covering a classic sounds easy until you remember everyone’s already heard it before. That’s what makes it a double-edged sword: listeners may love the familiarity, but comparisons to previous versions are almost inevitable. Yet Stephani Ezatoff’s take on Elvis Presley’s “Run On” has a way of pulling you out of those comparisons. Stephani Ezatoff is

There’s something so compelling about Plain Drifter’s latest release, Cracks in the Mirror. It sounds good, obviously. The guitars bite, the melodies know exactly how to make you stay. But underneath all that is something that is harder to fake: vulnerability. The kind of vulnerability that a lot of rock records seem to have forgotten

Everyone can talk about burnout and urban anxiety. Yet somehow, only a few make space for the idea that you don’t have to figure it all out just yet. That’s the kind of comfort you’ll find in fernvie’s newest single, Dito Muna Tayo sa Pagitan. It feels exceptionally fitting for the Manila-based band fernvie to

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

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